Local merchant Samuel Weber had been visiting New York State in the early 1850s and was apparently impressed with Elmira, New York.

Local merchant Edward Emmett Rankin organized fellow citizens of the city to donate materials and land to build a schoolhouse where the modern campus is now located.

Local jam merchant E. D. Smith promoted the area and served as a Wentworth MP around the turn of the 20th century.

Local business leaders once considered changing the name to Basilville in honor of enterprising merchant Basil Dhanens.

* Local merchant community

Local merchants provided food and supplies all year long on credit ; when the cotton crop was harvested farmers turned it over to the merchant to pay back their loan.

Local cowboy Jack Mackey suggested that the community be named in honor of John N. Winters, a rancher and land agent.

Local Hero shot the internal Houston scenes in Fort William.

Local nobles resisted the claim, but William invaded and by 1064 had secured control of the area.

* American politician William Daniel proposes the Local Option for prohibition.

* William Fisher – President of the Local Government Board ( to 1918 )

* Meiklejohn, William, " Tulliallan: Four lads o ’ pairts: Sir James Dewar ( 1842-1923 )" from the Kincardine Local History Group

But it is not until 1201 that the name Bloomsbury is first noted, when William de Blemond, a Norman landowner, acquired the land .< ref >< cite > Camden Council Local History.

Local attractions include Down House ( the home of Charles Darwin ), Chislehurst Caves, Holwood House ( the home of William Pitt the Younger ), Crofton Roman Villa, and the site of The Crystal Palace.

Local architects of note include John A. Hasecoster, William S. Kaufman and Stephen O. Yates.

The International Union of Operating Engineers ( IUOE ) Local 150 Head up by William " Bill " E. Dugan is based in Countryside at 6200 Joliet Road.

Local lore asserts Boonsboro was founded by George Boone and William Boone, cousins of Daniel Boone, also Joseph Basford, and was originally named " Margaretsville " after his wife.

* William Henry Harrison High School is located in Harrison, the school is part of the Southwest Local School District, which encompasses Harrison Township, Crosby Township, and Whitewater Township in Hamilton County as well as a small section of Morgan Township in southwest Butler County.

Local citizens later published a circular against Prince, leading one of them, William R. Wood, to have to duel him.

Local architect Benno Janssen and his partner William Cocken rose to the challenge and created an art-deco masterpiece.

Local African-American leaders believed the pace was too slow, and William Lawson, a youth minister, asked Wheatley High School students to boycott school.

Local real estate developer Robert T. Nahas headed this group ( which included other prominent East Bay business leaders such as former US Senator William Knowland and Edgar F. Kaiser ), which later became the governing board of the Coliseum upon completion.

Only after the passing of the Local Government ( Ireland ) Act 1898 which granted extensive power to previously non-existent county councils, allowing nationalists for the first time through local elections to democratically run local affairs previously under the control of landlord dominated " Grand Juries ", and William O ' Brien founding the United Irish League that year, did the Irish Parliamentary Party reunite under John Redmond in January 1900, returning to its former strength in the following September general election.

Local farmer, surveyor and auctioneer, William Thomas Buckland, wishing to provide an alternative place of worship for non-conformists, built the Wraysbury Baptist Chapel to his own design.

* 1998: From Earth Summit to Local Agenda 21: Working Towards Sustainable Development, edited by William Laffery, Katarina Eckerberg, William M. Laffery, foreword by John Gummer, Earthscan Publications, ISBN 1-85383-547-1

Local tunes were collected from the mid-18th century by figures including Henry Atkinson and William Vickers and in the first revival by John Bell, Bruce.

The Green Paper of 1986, Paying for Local Government, produced by the Department of the Environment from consultations between Lord Rothschild, William Waldegrave and Kenneth Baker, proposed the Community Charge.

Local historian William Speidel reported that Henry Villard, tycoon of the Northern Pacific Railway ( NP ), had the federal rights and had the line through Wallula built.

He served under William Ewart Gladstone as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1884 to 1885, as Financial Secretary to the Treasury in 1886 and as President of the Local Government Board from 1892 to 1894 and under Lord Rosebery as Secretary of State for India from 1894 to 1895.

Local folklore asserted that this was punishment for the crimes committed by William when he created his New Forest ; a 17th century writer provides exquisite detail:

Local industry's investment in Rhode Island was the big story in 1960's industrial development effort.

Local allegiance was due by an alien while in the protection of the Crown.

Under the Local Government Act 1972 the urban district was abolished in 1974, becoming part of the borough of Islwyn, Gwent.

Local groups have argued for a reinstatement of the rail link south to Manchester via Haslingden and Bury, that was closed in the 1960s.

Local German peasants, angry at French plundering, compounded Tallard's problems, leading Mérode-Westerloo to bemoan – " the enraged peasantry killed several thousand of our men before the army was clear of the Black Forest.

The BBC radio commentary on the final day of the innings ( 6 June 1994 ), by Dave Roberts, was being broadcast around the world live via the BBC World Service network, and in the UK on BBC Radios 1, 2 & 4 as well as the majority of BBC Local radio stations.

Local labourer Matthew Weeks was accused of the murder and at noon on 12 August 1844 he was led from Bodmin Gaol and hanged.

The village falls within the Non-metropolitan district of Sedgemoor, which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972.

In 2010 a skatepark was built in the village, funded by the Cheddar Local Action Team.

Local tradition has it that his wife would camp on the nearby Strawberry Island ( which was visible from the open sea ) and signal him with a fire on the island's summit to alert him to whether or not it was safe to bring his illegal cargo ashore.

Local sentiment was so strong that in 1920 residents blocked the roads and declared independence.

It was published on September 30, 1980 as " The Ethernet, A Local Area Network.

The preparation for the charter was undertaken by the predecessor to the current Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, the Standing Conference of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe because involvement of local and regional government was essential.

By the time there was a strong market need for a bus of these speeds and capabilities, the VESA Local Bus and later PCI filled this niche and EISA vanished into obscurity.

Provision for Local Loop Unbundling was introduced in Gibraltar, under the 2006 Communications Act, similar to the UK's 2003 Communications Act.

Reform of the local government arrangements in the County of London and its environs was again considered by the Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London.

The Greater London Council was abolished in 1986 by the Local Government Act 1985.

In 1940, following the outbreak of conflict, he also tried to sign up for the Local Defence Volunteers, or " Home Guard ", but was turned away because he was already an ARP warden.

The Local Government Act of 1888 was the first systematic attempt to impose a standardised system of local government in England.