Locations

• Throop, Dorset
  Throop, Dorset
  -Geography and Administration:Although within the historic county boundaries of Hampshire, at the time of the 1974 local government re-organization it was considered desirable that the whole of what is now called the South East Dorset conurbation, which includes Bournemouth and Poole, should be...
  
  
• Throop, New York
  Throop, New York
  ----Throop is a town in Cayuga County, New York, United States. The town is at the north city line of Auburn, New York and is in the Finger Lake District of New York. The population was 1,990 at the 2010 census. The town is named after former New York Governor Enos T...
  
  , Town in Cayuga County.
• Throop, Pennsylvania
  Throop, Pennsylvania
  Throop is a borough in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, adjoining Scranton. Formerly, coal mining and silk manufacturing provided employment for the people of Throop, who numbered 2,204 in 1900 and 5,133 in 1910. In 1940, 7,382 people lived in Throop, Pennsylvania...
  
  , Borough in Lackawanna County.
• Throop University - The original name of the California Institute of Technology
  California Institute of Technology
  The California Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering...
  
    (Caltech)

People

• Amos G. Throop
  Amos G. Throop
  Amos Gager Throop was a businessman and politician in Chicago, Illinois during the 1840s and 1850s. Most famously he was known for being a staunch abolitionist prior to the Civil War. In Chicago he lost two campaigns to be that city's mayor in 1852 and 1854. In both elections he was the nominee of...
  
  , founder of Caltech.
• Enos T. Throop
  Enos T. Throop
  Enos Thompson Throop was an American lawyer, politician and diplomat who was the tenth Governor of New York from 1829 to 1832.-Early life and career:...
  
  , past governor of New York
  New York
  New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
  
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• Throop, George R.
  George R. Throop
  George R. Throop was the Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis from 1927 until 1944.-Biography:George R. Throop was born in Boydsville, Tennessee, in 1882. He received his undergraduate and master's degrees from DePauw University in Indiana and his doctorate from Cornell University...
  
  , Scholar of Greek and Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis
  Washington University in St. Louis
  Washington University in St. Louis is a private research university located in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1853, and named for George Washington, the university has students and faculty from all fifty U.S. states and more than 110 nations...
  
   from 1928-44
• Throop, Kelvin R.
  Kelvin R. Throop
  Kelvin R. Throop is a fictional character and collective pseudonym created by R. A. J. Phillips in a story which appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact magazine in July 1964. With the encouragement of editor John W. Campbell, Throop subsequently figured in additional stories by other...
  
  , Science fiction character