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The exception was an Iron Mountain settler named William Lewis.
William Gilmore Simms, sturdy realist that he was, pleaded for a natural robustness such as he found in his favorites the great Elizabethans, to vivify the pale writings being produced around him.
Miriam was stopped at the Taliesin gate, and William Weston, now the estate foreman, came out to parley.
she also went to Washington and appealed to Senator George William Norris of Nebraska, the Fighting Liberal, from whose office a sympathetic but cautious harrumphing was heard.
he collaborated on a song with William Hartman Woodin, who was Secretary of the Treasury, 1932-33.
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.
William Coddington, who was running the colony, felt constrained to move seven miles south where, with others -- as mentioned above -- he founded Newport.
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 CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.
He wrote eloquently to William James that impartial history was not only impossible but undesirable.
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.
In the earlier sessions there was plentiful discussion on the natural law, which Dr. William V. O'Brien of Georgetown University, advanced as the basis for widely acceptable ethical judgments on foreign policy.
William, he was called, in honor of the man who was at once Shelley's pensioner and his most bitter detractor.
After the Juniors were welcomed and congratulated for qualifying for the Finals of the Junior Class, Mrs. William H. Long, Jr. was introduced as the first speaker.
Timothy Palmer, who invented and later patented the arch type of construction for wooden bridges, was the genius who planned and supervised the building of the Essex, or `` Deer Island '' bridge although the actual work was carried out under the direction of William Coombs, who received $300 as recompense.
But what the elements could not do was seriously threatened when Brigadier General William E. ( Grumble ) Jones reached Philippi while on the famous Jones-Imboden raid in May, 1863.
William Hitchcock, who retired in 1938, was a veteran of thirty-four years' local service.
After many years and many interruptions he was able to finish the canopy fresco, and slightly less than half the frieze, beginning with the Liberty group opposite the East door, and ending with William Penn, all but one leg, when a tragic accident ended his career.
Assonance seems nearly as severe a curb, although in a celebrated passage William of Malmesbury declares that A Song Of Roland was intoned before the battle commenced at Hastings.
Thus at the same time that William Henry Harrison was preparing to pacify the aborigines of Indiana Territory and winning fame at the battle of Tippecanoe, Anglo-Saxon settlement made a great leap into the center of the North American continent to the west of the American agricultural frontier.
William was adamant on one point: under no circumstances would he allow the Negroes to remain on the plantation with his and Henry's slaves if they were told of their coming freedom.
One tempest was stirred up last March when Udall announced that an eight-and-a-half-foot bronze statue of William Jennings Bryan, sculpted by the late Gutzon Borglum, would be sent `` on indefinite loan '' to Salem, Illinois, Bryan's birthplace.
Appointment of William S. Pfaff Jr., 41, as promotion manager of The Times-Picayune Publishing Company was announced Saturday by John F. Tims, president of the company.

William and Congregational
Abigail Adams was born at the North Parish Congregational Church in Weymouth, Massachusetts, to Reverend William Smith and Elizabeth ( née Quincy ) Smith.
Her father, William Smith ( 1707 – 1783 ), a liberal Congregationalist, and other forebears were Congregational ministers, and leaders in a society that held its clergy in high esteem.
* William Ament, ( 1851 – 1909 ) controversial Congregational missionary to China ( 1877 – 1909 ), criticised by Mark Twain.
Some of the buildings designed by the Sugdens are as follows: the Congregational Church with its 130 ’ spire, ( now Trinity Church ), built in the Victorian Gothic Revival style ( 1863 ), Myatt ’ s Mill in Earl Street ( 1864 ), Mill Street Methodist Chapel and Ragged School ( 1870 ), the Cottage Hospital, in memory of silk manufacturer James Allsop ( 1871 ), their own houses in Queen Street, complete with monograms for William, Larner and for Larner ’ s French wife ( 1877 ), West Street School ( extended in 1881 ), the District Bank, which exhibits a strong Richard Norman Shaw influence ( 1882 ) and the Leonard Street Police Station in Scottish Baronial style ( 1891 ).
William Basil Anstey of Leyton Congregational Church succeeded his father as minister in 1893 and served the church until 1920.
William ( Bill ) Greeley the son of a Congregational minister, who finished at the top of that first Yale forestry graduating class of 1904 was hand picked by Pinchot to be Region 1 forester of the Forest Service with responsibility over in 22 National Forests in 4 western states ( all of Montana, much of Idaho, and Washington, and a corner of South Dakota ).
In 1639 William Wroth, then Rector of the parish church at Llanvaches in Monmouthshire, established the first Independent Church in Wales " according to the New England pattern ", i. e., Congregational.
The main commercial street, Campbell Avenue, is named for British Adjutant William Campbell, at the time an ensign in the Third Guards, who rescued the Reverend Noah Williston, the local Congregational minister and outspoken revolutionary, from being bayoneted by British and Hessian troopers, after he broke his leg trying to escape his captors.
The rapid and extensive defection of the Congregational churches in Boston and vicinity, under the lead of William Ellery Channing and others in sympathy with him, had excited much anxiety throughout New England ; and in 1826 Beecher was called to Boston's Hanover Church, where he began preaching against the Unitarianism which was then sweeping the area.
* William Allen ( Congregationalist ) ( 1847 – 1919 ), English-born, Australian Congregational clergyman
Thomas William Rhys Davids was born in Britain, at Colchester in Essex, the eldest son of a Congregational clergyman from Wales, who was affectionately referred to as the Bishop of Essex.
As later retellings clarify, this is surely a reference to Dr. William C. Clarke, the founder of Dark Entry Forest, Inc. Starr, a Congregational Church minister, somewhat cruelly and very fancifully relates the suicide of Clarke ’ s first wife, claiming that the doctor never returned to Dudleytown.
Cotham Church was originally built, in 1842-43 by William Butterfield in a Gothic Revival style, as Highbury Congregational chapel.
He was a descendant of William Wadsworth, one of the founders of Hartford and a pastor of the town's Center Congregational Church.
* William Greenhill ( 1591-1671 ), dissenting Protestant Vicar of Stepney Congregational Church who was entrusted the spiritual care of Charles I's orphans by Parliament.
In 1830 he succeeded Dr William Harrison as theological lecturer and professor of Oriental languages in Highbury Congregational College.
William Salter ( 1821 – 1910 ) was an American Congregational minister, public orator, social activist and historian.
John Dudley, a well-known Congregational minister in Weathersfield whose sermons were widely reprinted, a graduate of Yale Seminary, a sometime missionary to the Choctaw Indians and a descendant of William Dudley, one of the earliest settlers of Guilford, Connecticut in 1639.
She graduated from the seminary at age sixteen and that same year became a member of the Congregational Church and began teaching at a Presbyterian church in Burlington, New Jersey and worked as a governess for the family of clergyman William Van Rensselaer.
William Vernon was a member of Newport's Second Congregational Church, which was pastored by Ezra Stiles.

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