Sigma Chi has seven founding members: Benjamin Piatt Runkle, Thomas Cowan Bell, William Lewis Lockwood, Isaac M. Jordan, Daniel William Cooper, Franklin Howard Scobey, and James Parks Caldwell.

One of the most prominent early residents of Brady Township was Judge William Piatt.

Piatt Township is named for William Piatt who was an associate judge in Lycoming County when the township was created.

He funded it with $ 500 of his personal money, land donated by his father William Lytle, and $ 500 he solicited from a group of prominent first citizens of Cincinnati ( John H. Piatt, David E. Wade, Ethan Stone, William Corry, John H. Lytle, Gen. James Findlay, Andrew Mack, Jacob Burnet ).

Early state historians, like Jacob Piatt Dunn and William Woollen, gave Jennings high praise and credited him with the defeat of the pro-slavery forces in Indiana and with laying the foundation of the state.

The state ’ s early historians, like William Woollen and Jacob Piatt Dunn, wrote of Jennings in an almost mythical manner and focused on the strong positive leadership he provided Indiana in its formative years.

Jacob Piatt Dunn, longtime secretary of the Indiana Historical Society, noted that " hoosier " was frequently used in many parts of the South in the 19th century for woodsmen or rough hill people.

Jacob Piatt Dunn published The Word Hoosier in 1907, a serious study into the origin of the term " Hoosier " as a term used to describe the citizens of Indiana.

Jacob Piatt Dunn, with whom Marshall wrote a proposed constitution for Indiana

He and Jacob Piatt Dunn, a close friend and civic leader, wrote a new constitution that increased the state's regulatory powers considerably, set minimum wages, and gave constitutional protections to unions.

Jacob Piatt Dunn, the preeminent Indiana historian of the time, consulted several history and arrived at the conclusion that the sun was rising.

Daniel Purcell ( d. 1717 ), the youngest of the brothers, was also a prolific composer who wrote the music for much of the final act of The Indian Queen after Henry Purcell's death.

The Josty company had been founded in 1793 by two Swiss brothers, Johann and Daniel Josty, who had emigrated to Berlin from Sils in Switzerland and set up a bakery from which the café was a 1796 offshoot.

Ted Williams was born in San Diego as Teddy Samuel Williams, named after his father, Samuel Stuart Williams, and former President, Teddy Roosevelt, although Williams claimed that his middle name stemmed from one of his mother's brothers ( in truth, her dead brother was Daniel Venzor ) who had been killed in World War I.

He thus decided to return to London and live with his brothers Eliab and Daniel separately and in different periods of time.

* Markus Näslund, and twin brothers Daniel and Henrik Sedin, are all from Örnsköldsvik Municipality ; Naslund played for the Vancouver Canucks from 1996-2008 and his number was retired by the team in honour of his many accomplishments in December 2010, while the Sedins are captain and deputy captain of the team in 2010-11.

He had two brothers, Daniel, eight years his senior, and Arthur, four years his senior.

Making the journey from North Carolina with George Frederick Bollinger were his brothers John, Daniel, and Mathias Bollinger and two nephews Mann Henry Bollinger and William Bollinger.

Several friends also joined the expedition including brothers George and Peter Grount ( Grounds ) along with Peter's young son Daniel Grount, brothers Peter and Conrad Statler, Joseph Neyswanger, Peter Crytes, Jacob Cotner, John and Isaac Miller, Frederick Limbaugh, Leonard Welker and Frederick Slinkard.

In the earliest times Daniel Boone and his brothers, most notably Squire Boone, were regularly in the area of Mauckport.

Zilwaukee was founded in 1848 when Daniel and Solomon Johnson, two brothers from New York City, built a saw mill here.

Piedmont actually began as a homestead where James and William Daniel, two brothers born and raised as farmers who fought in the War with Mexico, purchased property along McKenzie Creek with the intention of raising crops.

One of the first physicians in Sand Lake-the earliest of whom there appears to be any positive record-was Dr. Uriah M. Gregory, who located near Sand Lake village with his brothers, Stephen, Daniel M., Justus and Eben Gregory.

The town was first settled in 1799 when four brothers named Andrew, John, Samuel, and Daniel Millet left their homes in Connecticut, traveled west and became the first settlers in what is now the hamlet of Walworth.

Two sets of brothers, Jacob and Daniel Beck and George and Daniel Miller first stopped in Williamsport before moving further to the north.

The Slayden family appears in census for Dickson co TN in 1820, 1830 and 1840, by which time there were four Slayden heads of household, all being descended from brothers Daniel Everett Slayden and William Everett Slayden.

The railroad needed access to water from springs owned by brothers named Daniel and Thomas Murphy, so it entered into an agreement with the Murphys to change the name of the section and settlement to Murphyville in exchange for a contract to use the spring.

The Daniel brothers were grandsons of General Sam Houston that had led victory for the Republic of Texas independence in 1836.

The town was founded in 1837 by two brothers, Daniel and Henry Forrer.

He was a black rabbi, who would go to upper Pennsylvania and purchase chicken, turkeys and ducks .” Solomon Burke had six younger siblings – a sister, Laurena Burke-Corbin ( born 23 June 1946 ), and five brothers: Elec Edward " Alec " ( born 16 February 1948 ), Vladimir H. " Laddie " ( born 31 July 1949 ), Mario " Chuck " ( born 13 September 1953 ), Daniel S. " Danny " ( born 10 March 1955 ), and Jolester R. M. Burke ( born 24 September 1958 ).

The film tells the story of two brothers, Derek Vinyard ( Norton ) and Daniel " Danny " Vinyard ( Furlong ) of Venice Beach in Los Angeles, California.

Holyhead is home to one of the first churches of the Jedi Religion, founded by brothers Daniel and Barney Jones early in 2008.

Baldwin is the youngest brother of notable actors, Alec, Daniel and William, sometimes collectively known as the " Baldwin brothers ".

He is the brother of actors Alec, Daniel, and Stephen, sometimes collectively known as the Baldwin brothers.

Harold, with brothers Frank, Joe and William, took over at the death of their father, Harry M. Stevens, who put a few dollars into a baseball program, introduced the `` hot dog '' and paved the way for creation of a catering empire.

Although they were childless, Potter played an important role in William ’ s large family, particularly enjoying her relationship with several nieces whom she helped educate and giving comfort and aid to her husband ’ s brothers and sisters.

Nelson publicly encouraged this close bond with his officers and on 29 September 1798 described them as " We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ", echoing William Shakespeare's play Henry V. From this grew the notion of the Nelsonic Band of Brothers, a cadre of high-quality naval officers that served with Nelson for the remainder of his life.

Beatty's other brothers were Charles Harold Longfield ( 1870 – 1917 ) who served with distinction in the South Africa wars before dying from complications after losing an arm in Flanders, Richard George ( 1882 – 1915 ) who died on active service in India, William Vandeleur Schruder ( 1873 – 1935 ) who became an army Major and Newmarket horse trainer, and one sister Kathleen Roma ( 1875 –).

Her half brothers, William and Joscelin, were acknowledged by William X as his sons, but not as his heirs.

He had two elder brothers, William Earle Lytton Bulwer ( 1799 – 1877 ) and Henry ( 1801 – 1872 ), later Lord Dalling and Bulwer.

His brothers were director / writer Kenneth Neil Hawks and film producer William Bettingger Hawks.

John's elder brothers William, Henry and Geoffrey died young ; by the time Richard I became king in 1189, John was a potential heir to the throne.

Robeson had three brothers, William Drew, Jr. ( born 1881 ), Reeve ( born c. 1887 ), and Ben ( born c. 1893 ), and one sister, Marian ( born c. 1895 ).

He was the oldest son of Sir William Lovelace and Anne Barne Lovelace and had four brothers and three sisters.

The brothers had supporters in England, ready to rise up ; led by Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester, the rebellion in England from Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk, Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester, and William I of Scotland.

* Brendan Whiting's book Victims of Tyranny, gives an account of the lives of the Irish rebels, the Fitzgerald convict brothers who were sent to help open up the north of Van Diemen's Land in 1805, under the leadership of the explorer Colonel William Paterson.

Working with two Irish brothers with theatrical experience, William and Frank Fay, Yeats's unpaid yet independently wealthy secretary Annie Horniman, and the leading West End actress Florence Farr, the group established the Irish National Theatre Society.

One of Herleva's brothers, Walter, became a supporter and protector of William during his minority.

But the families of Harold and his brothers did lose their lands, as did some others who had fought against William at Hastings.

Although Orderic Vitalis describes it as starting with a quarrel between Robert and his two younger brothers, William and Henry, including a story that the quarrel was started when William and Henry threw water at Robert, it is much more likely that Robert was feeling powerless.

In 1821 William followed in the footsteps of his older brothers and attended Eton College before matriculating in 1828 at Christ Church, Oxford, where he read Classics and Mathematics, although he had no great interest in mathematics.

From left, clockwise: The Wright brothers achieve the first manned flight by airplane, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina | Kitty Hawk in 1903 ; U. S. President William McKinley is William McKinley assassination | assassinated in 1901 by Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition ; An 1906 San Francisco earthquake | earthquake on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, killing at least 3, 000 in 1906 ; United States | America gains control over the Philippines in 1902, after the Philippine – American War ; Rock being moved to construct the Panama Canal ; Admiral Heihachiro Togo | Togo before the Battle of Tsushima in 1905, part of the Russo-Japanese War, leading to Japanese victory and their establishment as a great power.

In 1950 Tharp's family — younger sister Twanette, twin brothers Stanley and Stanford, mother Lecile and father William — moved to Rialto, California.

His uncle Duke William of Inner Austria, then head of the rivaling Leopoldinian line, served as regent for his nephew, followed by his brothers Leopold IV and Ernest the Iron in 1406.

Louis released Holland and Hainaut for his brothers William I and Albert I in 1349, since he expected to acquire the Polish crown by his marriage with Cunigunde of Poland, a daughter of Casimir III and Aldona Ona of Lithuania.

* The Norman brothers, William Iron Arm and Drogo de Hauteville, assume power in Apulia.