Judicial Event / Person Travel / Diplomatic Relations / Employment Change / Person Communication and Meetings / /
Facility
Confederate retreat / Survey’s headquarters / Surrogate’s Court / Virginia Military Institute / John Cloud NOAA Central Library / Survey headquarters / General Johnston’s headquarters / /
IndustryTerm
geodetic networks / bank failures / law school / spoils systems / /
NaturalFeature
US Coast / Mississippi River / Whidbey Island / California mountain / Delaware River / Cape Flattery / Pacific coast / Mount Shasta / Chesapeake Bay / Mount Olympia / /
Organization
House of Representatives / UC Berkeley / US Army Signal Service / Surrogate’s Court / National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration / Allison Commission / Naval Hydrographic Office / Bache administration / Catholic hospital / United States Army / Cleveland administration / Signal Service / US Fish Commission / American government / United States Navy / Weather Bureau / Internal Revenue Service / Department of the Treasury / United States Senate / Congress / Survey party / Virginia Military Institute / Confederate Army / Fredonia Academy / /
Person
B.A. Colonna / George Davidson / Thomas B. Aldrich / Grover Cleveland / Frank Manly Thorn / Benjamin A. Colonna / Frank M. Thorn / Frank Thorn / Richard B. Cutts / Samuel Clemens / Benjamin Azariah Colonna / William Ferrel / Carl Byng / Juan de Fuca / John Hanna / Hy Slocum / Marcus Baker / Twain / D. Bache / Frank Clive / Julius Hilgard Henry Mitchell / James Q. Chenowith / Benjamin Peirce / B. Allison Colonna Colonna / Charles S. Peirce / Thorn Rescues / Charles Schott / Julius Hilgard / Alexander Agassiz / Leslie Myrick / Silver Spring / / /
Position
Captain / President / Democratic candidate for US President / clerk / General / Superintendent / humorist lecturer and after-dinner speaker / fellow local attorney / party chief / first non-scientist / Acting Superintendent / Assistant / farmer / First Auditor / lawyer / humorist and after-dinner speaker / and apple and potato farmer / scientist / officer / Governor / leader / elected official / first leader / de facto spokesman / lawyer / board member / the Acting Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey / Confederate officer / /
ProvinceOrState
Virginia / Louisiana / British Columbia / New York / South Carolina / Mississippi / California / Georgia / Texas / Accomac County / New Jersey / Wyoming / Pennsylvania / Florida / North Carolina / /
Sailing Close to the Wind: Superintendent Thorn Rescues the Coast and Geodetic Survey