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.

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 ).

Few businesses are in Smoke Rise's immediate vicinity, but many observers expect the impending construction of a new sewer system in western Blount County to fuel commercial growth.

Few true specimens of the mountain dulcimer exist from earlier than about 1880, when J. Edward Thomas of Knott County, Ky began building and selling them.

Here young Few developed the skills expected of the eighteenth-century farmer. In an account of the early history of Orange County, Francis Nash wrote, " His father Few, Jr. s though, belonged to the better class of farmers, had more means and a better education than the average settler.

In time the Few family achieved a measure of prosperity, emerging political leaders in rural Orange County.

Few joined the Richmond County Regiment, which his older brother, Benjamin, commanded.

Few players can have good scores when the wind and rain pick up making it one of the most difficult courses in the Wee County.

Few records remain of what was once James County due largely to courthouse fires in 1890 and 1913.

Few prominent Democrats outside of Nassau County Democratic Party Chaiman Jay Jacobs supported his bid ; most of New York's Democratic legislators and mayors campaigned with Spitzer.

Few years later it received a broadcasting license for Split-Dalmatia County and became available to the rest of County under the name Adriatic TV ( ATV ).

Few examples of the Khazar language exist today, mostly in names that have survived in historical sources.

Few major biological types have emerged during the evolutionary history of life and most of them survive till today.

Few Roman remains are visible today ; a fragment of the old city wall can be seen near the casino and the foundations of the amphitheatre are traced in the paving of the present-day Rembrandtstraat.

Few scholars still accept these texts as reliable sources ; historians today rely more on archaeology and numismatics, disciplines that have made valuable contributions toward understanding the period.

Few politicians today advocate a return to the gold standard, other than adherents of the Austrian school and some supply-siders.

*" Few lawyers today can rival Boies ' string of major triumphs ... Boies ' strengths include an encyclopedic mastery of the facts of a case and a chess player's sense of predicting a course of action.

Few if any Red-tailed Black Shark s ( Epalzeorhynchos bicolor ) remain in the wild today.

Few vessels of this type are seen today, other than the spectacular ones used for sail training.

Few of the coins exist today, but a few were donated to the Acadian Village museum by family members.

Few living specimens exceed ; old records of logged trees make varied claims of extreme heights, but these are difficult to verify today.

Few of his pieces are still performed today, and even by the time of his death his operatic style was looking rather old-fashioned when compared to the work of relatively younger reformist composers such as Claudio Monteverdi.

Few people there today were residents at the time.

Few Quebecois view him favourably in public discourse today, but he devoted much of his life to public office and was sufficiently popular with the Quebec electorate of the period to spend almost two decades as Premier, a position he held until his death.

Few pianos, apart from some uprights, have this device today.

Few Protestant groups today still view the pastor, bishop, and elder as synonymous terms or offices ; many who do are descended from the Restoration Movement in America during the 19th century, such as the Disciples of Christ and the Churches of Christ.

Few complete schlieren optical systems are commercially available today, but details of theory and construction are given in Settles ' 2001 book.

Few economists today would agree that an import-substitution stance is the correct response to declining terms of trade.

Few banks today restrict their activities to such a narrow scope.

Few other supported his ideas, and today it has been abandoned by vertebrate paleontologists.

Few of the 2rbs values were printed, and today copies are priced at around 3, 000 US $ unused and $ 1, 000 used.

Few speakers remained in the Czech Republic, mostly concentrated around Aš and Železná Ruda, at the time of the survey, but considering the time which has passed since the survey, the dialect may be extinct in those places today.

Few archeological relics survive in Malta today from the Roman period, the sole exception being the Roman Domus, just outside the walls of Mdina.

Few of d ' Indy's works are performed regularly today.

Few Ives boats exist today, but it is unclear whether this was due to lack of popularity or their propensity to sink.

Few young people speak Meänkieli as part of daily life though many have passive knowledge of the language from family use.

Few diplomats, and even the first ambassador did not speak English.

Few Sino-Mauritian youth speak Chinese ; those who do use it primarily for communication with elderly relatives, especially those who did not attend school and thus had little exposure to English or French.

Few large-scale organizations have been found in urban areas, though during the nineteenth century some documents speak of a association in the city of Edo.

Few, if any, Southwestern Pennsylvania towns can boast the range of architecture from its period of settlement to the 20th century as can be found in Greensboro.

Descendant of Quaker shoemaker, Richard Few from the county of Wiltshire, England, and his son Isaac Few, a cooper, who emigrated to Pennsylvania in the 1680s, the Fews lived in northern Maryland, where they eked out a modest living raising tobacco on small holdings.

Patrick " Pat " Dalheimer ( born May 30, 1971 in York, Pennsylvania ) is the bassist for the bands Live and The Gracious Few.

Few in the North realized that Morgan's adventure was a violation of his orders and had nothing to do with Robert E. Lee's simultaneous movement into Pennsylvania.

Chad Gracey ( born July 23, 1971, in York, Pennsylvania, US ) is the drummer for the bands Live and The Gracious Few.