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Tilghman and partner
Barringer and his partner, the mathematician and physicist Benjamin Chew Tilghman, documented evidence for the impact theory in papers presented to the U. S. Geological Survey in 1906 and published in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.
In 1906, Barringer and his partner, the mathematician and physicist Benjamin C. Tilghman, presented their first papers to the U. S. Geological Survey outlining the evidence in support of the impact theory.
After the 1840 legislative session, Wright reopened his law office with a new partner, congressman Tilghman A. Howard, a friend of the governor and President Andrew Jackson.

Tilghman and George
Early inhabitants included Robert Morris, Sr., agent for a Liverpool shipping firm who greatly influenced the town's growth ; his son, Robert Morris, Jr., known as " the financier of the Revolution ;" Jeremiah Banning, sea captain, war hero, and statesman ; The Reverend Thomas Bacon, Anglican clergyman who wrote the first compilation of the laws of Maryland ; Matthew Tilghman, known as the " patriarch of Maryland " and " father of statehood "; and Colonel Tench Tilghman, aide-de-camp to George Washington and the man who carried the message of General Cornwallis's surrender to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
He served as an aide de camp to General George Washington, achieving the rank of lieutenant colonel. Letter from Tench Tilghman to George Washington, circa 1776-1781
As the war was ending, Washington sent Tilghman a worried letter about King George III ’ s actions.
George Washington ’ s letters to brother Richard Tilghman on May 10th, 1786 shows his fondness for Tilghman:
He is credited with befriending the Marquis de Lafayette and recruiting the teenage aristocrat to the American cause ; when Lafayette traveled to America, he carried with him a letter of introduction from Carmichael to George Washington's aide Tench Tilghman, a fellow Marylander from the Eastern Shore.
* Tench Tilghman, aide-de-camp to George Washington

Tilghman and men
Gen. Lloyd Tilghman surrendered the 94 remaining officers and men of his approximately 3, 000-man force which had not been sent to Fort Donelson before U. S. Grant's force could even take up their positions.
Tilghman is remembered as brave and gallant in surrendering with his men, but he was derelict in his duty by abandoning the command of his garrison, which was responsible for the defense of both Henry and Donelson.

Tilghman and into
Several were firing into the barn when Billy Tilghman arrived.
When Washington resigned his commission and presented himself before Congress, Humphreys was one of two aides who accompanied him into the chamber ( the other was Tench Tilghman ).
When the new state government went into effect later in 1776, Tilghman was elected to the state Senate.
Two poets have written about the ride, Dr. Oliver Huchel and Howard Pyle which both make Tilghman into a hero.
Tilghman plans to invest substantial money into the club, to enhance its image, and needs a first-rate cooler to maintain stability.

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`` I'm Billy Tilghman '', said the stranger, `` and I've come for Pat Conyers' body ''.
Tilghman leapt on to him, dragged him upright and hit him again, this time sending him careening against the bar.
Tilghman flung himself aside, dropped on one knee and pulled his own gun.
`` OK, Tilghman, I'm quitting ''.
`` And now '', said Tilghman with deadly calm, `` I'll repeat what I said.
Billy Tilghman and his comrades rode off to the battle.
Billy Tilghman did just that.
To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.
Of all the rip-roaring two-fisted tough boys of the Old West, `` Uncle Billy Tilghman '' stands out head and shoulders.
The deeds of countless western bandits and outlaws have been glorified almost to the point of hero-worship, but because Billy Tilghman remained strictly on the side of the law throughout his action-packed career, his achievements and the appalling risks he took while taming the West have remained almost unsung.
Bill Doolin's ambition, it appeared, was to carve out his name with bullets alongside those of Jesse James and Billy the Kid, and Bill Tilghman had sworn he would stop him.
Tilghman knew that some ranchers were hand-in-glove with the Doolin gang.
On a bitterly cold day in January, 1895, accompanied only by Neal Brown as his deputy, Tilghman left the township of Guthrie and headed for Rock Fort and Dunn's ranch.
`` Wait here, Neal '', said Tilghman.
Leaving his rifle in the wagon, Tilghman walked up to the door and hammered on it.
`` Hello, Ed '', said Tilghman.
Tilghman closed the door behind him and walked towards the fire.
And projecting wickedly through these curtains were the gleaming muzzles of six rifles, all trained on Billy Tilghman.
Thinking fast, Tilghman never hesitated for one instant.
`` Cold day '', said Tilghman, placing his hands behind him and casually presenting his backside to the fire.
He wouldn't look Tilghman in the face.
Resisting the overwhelming temptation to flng himself out of that bristling death-trap, Tilghman deliberately engaged the nervous rancher in trivial conversation for a good ten minutes.
`` Billy Tilghman is too good a man to shoot in the back.

partner and George
Stover's Black Oracle partner Bill George published his own short-lived zine The Late Show ( 1974 – 1976 ; with co-editor Martin Falck ), and later became editor of the Cinefantastique prozine spinoff Femme Fatales.
* 1990 – George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as principal partner of New York Yankees for hiring Howie Spira to " get dirt " on Dave Winfield.
The first generation of Lindy Hop is popularly associated with dancers such as " Shorty " George Snowden, his partner Big Bea, and Leroy Stretch Jones and Little Bea.
The convention is named for Sam Stayman, who wrote the first published description in 1945, but its inventors were two other players: the British expert Jack Marx in 1939, who published it only in 1946, and Stayman's regular partner George Rapée in 1945.
In 1998, under the company Demas, NED co-founder Cameron W. Jones ( original and current owner of the Synclavier trademark and software ) collaborated with ex-employee Brian S. George ( owner of Demas, the company that purchased all of NED's hardware and technical assets ) and original co-founding partner Sydney Alonso to develop an emulator designed to run Synclavier software for Apple Computer's Macintosh computer systems and hardware designed to share the core processing with the later generation of Apple G3 computers giving enhanced features and greater speed to the system.
Michael Daley is a partner in the law firm Daley & George, and Patricia ( Daley ) Martino and Mary Carol ( Daley ) Vanecko are teachers, as was Eleanor, who died in 1998.
In 1904, Crapper retired, passing the firm to his nephew George and his business partner Robert Marr Wharam.
He asks his business partner, George Strong, and other tycoons to invest in the venture.
The film tells the story of two men, George and his mentally challenged partner Lennie, trying to survive during the dustbowl of the 1930s and pursuing a dream of owning their own ranch, instead of always working for others.
He settled in Brentwood Park, where he befriended fellow composer ( and tennis partner ) George Gershwin and began teaching at UCLA.
Sergeant Lewis Strutt ( Michael Jai White ) steps in to cool things down when Orin gets in a fight with Useldinger, and George Clark ( Isaiah Washington ) is assigned to be Orin's partner.
Orin decides to stay with the 15th precinct with George as his partner, and T. K. becomes Henry's co-host.
Although Keegan's Southampton career only lasted two years, Saints fielded an attractive side also containing Alan Ball, prolific scorer of goals Ted MacDougall, ( who still holds the record for the largest number of goals in an FA Cup game – 9 – for Bournemouth against Margate in an 11 – 0 win ), MacDougall's strike partner at Bournemouth and Norwich Phil Boyer, club stalwart Mick Channon and Charlie George and in 1980 – 81 they scored 76 goals, finishing in sixth place, then their highest league finish.
Jibril joined with George Habash in 1967 as more or less an equal partner in the PFLP leadership.
Current members of the board of directors of Monsanto are: David L. Chicoine, president of South Dakota State University ; Hugh Grant, the president and CEO of Monsanto ; Arthur H. Harper, managing partner of GenNx360 Capital Partners ; Gwendolyn King, president of Podium Prose, a speakers bureau ; Laura K. Ipsen, senior VP and general manager of Connected Energy Networks at Cisco Systems, Inc., C. Steven McMillan, former chairman and CEO of the Sara Lee Corporation ; William U. Parfet, chief executive officer of MPI Research Inc .; Janice L. Fields, president of McDonald's USA ; George H. Poste, chief executive of Health Technology Networks ; and Jon R. Moeller, chief financial officer of The Procter & Gamble Company.
The crematorium in Golders Green was designed by the architect Sir Ernest George and his partner Alfred Yeates.
The architect George Washington Smith is noted particularly for his residences around Montecito, and for popularizing the Spanish Colonial Revival style in early 20th century America, as is Lutah Maria Riggs, who started as a draftsman in Smith's firm, rose to partner, and later started her own firm.
The village was named after Judge George Reed, who, with his partner, Jacob Lueps, bought a section of land in the town of Maple Grove, Wisconsin.
Frankie Manning wanted to outdo Shorty George, so he convinced his partner Freda Washington, to flip over his back.
The Boy Scouts of America were represented by attorney George Davidson, a partner in the New York-based law firm Hughes Hubbard & Reed.
Later, Blifil reveals that Black George was Tom's partner and Mr Allworthy is pacified by Tom's sense of honour.
Packard was founded by James Ward Packard ( Lehigh University Class of 1884 ), his brother William Doud Packard and their partner, George Lewis Weiss, in the city of Warren, Ohio.
In 1893, in San Francisco he formed the team of Williams and Walker, his partner being equally celebrated straight man George Walker.
He was a regular tennis partner of George H. W.

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