* Olcott, William Tyler.

In 1875 Helena Blavatsky, Henry Steel Olcott, and William Quan Judge co-founded The Theosophical Society.

Blavatsky, Henry Steel Olcott, William Quan Judge and others founded the Theosophical Society on 17 November 1875 in New York City.

Blavatsky, Henry Steel Olcott, William Quan Judge and others founded the Theosophical Society on 17 November 1875 in New York City.

In 1875, Olcott, Blavatsky, and others, notably William Quan Judge, formed the Theosophical Society in New York City, USA.

The Theosophical Society was officially formed in New York City, United States, in November 1875 by Helena Blavatsky, Henry Steel Olcott, William Quan Judge and others.

The AAVSO headquarters were originally located at the residence of its founder William T. Olcott in Norwich, Connecticut.

* William T. Olcott ( Founder )

In the back of the latter book's original edition there was an invitation by William Tyler Olcott of the AAVSO to contribute to the advancement of astronomy by observing variable stars.

Russian noblewoman Helena Blavatsky and American Colonel Henry Steel Olcott founded the Theosophical Society with attorney William Quan Judge and others in late 1875 in New York City.

Madame Blavatsky died in 1891, leaving Colonel Olcott and English social activist Annie Besant as the principal leaders of the international movement based in Adyar, and William Quan Judge heading the American Section.

The international President-Founder, Colonel Olcott, interpreted this action as secession, and revoked the charters of those lodges, whose members reorganized into the first “ Theosophical Society in America ” under William Quan Judge.

Olcott spent several weeks with the Eddy brothers, during which time he observed a number of séances that William and Horatio put on for free for the public.

William Tyler Olcott ( 1873 – 1936 ) was an American lawyer and amateur astronomer.

* The William Tyler Olcott Award of the AAVSO, initiated in 2000, is named for him.

* William M. K. Olcott ( 1862 – 1933 ), New York lawyer and politician

* William Tyler Olcott ( 1873 – 1936 ), American lawyer and amateur astronomer

* W. T. Olcott, " Sun Lore of All Ages: A Collection of Myths and Legends Concerning the Sun and Its Worship ", 1914,

His interest aroused, Olcott wrote an article for the New York Sun, in which he investigated Eddy Farms.

At this point in his life, Henry Steel Olcott, a respected attorney and war veteran, who also sat on the three-man commission looking into the Abraham Lincoln assassination, was doubling as a newspaper reporter for the New York Sun and the Daily Graphic.

* W. T. Olcott, " Star Lore of All Ages ", 1911, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.

There is a 1915 American film by Irish-Canadian Sidney Olcott entitled All for Old Ireland, also known as Bold Emmett, Ireland's Martyr or Robert Emmet, Ireland's Martyr.

On September 7, 2011, it was announced on the website for Justin Vernon's record label Chigliak Records that 12 Rods have an album awaiting release in the label's " first year of vinyl releases ", which began on May 22, 2012, with Amateur Love's It's All Aquatic, produced by Ev Olcott.

Its headquarters moved with Blavatsky and president Henry Steel Olcott to Adyar, an area of Chennai in 1883.

Its lyrics were written by Chauncey Olcott and George Graff, Jr., set to music composed by Ernest Ball, for Olcott's production of The Isle O ' Dreams, and Olcott sang the song in the show.

Made by Jesse L. Lasky and Adolph Zukor's Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, a division of Paramount Pictures, it was directed by Sidney Olcott and starred Jetta Goudal and Godfrey Tearle.

In 1915, the company lost Sidney Olcott who left to work independently for World Film Corporation, Famous Players-Lasky, and other studios.

When two of the founders of that society, Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott, moved to India at the end of that year, he was constituted as the President of the American body.

Essanay specialized in Westerns featuring " Broncho Billy " Anderson, and Kalem sent Sidney Olcott off with a film crew and a troupe of actors to various places in America and abroad to make film stories in the actual places they were supposed to have happened.

In 1906 Mary, Lottie and Jack supported the great Irish American singer Chauncey Olcott on Broadway in the play Edmund Burke.

* December 16 – Sidney Olcott, Canadian film director ( b. 1873 )

** Sidney Olcott, pioneer film director ( d. 1949 )

* October 30 – The Theosophical Society is founded in New York by Helena Blavatsky, H. S. Olcott, W. Q.

* March 18 – Chancellor Olcott, American actor ( b. 1858 )

* 1915: A silent film version was directed by Sidney Olcott and starred Mary Pickford.

Directed by Sidney Olcott who also appeared in the film, actress and screenwriter Gene Gauntier wrote the script and portrayed the Virgin Mary.

* Simeon Olcott, US Senator from New Hampshire was born in Bolton in 1735.

Several other nearby lakes on the same tributary form a connected chain of lakes: Round Lake, Price Lake, Moon Lake, Little Dollar Lake, Dollar Lake, Olcott Lake, and Little Olcott Lake.

* Col. Henry Steel Olcott ( 1832 – 1907 ), founder and first president of the Theosophical Society, first well-known person of European ancestry to make a formal conversion to Buddhism, helped create a Buddhist renaissance, assisted in designing the Buddhist flag, a national hero of Sri Lanka.

Part of the borough was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Olcott Avenue Historic District in 2009.

The New Jersey State Review Board for Historic Sites recommended the creation of the Olcott Avenue historic district on February 10, 2009.

While the Olcott Avenue School is but one historic structure within Bernardsville's first historic district area, the areas appeal and historic significance remembers the story of the rise of the middle class in Bernardsville and how this particular location impacted the entire region, from the downtown, Little Italy, and even the Mountain Colony areas.

Olcott is a hamlet ( and census-designated place ) located in the Town of Newfane in Niagara County, New York, United States 14126.