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William Whitney had a well known older brother, industrialist Henry Melville Whitney ( 1839 – 1923 ), president of the Metropolitan Steamship Company, founder of the West End Street Railway Company of Boston, and later founder of the Dominion Coal Company and Dominion Iron and Steel Company in Sydney, Nova Scotia on Cape Breton Island.
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William F. Miller was interim CEO until September of that year, when Whitney G. Lynn became interim president and CEO and then continued to have a succession of CEOs including Dale Fuller and Tod Nielsen.
He and Secretary of the Navy William C. Whitney undertook to modernize the navy and canceled construction contracts that had resulted in inferior ships.
* 1841 – William Collins Whitney, American financier and politician, 31st United States Secretary of the Navy ( d. 1904 )
The American linguist William Dwight Whitney, for example, actively strove to eradicate the Native American languages arguing that their speakers were savages and would be better off abandoning their languages and learning English and adopting a civilized way of life.
In his Course in General Linguistics, Saussure himself credits the American linguist William Dwight Whitney ( 1827 – 1894 ) with insisting on the arbitrary nature of the sign.
William E. Swing the URI Charter was developed through a series of international conferences and consultation with transformative organizational design practitioners David Cooperrider and Diana Whitney.
The pair, who were married to each other, got their inspiration for the story from the real life case of William and Dorothy Whitney, who were married lawyers who ended up divorcing and marrying their respective clients in a case.
Another contestant includes Dr. William Whitney Christmas of the U. S., who claimed ( among other things ) to have invented the aileron in the 1914 patent for what would become the Christmas Bullet, which was built in 1918 but which proved uncontrollable with both examples built crashing on their first flight.
William Dwight Whitney 1895 rejected this interpretation by Tilak.
The name comes from Thomas and William Whitney, early developers.
Lamont also held employment with William C. Whitney in his business ventures in 1889.
* William Collins Whitney, founder of the Whitney family, financier, U. S. Cabinet member, thoroughbred stable owner
William W. Whitney was its first ± egular pastor.
* William C. Sherman, Paul L. Whitney and John Guerrero.
The Aiken Winter Colony was establish by Thomas Hitchcock, Sr. and William C. Whitney.
* William C. Whitney helped establish the " Winter Colony " taking the small " Joye Cottage " and building a 69-room winter residence with 15 bathrooms a full-size ballroom and a stable to house 30 horses.
His high-profile estrangement and then divorce from Adrianne Allen was the inspiration for Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin's script for the film Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, and indeed Massey ended up marrying the lawyer who represented him in court, Dorothy Whitney, while his then ex-wife Allen married the opposing lawyer, William Dwight Whitney.
William Clayton, Smith's scribe, recorded early polygamous marriages in 1843, including unions between Smith and Eliza Partridge, Emily Partridge, Sarah Ann Whitney, Helen Kimball and Flora Woodworth.
The family was composed of Nitcholas " Nitch " Drinkard, and Delia Drinkard, Warwick's grandparents, and their children: William, Lee ( Warwick's mother ), Marie " Rebbie " ( Warwick's namesake ), Hansom, Anne, Larry, Nicky, and Emily " Cissy " ( who is the mother of Warwick's late cousin, Whitney Houston ).
Prominent examples included Francis A. Pratt, Amos Whitney, Henry Leland, Edward Bullard, Worcester R. Warner, Charles Brinckerhoff Richards, William Mason and Ambrose Swasey.
His memorials at the university include the Mulock Cup, Canada's oldest continuously awarded sporting trophy, the William Mulock Prize in Mathematics and Physics, the William Mulock Prize in Classics, and Mulock House in Whitney Hall residence.
* The Aiken Tennis Club: in Aiken, South Carolina founded in 1898 by William C. Whitney political leader, financier and a key figure in the prominent Whitney family.
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A lone pro-Hearst voice from New York City was that of William Devery, who had been expelled as a Tammany leader but still claimed strong influence in his own district.
According to William Ringler's study, Stephen Gosson, the theater business in London had become a thriving enterprise by 1577, and, in the opinion of many, a thoroughly bad business.
But Morgan did not leave before he had written a letter to a William Pickman in Salem, Massachusetts, apparently an acquaintance, praising Washington and saying that the slanders propagated about him were `` opposed by the general current of the people to exalt General Gates at the expense of General Washington was injurious to the latter.
The Scots had found a new leader in William Wallace, and Edward's yearly expeditions across the Border called for evermounting taxes, which only increased his difficulties with the barons and the clergy.
The knights for Warwickshire in this parliament, which ended its session on February 9, were Fulke Greville ( the poet ) and William Combe of Warwick, as Fulke Greville and Edward Greville had been in 1593.
To the Weston house came once William Allen Neilson, the president of Smith College who had been one of my old professors and who still called me `` Boy '' when I was sixty.
He had Anthony and William to confide in and consult.
Dr. Ray is a Fellow of the Foundation -- appointed thrice to assist his studies of William Makepeace Thackeray and of H. G. Wells -- and, before his appointment to the Foundation's executive staff, had been given our highest scholarly accolade, appointment to the Advisory Board.
She had had a party with a regular visitor, Dr. William W. McClellan.
William, who lived in neighboring St. Mary's parish, had taken charge and decided that it would be best for all if the plantation were operated for another year.
Early in January, 1844 he had a conference with Henry and William in New Orleans, and upon learning of Gorham's intention, Henry remonstrated calmly but firmly with his brother.
News of the legislative veto appeared in the New Orleans papers, and Henry and William became incensed by the fact that they had not been told of the attempt in advance.
William A. Redding asserted that if the case had been heard in open court under rules of evidence, the testimony would have been completed in sixty days instead of five years.
As reports dribbled in, William Weigand tossed them into the centrifuge which had become his head.
William Smythe, director of field service, told the commissioners that Multnomah, as of Aug. 22, had spent $58,918 out of its budgeted $66,000 in the category, leaving only $7,082 for the rest of the month.
Lincoln's foreign policy approach had been initially hands off, due to his inexperience ; he left most diplomacy appointments and other foreign policy matters to his Secretary of State, William Seward.
In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, interest in Aristotle revived and Latin Christians had translations made, both from Arabic translations, such as those by Gerard of Cremona, and from the original Greek, such as those by James of Venice and William of Moerbeke.
They had one son, Col. William Preston Johnston, who would also serve in the Confederate Army.
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman that he became somewhat unnerved, overestimated Johnston's forces, and had to be relieved by Brig.
From there, his body was taken to the home of Colonel William Inge, which had been his headquarters in Corinth.
The chemist Francis William Aston used this instrument to show that isotopes had different masses.
The teachings of William Ellery Channing a few years earlier had also laid the groundwork for the work of most of the Concord Transcendentalists.
William never quite trusted Ealdred or the other English leaders, and Ealdred had to accompany William back to Normandy in 1067, but he had returned to York by the time of his death in 1069.
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