Actor Clint Eastwood recalled seeing Wills when he was 18 or 19 ( 1948 or 1949 ) and working at a pulp mill in Springfield, Oregon.

At the time of the appearance of the French and Indians, Trent had been recalled to Wills Creek for a conference and his second-in-command, Lieutenant John Fraser ( frontiersman ), was at his own plantation at Turtle Creek on the Mononghela River, leaving Ensign Edward Ward in charge at the time of Fort Prince George's surrender on April 18, 1754.

Wills recalled the early days of Western swing music in a 1949 interview.

She recalled hearing the name " Wills or Wells ", and as she had seen through the window a coachman she recognised, thought she had been held on the Hertford Road.

However, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, base-stealing was brought back to prominence primarily by Luis Aparicio and Maury Wills, who broke Cobb's modern single-season record by stealing 104 bases in 1962.

A New York writer sent to Tulsa, Oklahoma in late 1940 / early 1941 noted an "... Oklahoma version of shag done to the Western Swing music of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys at the Cain's Dancing Academy in Tulsa.

* 1940 – Childe Wills, early associate of Henry Ford, one of the first employees of the Ford Motor Company, and a contributor to the design of the Model T ( b. 1878 )

His early influences were Bob Wills, Floyd Tillman, Ernest Tubb, Hank Williams, Carl Smith and Elvis Presley.

Positive accounts of Aboriginal customs and encounters are also recorded in the journals of early European explorers, who often relied on Aboriginal guides and assistance: Charles Sturt employed Aboriginal envoys to explore the Murray-Darling ; the lone survivor of the Burke and Wills expedition was nursed by local Aborigines, and the famous Aboriginal explorer Jackey Jackey loyally accompanied his ill-fated friend Edmund Kennedy to Cape York.

And, a New York writer sent to Tulsa, Oklahoma in late 1940 / early 1941 noted an " Oklahoma version of shag " done to the Western Swing music of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys at the Cain's Dancing Academy in Tulsa.

Although Tom Wills is now recognised to have played a larger role in the club's early development, H. C. A.

Founded in 1873, Wills Point gets its name from an early American settler, William Wills, who had arrived in the area in about 1848.

Bob Wills, the King of Western Swing, was also influenced by Miller ( see the sound file above with Will's singer Tommy Duncan singing " Blue Yodel No. 1 " in 1937 ) In the early 1920s African American Winston Holmes started a record label, Merritt Records, and was a performer himself.

One of the early benefactors was Henry Overton Wills of the Wills tobacco family, who were staunch Congregationalists.

In the early 1930s, Bob Wills and Milton Brown co-founded the string band that became the Light Crust Doughboys, the first professional band in this genre.

Photographs of the Light Crust Doughboys taken as early as 1931 show two guitars along with fiddle player Wills. Milton Brown led The Musical Brownies.

Along with Bob Wills — whom he performed with at the beginning of this career — Brown developed the sound and style of Western swing in the early 1930s ; and for a while he and his band, the Musical Brownies, were more popular than Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys.

At the age of 14, Wills was sent to England to attend Rugby School, where he learnt the sport of cricket, as well as an early version of what is now called Rugby football.

Wills ' role in early Australian sporting life, particularly in regard to the establishment of Australian rules football, was generally not recognised until the latter half of the 20th century.

In the early years of football, according to an a column by William Hammersley, Wills pushed for the oval ball to be used in favour of the round ball.

The principal Acts in force in the early twentieth century were the Wills Act 1837, the amending Act of 1852, the Court of Probate Act 1857, the Judicature Acts 1873 and 1875, and the Land Transfer Act 1897.

A member of the wealthy Bristol tobacco importing Wills family, Wills joined the family firm at an early age.

Most of the area's houses were built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries either for workers in the Bristol coal mining industry or the tobacco factories of W. D. & H. O. Wills, homes of the eponymous " Wills Girls ".

Only Harry Wills at 3, 103 days and Peter Jackson at 3, 041 days held the title longer.

( A three-time colored heavyweight champion, Wills held the title for a total of 3, 351 days.

In 2001, Garry Wills, questioning Pius IX's motives, wrote: " In 1867, he canonized Peter Arbues, a 15th-century inquisitor famed for forcible conversion of Jews, and said in the canonization document, The divine wisdom has arranged that in these sad days, when Jews help the enemies of the church with their books and money, this decree of sanctity has been brought to fulfillment.

King stayed with his body for two days and then returned downstream to Breerily Waterhole, where he found that Wills had died as well.

Over the next nine days Howitt found the remains of Burke and Wills and buried them.

In those days, few mixed race fights took place, so McVey frequently fought the other top black boxers of his time, including Sam Langford ( 15 times ), Joe Jeanette ( 5 times ), Harry Wills ( 5 times ), and Jack Johnson ( 3 times ).

Wills generally have a survivorship clause, typically of 30 days, so that both partner's estates are dealt with as though they were already widowed at the point of death ; in cases of intestacy, the survivorship clause is set at 28 days.

A complete key to who wrote what and for how much in Household Words was compiled in 1973 by Anne Lohrli, using an analysis of the office account book maintained by Dickens ' subeditor, W. H. Wills.

Burke, Wills, King, Gray, Brahe, Mahomet, Patton and McDonough made their first camp on what they thought was Cooper Creek, but which was actually the Wilson River.

Wills suggests Adam Ferguson as a good guide to what Jefferson had in mind:

* the Inheritance Law (" Erbrecht "), providing regulation for what happens to the belongings of deceased persons, including a Law of Wills.

Born in the British colony of New South Wales, Wills grew up on properties owned by his father, the noted pastoralist Horatio Wills, near Gundagai and Ararat, in what is now the Australian state of Victoria.

Wills was born on 19 August 1835 on his father's property on the Molonglo Plain, in what was the British colony of New South Wales, to Horatio Spencer Howe Wills, and his wife, Elizabeth ( née McGuire ).

Early transfer activity in what was the Wills second spell in charge saw Graeme Stewart leaving for Inverurie Locos before striker Charlie Brown arrived from Forres Mechanics.

said that he agreed with all or almost all of what Wills and Stephen said.

It was the Wills and Fry families who were the chief benefactors of what became the University of Bristol.

The settlement of Willstown began at the southernmost end of historic Lookout Mountain within its shadow near the banks of Lookout or Little Wills Creek, sitting in the present right of way of the Great Southern Railroad and bordered to the northwest by an ancient trade path known as US Highway Eleven since the 1920s in what is now Attalla, Alabama, continuing north along the confluence of the mountain through what is now Reece City, Crudup, Keener, Collinsville, Killian, through Fort Payne into Valley Head and the old mining settlement of Battelle.

With its jazz sophistication, pop music and blues influence, plus improvised scats and wisecrack commentary by Wills, the band became the first superstars of the genre.

The original recorded version of Wills ' " Faded Love ", appeared on the Tiffanys as a fairly swinging instrumental unlike the ballad it became when lyrics were added in 1950.

Still a binge drinker, Wills became increasingly unreliable in the late 1940s, causing a rift with Tommy Duncan ( who bore the brunt of audience anger when Wills's binges prevented him from appearing ).

Under Warden Wills ( 1783 – 1806 ), the terrain was then radically remodelled and landscaped ( by Shipley ) and became notable for a distinguished collection of trees.

In 1872, he was elected Register of Wills for Luzerne County, and in 1874, became the first clerk of the Orphans ' Court.

At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Williams became only the second player to win Olympic gold medals in both singles and doubles at the same Olympic Games, after Helen Wills Moody in 1924.

Venus also became only the sixth woman in history to win the singles titles at both Wimbledon and the US Open in consecutive years, the others being Martina Navrátilová ( twice ), Steffi Graf ( twice ), Althea Gibson, Maureen Connolly Brinker, and Helen Wills Moody ( twice ).

" Pop " Fligh, a former pro baseball player, became Dondi's adoptive grandfather when he married Ted Wills ' widowed mother.

The venture became known as the Burke & Wills expedition, with the well-known and fatal outcomes.

Garry Wills broke with NR and became a liberal commentator.

Towards the end of June 1861 as the three men were following the Cooper upstream to find the Yandruwandha campsite, Wills became too weak to continue.

The ill feeling was heightened by an incident during a match while Wills was playing for Richmond, in which he became involved in fist fights with some of its members.

In a match between Geelong and Ballarat Wills became the first captain coach to use the Australian rules football tactic of flooding.

In 1993, he made four ODI centuries at Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, including three consecutive centuries against Sri Lanka, West Indies and Sri Lanka during 1993 – 94 Wills Trophy and became the second of the four players to do so.

In 1858 he went into partnership with two of his cousins to form W. D. & H. O. Wills, which later became the Imperial Tobacco Company, of which he became the first chairman.

To replace her, two new characters, Polly ( Anneke Wills ) and Ben ( Michael Craze ), thought to be more in tune with the " swinging sixties ", became companions.

It was at this stage that the Wills family became involved in the project with Henry Overton Wills donating £ 250 to the project.

In November 1944, Harriet Ida Pickens and Frances Wills graduated from the Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School ( Women's Reserve ) at Northampton, Massachusetts, and became the first female African-American WAVE officers.

After finding his route to the east blocked by the lake which would later bear his name, he headed for the highest point in the ranges he could see, which he thought was Eyre's Mount Serle: however, his paintings show it to be Mount McKinlay ( named fifteen years later after " Big John " McKinlay, a local who became famous for leading one of several rescue expeditions for Burke and Wills in 1861 ).

It was a mixture of diverse influences, including swing, blues, polka and popular cowboy songs, and included early stars like Bob Wills, who became among the best known musicians of the era.