Diary of William Steinway

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(1) Stuart Isacoff, Steinway on the Superhighway. Wall Street Journal, Mar 10, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703954004576090011796364894.html

Note:
(a) Steinway & Sons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinway_%26_Sons
(founded in 1853 in New York City, by German immigrant Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg (later Henry E. Steinway; 1797–1871))
(b) William Steinway
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Steinway
(1835-1896; born in Germany; the fourth son of Henry Engelhard Steinway; He came to the United States with his father and brothers in 1850./ With his father and his brothers Charles and Henry, he founded the firm of Steinway & Sons in 1853)
(c) For "Civil War riots of 1863," see New York City draft riots
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_draft_riots
(July 13-16, 1863; The riots were the largest civil insurrection in American history apart from the Civil War itself./ Initially intended to express anger at the draft, the protests turned ugly and degraded into "a virtual racial pogrom, with uncounted numbers of blacks murdered on the streets")
(d) Smithsonian Institution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithsonian_Institution
(a bequest to the United States by the British scientist James Smithson (1765–1829), who never visited the new nation; US$500,000 ($10,100,997 in 2008 U.S. dollars after inflation; Established 1846)
(e) National Museum of American History
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_American_History
(preserves and displays the heritage of the United States; part of the Smithsonian Institution; Established 1964)
(f) Henry Z. Steinway
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Z._Steinway
(Henry Ziegler Steinway; 1915-2008; great-grandson of the company founder Henry E. Steinway; Steinway president from 1955 to 1977)
(g) Ignacy Jan Paderewski
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignacy_Jan_Paderewski
(1860-1941; a Polish pianist, composer, diplomat, politician, and the second Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland [Jan 18-Nov 13, 1919] )
(h) Astoria, Queens
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astoria,_Queens
(The area was renamed after John Jacob Astor, then the wealthiest man in America, with a net worth of over $40 million, in order to persuade him to invest just $2,000 in the neighborhood. He only invested $500, but the name stayed nonetheless, as a bitter battle over naming the village was finally won by Astor's supporters and friends)
(i) IRT Corona/Flushing Line. New York City Subway, undated.
http://www.nycsubway.org/lines/flushing.html
(William Steinway "became involved in 1890. He felt that controlling operations of the tunnel company would boost the value of his real estate" in Astoria, Queens)

* IRT stands for Interborough Rapid Transit.
* IRT Corona/Flushing Line is "7" in the subway map of Metropolitan Transport Authority of State of New York State (MTA).
http://www.mta.info/nyct/maps/submap.htm

(j) State University of New York at Purchase
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_University_of_New_York_at_Purchase
(Purchase College, State University of New York, is a public four-year college located in Purchase, New York state; Founded by Governor Nelson Rockefeller in 1967 as the cultural gem of the SUNY system)

* Purchase, New York
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchase,_New_York
(a hamlet of the town of Harrison, in Westchester County./ Its name is derived from Harrison's purchase, for Harrison could have as much land as he could ride in one day)
* Town History. Town/Village of Harrison, undated.
http://www.town.harrison.ny.us/harrison_sub_com_content_history.html

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