

上海老城厢乔家路143号,为明末将领乔一琦故居,西侧药局弄口墙上钉着"最乐堂遗址"牌子。现"最乐堂"仅有遗迹可寻。明朝熹宗皇帝嘉奖其义,封赠乔为左府都督同知,袭陛四级,子本卫世袭百户。乾隆皇帝在苏州见到乔的后裔乔光烈时称赞说:"汝家真文武世家也"。乔一琦遗像原供于药局弄乔氏宗祠,"文革"初期遭焚。如今,在乔家路143号门前,尚存一块方形花岗岩旗杆石,正面刻三支戟,民间传说寓意"连升三级"。



Benedict XVI on 10 August 2019
Benedict XVI
Papa Benedetto XV and Pope Pius XI






Benjamin Harrison I (1594–1648) arrived in the Virginia colony around 1630, and Thomas Harrison (1 March 1619 – August 1682) was an English nonconformist minister. They both were the sons of Robert Harrison, a merchant, from Yorkshire, England. Isaiah Harrison (Born September 25, 1666 Chester, Cheshire, England), the son of Thomas Harrison, came to America on January 2, 1687.
Isaiah Harrison's granddaughter Bathsheba married Captain Abraham Lincoln and they were President Lincoln's grandparents.


The Harrison families eventually abandoned their slaveholding as the abolitionist movement began to take hold with the civil war. Future President Benjamin Harrison had already begun his political career in Indiana and joined the fledgling Republican party in 1856, then being built in opposition to slavery. Abraham Lincoln similarly joined that party, and made effective efforts to end slavery by his Emancipation Proclamation, the victory of his Union army in the Civil War, and his promotion of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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The rock on which Freedom
Stumped its toe —
The great mistake
That Jamestown made
Long ago.
By Langston Hughes in 1967