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Although Judah Philip Benjamin was born in Christiansted, St. Croix, Danish West Indies (US Virgin Islands since the year 1917), it was in the continental United States that he distinguished himself as a lawyer, U.S. Secretary of State, and author. Born August 6, 1811, of Jewish parents, Philip Benjamin and Rebecca, née de Mendes, he was reportedly a child genius who entered Yale University at age fourteen and was admitted to the Louisiana Bar at twenty-one in 1832. His career as a lawyer was successful, encompassing constitutional, insurance, and admiralty law.
Categories: St. Croix, US Virgin Islands Tags: St. Croix
On this article, Mr. Donald E. de Castro explains the name difference between The Virgin Islands, a British Overseas Territory, and the US Virgin Islands.
Categories: British Overseas Territories Tags: British Virgin Islands
Would you like to be able to vote for President? Do you know why we territorial residents, although U.S. citizens, cannot vote in federal elections despite the fact that we are subject to federal law? As you are likely aware, the current state of the law makes it impossible for the approximately 4.5 million Americans who reside in the territories of the United States to vote for President despite the fact that territorial residents serve in the military and die for their country. In this excellent article, US Virgin Islands Attorney Lisa Michelle Kömives explains why territorial residents have been relegated to a "second-class form of citizenship."
Categories: US Virgin Islands Tags: Virgin Islands
The historic Beracha Veshalom Vegmiluth Hasidim (Blessing and Peace and Acts of Piety) Synagogue in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands is: the THIRD OLDEST synagogue in the Western Hemisphere, the SECOND OLDEST SYNAGOGUE IN CONTINUOUS USE in the Western Hemisphere and the LONGEST IN CONTINUOUS USE UNDER THE AMERICAN FLAG.
Categories: St. Thomas Tags: Jewish, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands
The Emancipation Gardens, St. Thomas, VI 00804 post office building in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands was actually built through the efforts of its namesake, Alvaro de Lugo. The land were the Alvaro de Lugo Post Office building sits, in the 1930’s was owned by the Krueger family and at the time housed the old US Post Office, Louis Lindquist’s Eveready Taxi Service (in 1936 moved to a building near Maduro’s Lumber Yard in “Butchers’ Shop Street”), the American Restaurant & Apartment Hotel, and Public Health Service.
Categories: St. Thomas Tags: de Lugo, St. Thomas
This is a biographical sketch about Mr. David Chinnery from my genealogical research notes: David E. Chinnery was born in Jost Van Dyke, British Virgin Islands (BVI), on May 20, 1899. At the age of 3 he moved to Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands and lived with his uncle, John Callwood, and later with his aunt, Mary Varlack.
Categories: Jost Van Dyke, St. Thomas Tags: Callwood, Chinnery, Jost Van Dyke, Shenery, Shennery, Shinnery, St. Thomas
The 1972 St. John riot occurred in Cruz Bay, St. John, US Virgin islands, at the close of the St. John Fourth of July celebrations, on Tuesday night, July 4, 1972, and Wednesday morning, July 5, 1972. It was led by a gang of around 50 youth. One person was stabbed and a couple was injured.
Mr. Bonnelli was the original recorded owner of 44-45 Norre Gade (the present location of the Grand Hotel), St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands. He bought lot 44 on March 16, 1835 and lot 45 on April 15, 1835, both vacant at the time. The hotel was built 1839-1840 (three stories high) and opened its doors on Thursday, May 14, 1840, under the name of Commercial Hotel & Coffee House. It was not until after 1908 that it was called the Grand Hotel. In the 19th century, for a time, the actual Hotel 1829 was called the Grand Hotel.
Categories: St. Thomas Tags: Anduze, Bonnelli, Bonnelly, Danish West Indies, Grand Hotel, Lockhart, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands
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