english immigrants to the united states
Frank W. Preston
1886 births | 1989 deaths | american environmentalists | english immigrants to the united states | people from pennsylvania Frank W. Preston (1886-1989) an English-American engineer, ecologist, and conservationist. He helped found the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy and worked to reclaim the land that is now Moraine State Park in Butler County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Preston was a leading expert in glass technology. He studied birds throughout his life and published papers on the shapes and pigmentation of birds eggs, the distribution of the heights of their nests and their migration patterns. Preston also wrote three major papers on the mathematical characteristics of ecologlical rarity and commonness.
Biography
Early life
Frank W. Preston was born on June 14, 1896 in Leicester, England. He received three degrees from the University of London upon graduation in 1916. Following his college years, Preston worked as a civil engineer in Loughborough, England. He was drafted into the Royal Army during World War I but received a maximum exemption through the efforts of his employer. Preston was personally against the exemption and wrote the the draft board in 1917 stating a desire to serve "in anything useful and suggested a brief exemption."Richard Alldridge
1815 births | 1896 deaths | converts to mormonism | english immigrants to the united states | english latter day saints | latter day saint hymnwriters | mormon pioneers | people from birmingham | people from iron county, utahRichard Alldridge (1815-05-03 – 1896-02-14) was a Latter-day Saint hymnwritter who wrote two hymns in the 1985 English edition of the hymnal of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. These are "Lord Accept Our True Devotion" and "We'll Sing All Hail To Jesus Name".
Alldridge was born in Birmingham, England. He married Ann Blunt in Northampton. They joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints sometime between 1837 and 1840.
