Former State Representative Mary Smith Gleason ( 1899 – 1967 ) of Webster Parish in north Louisiana spent her last years in Plaquemine.

* Marvin Webster ( 1952 – 2009 ), NBA basketball player, spent half his career with the New York Knicks.

Noah Webster ( 1758 – 1843 ), the author of the readers and spelling books that dominated the American market at the time, spent decades of research in compiling his dictionaries.

After that, he spent 15 years in Europe, mostly in Paris and Copenhagen, where he played regularly with fellow expatriate jazzmen such as Bud Powell, Ben Webster, Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Hutcherson, Kenny Drew, Horace Parlan and Billy Higgins.

After getting pregnant by a man named Jimmy, Nina Webster ran away from her home and spent nights on a park bench in Genoa City, before being found by Christine Blair, with whom she soon became friends.

Webster also spent time in prison for knocking Jomo Kenyatta to the ground outside the London Hilton hotel, for helping to organise the paramilitary organisation Spearhead, and was convicted under the 1936 Public Order Act.

He spent the 1983-84 season in the CHL playing for the eventual league championships, the Tulsa Oilers coached by Tom Webster.

From 1835 to 1856 Webster resided at The Mall, Kensington, but the last thirty years of his life were spent at the artists ' colony in Cranbrook, Kent, where he died on 23 Sept. 1886.

Some of the best-known reporters and presenters who launched or spent a major part of their careers at " Ten News " include Jana Wendt, Kerry O ' Brien, Katrina Lee, Charles Slade, Ann Sanders, Steve Liebmann, Tim Webster, Ron Wilson, Anne Fulwood, Juanita Phillips, Liz Hayes, Jo Pearson, David Johnston, Chris Masters, Larry Emdur, Eddie McGuire, John Gatfield, Kay McGrath, Graeme Goodings, Sharyn Ghidella, Laurie Oakes, Geraldine Doogue, Jennifer Keyte and Mike Munro amongst others.

Such people as Daniel Webster and Abraham Lincoln spent the night there.

The executives at the channel were Joe Maddox ( a former Discovery Channel executive ) and Webster " Web " Golinkin, who had spent two and a half years planning, raising $ 75 million in capital, and building the channel.

The commission, meeting for the first time with both of its newly-appointed commissioners, Roy Webster, of Hood River, and Dr. Ennis Keizer, of North Bend, approved a year's contract for a consultant in the data processing department who has been the center of considerable controversy in the past.

For a time it appeared that, as Eastern Promises producer Paul Webster told Screen International, a sequel is in the works that would reunite the key team of Cronenberg, Steven Knight and Viggo Mortensen.

Most of Davis ' associates at the time, some of them perhaps in imitation of Charlie Parker, had drug addictions of their own ( among them, sax players Sonny Rollins and Dexter Gordon, trumpeters Fats Navarro and Freddie Webster, and drummer Art Blakey ).

" This was the second time Webster declined the office, which William Henry Harrison had first offered to him.

Jazz stars in the 1950s who came into prominence in their genres called Bebop, Hard bop, Cool jazz and the Blues, at this time included Lester Young, Ben Webster, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Art Tatum, Bill Evans, Ahmad Jamal, Oscar Peterson, Gil Evans, Jerry Mulligan, Cannonball Adderley, Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, Art Blakey, Max Roach, the Miles Davis Quintet, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughn, Dinah Washington, Nina Simone, and Billie Holiday.

" Daniel Webster, who was also at Monticello at the time, made the same report.

After his father's death in 1806, Webster handed over his practice to his older brother Ezekiel, who had by this time been admitted to the bar.

" Historian Charles Wiltse agrees, noting, " Though he is known today primarily for his sectionalism, Calhoun was the last of the great political leaders of his time to take a sectional position — later than Daniel Webster, later than Henry Clay, later than Adams himself.

The format was shortened to a half-hour, removed local content, added a laugh track and replaced music videos with live performances from popular Canadian artists at the time, including Trooper, Max Webster, Ian Thomas and disco singer Alma Faye Brooks.

An 1824 draft on the Bank written and signed by Daniel Webster, its attorney and the director of the Boston branch. By the time of Jackson's inauguration in 1829, the national bank appeared to be on solid footing.

At that time it was a much larger county taking in what is now all of Webster County, and the eastern part of Montgomery County and a small portion of Grenada County.

By the time the county was reestablished on February 26, 1857, John Duncombe of Fort Dodge ( namesake of Duncombe, Iowa ) had tricked Humboldt County into cedeing the southern four townships ( Jackson, Deer Creek, Badger, Newark ) to Webster County " on loan ".

In the wake of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, Webster Groves High School was again profiled, this time in Time, which described Webster Groves as a " pretty town of old elms and deep porches " and a " mix of $ 90, 000 cottages and $ 750, 000 homes, young marrieds and old-line families and transient middle managers assigned to a stint in the St. Louis office who are looking for a comfortable place to settle and keep their kids on the track toward prosperity.

Seymour was the second largest city in Webster County at that time.

The Webster Baptist Church, built in 1900, though outside the town limits is still considered in Webster, and the Webster Methodist Church, next to the old School, built around the same time, were listed in 1989.

Some of his accomplishments are ; multiple time Champion, multiple medal winner in the Men's Endurance event at ESPN's Great Outdoor Games and multiple Stihl Timbersports Series Finalist ; 2006 Standing Block World Champion ; Winner of 40 Individual World Titles including the All Around World Title at the 2007 Webster County Woodchopping Festival ; Captain of STIHL's United States National Lumberjack Team.

Civic leaders truly supported the event for the first time: Mayor George Webster followed the costume suggestion and allowed downtown roads to be closed for two hours each morning of the six-day event to accommodate street parties.

At the same time as her biggest popular success, she also recorded sessions with many leading jazz musicians, notably Clifford Brown on the 1954 live album Dinah Jams, and also recorded with Cannonball Adderley, Clark Terry, and Ben Webster.

Carmichael's war time songs ( most with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster ) included " My Christmas Song for You ", " Don't Forget to Say ' No ' Baby ", " Billy-a-Dick ", " The Army of Hippocrates ", " Cranky Old Yank ", " Eager Beaver ", " No More Toujours l ' Amour ", " Morning Glory ", and the never completed " Hitler Blues ".

" I Think I'm Going Bald " was written for Canadian rocker Kim Mitchell, who at the time was the frontman of the band Max Webster and a close friend of the members of Rush.

Daniel Webster argued the side of the College in the Dartmouth College Case, describing the Charter this way: " A charter of more liberal sentiments, of wiser provisions, drawn with more care, or in a better spirit, could not be expected at any time or from any other source.

One particular contribution towards formalizing these differences came from Noah Webster, who wrote the first American dictionary ( published 1828 ) with the intention of showing that people in the United States spoke a different dialect from Britain, much like a regional accent.

Earlier in the year, Alison Wakefield married Kevin Webster after discovering she was pregnant with his child.

Molly Dobbs became pregnant, with the father being either Tyrone Dobbs or Kevin Webster ; Molly reconciled with Tyrone and nearly lost her life after a crash in a car which had not been properly repaired by Kevin.

Webster concluded his peroration with the famous words: " It is, Sir, as I have said, a small college.

Almost all the women who attended this service walked out with her, as well as a few men .” Her works include: The Church and the Second Sex ( 1968 ), Beyond God the Father ( 1973 ), Gyn / ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism ( 1978 ), Pure Lust: Elemental Feminist Philosophy ( 1984 ), Webster ’ s First Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language ( 1987 ), and Outercourse: The Be-Dazzling Voyage ( 1992 ).

Geddy, along with his band mates played and sang along with Max Webster on the song " Battle Scar " from the Universal Juveniles ( 1980 ) album.

* 1890-Major Reuben Webster Millsaps founds the college with a personal gift of $ 50, 000.

His father had mortgaged the farm to send Webster to Yale, but the son was now on his own and had no more to do with his family.

Ellis argues that Webster anticipated some of the insights currently associated with Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development.

As a spelling reformer, Webster believed that English spelling rules were unnecessarily complex, so his dictionary introduced American English spellings, replacing " colour " with " color ", substituting " wagon " for " waggon ", and printing " center " instead of " centre ".

On May 28, 1843, a few days after he had completed revising an appendix to the second edition, and with much of his efforts with the dictionary still unrecognized, Noah Webster died.

Webster molded the KJV to correct grammar, replaced words that were no longer used, and did away with words and phrases that could be seen as offensive.

Following the game, Wellington Mara fired coach Allie Sherman, and replaced him with former Giants fullback Alex Webster.

Rush joined with fellow Toronto-based rock band Max Webster on July 28, 1980 to record " Battle Scar " for their 1980 release, Universal Juveniles.

In December 2011, Viz produced three animated shorts with Baby Cow for Channel 4's Comedy Blaps, voiced by Steve Coogan, Sarah Millican, Simon Greenall and Gavin Webster.

In December 2011, Viz produced three animated shorts for Channel 4's Comedy Blaps with Baby Cow, voiced by Steve Coogan, Sarah Millican, Simon Greenall and Gavin Webster.

* January 12 – January 27 – Robert Y. Hayne of South Carolina debates the question of states ' rights vs. federal authority with Daniel Webster of Massachusetts in the United States Congress.

with Ronald Webster.

At this point Anguilla declared itself an independent republic, with Webster again serving as Chairman.

Scott was nominated on the 53rd ballot by a margin of 159 – 112 ( with 21 for Webster ), again with a highly sectional vote ; Scott won the North by a 142 – 11 vote ( with 21 for Webster ) while Fillmore won the South by a margin of 101 – 17.