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Charlemagne (also Charles the Great; from Latin, Carolus Magnus), son of King Pippin the Short and Bertrada of Laon, was king of the Franks from 768 to 814 and king of the Lombards from 774 to 814. He was crowned Imperator Augustus in Rome on 25 December 800 by Pope Leo III and is therefore regarded as the first Holy Roman Emperor (as Charles I).

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Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), known as the "Wizard of Menlo Park," is considered to be one of the greatest inventors in the history of the world.  He holds the world's record for patents with 1,093 the most ever granted to one person.

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Henry Beauclerc

Henry's  mother, Queen Matilda of Flanders, was descended from the Saxon King Alfred the Great.  Matilda named Henry after her uncle, King Henry I of France. As the youngest son of the family, he was most likely expected to become a bishop and was given extensive schooling for a young nobleman of that time period. William of Malmesbury asserts that Henry once remarked that an illiterate king was a crowned ass.  He was probably the first Norman ruler to be fluent in the English language.

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Roger Mortimer

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Roger de Mortimer (1287-1330) the 1st Earl of March was born at, Wigmore Castle, Herefordshire, England.  He was the son of Edmund de Mortimer, the 2nd Baron of Wigmore.  Roger is noted for his affair with Queen Isabella (King Edward's wife), deposing and ordering the murder of King Edward II, and as the de facto ruler of England.

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Peter Skene Ogden

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"Peter Skene Ogden" Page

Peter Skene Ogden (1790-1854) was one of the most widely traveled trapper - explorers to enter the Far West in the first half of the nineteenth century. It is probably accurate to say that no other man led larger expeditions farther over more unexplored territory or brought in more furs than he did during these active years. He may well have out- traveled Jedediah Smith.  Dr. David E. Miller.

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Robert Treat Paine (1731-1814) was one of fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence.  He was a prosecutor (The Boston Massacre), a delegate to the Continental Congress representing the Colony of Massachusetts, Attorney General and Supreme Court Justice in the State of Massachusetts.

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Edward Plantagenet

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Woodcut from the frontispiece of The History of Newark

by Joseph Atkinson, Newark, N.J. 1878.

In May of 1666, some 30 persons from Milford, Connecticut, set foot on the Passaic River shore, and according to tradition, the first to come ashore was the 19-year-old daughter of Captain Samuel Swaine, named Elizabeth. These original settlers purchased a title to the land directly from the Indians.

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Ancestral Line:  Swaine c Ogden c Edison c Saxton c Fletcher

Edmund Tapp (1590-1653) was a leader in the Milford, Connecticut settlement and served as an assistant governor of Connecticut.

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Ancestral Line:  Tapp c Treat c Crane c

Baldwin c Ogden c Edison c Saxton c Fletcher

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Governor Robert Treat (1622-1710) is know as the father of Newark, New Jersey, the Commander in chief of King Philip's War, and served as Governor of the Colony 0f Connecticut from 1683-1698.

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Crane c Baldwin c Ogden c

William of Normandy ruled as the Duke of Normandy and as King of England.  William invaded England, won a victory at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, and suppressed subsequent English revolts in what has become known as the Norman Conquest.  No authentic portrait of William has been found. He was described as a big burly man, strong in every sense of the word, balding in front, and of regal dignity.

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