In 1915, Youngstown industrialist Joseph G. Butler, Jr., a childhood friend of President McKinley, campaigned for the construction of the Ethan and Drama Memorial in downtown Niles.

* Niles Crane, a character in the US television series Frasier

* Niles Standish, a character in Crank Yankers

* Chief ( comics ), also known as Dr. Niles Caulder, a DC Comics character

Ken Niles was the show's longtime announcer, doubling as an exasperated foil to Abbott and Costello's mishaps ( and often fuming in character as Costello routinely insulted his on-air wife ).

He is almost surely a relative of Winston Niles Rumfoord, a character in a previous novel by Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan.

The puppets are then constructed based on the various marks ' voices, and, along with a series of stock characters ( such as " Niles Standish ", " Bobby Fletcher ", and " Special Ed ") based on the performers ' character voices, the calls are re-enacted for the skits.

When Niles goes to a costume party as Martin and is asked to name his biggest disappointment in life, Niles ' response ( in character and slightly inebriated ) turns this into a speech of his distaste for his and Frasier's pretentiousness, snobbery, and lack of athleticism before finally saying " if I had to choose my two biggest disappointments ".

Davis played his most famous character, Niles the butler on the television series The Nanny, throughout its run from 1993 to 1999 and in its Reunion Special in 2004 ( in cameo flashbacks only ).

Niles was known for his frequent use of deadpan one-liners, usually insulting character C. C.

This American version of a " posh " accent is now obsolescent, if not wholly obsolete, even among the American upper classes, but an example of a Mid-Atlantic accent can be found on the television sitcom Frasier as used by both Frasier Crane and his brother Niles Crane, and is reminiscent of the Boston Brahmin accent of the character of Charles Emerson Winchester III on M * A * S * H. More recent Groton alumni, even those with careers on the stage such as Sam Waterston, no longer use such an accent.

Jane became a spokesperson for Steve Niles and the cover model for comic book character Cal McDonald in 2006.

* The train depot where Belushi's character says goodbye to Blair's character, but later gets back on the train is the Michigan Central Railroad Niles Depot in Niles, Michigan about 90 miles east of Chicago.

It runs from the Niles area at a junction with US Highway 12 ( US 12 ) to the Jackson area where it ends at Interstate 94 ( I-94 ).

M-60 starts at an interchange along US 12 southeast of Niles in southwestern Cass County.

The freeway runs to the south and west of Elkhart and South Bend and Niles and consists of segments of U. S. Route 31 ( US 31 ) and US 20 ; those two highway designations run concurrently at the southwestern rim of the South Bend metropolitan area.

West of Niles, the Parkway meets US 12 and continues northwesterly running west of Berrien Springs.

BUS US 31 was created along the former routing in Niles and Walton Road was rebuilt as a state trunkline connection between the northern end of the freeway and the former two-lane routing of US 31.

The segment from Niles south was used for the routing of US 31 in 1926.

From there the trunkline runs north through an interchange with US Highway 12 ( US 12 ) into Niles along a route that was once part of Business US 12 ( BUS US 12 ).

In 1971, all of M-40 south of I-94 to Niles was reassigned the designation M-51 while M-40 was shifted to the east to take over the routing of the contemporary M-119 between Paw Paw and its intersection with US 12 in Porter Township near Mottville.

The routing of M-51 was extended down to the state line in April 1998 when US 33 was decommissioned out of the state of Michigan ; the extension formed a concurrency with Business US 12 ( BUS US 12 ) through Niles in the process.

In early 2010, the central section of BUS US 12 was transferred to the City of Niles .< ref name = MoU2010 >

US 33 formerly ended in St. Joseph, Michigan, at the junction of the old U. S. Highway 12, was extended to a junction with Interstate 196 near Lake Michigan Beach, Michigan, north of St. Joseph, but later truncated south of Niles, Michigan ( junction U. S. Highway 12 ), then in April 1998 at Elkhart, Indiana.

Reg Niles, Directory of Hospitals, Orphanages, Adoption Agencies and Maternity Homes was published in 1981 and contains information about most US and Canadian facilities.

On July 1, 1919, the first M-58 was a highway in Berrien County connecting M-40 ( now M-51 ) in downtown Niles with M-11 ( later US 12, and presently Business Loop I-94 ) south of downtown St. Joseph.

All of M-63's routing was part of US 33 before that highway's truncation south of Niles in 1986.

Before the designation, US 33 ran north into Michigan south of Niles.

Daniel Davis ( born November 26, 1945 ) is an American stage, screen, and television actor best known for portraying Niles the butler on the popular sitcom The Nanny and his guest appearances as Professor Moriarty on Star Trek: The Next Generation, affecting an upper class English accent for both roles.

BB3B ( Ben Niles ) was an animated UK children's television series produced by Tell Tale Productions in 2005.

In the Frasier series finale in 2004, the characters Daphne and Niles have a son, named David ( in dedication to Angell ).

The central books of the Dragonlance series were written by the authoring team of Weis and Hickman ; however, many other writers have made contributions, including Richard A. Knaak, Douglas Niles, Roger E. Moore, Don Perrin, Jean Rabe, Paul B. Thompson, Tonya C. Cook, Michael Williams, Nancy Varian Berberick, and Chris Pierson.

Pierce is best known for playing the psychiatrist Dr. Niles Crane on the hit NBC sitcom Frasier, for which he won four Emmy Awards during the series ' run.

M-60 was designated with the rest of the original state highway system by July 1, 1919, on a series of roads running between Niles and Jackson by way of Cassopolis, Three Rivers and Tekonsha.

In the earlier seasons especially, most of the comedy and drama of the series stems from the culture clashes between the refined sons and the blue-collar father ( the sons frequently considering themselves superior in both taste and intellectual matters to their father, Niles once admitted that he often does not listen to Martin's advice because he " doesn't have any credentials "), and the struggles between Frasier and Martin in sharing an apartment.

A dramatic irony frequently shown in the series is that while Frasier and Niles may possess more intellectual knowledge and refinement than Martin, it is in fact Martin who is a wiser and more pragmatic individual.

Babcock, whom Niles eventually fell in love with and married in the series ' last season.

Sorum left and went to Hollywood to play with a series of bands, including " Population Five ", with the bassist Prescott Niles from The Knack,.

Her relationship with Frasier's brother Niles Crane was a major dramatic plotline during the run of the series, progressing from Niles ' secret infatuation at the beginning of the show to their marriage at the beginning of season ten.

On the other hand, for the first seven seasons of the series, the supposedly psychic Daphne never suspects Niles ' passionate infatuation with her, which is painfully evident to all the other main characters.

Daphne's most significant developing relationship over the course of the series is with Frasier Crane's younger brother, Niles.

Daphne and Niles have their first child, David, in the final episode of the series, " Goodnight, Seattle ".

* Moonshae Trilogy series of novels, by Douglas Niles

* Jane Leeves and David Hyde Pierce – Briefly playing Daphne Moon and Niles Crane, their characters from the NBC sitcom Frasier at the end of the 1995 episode " Caroline and the Bad Back ;" Hyde Pierce later appeared on the series again in 1996's " Caroline and the Cat Dancer " as an accountant hoping to win a role alongside Caroline's best friend Annie Spadaro in Broadway's Cats.

The company's first traditional comic series, 30 Days of Night, created by Steve Niles & Ben Templesmith started a seven-figure bidding war between Dreamworks, MGM and Senator International, with Senator winning and Sam Raimi attached to produce.

While Frasier and Niles are interested in high culture, Roz and Martin share a more down-to-earth view of life, and grow close over the series.

* Remains ( comics ), a 2004 five-issue comic book series by Steve Niles and Kieron Dwyer

It told the story of two 9-year old boys, Niles and Holland Perry ( played by real-life twins Chris and Marty Udvarnoky ), who get involved in a series of grisly murders at their home on Peaquot Landing in the 1930s.

In 2012, Wrightson and writer Steve Niles will produce a comic book series titled Frankenstein Alive, Alive!

Niles and Jane also co-wrote the six-issue comic book series Bad Planet for Image Comics with artists Lewis Larosa and Tim Bradstreet.