William A. Everett and Paul R. Laird wrote that this was a " show, that, like ' Show Boat ', became a milestone, so that later historians writing about important moments in twentieth-century theatre would begin to identify eras according to their relationship to ' Oklahoma.

Laird was the grandson of William D. Connor, the Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin from 1907 to 1909.

* Everett, William and Laird, Paul.

William A. Everett and Paul R. Laird wrote that Oklahoma !, " like Show Boat, became a milestone, so that later historians writing about important moments in twentieth-century theatre would begin to identify eras according to their relationship to Oklahoma!

The British naval historian William Laird Clowes regarded Macdonough's False Nile victory as " a most notable feat, one which, on the whole, surpassed that of any other captain of either navy in this war.

An iron works was initially established by William Laird in 1824 and was joined by his son John Laird in 1828.

William Laird, a Scot, and his son John, were influential in the design of the town.

Just outside Montrose is the 18th Century House of Dun, designed by the Scottish architect William Adam and built in 1730 for David Erskine, 13th Laird of Dun.

Doyle is married to Jessica Laird Doyle, niece of former Congressman Melvin R. Laird, and great-granddaughter of William D. Connor, who was Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin from 1907 – 1909.

It was partly the outcome of a previous club known as the Askesian Society and records show that there were 13 founder members: William Babington, James Parkinson, Humphry Davy, George Bellas Greenough, Arthur Aikin, William Allen, Jacques Louis, Comte de Bournon, Richard Knight, James Laird, James Franck, William Haseldine Pepys, Richard Phillips and William Phillips.

ed., William Everett and Paul Laird, eds., Cambridge University Press ( 2008 ) ISBN 0-521-79639-3

* Sir William Forbes ( Laird of Kynaldy ), ( 1385-killed January 25, 1445 at the battle of Arbroath ), m. to Agnes Fraser

* William, 2nd Forbes ( Laird of Newe ), ( d. 1571 ), m. to Margaret Gordon

* William, 5th Forbes ( Laird of Newe ) ( d. 1698 ), m. to Helen Forbes

The company was founded by William Laird, who had established the Birkenhead Iron Works in 1824, when he was joined by his son, John Laird in 1828: their first ship was an iron barge.

* Clowes, William Laird, et al.

His grandson, Robert, died in 1904, leaving no heir-for the first time in 600 years-but twin daughters, the elder of whom, Ella, married William Cunninghame, 14th Laird of Caprington, descendant of the Earls of Glencairn, in 1918, and their two sons, Robert and John Fergusson-Cuninghame, now live at Caprington, Robert, the elder, inheriting the castle and property.

However, William Laird McKinley and others left on the ship suspected that he left deliberately, anticipating that the ship would be carried off by moving ice, as indeed happened.

To the Weston house came once William Allen Neilson, the president of Smith College who had been one of my old professors and who still called me `` Boy '' when I was sixty.

The first directors of the Manchester Light and Power Company were John Marsden, M. L. Manley, William F. Orvis, George Smith, and John Blackmer.

Members of the committee include Mrs. Milton Bernet, Mrs. J. Clinton Bowman, Mrs. Rollie W. Bradford, Mrs. Samuel Butler Jr., Mrs. Donald Carr Campbell, Mrs. Douglas Carruthers, Mrs. John C. Davis 3,, Mrs. Cris Dobbins, Mrs. William E. Glass, Mrs. Alfred Hicks 2,, Mrs. Donald Magarrell, Mrs. Willett Moore, Mrs. Myron Neusteter, Mrs. Richard Gibson Smith, Mrs. James S. Sudier 2, and Mrs. Thomas Welborn.

* Smith, William ; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London ( 1873 ).

* Smith, William ; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London ( 1873 ).

* 1930 – William Smith, 4th Viscount Hambleden ( d. 2012 )

William Bennett ( Flute ), Lenore Smith ( Flute ), Bernard Soustrot ( Trumpet ), Hans Elhorst ( Oboe ).

G. E. Marindin, William Smith, LLD, William Wayte )

The architect was William Smith of Aberdeen, although his designs were amended by Prince Albert.

The house was quickly found to be too small, and John and William Smith were commissioned in 1848 to design new offices, cottages and other ancillary buildings.

The programme of improvement culminated during early 1852 with the decision to commission a new, larger house, from William Smith.

The son of John Smith, designer of the earlier castle, William Smith was City Architect of Aberdeen from 1852.

On learning of the commission, William Burn sought an interview with the Prince, apparently to complain that Smith had plagiarised his work in the past.

Jones was a friend and admirer of William Jennings Bryan but also campaigned throughout the South for Herbert Hoover ( and against Al Smith ) during the 1928 presidential election.

* Smith, William V. ( 2001 ).

* Smith, William ; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London ( 1873 ).

* Smith, William ; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London ( 1873 ).

Hayek saw the British philosophers Bernard Mandeville, David Hume, Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, Josiah Tucker, Edmund Burke and William Paley as representative of a tradition that articulated beliefs in empiricism, the common law, and in traditions and institutions which had spontaneously evolved but were imperfectly understood.

* Muir, William, Annals of the Early Caliphate: From Original Sources, Smith, Elder & co., London, 1883

Frederick Douglass, William Garrison, Horace Greeley, Harriet Stowe, William Seward, Gerrit Smith, Charles Sumner, Theodore Parker, and Cassius Clay used the term caste, rather than race or class, in their writings and speeches to discuss and inspire America to abolish slavery.

According to lexicographer William Smith, " She was accused of too much familiarity with Orestes, prefect of Alexandria, and the charge spread among the clergy, who took up the notion that she interrupted the friendship of Orestes with their archbishop, Cyril.

The building of this line was promoted by Andrew Smith Hallidie with design work by William Eppelsheimer, and it was first tested in 1873.

Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.

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

In 1869, William Frederick Poole quoted from various school textbooks of the time demonstrating they were in agreement on Cotton Mather's role in the Witch Trials:

* 1869 – William Strunk, Jr., American author and educator ( d. 1946 )

The record label's logo, based on a drawing called Evening: Fall of Day ( 1869 ) by William Rimmer, features a picture of Apollo.

* William Greenleaf ( 1801 – 1869 )

* 1806 – William Pitt Fessenden, 26th United States Secretary of the Treasury ( 1864 – 65 ) ( d. 1869 )

** William V. Pratt, American admiral ( b. 1869 )

* September 4 – George William de Carteret, author from Jersey island ( b. 1869 )

* April 4 – William A. Moffett, U. S. admiral ( crash of airship ) ( b. 1869 )

* February 20 – William Carleton, Irish novelist ( d. 1869 )

The financial misdeeds of various figures throughout American history sometimes casts a dark shadow on financial investing as a whole, and include names such as William Duer, Jim Fisk and Jay Gould ( the latter two believed to have been involved with an effort to collapse the U. S. gold market in 1869 ) as well as modern figures such as Bernard Madoff who " bilked billions from investors ".

William Hale Thompson ( May 14, 1869 – March 19, 1944 ) was Mayor of Chicago from 1915 to 1923 and again from 1927 to 1931.

The Métis became more fearful when the Canadian government appointed the notoriously anti-French William McDougall as the Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories on September 28, 1869, in anticipation of a formal transfer to take effect in December.

* William Carleton, 1794 – 1869, writer

William Strunk Jr. ( 1 July 1869 – 26 September 1946 ) was a professor of English at Cornell University and author of the The Elements of Style ( 1918 ), which, after being revised and enlarged by his former student E. B.

* William Boyce Thompson ( 1869 – 1930 ), founder of Newmont Mining and financier

* William Hamlin ( 1772 – 1869 )

* William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State, 1861 – 1869

Speech of William H. Seward at Sitka, August 12, 1869 ( 1869 ; Digitized page images & text )

Founded as the Pennsylvania Female College on December 11, 1869, by Reverend William Trimble Beatty, Chatham was initially situated in the Berry mansion on Woodland Road off Fifth Avenue in the neighborhood of Shadyside.

The county was created by the 1874-1875 territorial legislature and was named for William Henry Harrison Mercer ( 1884 – 1901 ), an early rancher who settled north of Bismarck in 1869.

The first city elections were held on April 19, 1869 at which the following officials were elected: George F. Stearns, Mayor ; Charlie Gay, Recorder ; W. Irving Latimer, Treasurer ; and William Van Loo, Supervisor.

* William Smith ( Medal of Honor, 1869 ) ( 1838 –?