Lincoln's most notable criminal trial occurred in 1858 when he defended William " Duff " Armstrong, who was on trial for the murder of James Preston Metzker.

In 1829 he married Henrietta Preston, sister of Kentucky politician and future civil war general William Preston.

They had one son, Col. William Preston Johnston, who would also serve in the Confederate Army.

* Johnston, William Preston.

By the influence of William Russell, earl of Bedford, he was appointed one of the king's itinerant preachers in Lancashire, and after living for a time in Garstang, he was selected by the Lady Margaret Hoghton as vicar of Preston.

* William Preston Phelps

* Robertson, William Preston, Tricia Cooke, John Todd Anderson and Rafael Sanudo, The Big Lebowski: The Making of a Coen Brothers Film, ( 1998, W. W. Norton & Company ), ISBN 0-393-31750-1.

* Vaughn, William Preston ( 1983 ) The Antimasonic Party in the United States, 1826-1843.

In addition, they produced a series of licensed character crayon products such as Popeye, Mother Goose, Howdy Doody, Little Lulu, Moon Mullins, Lone Ranger, Little Orphan Annie and Sergeant William Preston.

They went to stay with a close friend of theirs at the time, William Preston Robertson in St. Paul, Minnesota, in the hopes that a change of scenery might help.

The Australian collection includes works by Charles Blackman, John Brack, Arthur Boyd, Louis Buvelot, Rupert Bunny, Nicholas Chevalier, Charles Conder, David Davies, William Dobell, Russell Drysdale, E. Phillips Fox, John Glover, Eugene von Guerard, Hans Heysen, George W. Lambert, Sydney Long, John Longstaff, Frederick McCubbin, Sidney Nolan, John Perceval, Margaret Preston, Hugh Ramsay, Tom Roberts, John Russell, Grace Cossington Smith, Arthur Streeton, Fred Williams and others.

* This was the sixth of ten films written by Preston Sturges that William Demarest appeared in.

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek is a 1944 screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Eddie Bracken and Betty Hutton, and featuring Diana Lynn, William Demarest and Porter Hall.

* This was the eighth of ten films written by Preston Sturges that William Demarest appeared in.

It stars Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, Macdonald Carey, Albert Dekker, Barbara Britton and William Bendix.

The soldiers Preston sent were Corporal William Wemms, Hugh Montgomery, John Carroll, William McCauley, William Warren and Matthew Kilroy.

The first Commonwealth's Attorney was William Ballard Preston, a nephew of John Floyd, who would later serve as Secretary of the United States Navy.

The former Lancaster home of William Preston Hall, now the Schuyler County Historical Society museum.

* William Preston Hall ( aka " The Colonel ," " Diamond Billy ," " Horse King of the World ") ( February 29, 1864-June 29, 1932 ) Exotic animal dealer, horse and mule breeder, circus impresario.

* Academy Award for Best Art Direction – ( William J. Creber, Ward Preston, Raphael Bretton )

A Camp Development Committee was formed under the leadership of William Preston as soon as the purchase was finalized.

In 1906 William B. Preston gave it the name of Dayton.

* June 8 – William Few, American politician ( d. 1828 )

George Walton, the Virginia-born statesman who signed the Declaration of Independence, resided in what would become Columbia County, as did William Few and Abraham Baldwin.

At the insistence of William Few, the county was partitioned.

Some notable persons either born in or who resided in Columbia County include: Oliver Hardy ( comedian, born in Harlem ), Paul Hamilton Hayne ( poet and author ), Henry Louis Benning ( Confederate general for whom Fort Benning is named ), William Few, Abraham Baldwin, George Walton, George W. Crawford, William H. Crawford ( presidential candidate in 1824 ), Thomas Watson ( populist leader and Georgia senator born in Thomson when it was still in Columbia County ), George McDuffie ( South Carolina governor and senator in the early 19th century ), Jesse Mercer ( a long-time preacher in the county for whom Mercer University is named ).

The earliest known written account of squonks comes from a book by William T. Cox called Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts ( 1910 ).

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The Romantic poet William Wordsworth includes an apostrophe to the Wye in his famous poem " Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey " published 1798 in Lyrical Ballads

Few reinforcements were authorized ; cavalry officer William B. Travis arrived in Béxar with 30 men on February 3.

* William Few

William Few, Jr. ( June 8, 1748 – July 16, 1828 ) was an American politician and a farmer, and a businessman and a Founding Father of the United States.

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Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature.

* A Few Observations upon the Fighting for Prizes in the Bear Gardens-Sir William Hope ( 1715 )

* Klempa, William J ( ed )., The Burning Bush and a Few Acres of Snow ; The Presbyterian Contribution to Canadian Life and Culture, 1994.

Most of the delegates were landowners with substantial holdings, and most, with the possible exception of Roger Sherman and William Few, were very comfortably wealthy.

* William Few

* A Few Moments With Lord William Rees-Mogg-in episode 2 of series 3, on seven occasions throughout the show a photograph of Rees-Mogg was displayed on screen while Herb Alpert's The Swinger from Seville ( burlesque-style music with an audience clearly audible in the background ) was played over the top.