Wilson's father was originally from Steubenville, Ohio, where his grandfather published a newspaper, The Western Herald and Gazette, which was pro-tariff and anti-slavery.

Brian Wilson's father told of Brian's unusual musical abilities prior to his first birthday, observing that the baby could repeat the melody from " When the Caissons Go Rolling Along " after only a few verses had been sung by the father.

* Joseph R. Wilson ( Woodrow Wilson's father )-a founder of PCUS and its first permanent stated clerk

Wilson's father was the prominent chemist E. Bright Wilson, and his brother David is also a Professor at Cornell in the department of Molecular Biology and Genetics.

Don Wilson and Bob Bogle first met in 1958, when Bogle was looking to buy a car from a used car dealership owned by Wilson's father.

In 1834, Luther and his father built the cobblestone " Ontario House " on the southwest corner of Young and Lake streets, and up to 1894 ( when it was destroyed by fire ), it was considered one of Wilson's oldest and best known hostelries.

Wilson's father, a chemist, died when young James was only four days old, leaving his widowed mother to bring up three sons alone.

He has had great commercial success in memorable roles such as the executive Bobby Trippe in Deliverance ( 1972 ), Tennessee lawyer Delbert Reese in Nashville ( 1975 ), general attorney Dardis in All the President's Men ( 1976 ), Bob Sweet in Silver Streak ( 1976 ), the priest Edwards in Exorcist II: The Heretic ( 1977 ), Lex Luthor's henchman Otis in Superman ( 1978 ) and Superman II ( 1980 ), Bates ' right hand man Sydney Morehouse in The Toy ( 1982 ), Borisov and Pavel Petrovic in The Fourth Protocol ( 1987 ), TV presenter Ernest Weller in Repossessed ( 1990 ), Rudy Ruettiger's father in Rudy ( 1993 ), detective McNair in Just Cause ( 1995 ), Dexter Wilkins in Life ( 1999 ), the simple sheriff in Where the Red Fern Grows ( 2003 ), the corrupt Senator Charles F. Meachum in Shooter ( 2007 ), United States Congressman Doc Long in Charlie Wilson's War ( 2007 ) and the voice of antagonist Lots-O '- Huggin ' Bear in Toy Story 3 ( 2010 ).

Wilson's father Joe was a Marine pilot in World War II and narrowly escaped death by taking off immediately before the bombing of the aircraft carrier Franklin, in which 700 other American servicemen died ( 31 ).

Wilson's father was of Scottish descent and his mother was a third-generation Canadian of French Huguenot descent.

His father was a civil engineer and his mother a civil servant, later a life peer and Labour Minister for Health in Harold Wilson's government and local government ombudsman.

Wilson's father changed his name from Hassan Ibrahimoff to Allan Wilson in 1960, " Wilson " being the name of a local street in Southern California.

After enduring father and manager Murry Wilson's domineering ways for over two years, the band had reached the breaking point.

Wilson's father started him in gymnastics at age four because he was so energetic.

Stuart considered himself a Wilsonian idealist, and his family had shared close ties with Wilson's family in Staunton, Virginia, where Stuart's father, John Linton, had been named after Wilson's uncle.

Ebby Thacher, Wilson's former drinking buddy and a Grouper who followed the evangelical bent and sought out other alcoholics, presented himself to Wilson telling him he had " got religion " and was sober, and that Wilson could do the same if he set aside objections to religion and formed, instead, a personal idea of God, " another power " or " higher power ".

Wilson's first success came during a business trip to Akron, Ohio, where he was introduced to Dr. Robert Smith, a surgeon and Oxford Group member who was unable to stay sober.

* Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan, earlier ennobled by the Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson's notorious Lavender List ( 1976 ), was convicted of fraud ( 1980 )

Wilson's was the second attempt at nationalisation, Clement Attlee's Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain having been largely privatised by the Conservative governments of the 1950s.

This reform was eventually carried out by Harold Wilson's government.

In 1966, several rock releases were arguably concept albums in the sense that they presented a set of thematically-linked songs-and they also instigated other rock artists to consider using the album format in a similar fashion: The Beach Boys ' Pet Sounds was a musical portrayal of Brian Wilson's state of mind at the time ( and a major inspiration to Paul McCartney ).

The resulting Treaty of Versailles, due to European allies ' punitive and territorial designs, showed insufficient conformity with these points and the U. S. signed separate treaties with each of its adversaries ; due to Senate objections also, the U. S. never joined the League of Nations, which was established as a result of Wilson's initiative.

" Wilson's concept is a much broader notion of consilience than that of Whewell, who was merely pointing out that generalizations invented to account for one set of phenomena often account for others as well.

With Woodrow Wilson's support, Polish independence was officially endorsed in June 1918 by the Entente Powers, on whose fronts sizable armies of Polish volunteers had been mobilized and fought.

Wilson's number 40 was retired on April 13, 1975.

He was also an outspoken critic of Wilson's League of Nations.

United States President Woodrow Wilson and his adviser Colonel Edward M. House enthusiastically promoted the idea of the League as a means of avoiding any repetition of the bloodshed of the First World War, and the creation of the League was a centrepiece of Wilson's Fourteen Points for Peace.

Despite Wilson's efforts to establish and promote the League, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in October 1919, the United States did not join.

The Museum was the subject of a book by Lawrence Weschler in 1995 entitled Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, And Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology, which describes in detail many of its exhibits.

A successful early text was Thomas Wilson's The Arte of Rhetorique ( 1553 ), which presents a traditional treatment of rhetoric.

Nonetheless, it was Wilson's book that pioneered and popularized the attempt to explain the evolutionary mechanics behind social behaviors such as altruism, aggression, and nurturence, primarily in ants ( Wilson's own research specialty ) but also in other animals ( bees, wasps and termites ).

His next was at the 1964 General Election when he stood in Harold Wilson's Huyton constituency.

Wilson's reception was a play Bill Walsh specifically designed for the Super Bowl that capitalized on the Bengals ' doing a long-run coverage on Wilson anytime he ran a pass route over 20 yards ; Wilson simply ran 25 yards straight out and then cut back to receive Montana's precision pass.

A strong goal line stand by the Redskin defense and was rewarded with Wade Wilson's incomplete pass in the end zone forced by Darrell Green which was intended for Minnesota running back Darrin Nelson on fourth down with 56 seconds left, sealed the victory for Washington.

Ironically, in the 1912 campaign, McDonald was Woodrow Wilson's bodyguard.

Marshall was not offended by Wilson's lack of interest in his ideas, and considered his primary constitutional duty to be in the Senate.

He was pleased with Wilson's strategy to begin a military buildup before the declaration of war, and fully supported the war effort once it had begun.

* August Wilson's 1990 play, The Piano Lesson, contains a reference in Act One, Scene 2 wherein one character, Doaker, in describing his family history during slavery says, " See that?

According to historian John Cooper, Wilson's tenure set Princeton on the path to become one of America's great universities.

In Wilson's view, Holbein's subsequent oil portrait is " the loveliest painting of a woman that he ever executed, which is to say that it is one of the finest female portraits ever painted ".

However, he was in a seriously weakened condition ; Wilson's diary entry for 14 January reads: " Shackleton has been anything but up to the mark, and today he is decidedly worse, very short winded and coughing constantly, with more serious symptoms that need not be detailed here but which are of no small consequence one hundred and sixty miles from the ship ".

For example, following President Wilson's stroke no one officially assumed the Presidential powers and duties.

Most of them weigh between two and eight tons each, but others weigh even more, with one extraordinary stone located in the northern section of Wilson's Arch measuring 13 metres and weighing approximately 570 tons.

* Wilson's ( Mint Cake ), one of three companies that manufacture Kendal mint cake

All three secondary schools are highly rated grammar schools, with one ( Wilson's School ) the highest achieving state school-including all state grammars-in Britain.

When the ' Eurosceptic ' Party Chairman, Brian Mawhinney, ( allegedly ) briefed against him, on one occasion, Clarke memorably declared: " Tell your kids to get their scooters off my lawn " – an allusion to Harold Wilson's rebuke of trade union leader Hugh Scanlon in the late 1960s.

Battlefield is named for its proximity to the 1861 Battle of Wilson's Creek, one of the first large battles of the American Civil War.

MLB Fan Cave presented a " Journey Inside Brian Wilson's Beard ", which was an interactive screenshot of Wilson's beard, where one can click on different sections to see various fictional activities performed by small " residents " of the beard.

" While Burke's version spent 5 weeks at # 2 in the R & B charts in the American summer of 1963, kept from the number one position by Jackie Wilson's " Baby Workout " and Sam Cooke's " Another Saturday Night ", Pickett's original stalled at # 64 in the Pop charts and # 30 on the R & B chart.

Wilson's energetic drum solo made " Wipe Out " one of the best-remembered instrumental songs of the period.

The Federal Trade Commission Act was one of President Woodrow Wilson's major acts against trusts.

Passage of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was one of Wilson's most enduring legislative accomplishments, for he successfully developed negotiated a compromise between Wall Street, and the agrarians.

During the first such news conference, over one hundred reporters crowded into Wilson's office to ask him questions.

The Mason court was very stable, with only one change in the bench in its eight years, the appointment of Michael McHugh after Sir Ronald Wilson's retirement.

In one scene, one-time Buzzcocks member Howard Devoto, played by Martin Hancock, is shown having sex with Wilson's first wife in the toilets of a club ; the real Devoto, an extra in the scene, turns to the camera and says " I definitely don't remember this happening ".

In the mid-19th century, some of the individuals and groups, including Joseph Marsh of New York, Nathaniel Field of Indiana, and the Wilson family of Illinois ( Benjamin Wilson's family ), began to circulate religious writings which made the groups aware of one another.

This principle was one of U. S. President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points proposed during the First World War.

The Wilson's warbler can be territorial as well as seasonal monogamous although some Montane populations are polygamous ( one male breeds with multiple females ).

Wilson's appointment and filmed one campaign commercial.