* Charles Foster Batchelder, 1905 – 1908

Frank Foster, who first played as an amateur left arm pace bowler in 1908 but improved greatly in 1910 as a result of slowing his pace to gain accuracy, still stands as Warwickshire's greatest all-rounder.

By 1908, for example, when John N. Pharr's son Henry Newton Pharr ( eponym of Pharr, Texas ) sought the Louisiana governorship as a Republican, he gained just 11. 1 percent, of a much reduced number of voters in comparison with his father's campaign against Foster in 1896.

In 1908, Jones constructed a new office and plant for the rapidly growing Houston Chronicle in exchange for a half-interest in the company, which had been solely owned by Marcellus Foster.

The company started in 1908 as an informal partnership between Stephen Foster Briggs and Harold M. Stratton.

Offered the captaincy of the MCC for the 1907 / 1908 Ashes tour, Foster declined because business commitments were monopolising his attention.

Of Lincolnshire descent, and no relation to the famous Worcestershire Foster family, Frank Foster first played for Warwickshire in 1908.

* William Henry Foster ( Lancaster ) ( 1848 – 1908 ), MP for Lancaster 1895 – 1900

Veteran science fiction writer Jack Williamson ( 1908 – 2006 ) when asked in 1991: " Did the Wave's emphasis on experimentalizm and its conscious efforts to make SF more ' literary ' have any kind of permanent effects on the field?

* Payipwāt ( or Piapot: " who Knows the Secrets of the Sioux "), also known as " Hole in the Sioux " or Kisikawasan-‘ Flash in the Sky ’, Chief of the Cree-Assiniboine or the Young Dogs with great influence on neighboring Assiniboine, Downstream People, southern groups of the Upstream People and Saulteaux ( Plains Ojibwa ), born 1816, kidnapped as a child by the Sioux, he was freed about 1830 by Plains Cree, significant Shaman, most influential chief of the feared Young Dogs, convinced the Plains Cree to expand west in the Cypress Hills, the last refugee for bison groups, therefore disputed border area between Sioux, Assiniboine, Siksika Kainai and Cree, refused to participate in the raid on a Kainai camp near the present Lethbridge, Alberta, then the Young Dogs and their allies were content with the eastern Cypress Hills to the Milk River, Montana, does not participate at the negotiations on the Treaty 4 of 1874, he and Cheekuk, the most important chief of the Plains Ojibwa in the Qu ' Appelle area, signed on 9 September 1875 the treaty only as preliminary contract, tried with the chiefs of the River Cree Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Mistahi-maskwa (" Big Bear ") to erect a kind of Indian Territory for all the Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa and Assiniboine-as Ottawa refused, he asked 1879-80 along with Kiwisünce ( cowessess-' Little Child ') and the Assiniboine for adjacent reserves in the Cypress Hills, Payipwāt settled in a reserve about 37 miles northeast of Fort Walsh, Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Papewes (‘ Lucky Man ’) asked successfully for reserves near the Assiniboine or Payipwāt-this allowed the Cree and Assiniboine to preserve their autonomy-because they went 1881 in Montana on bison hunting, stole Absarokee horses and alleged cattle killed, arrested the U. S. Army the Cree-Assiniboine group, disarmed and escorted them back to Canada-now unarmed, denied rations until the Cree and Assiniboine gave up their claims to the Cypress Hills and went north-in the following years the reserves changed several times and the tribes were trying repeated until to the Northwest Rebellion in 1885 to build an Indian Territory, Payipwāt remained under heavy guard, until his death he was a great spiritual leader, therefore Ottawa deposed Payipwāt on 15 April 1902 as chief, died in April 1908 on Piapot Reserve, Saskatchewan )

At the 1908 meeting of the American Archaeological Society in St. Louis, Missouri, a New Orleans police official named John Raymond Legrasse asked the assembled antiquarians to identify a statuette composed of an unidentifiable greenish-black stone, that " had been captured some months before in the wooded swamps south of New Orleans during a raid on a supposed voodoo meeting.

Hodges took a long holiday, and in his absence the managing director Percy Kidner asked Pomeroy to design an engine for cars to be entered in the 1908 RAC and Scottish Reliability Trial, held in June of that year.

In the summer of 1908 Ward was asked by George Nathaniel Curzon and William Cremer to become the first president of Britain ’ s Anti-Suffrage League.

In 1908 Dutrieu was asked by the Clément Bayard factory, in France, to be the first pilot of its new ultralight aeroplane, the Santos-Dumont-designed no. 19 Demoiselle ( Young Lady ) monoplane.

" Mrs. Eddy was so pleased with the final lecture, she asked that it be printed in pamphlet form in 1906 for distribution, and translated into French in 1908 and ( in Mrs. Eddy's own words ) " given to the world.

In 1908, he was asked by the lieutenant governor to become premier after the death of Arthur Peters.

A new version of the 30. 5-cm Beta-Gerät howitzer, vastly superior to the 1897 model, was developed in 1908, but finding it wanting in offensive power, the APK ( Artillerieprüfungskommission, or " artillery testing committee ") asked Krupp to build a larger gun capable of smashing modern fortifications.

In 1908, during the " FLT " convention, Capetillo asked the union to approve a policy for women's suffrage.

In 1908, the CME asked the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to survey American medical education, so as to promote the CME's reformist agenda and hasten the elimination of medical schools that failed to meet the CME's standards.

President Theodore Roosevelt asked him to serve as his military aide in April 1908 — just a month after Butt's return to the United States.

It was in 1908, when two of Sheffield's principal steelmaking companies innovatively agreed to jointly finance a common research laboratory ( Brown Firth Laboratories ) that Harry Brearley was asked to lead the project.

Then, find that they needed help, they asked grown-ups to give a hand, so the Scout Association was founded in 1908.

* Jesse Lasky, Jr. ( 1908 – 1988 ), screenwriter, son of Jesse Lasky

The Chicago studio produced many of Essanay's famous movies, including the very first American Sherlock Holmes ( 1916 ), the first American A Christmas Carol ( 1908 ) and the first Jesse James movie, The James Boys of Missouri ( 1908 ).

* Jesse R. Langley: played for Michigan ( 1904 – 1907 ), head coach for TCU ( 1908 – 1909 )

Dr. Reuben Samuel ( January 12, 1828 – March 1, 1908 ) was the stepfather of the American outlaws Frank and Jesse James.

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* 1908 – H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman

* Moses H. Cone ( 1857 – 1908 ), an American textile entrepreneur, conservationist, and philanthropist

By 1908, James Dewar and H. Kamerlingh Onnes were successfully able to liquify hydrogen and then newly-discovered helium, respectively.

* " Mr H. G. Wells and the Giants ", by G. K. Chesterton, from his book Heretics ( 1908 ).

Scarlet Traces is intended as a sequel to H. G. Wells ' The War of the Worlds and centres on a counter-invasion of Mars, beginning about 1908 and continuing over the next three decades.

* John H. McCarthy ( 1850 – 1908 ), U. S. Representative from New York

In 1908, H. H.

D. H. Lawrence ( 1885 – 1930 ), author, lived at 12 Colworth Road, Addiscombe from 1908 to 1912 and was a teacher at Davidson Road School for some time.

The theatre was designed by Cecil Aubrey Masey and Roy Young ( possibly following a 1908 design by Frank H Jones ).

The present courthouse in Jackson was completed in 1908 and was designed by P. H.

* T. H. Harris, pioneer educator and state education superintendent from 1908 to 1940, was born in the Arizona community in Claiborne Parish in 1869, the son of a Baptist minister.

* T. H. Harris, state superintendent of education ( 1908 – 1940 ), educated at the former Homer College in the late 19th century

In the late 19th century Lisbon was the location of the former Lisbon Academy, attended for a brief time by T. H. Harris, state superintendent of education from 1908 to 1940.

* T. H. Harris, state education superintendent from 1908 – 1940, was principal of St. Landry High School in Opelousas prior to 1900.

Former U. S. Representative James H. Morrison, who held Louisiana's 6th congressional district seat from 1943 to 1967, was born in 1908 in Hammond.

Of particular note are the Lancaster Building designed by E. B. Blaisdell and built in 1895, Trinity Episcopal Church designed by H. J. Hardenbergh and built in 1908, and the York Harbor Reading Room designed by James Purdon and built in 1910.

Holst Township was named after a Norwegian pioneer farmer, H. J. Hoist, who from 1904 to 1908 was the county sheriff.

* Robert H. McCarter ( 1859 – 1941 ), New Jersey Attorney General from 1903 to 1908.

Author Frances H. Burnett built her home, Fairseat, in Plandome Park in 1908, and lived there until her death in 1924.

The village of Bexley was incorporated in 1908 when prominent citizens of Bullitt Park along Alum Creek, including industrialist and former Mayor of Columbus Robert H. Jeffrey, agreed to merge with the Lutheran community of Pleasant Ridge near Capital University and the Lutheran seminary.

Dante was founded in 1908 but was originally called Mayo, after H. T.

In 1908 or 1909, a town site was surveyed by C. F. H.

In 1908, the IWW launched a campaign led by James H. Walsh with the slogan " Don't Buy Jobs " in the streets around the Spokane employment agencies.