| 1832/01/24 |
Margaret Manning Hodges, wife of physician George Choate, gives birth to a son, Joseph Hodges Choate, in Salem, Massachusetts. |
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| 1859/06/01 |
Joseph Choate joins Evarts and Southmayd, creating Evarts, Southmayd, and Choate |
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| 1861/10/16 |
Caroline Dutcher Sterling marries Joseph Hodges Choate. |
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Marriage of Caroline Dutcher Sterling and Joseph Hodges Choate |
| 1871/00/00 |
174 European paintings are added to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection |
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The Met Fifth Avenue, NYC |
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| 1871/09/00 |
Joseph Choate helps rouse sentiment against the Tweed Ring's flagrant corruption at a public meeting in Cooper Union. |
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Cooper Union |
New York City |
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Downfall of Boss Tweed |
| 1874/00/00 |
The cornerstone for the American Museum of Natural History's first building at 77th St (obscured by current buildings) is laid by US President Ulysses S Grant. |
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American Museum of Natural History |
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| 1886/00/00 |
Designed by noted architect Stanford White in 1885, Naumkeag is built as a summer estate for Joseph and Caroline Choate. |
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Naumkeag |
Stockbridge |
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| 1899/00/00 |
Joseph Choate is appointed by President McKinley to be the Ambassador to the United Kingdom. |
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| 1906/01/23 |
Booker T Washington and others including Mark Twain, Joseph H Choate, and Robert Curtis Ogden lecture at Carnegie Hall in honor of Tuskegee Institute's Silver Jubilee. |
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Carnegie Hall |
New York City |
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Tuskegee Institute's Silver Jubilee |
| 1907/06/15 |
The Second International Peace Conference at the Hague, Netherlands opens. The conference concluded on the 18 October 1907. |
US Ambassador and first delegate |
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Binnenhof and Buitenhof, 'Gevangenpoort |
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Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 |
| 1917/05/14 |
Joseph H Choate dies suddenly at this home on E 63rd St in New York City after suffering a heart attack. Mrs Choate and their daughter, Miss Mabel, are at his side. |
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Joseph Choate Townhouse, NYC |
New York City |
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| 1917/05/17 |
Cecil Spring-Rice, M Hovelacque and William Phillips, among many others, attend the funeral for Joseph H Choate at St Bartholomew's Church in NYC. Choate will be buried in the Stockbridge Cemetery in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. |
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St Bartholomew's Church and Community House |
New York City |
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| 1917/05/31 |
A memorial service for Joseph Hodges Choate is held at Trinity Church on Broadway in New York City. |
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Trinity Church |
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