Along the Thames, a number of large and, in their field, pre-eminent firms grew ; notably the Morgan Crucible Company, which survives to this day and is listed on the London Stock Exchange ; Price's Candles, which also made cycle lamp oil ; and Orlando Jones ' Starch Factory.

Morgan Walker's cousin, William Stewart Walker, a United States Army soldier in World War II who later rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel, grew up north of Dodson in the Wyatt community in Jackson Parish.

The company, Morgan Knitting Mills, Inc, grew into one of the largest employers in the area, second only to the Atlas Powder Company.

Paw Paw was incorporated by the Circuit Court of Morgan County on April 8, 1891 and named for the pawpaw, a wild fruit which formerly grew in abundance throughout this region.

Although originally a sketch in the early parts of Air Farce on TV meant to satirize the Canadian military ( in it, the Canadian military consists of only two people, Colonel " Teresa " Stacy and his assistant, played by Ferguson and Morgan ), but as the popularity of the sketch grew, it became an integral part of Air Farce, spawning its own newsroom sketch titled " Chicken Cannon News ".

* Paul Hamm and Morgan Hamm, Olympic gymnasts, who were born in Washburn, Wisconsin, grew up in the town.

Born near Morgantown ( and kin to its founder Zackquill Morgan ), Pierpont grew up in western Virginia, in what is today Marion County, West Virginia ; he was linked with the region's history for the rest of his life.

; Bess Martin: Wife of Morgan Martin, who grew up in the mines of Earth.

* In the television series Smallville, Lionel Luthor grew up in Suicide Slum and befriended future crime lord Morgan Edge there.

He grew up in rural Weld County near Fort Morgan and is a graduate of Colorado State University.

Rees grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and was an avid reader of Rex Morgan, M. D.

Morgan was born in the London Borough of Enfield and grew up in Tottenham.

Under the leadership of Jacob H. Schiff, it grew to be one of the most influential investment banks in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, financing America's expanding railways and growth companies, including Western Union and Westinghouse, and thereby becoming the principal rival of J. P. Morgan & Co.

On January 1, 1875, Jacob Schiff ( 1847-1920 ), Solomon Loeb's son-in-law, joined the firm and began a remarkable reign as its leader, during which it grew to be the second most prestigious investment bank in the United States, behind J. Pierpont Morgan's, J. P. Morgan & Co.

Nicknamed " Lurch " because of his 6 ' 6 " height ( a reference to The Addams Family butler on the television show ), Bishop grew up in Lanham, Maryland and befriended fellow Junkie Eric Bickel while attending DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, Maryland, where he played basketball for legendary coach Morgan Wooten.

Morgan grew up in Palo Alto and later attended Cornell University, where he earned a degree in urban and regional planning, and Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he earned a master's in management.

Allen's herd grew rapidly such that by the 1860s had gained exclusive shipping rights for cattle to New Orleans and Cuba from the Morgan Lines, Texas first steamship company which was later to become a major factor in establishing Houston as an important Texas port and railroad shipping center.

As demand grew, a number of well known designers, including Chippendale, Sheraton and Gillows, considered portable furniture and the end of the 18th century saw the rise of specialist makers with the names of Thomas Butler and Morgan & Sanders perhaps being the most recognized.

Morgan grew up in Wellington, New Zealand, with his father economist Gareth Morgan and mother Jo Morgan a local bus driver.

Morgan was educated privately, traveled frequently and grew up amongst the wealth her father had amassed.

Institutions such as hedge funds, pension funds and investment banks like Barclays Capital, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have been instrumental in pushing up prices in the last five years, with investment in food commodities rising from $ 65bn to $ 126bn (£ 41bn to £ 79bn ) between 2007 and 2012, contributing to 30-year highs.

Just weeks before his death Morgan said that he did not want to continue playing the role of Father Ted for fear of being typecast: " I don't want to be the next Clive Dunn and end up playing the same character for years.

Despite his rapidly failing health, Morgan asserts his right to travel up the tower in a one-man ' spider ' to rescue them.

In 2008, Lehman filed for bankruptcy, Bear Stearns was bought up by JP Morgan Chase with blessing by the U. S. government, and Merrill Lynch was bought up by Bank of America.

The film's screenwriter, Robert Rodat, said of Mel Gibson's character: " Benjamin Martin is a composite character made up of Thomas Sumter, Daniel Morgan, Andrew Pickens, and Francis Marion, and a few bits and pieces from a number of other characters ".

Morgan went down for a minute before picking himself up.

" Morgan Earp picked himself up and also fired at Frank.

Ike backed up Behan's testimony that Holliday and Morgan Earp had fired the first two shots and that the next several shots also came from the Earp party.

The polling conducted by the Morgan Poll in May 2011 showed the support for the monarchy was now 55 % ( up 17 % since 1999 ), whereas the support for a republic was at 34 % ( down 20 %).

The Donner Party avoided going through the Morgan Valley in order to speed up their journey.

In 1855, Charles Shreeve Peterson and his family became the first white settlers to take up permanent residence in the Morgan Valley after cutting a road through Weber Canyon.

When the family return home, they pick up odd noises on Bo's old baby monitor which when pointed higher towards the sky, Morgan believes its the aliens communicating with one another.

Morgan regains consciousness, his lungs having been closed up prevented him from inhaling the alien's gas.

In order to cope up with the write-downs during the subprime mortgage crisis, Morgan Stanley announced on December 19, 2007 that it would receive a US $ 5 billion capital infusion from the China Investment Corporation in exchange for securities that would be convertible to 9. 9 % of its shares in 2010 ..

The 9th Congressional District of Virginia, represented by Morgan Griffith, has traditionally covered southwest Virginia but has expanded into parts of Roanoke County and counties to the north of Roanoke to make up for population losses in the rest of the district.

Such honors routinely go to stars, but also belong to Morgan and other character actors who provide ' the grit and the substance and the context ' for so many films and TV shows ," to sum it up, he stated: " Harry has been that, par excellence, for many years.

At the time of the county's formation it also consisted of the areas that make up the present-day Jefferson and Morgan counties.

Morgan County is bisected by the White River Valley ; the community has taken an interest in recent years in protecting the river as an asset, seeking to develop parks and greenways along the White River and initiating an annual river clean up day in the spring.

Myrtledene Bed and Breakfast was where General John Hunt Morgan rode his horse in the house and started up the stairs.

Wartburg was founded in the 1840s by George Gerding, a land speculator who bought up large tracts of land in what is now Morgan County with plans to establish a series of German colonies in the Cumberland region.

Morgan County makes up one of the western counties in the Eastern Panhandle.

The Morgan rack was good for grades of up to 16 percent.

The Morgan system saw limited use on one common carrier railroad in the United States, the Chicago Tunnel Company, a narrow gauge freight carrier that had one steep grade in the line up to their surface disposal station on the Chicago lakefront.