Tailback James Saxton already has surpassed his rushing total for his brilliant sophomore season, when he netted 271 yards on 55 carries ; ;

Officially founded in 1855 by James Saxton, Saxton has been home to people for many years.

More recently, Saxton was also the site of the Saxton Nuclear Generating Station, the nation's 4th nuclear power plant, which has since been dismantled.

It has always been commented that the reason that Saxton got the nod was because of his ties with the underworld.

It has been suggested that Christopher Saxton may have used rough-and-ready triangulation to place features in his county maps of the 1570s ; but others suppose that, having obtained rough bearings to features from key vantage points, he may have estimated the distances to them simply by guesswork.

Ida's childhood home, the Saxton House, has been preserved on Market Avenue in Canton.

Saxton has been a resident of Mount Holly, New Jersey.

She has also inspired contemporary composers to write for her, including Richard Rodney Bennett, Antal Dorati, Carl Davis, Chaminade, Frank Martin, Malcolm Arnold, Jindrich Feld, Edwin Roxburgh, Robert Saxton, Ole Schmidt, Robert Simpson and Cecilia McDowall.

Opera North has given world premières of the following operas: Rebecca by Wilfred Josephs ( 1983 ), Caritas by Robert Saxton ( 1991 ), Baa, Baa, Black Sheep by Michael Berkeley ( 1993 ), Playing Away by Benedict Mason ( 1994 ), The Nightingale's to Blame by Simon Holt ( 1998 ), Jonathan Dove's The Adventures of Pinocchio ( 2007 ) and Swanhunter ( 2009 ), and Skin Deep by David Sawer and Armando Iannucci ( 2009 ).

He was also awarded the Dean's Award for Distinguished Achievement in 2007 from Columbia University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and has also been honored with a John Hay Whitney Award, a Saxton Memorial Fellowship, and a Special Distinction Award from the Black American Literature Forum.

Robert Saxton has written works for the BBC ( TV, Proms and Radio ), LSO, LPO, ECO, London Sinfonietta, Nash Ensemble, Chilingirian String Quartet, St Paul Chamber Orchestra ( USA ), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival / Opera North, Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, City of London, Three Choirs and Lichfield Festivals, Stephen Darlington and the choir of Christ Church Cathedral Oxford, Susan Milan, Susan Bradshaw and Richard Rodney Bennett, Edward Wickham and The Clerks ' Group, Teresa Cahill, Leon Fleisher, Steven Isserlis, Mstislav Rostropovich, John Wallace and the Raphael Wallfisch and John York duo.

In the United States, Will and Maurice Thompson may have made some of their own bows, but many American bowyers were inspired by Art Young, Dr. Saxton Pope, and Will Compton.

Her grandfather, John Saxton, in 1815 founded The Repository, the city's first and now its only newspaper.

Passenger service was operated on this branch between 1859 and 1917, from Saxton to Dudley only.

Saxton is supportive of environmentalism, which led him to be one of the few Republicans that the Sierra Club endorsed in 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006.

His " cocktail approach " -- mixing more than one drug with other ingredients — was touted at news conferences in 2002 and 2004 by US Representative H. James Saxton ( R-N. J .), perhaps Alibek ’ s major government benefactor, as " a potential new defense against bioterrorism ".

Friede invited John Saxton Sumner of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice to buy a copy directly from him, to ensure that he, not a bookseller, would be the one prosecuted.

There is no evidence on the maps that Saxton engraved any of them himself, but, according to one account, he engraved those of the Welsh counties and Herefordshire with his own hand.

The first steam-grist mill was erected in 1856 by Saxton and Casil.

The first steam-grist mill was erected in 1856 by Saxton and Casil.

Saxton was once a thriving town of several thousand people.

Saxton was the home of the Huntingdon and Broad Top Railroad ( H & BT ).

The railroad was the life blood of the town, and the Saxton grew up around it.

In 1592 Bingley was shown on a map by Yorkshire map-maker Christopher Saxton as a single street with about 20 houses on each side.

He was treated by a Professor of Medicine at UCSF, Saxton T. Pope.

According to the Revenge of the Sith Incredible Cross-sections by Dr. Curtis Saxton, and according to the film's visual dictionary, Itchy was involved in the Battle of Kashyyyk as a gunner aboard an Oevvaor jet catamaran in the defense of Kachirho during the Battle of Kashyyyk.

Plath was writing the novel under the sponsorship of the Eugene F. Saxton Fellowship, affiliated with publisher Harper & Row, but they were disappointed by the manuscript and withdrew, calling it, “ disappointing, juvenile, and overwrought .” Early working titles of the novel included Diary of a Suicide and The Girl in the Mirror.

Ida Saxton McKinley ( June 8, 1847 – May 26, 1907 ), wife of William McKinley, was First Lady of the United States from 1897 to 1901.

Ida was born in Canton, Ohio, the elder daughter of James Saxton, prominent Canton banker, and Katherine DeWalt.

In the United States House elections, 2006, Saxton was challenged by Democrat Rich Sexton, a lawyer and U. S. Navy veteran from Mount Laurel.

Saxton was widely praised across South Jersey for his efforts to remove Fort Dix from the Pentagon's base realignment and closure lists in 1989 and 1991, McGuire Air Force Base from the list in 1993, and Lakehurst Naval Air Station from the list in 1995.

Saxton was also supportive of some gay rights measures, including the Employment Non-Discrimination Act and hate crimes bills.

" Brigadier General Rufus Saxton, an abolitionist from Massachusetts, was appointed by Sherman to oversee the settling of the freed slaves.

It was established in 1895 by Seattle's five Grand Army of the Republic posts ( Stevens Post # 1, Miller Post # 31, Cushing Post # 56, Saxton Post # 103, and Green Lake # 112 ) on land donated by Huldah and David Kaufman, two of the first Jews in Seattle, having arrived there in 1869.

It was from this meeting that the McKinley National Memorial Association was formed and Theodore Roosevelt chose the first Board of Trustees, with recommendations from the President's widow, Ida Saxton McKinley.

By November 16 the cornerstone was laid in an official ceremony attended by the former First Lady, Ida Saxton McKinley, and other family members.

According to the Clerical Guide Crowe was also rector until his death at Llanymynech in Denbighshire, from 1805, and incumbent of Saxton in Yorkshire, valued at about £ 80 a year, from the same date.

Noble's first and second sons George and Saxton became successively second and third baronets, while his third son John Noble, also involved with Armstrongs, was created a Baronet in his own right in 1923.

Within a year Miss Davis began her elocution and dramatic art education under the tutelage of Miss Marguerite E. Saxton of Washington.

The 1607 edition included for the first time a full set of English county maps, based on the surveys of Christopher Saxton and John Norden, and engraved by William Kip and William Hole ( who also engraved the fine title page ).

* Concerto for Orchestra by Robert Saxton ( 1984 )

On May 26, 2006, Saxton reported hearing a loud gunfire-type noise in the Rayburn House Office Building that led to the building being shut down for several hours.

Saxton is a Member of both the Republican Main Street Partnership and Republicans for Environmental Protection

She appeared with both World Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation as Starla Saxton, unsuccessfully challenging Jacqueline for the WWF Women's Championship on an October 1998 episode of Sunday Night Heat and on an episode of the U. K. version of " Shotgun.

Following the near-collapse of Armstrongs in 1927 Wretham was demolished, and Saxton commissioned designs for a topiary garden representing the plan of a huge house for the site from Sir Edwin Lutyens.

In 1990, Adler challenged incumbent Jim Saxton for his seat in New Jersey's 13th congressional district.

* Robert Saxton — Night Dance ( 1987 ); " Miniature Dance for a Marionette Rabbi " ( 1999 )

* Wretham Hall, Norfolk: new house and gardens for Sir Saxton Noble, 1912 – 13, in Wrenaissance style

Saxton obtained a license to sell these maps for a term of ten years.

* Brian Saxton ( born 1972 ), tight end who played for the New York Giants.

Incumbent Democrat Ted Kulongoski defeated Republican Ron Saxton, winning his bid for a second term as Governor of Oregon.

Congressman Jim Saxton was reportedly the source of the false alarm, after he mistook construction sounds in the garage for gunfire.

Robert " Bobby " Saxton ( born 6 September 1943 in Doncaster, England ) is an English former footballer, manager and coach, now working as a scout for Sunderland F. C ..