About: Ann Hawkins Gentry     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FAnn_Hawkins_Gentry&invfp=IFP_OFF&sas=SAME_AS_OFF

Ann Hawkins Gentry (January 21, 1791 - January 18, 1870) was the second woman in the United States to become a postmistress as well as a leading pioneer in Columbia, Missouri. She was the wife of American politician and military officer Richard Gentry who became Columbia's first mayor. Thomas Hart Benton helped her secure her historic appointment as postmistress after her husband died in 1837 fighting in the Second Seminole War. Her husband had been Columbia's second postmaster, running it from one corner of their tavern. Ann Gentry served as postmistress from 1838 until 1865.

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • Ann Hawkins Gentry (en)
rdfs:comment
  • Ann Hawkins Gentry (January 21, 1791 - January 18, 1870) was the second woman in the United States to become a postmistress as well as a leading pioneer in Columbia, Missouri. She was the wife of American politician and military officer Richard Gentry who became Columbia's first mayor. Thomas Hart Benton helped her secure her historic appointment as postmistress after her husband died in 1837 fighting in the Second Seminole War. Her husband had been Columbia's second postmaster, running it from one corner of their tavern. Ann Gentry served as postmistress from 1838 until 1865. (en)
dcterms:subject
Wikipage page ID
Wikipage revision ID
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
sameAs
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
has abstract
  • Ann Hawkins Gentry (January 21, 1791 - January 18, 1870) was the second woman in the United States to become a postmistress as well as a leading pioneer in Columbia, Missouri. She was the wife of American politician and military officer Richard Gentry who became Columbia's first mayor. In 1791 Ann Hawkins Gentry was born to Nicholas Hawkins, a Revolutionary War veteran, and Ann Robinson Hawkins who lived in Madison County, Kentucky. On February 10, 1810, she married Richard Gentry. Ann Hawkins was 19 when she married Richard Gentry. Their child arrived while her husband was serving under General William Henry Harrison on Lake Erie during the War of 1812. In 1818, she rode sidesaddle carrying the youngest of her four children from Madison County, Kentucky to St. Louis, Missouri. She would have a total of 13 children. In 1820, her family occupied the first cabin in Smithton, Missouri—what would later become Columbia. Thomas Hart Benton helped her secure her historic appointment as postmistress after her husband died in 1837 fighting in the Second Seminole War. Her husband had been Columbia's second postmaster, running it from one corner of their tavern. Ann Gentry served as postmistress from 1838 until 1865. The following were named after Ann Hawkins Gentry: * Ann Hawkins Gentry Roadside Park (1960) * Ann Hawkins Gentry Building, the city of Columbia rededicated this building (1977) * Ann Hawkins Gentry Middle School opened in Columbia (1993) (en)
prov:wasDerivedFrom
page length (characters) of wiki page
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git139 as of Feb 29 2024


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Mar 19 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (378 GB total memory, 56 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software