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Leonard James Ashby, research physicist at the University of Michigan who taught at Kalamazoo College from 1921 to 1924, died in Ann Arbor on June 12. Ashby, an assistant professor of physics during his tenure here, was founder and former president of the Kalamazoo Amateur Astronomy Association. A son, Frederick Ashby, is an ensign in the navy.
William Thomas Ashby, descended from Ashbys — among whom a Jesse Ashby figured prominently in virtually every generation — who served in most of the nation’s major wars, including the Revolutionary, and the War Between the States, was a farmer and mill owner.
- Charles A. Leach
Ashby-de-la-Zouch (/ ˈ æ ʃ b i d ə l ə ˈ z uː ʃ /), [2] also spelled Ashby de la Zouch, [a] is a market town and civil parish in the North West Leicestershire district of Leicestershire, England, near to the Derbyshire and Staffordshire borders. Its population at the 2021 census was 16,491. [3]
Ashby Name Meaning. English: habitational name from any of numerous places in northern and eastern England called Ashby, from Old Norse askr ‘ash’ (or in one instance possibly from the Old Norse personal name Aski) + bȳ ‘farm’.
About Ashby Life. Ashby Life is an independently owned local community magazine serving Ashby de la Zouch. This site serves as an extension to the magazine, bringing you an online directory that you can use any time you need to find a business in the area along with a selection of local information, community news and events and, of course, the latest edition of Ashby Life online.
Mar 9, 2016 · Ashby, like Appleby, bears the quintessential mark of a Danish place name: –by, meaning ‘farmhouse’ or ‘village’. Both, however, also bear the marks of the Anglo-Saxons who where there ...
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They called the river that flows through present-day Kalamazoo "Kikalamazoo," which means "boiling water" because of the hundreds of bubbling springs in it. In 1823, a trading post called Kikalamazoo was established on the banks of the river.
