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# Franklin Pierce Buyer

Franklin Pierce Buyer (October 23, 1878 – March 1963) was a traveling salesman who was on the Los Angeles City Council between 1933 and 1939. He was a Democrat.

## Biography

Buyer was born on October 23, 1878, in Edgewood, Illinois, the son of Mary Carter. He went to public schools in Browns, Illinois. He and his wife, Dorothy, were married on November 35, 1907, and they adopted a daughter. He was a salesman who traveled about the country, but in 1920 he moved to Los Angeles.
After he completed his City Council term in 1939, he became the manager of an American Express office at 10810 South Broadway, where he was held up at least twice: The first time, in January 1947, he rousted the bandits "with a well-placed right hook", and they escaped with no money; he was left with head lacerations. He was then living at 156 West 109th Place. The second holdup was in January 1959, when he was slugged and three gunmen escaped with $400 from a cash drawer.
Buyer died in March 1963. leaving a wife, Viola.

## Elections

Buyer was elected to Los Angeles City Council District 15 in 1933, defeating incumbent Councilman A.E. Henning. Buyer was reelected in 1935 and 1937 but lost in 1939 to Wilder W. Hartley. In 1941, he was a candidate for election to the Los Angeles School Board.

## City Council

In 1939, Buyer was said to be the leader among City Council members in winning the largest amount of city funding for improvements in any council district. During the preceding two years the city allocated $530,726 for his district. This sum did not include the construction and furnishing of a branch city hall in Watts, which was achieved during his term.
# Isaac Colton Ash

Isaac Colton Ash (January 26, 1861 – July 15, 1933) was a banker, real-estate dealer and member of the Los Angeles City Council in the 20th century.

## Biography

Ash was born on January 26, 1861, in Shelby County, Indiana, the son of Eli and Mary Hooper Ash, both of Richmond, Virginia. He went to school in Shelby County, then earned a bachelor's degree in 1885 at Purdue University in Indiana. He was married to Sarah Morris of Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1902 in Indianapolis, Indiana. She died in 1928. They had no children. He was a Methodist and a Republican.
Ash worked at Indianapolis Bank and Trust Company for 27 years, where he became vice president and credit manager. Ill health of his wife impelled the pair to move to Los Angeles in 1912, where Ash invested heavily in Highland Park real estate. In 1914 he was vice president of the York Boulevard State Bank.
On July 15, 1933, Ash was stricken with a heart attack shortly after alighting from a streetcar in downtown Los Angeles. At the time of his death, his residence was at 5116 Meridian Avenue, Highland Park. He was survived by two brothers and a sister. Burial was in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale.

## City Council

Ash was the first representative of Los Angeles City Council District 14 after a new city charter was put into effect in 1925, besting incumbent At-Large councilman Edwin T. Baker, 6,364 to 4,202. He did not run for reelection. He was a supporter of the George E. Cryer administration.
Ash's two-year term was marked by controversy over his being appointed by City Controller John B. Powell as one of the "guards" for $15.7 million in bonds that were to be delivered to a bank in New York City — this after Ash had praised Powell and successfully urged the City Council to increase Powell's salary. He "went once before on one of these junkets and he wants to go again," a Los Angeles Times political commentator said. Ash later announced he would not go.
A "large delegation of his constituents . . . hooted and jeered" at Ash during a City Council meeting to protest the paving of Avenue 57 from Highgate Avenue to York Boulevard "within a few feet" of property that he owned. A resident complained that Ash's property value would be increased by $5,000 but that the councilman's land had been omitted from the tax district that would have to pay for the improvement. Ash denied the charge but nevertheless the council abandoned the proceedings.
# Douvrin

Douvrin (French pronunciation:; West Flemish: Doverin) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.

## Geography

Douvrin is an ex-coalmining town some 10 miles (16 km) east of Béthune and 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Lille, at the junction of the D165, the D163 and the N47 roads. Since the mid-1960s, farming and light industry have replaced coal mining as the principle occupations.
# John T. Towers

John Thomas Towers (1811–1857) was Superintendent of Printing at the U.S. Capitol and the sixteenth Mayor of Washington City, District of Columbia, from 1854 to 1856.
Towers was born in Alexandria, D.C., in 1811 to parents who had recently arrived from Bingham, England. He was trained as a printer, joined the Columbia Typographical Society in 1834, and maintained several book and printing shops in Washington until 1852 when President Millard Fillmore appointed him superintendent of printing at the U.S. Capitol. (The position was the forerunner of the modern Government Printing Office.)
Towers became involved in politics in the 1830s, publishing a journal called the Whig Standard. He was subsequently elected to the Common Council in 1842, where he served for four years until election to the Board of Aldermen in 1846. In 1849, President Zachary Taylor appointed Towers to be one of the three Inspectors of the Penitentiary of the District of Columbia.
With the collapse of the Whig Party in 1852, Towers joined the Know-Nothing movement, the political party defined by its opposition to rights for immigrants and Roman Catholics. Banking on his strength as a member of city government and his reputation as a printer, the Know-Nothings put Towers up for mayor against incumbent Democrat John Walker Maury in 1854. The Know Nothings peaked all across America that year, electing mayors in most of its most important cities. Towers was no exception, winning the election with 3,000 votes compared to Maury's 2,594 votes. He was inaugurated on June 12, 1854.
Towers' accomplishment was largely limited to developing plans for an infirmary and workhouse on the Marine reservation in Southeast Washington. At the time, the city was steadily growing from a small rural village to a busy metropolis, but Towers and his fellow government officials were unused to the changes and were not sure how to govern the changing city. He continually, but without success, petitioned Congress to fund and provide for the nation's capital.
Towers did not seek reelection in 1856. He died on August 12, 1857, one year after his mayoral term ended. He was interred in Congressional Cemetery.
In 1887, an unnamed school building on the corner of 8th and C Streets SE in Washington DC was renamed the Towers school in his honor. In 1929 it was merged with the Wallach School and Eastern High School to create the Lemon G. Hine School. The building itself was torn down between 1949 and 1966 for a new Hine School building.
# Olivia Stokes Hatch

Olivia Stokes Hatch (1908 – October 17, 1983) was an American philanthropist, clubwoman, and travel writer.

## Early life

Olivia Egleston Phelps Stokes was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the daughter of the educator and philanthropist Rev. Dr. Anson Phelps Stokes and Caroline Mitchell Phelps Stokes. She was a member of an extended family of notables: Her grandfather Anson Phelps Stokes was a banker, and her brother, Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr. was an Episcopal bishop. Her great-grandfather James Boulter Stokes and her great-great-grandfather, Anson Green Phelps were Connecticut businessmen. Her great-aunt was Caroline Phelps Stokes was also a wealthy benefactor, mainly of educational causes; real estate developer William Earl Dodge Stokes, socialist writer James Graham Phelps Stokes, and architect Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes were among her uncles. Her maternal great-grandfather was Daniel Lindley, an American missionary in South Africa, and her mother's sister, Anna V. S. Mitchell, did relief work in France during World War I and afterwards among refugees in Istanbul.
Olivia Stokes attended Foxcroft School and Bryn Mawr College, graduating in 1930.

## Career

Hatch traveled throughout the United States, Central, and South America, and in the Far East. She was co-author, with Mary Marvin Breckinridge Patterson, of Olivia's African Diary: Cape Town to Cairo, 1932, a record of their trip throughout Africa after college, which was published in 1980. Hatch died in 1983, aged 75 years. Her papers are in the collection of Bryn Mawr College.
Hatch was a member of the Colony Club in New York and of the Junior League in Washington, D.C. She was active with the American Red Cross and American Conferences of Social Work. In the 1940s, Hatch worked with the League of Women Voters, City Club (Albany), Race Relations group and the Red Cross Speakers Bureau. In the 1950s she worked with the Norfolk League of Women Voters, and was active in church groups and the Parent-Teacher Association. In Lenox, Massachusetts, in the 1960s, she volunteered as a reader for Recording for the Blind, and helped to entertain young artists in conjunction with the Berkshire Music Center. She and her husband donated significant lands toward the creation of the Berkshire County Land Trust and Conservation Fund.

## Personal life and legacy

Olivia Phelps Stokes married John Davis Hatch Jr. (1907–1996), an art collector and museum administrator, in 1939. They had four children together, Sarah, John, Daniel, and James. John, Daniel, and Sarah all followed their mother's interest in Africa, and Sarah Stokes Hatch continued her work with the American Red Cross.
Olivia Stokes Hatch died in 1983, aged 75 years. There is a site called "Olivia's Overlook" in the Berkshire Hills, named for Olivia Stokes Hatch.
# Clara Sears Taylor

Clara Sears Taylor (October 2, 1876 – August 31, 1954) was an American writer, editor, publicist, and government official, appointed in 1920 by President Woodrow Wilson to serve on the Washington D.C. rent commission. She was the first woman appointed to that office.

## Early life

Clara C. Sears was born in Denver, Colorado, the daughter of Jasper Peck Sears Jr., a businessman in Denver, and Annie Love George Sears Stevenson. Her father was born in Ohio and her mother's family was from Missouri.

## Career

Clara Sears Taylor was a journalist in Denver. She was a member of the Colorado Suffrage Association, and president of the Denver Woman's Press Club.
During World War I, Taylor worked for the Creel Committee, as director of publicity for the women's division. She was later named acting director of publicity at the Department of Labor. "My job is to put war before them every day of their lives," she said of her readers. "To make them feel every day that their tasks are vital to the outcome. We have reached the stage that everyone must work, and work until the war is over."
Taylor was the first woman to serve as rent commissioner of Washington D. C., when she was appointed by Woodrow Wilson in 1920. "Mrs. Taylor's womanly judgment and sympathetic insights into family problems injects the workable, 'human' warmth," commented reporter Zoe Beckley. She was part of the so-called "Woman's Cabinet", a group of women in prominent government posts in Washington, immediately after women's suffrage was won. Among her controversial ideas, she proposed a federal tax on bachelors to encourage young men to marry. She was also concerned the low government wages were contributing to discouragement and immorality in the capital. She was on the advisory council of the 1923 Better Homes Week campaign chaired by Herbert Hoover.

## Personal life

Clara Sears married Eugene Whitman Taylor, a Denver newspaper editor, in 1901. They had two children, Sears and Eugenie. Clara was widowed in 1915. Her son Sears Taylor, a magazine editor, died in 1931. In 1938 she was living in the New York City household of her younger sister Lydia (called Lillie) and assisting her brother-in-law, drama critic Burns Mantle.
# Jane Hungerford Milbank

Jane Hungerford Milbank (April 10, 1871 - March 4, 1931) was an American suffragette who organized the Army of Columbians.

## Early life

She was born on April 10, 1871, in Sparta, Georgia, as Jane Hungerford Henry. She claimed to have posed for artist John La Farge as a young woman, and to have been the model for his "Adoration" and "St. John."

## Activism

Mrs. Milbank was best known for proposing an "Army of Columbians," a military regiment of women, during World War I, complete with a uniform she designed and wore. She held weekly training sessions for a handful of recruits, with wooden guns. "My only fear is that they will be too savage warriors," she assured doubters. She also suggested that military training might decrease domestic discord. Her program was formalized by 1915 as the International Order of Military Women, with Milbank presiding.
She was also an author and poet, using the name "J. Hungerford Milbank" to publish a collection of miscellaneous short works titled Florence Gardiner Sings. She was a member of the Century Theatre Club for more than twenty years.

## Personal life

She first married Cedric (or Carl) Augustus Erlund in 1893, and had two sons during their marriage, named Cambridge Erlund (b. 1896) and Charles Hungerford Erlund (Milbank) (b. 1901). She married a second time, to Charles Budd Milbank, in 1904. She was widowed when Mr. Milbank died in 1920, and she died on March 4, 1931, in Freeport, Long Island.
# Anita Lee Blair

Anita Lee Blair (September 8, 1916 – August 25, 2010) was an American politician and activist from Texas. She was the first blind woman elected to any state legislature in the United States.

## Early life and education

Anita Lee Blair was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and raised in El Paso, Texas. She graduated from Austin High School in that city, in 1933. She became blind after a car accident at age 19, in Alamogordo, New Mexico. She earned a B. A. at Texas College of Mines and Metallurgy in 1944, and later completed a master's degree from Texas Women's College, in 1951.

## Career

In 1940, Blair became the first person in El Paso to have a service dog, a German shepherd named Fawn. The pair became famous beyond Texas while lecturing on traffic safety and accident prevention. In 1946, Blair and Fawn escaped the fatal La Salle Hotel fire in Chicago; their story highlighted the function of service dogs and was covered in newspapers across the country, and on local television stations in Chicago. In 1950, Blair successfully protested when Fawn was not allowed into the United States Senate gallery with her to attend a debate.
Blair was elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1952, and served one term. As a state representative, she worked for a pay increase for teachers, for the renovation of the state school for the deaf, and for the right of women to serve on juries. She also co-authored a bill requiring jail sentences for drunk drivers. She lost her bid for re-election in 1954, and in three subsequent elections.
In her later years, Blair was a fixture on local talk radio in El Paso, and at age 86 ran unsuccessfully for county judge. In 2009, she was honored with a Lifetime Achievement BRAVO Award from the League of Women Voters of El Paso.

## Personal life and legacy

Blair married Curtis Reynolds Chartier in 1959, in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Blair died in 2010, at age 93. In recognition of her service as a state legislator, her remains were buried in the Texas State Cemetery in Austin.
# Heavenly Creatures (restaurant)

Heavenly Creatures is a wine bar and bottle shop in Portland, Oregon, United States. The restaurant opened in the Sullivan's Gulch neighborhood of northeast Portland in 2022. It has garnered a positive reception and was named one of Portland's ten best new restaurants by The Oregonian in 2023.

## Description

The French wine bar and bottle shop Heavenly Creatures, which is named after the 1994 film of the same name, operates on Broadway, in event space affiliated with Coopers Hall Winery and Taproom in the Sullivan's Gulch neighborhood of northeast Portland. According to Eater Portland, the inside of Heavenly Creatures is "meant to feel cozy and lightly midcentury, with coral-pink-and-white-speckled tables and a curved bar". Brooke Jackson-Glidden wrote, "The space is tight, light low, giving evenings here both the relaxed air of European wine bars and anticipatory buzz of an evening of small delights."
The interior has walls lined with bottles, and the food menu includes schmaltz beignets, shrimp in lobster oil, yellowtail toast, and soft cheeses served alongside potato chips. The restaurant has also served grilled Iberico pork with anchovy and lavender, as well as smoked mussel tonnato. Heavenly Creatures has a seating capacity of approximately 20 people, and stocks approximately 120 to 150 types of wine from various regions.

## History

Inspired by the natural wine bars of Barcelona, sommelier Joel Gunderson and chef Aaron Barnett opened Heavenly Creatures on October 26, 2022, in the space previously occupied by Nightwood Society.

## Reception

Heavenly Creatures won in the Best New Bar category of Eater Portland's Eater Awards in 2022. In the website's 2022 overview of "where to drink wine in Portland right now", Alex Frane and Zoe Baillargeon called the bar "classy" and "elegant". The website's Jackson-Glidden wrote in 2024: "Heavenly Creatures on Broadway is so sweet and pretty; its bar is lined with flowers and candles, and the whole space has this sort of bistro energy I love. Yes, it's a wine bar, but the food is fantastic and super snack-y — definitely get the whipped Camembert and the yellowtail toast, and maybe one other plate." Heavenly Creatures ranked tenth in The Oregonian's 2023 overview of Portland's best new restaurants. Matthew Trueherz of Portland Monthly called the business "an example of a restaurant whose food, in theory, plays sidekick to the vino". In 2024, the magazine included Heavenly Creatures in a list of the city's 50 best restaurants, and Bon Appétit said, "While wine is undoubtedly the focus, the chefs are doing remarkable work."
# Shirley Elizabeth Barnes

Shirley Elizabeth Barnes (born 1938) is a former United States diplomat and a career Foreign Service officer. She was appointed United States Ambassador to Madagascar from June 29, 1998, to July 28, 2001.

## Life

Barnes was born on April 5, 1938, in St. Augustine, Florida. When she was five years old, her family moved to Saratoga, New York.

## Education

In 1956 she graduated from Baruch College with a bachelor's degree in business. During her college years, she joined the Delta Sigma Theta sorority, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and became fluent in French.
She later studied International Affairs at Boston University. She received a master's degree in business administration from Columbia University in 1970.
She was a part of the Senior Seminar Class of the National War College graduating in 1995.

## Career

Before joining the Foreign Service, Barnes became vice president in several major advertising agencies and worked for the Ford Foundation from 1961- 1965 in the Republic of Congo, Kinshasa. After returning to the U.S. in 1965, she worked for the historic African-American Institute in New York City.
In 1984, Barnes joined the U.S. Foreign Service and became a General Services Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Egypt. She was promoted in 1986 to the Supervisor for the General Services Office at the Embassy in Senegal. From 1990 to 1992, Barnes worked as a Counselor for Administration in East Berlin, Germany.
Barnes was the director of Western European affairs in the Bureau of European Affairs at the United States Department of State and served as a diplomat in West Berlin, Cairo, Sofia, and Dakar. She was also consul general in Strasbourg, France.
In 1998, Barnes became the U.S. Ambassador to Madagascar and served until her retirement in 2001.
In 2004 she founded the Barnes Findley Foundation, a non-profit foundation dedicated to supporting women and girls in the African Diaspora with an emphasis on anti-human trafficking and economic empowerment.
Barnes received an honorary doctor of laws degree in 2006 from Knox College.
She is a member of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority and the American Foreign Service Association. She is also an avid patron of African art and speaks French.
# Robert Slocum

Robert Dale Slocum is an American biologist and botanist. He is a professor of biology in the Center for Natural Sciences at Goucher College. His research focuses on plant physiology, molecular biology, and biotechnology.

## Education

Slocum completed a Bachelor of Arts at University of Maine. In 1977, Slocum earned a Master of Science from Ohio State University. His master's thesis was titled Effects of SO₂ and pH on the ultrastructure of the Trebouxia phycobiont of the pollution-sensitive lichen Parmelia caperata (L.) Ach. He earned a doctorate from University of Texas at Austin in 1981. His dissertation is titled Studies on the localization of phytochrome and calcium in light-and-gravity-stimulated plants.

## Career

Slocum researches the physiology of plants, adaptation to environmental stresses, nitrogen metabolism, and the molecular biology and biotechnology of plants. Slocum was a professor in the Department of Botany at Williams College. In 1991, he published Biochemistry and Physiology of Polyamines in Plants. Slocum joined the faculty at Goucher College in 1992. He is a Professor of Biology in the Center for Natural Sciences at Goucher. In 2005, Slocum received a 3-year grant for $340,000 from the National Science Foundation. With the grant, Slocum and Christopher T. Brown of the National Human Genome Research Institute conducted research on the regulation of pyrimidine metabolism in plants with a team of undergraduates. From 2011 to 2012, Slocum was a rotating program director of the National Science Foundation's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems.

## Selected works
### Books

* Biochemistry and physiology of polyamines in plants. Slocum, Robert D., Flores, Hector E. Boca Raton: CRC Press. 1991. ISBN 0849368650. OCLC 24794433.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)

### Articles

* Slocum, Robert D.; Kaur-Sawhney, Ravindar; Galston, Arthur W. (December 1984). "The physiology and biochemistry of polyamines in plants". Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 235 (2): 283–303. doi:10.1016/0003-9861(84)90201-7. ISSN 0003-9861. PMID 6393877.
* Slocum, Robert D.; Galston, Arthur (October 1985). "Changes in Polyamine Biosynthesis Associated with Postfertilization Growth and Development in Tobacco Ovary Tissues". Plant Physiology. 79 (2): 336–343. doi:10.1104/pp.79.2.336. ISSN 0032-0889. PMC 1074885. PMID 11540835.
* Slocum, Robert D. (August 2005). "Genes, enzymes and regulation of arginine biosynthesis in plants". Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. 43 (8): 729–745. doi:10.1016/j.plaphy.2005.06.007. ISSN 0981-9428. PMID 16122935.
* Slocum, Robert D.; Scholl, Jacob D. (Fall 2013). "NSF Support of Research at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs)" (PDF). Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly. 34 (1): 31–40. ISSN 1072-5830.