Thus at the same time that William Henry Harrison was preparing to pacify the aborigines of Indiana Territory and winning fame at the battle of Tippecanoe, Anglo-Saxon settlement made a great leap into the center of the North American continent to the west of the American agricultural frontier.

Early in January, 1844 he had a conference with Henry and William in New Orleans, and upon learning of Gorham's intention, Henry remonstrated calmly but firmly with his brother.

Henry hid his annoyance, although both he and William were furious with their Yankee brother.

News of the legislative veto appeared in the New Orleans papers, and Henry and William became incensed by the fact that they had not been told of the attempt in advance.

On March 21, 1845 the bark Bashaw weighed anchor at New Orleans, while on the levee Henry and William Palfrey waved farewell to their father's former chattels who must have looked back at the receding shore with mingled regret and jubilation.

Mrs. Robert O. Spurdle is chairman of the committee, which includes Mrs. James A. Moody, Mrs. Frank C. Wilkinson, Mrs. Ethel Coles, Mrs. Harold G. Lacy, Mrs. Albert W. Terry, Mrs. Henry M. Chance, 2d, Mrs. Robert O. Spurdle, Jr., Mrs. Harcourt N. Trimble, Jr., Mrs. John A. Moller, Mrs. Robert Zeising, Mrs. William G. Kilhour, Mrs. Hughes Cauffman, Mrs. John L. Baringer and Mrs. Clyde Newman.

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh | Lord Rayleigh's method for the isolation of argon, based on an experiment of Henry Cavendish's.

Argon ( αργος, Greek meaning " inactive ", in reference to its chemical inactivity ) was suspected to be present in air by Henry Cavendish in 1785 but was not isolated until 1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay in Scotland in an experiment in which they removed all of the oxygen, carbon dioxide, water and nitrogen from a sample of clean air.

Its earliest members included noted scientists like William Crookes, and philosophers such as Henry Sidgwick and William James.

* William Alexander Henry – September 30, 1875

* 1869 – William Henry Ogilvie, Scottish-Australian poet ( d. 1963 )

On March 5, 1868, the impeachment trial began in the Senate and lasted almost three months ; Reps. George S. Boutwell, Ben Butler and Thaddeus Stevens acted as managers ( prosecutors ) for the House and William M. Evarts, Benjamin R. Curtis and Attorney General Henry Stanberry served as Johnson's counsel ; Chief Justice Chase served as presiding judge.

Analytic theorists like Henry Home, Lord Kames, William Hogarth, and Edmund Burke hoped to reduce beauty to some list of attributes.

* Havergal, William Henry.

Forty-two years later, Henry's first biographer, William Wirt, working from oral histories, tried to reconstruct what Henry said.

* Lord Abergavenny is a character in William Shakespeare's play Henry VIII.

Some of their works are considered precursors of archaeoastronomy ; antiquarians interpreted the astronomical orientation of the ruins that dotted the English countryside as William Stukeley did of Stonehenge in 1740, while John Aubrey in 1678 and Henry Chauncy in 1700 sought similar astronomical principles underlying the orientation of churches.

The reigns of King Przemysł II of Poland ( 1296 ), William the Silent of the Netherlands ( 1584 ), and the French kings Henry III ( 1589 ) and Henry IV ( 1610 ) were all ended by assassins.

The highly successful metal pressure tube anemometer of William Henry Dines in 1892 utilized the same pressure difference between the open mouth of a straight tube facing the wind and a ring of small holes in a vertical tube which is closed at the upper end.

* Dines, William Henry.

Besides the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the medieval writers William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, and Geoffrey of Monmouth used his works as sources and inspirations.

Notable bishops in United Methodist history include Coke, Asbury, Richard Whatcoat, Philip William Otterbein, Martin Boehm, Jacob Albright, John Seybert, Matthew Simpson, John S. Stamm, William Ragsdale Cannon, Marjorie Matthews, Leontine T. Kelly, William B. Oden, Ntambo Nkulu Ntanda, Joseph Sprague, William Henry Willimon, and Thomas Bickerton.

Also suggested as a possible influence on Poe is ‘ The Secret Cell ’, a short story published in September 1837 by William Evans Burton, describing how a London policeman solves the mystery of a kidnapped girl.

Most Muslim scholars have regarded the story as historically implausible, while opinion is divided among western scholars such as Leone Caetani and John Burton, who argue against, and William Muir and William Montgomery Watt, who argue for its plausibility.

Portrait by Frederick William Burton.

* 1789 – William Burton, American politician ( d. 1866 )

Today some rabbis who advocate some form of process theology include Bradley Shavit Artson, Lawrence A. Englander, William E. Kaufman, Harold Kushner, Anton Laytner, Michael Lerner, Gilbert S. Rosenthal, Lawrence Troster, Donald B. Rossoff, Burton Mindick, and Nahum Ward.

In 1641, the Long Parliament, led by John Pym and inflamed by the severe treatment of John Lilburne, as well as that of other religious dissenters such as William Prynne, Alexander Leighton, John Bastwick and Henry Burton, abolished the Star Chamber with an Act of Parliament, the Habeas Corpus Act 1640.

WarGames was nominated for three Academy Awards — Best Cinematography ( William A. Fraker ), Sound ( Michael J. Kohut, Carlos Delarios, Aaron Rochin, Willie D. Burton ), and Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen ( Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes ).

The efficiency of what later was to be called the " cap-and-trade " approach to air pollution abatement was first demonstrated in a series of micro-economic computer simulation studies between 1967 and 1970 for the National Air Pollution Control Administration ( predecessor to the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Air and Radiation ) by Ellison Burton and William Sanjour.

* 1921: The Victory at Sea by William Sowden Sims and Burton J. Hendrick

Puck, also known as Robin Goodfellow, is a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream, whose nature has been so clearly fixed in the English-speaking imagination that, as Katherine Briggs has remarked, " it no longer seems natural to talk as Robert Burton does in the Anatomie of Melancholy of a puck instead of ' Puck '".

* Burton and Speke by William Harrison ( St Martins / Marek & W. H.

Spiner with William Shatner and LeVar Burton in July 2010

* Burton process, a thermal cracking process invented by William M. Burton, used to produce diesel fuel

* Sir Frederick William Burton ( painter )

Seven of Delaware's governors have come from Milford: Daniel Rogers ( who served 1797-99 ), Joseph Haslet ( 1811 – 14 ), William Tharp ( 1847 – 1851 ), Peter F. Causey ( 1855 – 59 ), William Burton ( 1859 – 63 ), William T. Watson ( 1895 – 97 ), and Ruth Ann Minner ( 2001 – 09 ).

" William Burton Patent for Long Neck "

" Whereas, there is a certaine parcel of land situated on the West side of Delaware Bay the which hath been certified by the Court at the Horekill and laide out for William Burton the saide Land being called the Long Neck lying on the South side of Rehoboth Bay and on the North side of the Greate River beginning at a point of woods and running West up the Greate River one thousand perches to a White Oak at the head of a small creek called Indian Cabin Creek and from thence North three hundred and fifty perches to a White Oak standing by a creek side called Middle Creek with a line of marked trees and from thence bounder upon the aforesaid Bay to the first bounded point Southeast one thousand perches containing One Thousand Acres of Land.

" Know Ye That by Virtue of His Majesty Lord's Patent and the Commission and authority unto me given by His Royal Highness, I have given and granted by these presents, Doe hereby give and grant unto the said William Burton his heirs and assigns the aforesaid recited piece of Land and Premises with their and every of their appurtenances ; To Have and To Hold the saide piece of land and premises unto the saide William Burton his heirs and assigns unto the proper use and behoofe of him the said William Burton his heirs and assigns forever he making present improvements thereon and continuing in obedience and conforming himself according to the Laws of this Government and yielding and paying therefor yearly and every yeare unto His Royal Highness as a quite Rent Ten bushels of good winter wheat unto such officers as shall be there Impowered to receive the same.

In 1739, William Johnson, previously residing closer to Amsterdam, purchased land including the site of the village and established a mill in 1744.

Martha had three brothers and four sisters: John ( 1733 – 1749 ), William ( 1734 – 1776 ), Bartholomew ( 1737 – 1785 ), Anna Marie " Fanny " Dandridge Bassett ( 1739 – 1777 ), Frances ( 1744 – 1757 ), Elizabeth Dandridge Aylet Henley ( 1749 – 1800 ), and Mary Dandridge ( 1756 – 1763 ).

In 1739 William inherited the estates formerly owned by the Nassau-Dillenburg branch of his family, and in 1743 he inherited those formerly owned by the Nassau-Siegen branch of his family.

He completed a continuous history of England by writing the History of England during the Reigns of William and Mary, Anne and George I ( 1735 ); and the History of England during the Reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth ( 1739 ).

** William Watson-Wentworth, Viscount Higham ( 1728 – 1739 )

* William Johnson Temple ( 1739 – 1796 ) English cleric and essayist, a correspondent of James Boswell

William Bartram ( April 20, 1739 – July 22, 1823 ) was an American naturalist.

The house contains a notable chimneypiece by William Palmer installed in 1739.

* William Ramsay, 6th Earl of Dalhousie ( c. 1660 – 1739 )

* William Craven, 3rd Baron Craven ( 1700 – 1739 )

He was succeeded in 1739 by his son, William, the second earl.

On April 5, 1802, Alexander married Janetta Waddel, the daughter of a Presbyterian preacher, James Waddel ( 1739 – 1805 ), whose eloquence was described in William Wirt's Letters of a British Spy ( 1803 ).

* William Downing, 1735 – 1739

* William Smith, 1739 – 1740

** William Villiers, Lord Villiers ( 1715 – 1739 )

A description of the mill by William Wilson dating from sometime between 1739 and 1753 has survived:

Later the treatise was translated into English by John Pultney in 1680, Leonard Welsted in 1712, and William Smith in 1739 whose translation had its fifth edition in 1800.

* William Brownlow ( 1683 – 1739 ), Irish MP for Armagh County 1711 – 1739

William Lee ( 1739 – 1795 ) was an American diplomat during the Revolutionary War.

William married Hannah Phillipa Ludwell ( 1739 – 1784 ) on March 7, 1769.

His brothers, Richard Henry Lee ( 1732 – 1794 ), Francis Lightfoot Lee ( 1734 – 1797 ) and William Lee ( 1739 – 1795 ), were also Revolutionary-era diplomats.

* William Thompson ( Ipswich MP ) ( 1678 – 1739 ), English Member of Parliament for Ipswich

William Carmichael ( c. 1739 – 1795 ) was an American statesman and diplomat from Maryland during and after the Revolutionary War.

( His older brother, William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough had married the Duke's eldest daughter in 1739.