Wendell Phillips ( 1811-1884 ), from a prominent Massachusetts family, in his teens was converted under the preaching of Lyman Beecher.

He had attended a rally led by Wendell Phillips on behalf of 17-year old Thomas Sims, a fugitive slave on trial in Boston.

Peirce did some scientific and engineering consulting and wrote much for meager pay, mainly encyclopedic dictionary entries, and reviews for The Nation ( with whose editor, Wendell Phillips Garrison, he became friendly ).

He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending abolitionist John Brown.

* Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum ( 1845 )

In 1840, at the urging of Garrison and Wendell Phillips, Lucretia Coffin Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton traveled with their husbands and a dozen other American male and female abolitionists to London for the first World's Anti-Slavery Convention, with the expectation that a motion put forward by Phillips to include women's participation in the convention would be controversial.

Eckley and Perry state of Leesville: “ It was one of the stations on the Underground Railroad, and in those days its little public hall at times was visited by such bright and shining abolition lights as William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Wendell Phillips, Parker Pillsbury .”

Cooke attended Wendell Phillips Academy High School in Chicago, the same school that Nat " King " Cole had attended a few years earlier.

In 1848, she accepted and was hired for $ 6 a week by Garrison and Wendell Phillips as a lecturer and organizer for the American Anti-Slavery Society in Boston, to speak about the evils of slavery.

There, she met with eight other women including Harriot Kezia Hunt, Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis, and her close friend Abby Kelley Foster, as well as her compatriots and employers Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd Garrison, to plan a national convention focusing on women's rights.

Wendell Phillips came to her defense and Stone was given freedom of dress.

* Wendell Phillips, American abolitionist and activist from Massachusetts

In response, Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe and Wendell Phillips among others established the American Woman Suffrage Association in September of that year in Boston.

Wendell Phillips Garrison, son of William Lloyd Garrison, was Literary Editor from 1865 to 1906.

Most of the players also attended Wendell Phillips High School.

Sumner attended the Boston Latin School, where he counted Robert Charles Winthrop, James Freeman Clarke, Samuel Francis Smith, and Wendell Phillips, among his closest friends.

Famous members included Theodore Dwight Weld, Lewis Tappan, James G. Birney, Lydia Maria Child, Maria Weston Chapman, Abby Kelley Foster, Stephen Symonds Foster, Henry Highland Garnet, Samuel Cornish, James Forten, Charles Lenox Remond, Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone, Robert Purvis, and Wendell Phillips.

* A volume of her letters, with an introduction by John G. Whittier and an appendix by Wendell Phillips, was published after her death ( Boston, 1882 )

Before her death in 1871, she bore Remond four children: Amy Matilda ( 1859 – 72 ), Charles Lenox, Jr. ( 1860 – 82 ), Wendell Phillips ( 1863 – 66 ), and Albert Ernest ( 1866 – 1903 ).

A daguerrotype by Matthew Brady of Wendell Phillips in his forties

Wendell Phillips ( November 29, 1811 – February 2, 1884 ) was an American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer.

Wendell Phillips with signature

In 1904 Wendell Phillips High School in Chicago was named in Phillips ' honor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in his famous article, " The Path of the Law ", commented, " It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid down in the time of Henry IV.

Later, he guest starred on NBC's medical drama The Eleventh Hour in the role of Hal Kincaid in the 1962 episode " Make Me a Place ", with series co-stars Wendell Corey and Jack Ging.

" In a letter to Morton shortly thereafter, physician and writer Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. proposed naming the state produced " anesthesia ", and the procedure an " anesthetic ".

Wendell Wilkie's book " One World ", first published in 1943, sold over 2 million copies.

Like many other towns, this one went through name changes before its incorporation in 1781: " Saville " in 1768, " Corey's Town ", and then " Wendell ", for one of the Masonian Proprietors, John Wendell.

The Abolitionists ( 1963 ), includes segment by Wendell Phillips, " No Union With Slaveholders ", January 15, 1845.

In the biography Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self by G. Edward White, the author states " the authenticity of the story is highly questionable ", noting " the absence of confirmatory evidence in Holmes ' own recollections of his services defending Fort Stevens ".

The American poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, wrote a poem called " The Dorchester Giant " in 1830, and referred to the special kind of stone, " Roxbury puddingstone ", also quarried in Dorchester, which was used to build churches in the Boston area, most notably the Central Congregational Church ( later called the Church of the Covenant ) in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood.

" How can a family ‘ live at the center of its own attention ?’ Wendell Berry ’ s thoughts on the good life ", January / February 2006

", according to Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor in A Catalogue of Crime.

One of Boston's most enduring nicknames, " The Hub of the Universe ", is from a remark by Oliver Wendell Holmes from his 1858 book The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table in which he mentions the State House ( emphasis added ):

* Bennett, Wendell C. ( 1943 ) " The Position of Chavin in Andean Sequences ", Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 86 ( 2, Symposium on Recent Advances in American Archeology ): 323-327.

's songs, including " Nightswimming ", " Find the River ", " At My Most Beautiful ", " Why Not Smile ", " Let Me In ", " Wendell Gee ", "( Don't Go Back To ) Rockville ", " Beat a Drum ", " Be Mine " and " What's the Frequency, Kenneth ?".

This concept was first explored in the contractor-trade publication " Roads and Bridges " in June 1997 ; the article outlining the I-11 route and rationale was titled " Interstate 2000: Improvement for the Next Millennium ", written by Wendell Cox and Jean Love.

Some northerners used " The War for the Union ", the title of both a December 1861 lecture by the abolitionist leader Wendell Phillips, and a major four-volume history by Allan Nevins published in the middle of the 20th century.

He wrote two books dealing with the Modoc War: Wigwam and Warpath ; or, The Royal Chief in Chains, a history of the War, was published in 1875 with an introduction by Wendell Phillips.

During his raid on Washington, D. C. in 1864, Lincoln was watching the combat from an exposed position ; Captain Oliver Wendell Holmes shouted at him, " Get down, you damn fool, before you get shot!

According to the historian David O. Stewart, Cornelius Wendell led an acquittal committee, which met in the Astor House in New York ; it collected a bribery fund of up to $ 150, 000 to influence Senators into voting for Johnson's acquittal.

Among notable recipients below flag rank are: X-1 test pilot Chuck Yeager and X-15 test pilot Robert M. White, who both received the DSM as U. S. Air Force majors ; Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson, the U-2 pilot shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis ; director Frank Capra, decorated in 1945 as an Army colonel ; actor James Stewart, decorated in 1945 as an Army Air Forces colonel ( later Air Force Brigadier General ); Col. Wendell Fertig, who led Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines ; Col. ( later Major General ) John K. Singlaub, who led partisan forces in the Korean War ; and Maj. Maude C. Davison, who led the " Angels of Bataan and Corregidor " during their imprisonment by the Japanese, and Colonel William S. Taylor, Program Manager Multiple Launch Rocket System.

) Defensive end Jim Marshall sacked Dawson for an 8-yard loss by on the first play of the drive ; however, a 13-yard run by running back Wendell Hayes and a 10-yard reception by Taylor gave the Chiefs a first down at the Viking four yard line.

Dewey alienated former president and fellow Republican Herbert Hoover during the campaign by ignoring him at the funeral of Wendell Willkie ; according to historian William Leuchtenburg, Hoover confided to a friend that " Dewey has no inner reservoir of knowledge on which to draw for his thinking ," elaborating that " A man couldn't wear a mustache like that without having it affect his mind.

* Bennett, Wendell C. & Bird, Junius B .; Andean Culture History ; Handbook Series No. 15 ; second and revised edition ; © The American Museum of Natural History ; A publication of the Anthropological Handbook Fund, New York, 1960

* John Wendell Keller, Germany, the wall and Berlin ;: Internal politics during an international crisis, Vantage Press ; ( 1964 )

Lewis Temple CME | Christian Methodist Episcopal Church at 301 Main Street in Grambling ; pastor Wendell M. Oldham, Jr., a native of Dayton, Ohio | Dayton, Ohio

Omaha officials have never expressed a desire to annex Ralston ; an agreement had been signed with Ralston's then-mayor, Wendell Kronberg, in the late 1960s whereby Omaha would leave Ralston alone.

Grimley's fellow cartoon characters included Grimley's landlord Leo Freebus ( voiced by Jonathan Winters ), Leo's wife Deidre ( Andrea Martin ), his ditzy, amateur actress neighbor Ms. Malone ( voiced by Catherine O ' Hara ; a female character by the name of Ms. Malone did appear on an SNL version of an Ed Grimley sketch on the season ten episode hosted by Alex Karras, but Ms. Malone was played by that episode's musical guest Tina Turner ), and her little brother, Wendell.

The couple had three sons ; Carleton Gillespie ( 1876 – 1961 ), Clifford Wendell ( 1881, died just after three months ), and Phelps Fitch ( 1889 – 1935 ).

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. described bigotry in the following quotation: " The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye ; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.

* Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr .-physician ; poet

* Burton does voice-overs for many commercials and promos ; for instance, Burton's voice is featured in some Old Navy commercials, a role he inherited after the death of Bill Wendell.

It covers fifty years of history of the Ryder family: Sophia Grieve Ryder, like Zadel a former salon hostess fallen into poverty ; her idle son Wendell ; his wife Amelia ; his resident mistress Kate-Careless ; and their children.