Sylvania

SYLVANIA - Janie Clyde Daughtry Davis, 88, of Sylvania, died Nov. 23, 2009 at her residence.

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Macay McBride of Screven County High in Sylvania and shortstop Josh Burns of Wheeler High in Marietta.

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The Sylvania was a great deal more comfortable for the passengers when she went along at her ordinary rate than when she was forced up to twelve knots an hour; and I was not disposed to hurry her on a useless mission.

Up the River or, Yachting on the Mississippi Oliver Optic 1859

"Well then, as it hath many noble forests, let it be called Sylvania," said Penn.

A True Hero A Story of the Days of William Penn William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

And yes, Paramount recycled the name "Sylvania" for Duck Soup a few years later.

Chevalier, MacDonald and Chemistry Jaime J. Weinman 2006

And yes, Paramount recycled the name "Sylvania" for Duck Soup a few years later.

Archive 2006-12-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2006

They are "The Rose of Avontown," for female voices, "The Minstrel and the King," for male chorus and soloists, and "Sylvania," a wedding cantata recently published.

Woman's Work in Music Arthur Elson

Quakers objected to the name of his land being given to a Quaker colony, so Penn changed it to Sylvania, meaning Woodland, because of the magnificent forests which were there.

This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States Henrietta Elizabeth 1917

Penn named this region "Sylvania," or "Woodland," but when the King came to approve the charter, he wrote the name "Penn" before "Sylvania," and when Penn protested, assured him laughingly that the name was given the country not in his honor but in that of his father, and so it stood.

American Men of Action Burton Egbert Stevenson 1917

Penn then suggested "Sylvania," as applicable to the forest region; but the secretary, acting under instructions, prefixed "Penn" to this title.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 John [Editor] Rudd 1885