July 30----Ward Chipman 1754-1824 Loyalist lawyer, politician, and promoter of New Brunswick, was born on this day in 1754 in Marblehead, Massachusetts; died at Fredericton Feb. 9, 1824. Chipman was a Harvard educated lawyer who took up the Loyalist cause and organized the movement to create the new province of New Brunswick in 1784. He was first Solicitor General, a Supreme Court justice, and drafted the Saint John city charter. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- July 30,1863 - Henry Ford auto manufacturer: first assembly line production: the Tin Lizzie; died Apr 7, 1947 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- July 30,1890 - Casey (Charles Dillon) Stengel ‘The Old Professor’: baseball: Brooklyn Dodgers [World Series: 1916], Brooklyn Robins, Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Phillies, NY Giants [World Series: 1922, 1923], Boston Braves; manager: NY Yankees: 7 World Series championships [1949-53, 1956, 1958]; died Sep 29, 1975 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --