The largest oil field in the lower 48 states, the East Texas oil field, was not discovered until 1930, when wildcatter Columbus Marion Joiner ( more commonly known as " Dad " Joiner ) drilled the Daisy Bradford No. 3 well, in Rusk County, Texas.

The bar at the University of Bradford was named after Biko until its closure in 2005.

In 1966, Wilson was created the first Chancellor of the newly created University of Bradford, a position he held until 1985.

In 1850, the Concord & Claremont Railroad opened from Concord to Bradford, which would remain its terminus until the line was extended to Claremont in 1871-1872.

It took 22 years until the first settlers arrived in the area: Ebenezer Sanborn coming from nearby Corinth, founding the " Bradford farm ", and Joseph Thurber from New Hampshire, founding the " Shepard farm ".

In 1857 he was President of the Bradford Chamber of Commerce, and served as Liberal Member of Parliament for Bradford from 1859 until he retired through ill health on 1 February 1861.

Further down the road ( which was once a short cut for Leeds-bound traffic until traffic calming measures were introduced ), is the Holiday Inn Leeds / Bradford, set amongst acres of wheat fields it has a bar, and a reception venue ever-popular with weddings.

Nevertheless, the British press remained quiet on the subject, until Alfred Blunt, Bishop of Bradford, gave a speech to his Diocesan Conference on 1 December.

Within this district were Barnsley, Batley, Bradford, Brighouse, Dewsbury, Doncaster, Halifax, Huddersfield, Keighley, Leeds, Morley, Ossett, Pontefract, Pudsey, Rotherham, Sheffield, Todmorden ( partly in Lancashire until 1888 when it became wholly in Yorkshire where it remains to this day ) and Wakefield.

William Bradford ( F ), until October ???

He was unemployed until October 1976, when he found another job as an HGV driver for T & WH Clark ( Holdings Ltd .) on the Canal Road Industrial Estate in Bradford.

Around 30 such mills were built in Bradford on Avon alone and prospered further until the English woollen industry shifted its centre of power to Yorkshire in the late 19th century.

Aircraft manufacture under the EE name began in Bradford in 1922 with the English Electric Wren but lasted only until 1926 after the last English Electric Kingston flying boat was built.

He was the Labour Member of Parliament for Keighley ( 1974 – 1983 ) and Bradford South ( 1987 – 1994 ) until his death at the age of 59 in a road traffic accident.

He was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Bradford West from 1970 until February 1974, when he was defeated by the Labour candidate Edward Lyons.

Liberty is a leading libertarian journal founded in 1987 by R. W. Bradford ( who was the magazine's publisher and editor until his death from cancer in 2005 ) in Port Townsend, Washington, and currently edited from San Diego, by Stephen Cox.

It was built in 1886, and was the home of Manningham Rugby Football Club until 1903, when they changed code from rugby football to association football and became Bradford City.

On 16 February 2010, Taylor replaced Stuart McCall to become manager of League Two side Bradford City initially on a three-month contract until the end of the 2009 – 10 season.

The " out grounds " in Hull, Sheffield, Bradford, Middlesbrough and Harrogate were used with great success until the 1970s.

US 219 continues north as a two-lane road until reaching Bradford, where it becomes a limited-access highway and remains so until reaching the New York border.

In 1927 the main stand at Doncaster's former ground in the suburb of Bennetthorpe was jacked up and moved on rollers to Belle Vue to form the family stand, where it remained until 1985 when the tragic events at Bradford City meant that the old wooden structure was deemed unsafe and was demolished.

After her husband's death in 1795, Susan Boudinot Bradford returned to her parents ' home to live.

B. Priestley Library at the University of Bradford, which he officially opened in 1975, and by the larger-than-life statue of him, commissioned by the Bradford City Council after his death, and which now stands in front of the National Media Museum.

After Delius's death Beecham continued to promote his works ; a second festival was held in 1946, and a third ( after Beecham's death ) at Bradford in 1962, to celebrate the centenary of Delius's birth.

In 1991, four years after Johnnie's death, family friend Phil Bradford found Fanny living in a flat in Chichester where she was living in squalor and seemed disorientated.

When Bradford arrived back onboard, he learned of the death of his wife, Dorothy.

Bradford did not write about her death in his journal.

Governor William Bradford, in Bradford's History of the English Settlement, wrote regarding Tisquantum's death:

The new governor William Bradford answered him by blaming Weston for their ill-preparedness and for the unnecessary deaths and stated that Governor Carver has worked himself to death that spring and the loss of him and other industrious men lives cannot be valued at any price .. After Carver ’ s death, William Bradford, age 31, had been unanimously elected governor the following month, an office he held with distinction for thirty-three years.

In 1762 he succeeded through his mother to the Newport estates, including Weston Park, on the death of his uncle, the fourth Earl of Bradford ( see above ).

Gerald, the 6th Earl of Bradford, who had succeeded to the title in 1957, died in 1981, leaving the family with large death duties.

The main stand at Bradford was not surrounded by fencing, so the spectators were not penned in and so most of them were able to escape onto the pitch – if they had been penned in then the death toll could have been in the thousands.

In early 1621 he had been one of several key Pilgrim leaders that Governor Bradford depended on after the death of John Carver.

On Hill's death Peter Armitage wrote, " to anyone involved in medical statistics, epidemiology or public health, Bradford Hill was quite simply the world ’ s leading medical statistician.

Meanwhile, Bradford, who has been found by Shakespeare, is convinced that he is possessed by death, that the whole trench is, and that he is to be killed, urging Shakespeare to do so.

* Bradford Bishop bludgeoned his mother, spouse and three children to death in 1976.

The last home game of the 1984 – 85 promotion season, against Leeds United, was marred by rioting, culminating in the death of a boy when a wall collapsed on him ; this was on the same day as the Bradford City stadium fire, and the events at St Andrew's were included in the remit of Mr Justice Popplewell's inquiry into safety at sports grounds.

The present band, directed by alumnus Cory Wynn with the help of Scott Bradford and Chad Barton, has sought to return to that level of success, earning their first ISSMA Regional Gold rating in nine years in 2005.

* Betty Lockwood, Baroness Lockwood ( born 1924 ), politician and activist for women's rights ; was the first chair of the Equal Opportunities Commission from 1975 to 1983, and served as Chancellor of the University of Bradford from 1997 to 2005.

She said at the 2005 Bradford Film Festival at the National Media Museum that she was shocked by the film's explicitness but is on good terms with director Nicolas Roeg.

She received an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Bradford on 21 July 2005, and on 18 July 2007 she was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Education by Manchester Metropolitan University in recognition of her contribution to education throughout a lifelong career as a dedicated teacher and politician with an education portfolio that has spanned ten years.

The Times Good University Guide ranked Bradford 7th in UK for graduate employment in 2005 and 2nd in 2006.

* Bradford Jensen and Lori Kletzer ( September 2005 ), " Tradable Services: Understanding the Scope and Impact of Services Outsourcing ", Institute for International Economics Working Paper No. 05-9

His first goal for West Brom was scored in a 4 – 1 Hawthorns win over Bradford City in the League Cup, on 20 September 2005.

Harris was part of the 2005 Bradford Bulls squad that became the first side in the history of Super League to win the Grand Final when finishing third in the final league ladder.

Lord Jones is a Fellow of University College London ( 2004 ); an Honorary Fellow of Cardiff University ( 2004 ); and an Honorary Doctor of the University of Central England ( 2002 ), the University of Birmingham ( 2002 ), the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology ( 2003 ), the University of Hertfordshire ( 2004 ), Middlesex University ( 2005 ), Sheffield Hallam University ( 2005 ), Aston University ( 2006 ), the University of Hull ( 2006 ), Queen's University, Belfast ( 2006 ), Warwick University ( 2006 ), Bradford University ( 2006 ), Wolverhampton University ( 2006 ), Nottingham University and Loughborough University ( 2007 ).

Among buildings designed by Poulson are the City House ( 1962 ) and International Pool ( 1965 – 1968 ), both in Leeds, and Forster House, Bradford, which was demolished in 2005 as part of the Forster Square redevelopment.

* 2005 Bradford Dudley Hill ( as National League three )

Richards retired from playing in 2005 due to health concerns, but later returned to the game as a coach at Bradford.

Tom Gallagher, a Romania specialist at Bradford University, stated in January 2005, shortly after the PC entered the government, that Voiculescu " is a potentially major problem if the government decides to introduce legislation that will challenge vested interests which have profited through the questionable sale of state assets.

Mainstream sports are rugby and cricket, hockey and netball and as a measure of these teams it is worth noting that the 2004 / 2005 1st rugby team only lost to one school on their tough fixture list, St Peter's School, York, including victories over Stonyhurst, Ampleforth and Bradford Grammar School.

Sanderson's cheerleading squad has won multiple state championships ( 2005, 2008, 2010 ) recently under the leadership of coach Jocelyn Bradford, who is also the chief student government adviser at the school.

Leeds / Bradford UCCE beating Surrey at the Oval, 2005

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The airport faces competition for flights from East Midlands Airport (), Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield () which opened in 2005 and Leeds Bradford International Airport (); all of these airports offer a substantially wider range of scheduled flights than Humberside Airport, although Robin Hood Airport has also seen large reductions in holiday flights during the last 12 months.