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Wortham was responsible for fusing John's galleys, the ships of the Cinque Ports and pressed merchant vessels into a single operational fleet.
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Lemon Henry Jefferson was born blind near Coutchman, Texas in Freestone County, near present-day Wortham, Texas.
The 1910 census, taken in May before his birthday, further confirms his birth year as 1893, and indicated the family was farming northwest of Wortham, near Lemon Jefferson's birthplace.
In the 1920 Census, he is recorded as having returned to the Freestone County area, and he was living with his half-brother Kit Banks on a farm between Wortham and Streetman.
Jefferson was buried at Wortham Negro Cemetery ( later Wortham Black Cemetery ).
In 2007, the cemetery's name was changed to Blind Lemon Memorial Cemetery and his gravesite is kept clean by a cemetery committee in Wortham, Texas.
St. James was the birthplace and part-time home of Lucy Wortham James, a wealthy philanthropist known for her purchase and preservation of Maramec Spring Park.
In 1874 the settlement was renamed Wortham in honor of Col. Rice Wortham, a merchant who had been instrumental in convincing the railroad to build through the area.
In 1885 Wortham was a small market center for area cotton farmers with several churches, steam grist and corn mills, cotton gins, a general store, and about thirty inhabitants.
Wortham remained a small market center until 1924, when oil was discovered in the Wortham field.
The town of Wortham was transformed overnight.
* Blind Lemon Jefferson, an influential blues musician, was born and is buried in Wortham.
The exact date of the first government's formation is unknown, but one of the first to hold the mayor's office was William A. Wortham.
The essay quotes Oscar Browning through the words of his ( possibly inaccurate ) biographer H. E. Wortham: "'… the impression left on his mind, after looking over any set of examination papers, was that … the best woman was intellectually the inferior of the worst man.
Quoting H. E. Wortham, Woolf condemns Browning as one who " was wont to declare ' that the impression left on his mind, after looking over any set of examination papers, was that [...] the best woman was intellectually the inferior of the worst man.
Although Wortham was Browning's nephew and first biographer, there are problems with his scholarship.
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* Leonard Davis, NFL offensive lineman for the Dallas Cowboys who grew up in Wortham.
The onset of the Great Depression, plummeting cotton prices, and the end of the oil boom combined to bring hard times for Wortham.
Indeed Wortham fails to provide any source, context, or citation for the infamous quote on the inferiority of the intelligence of women.
First, linebacker Barron Wortham stuffed Taylor for no gain.
The Houston Theater District, in north downtown, is home to Houston's eight performing arts organizations and includes the Alley Theatre, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, Wortham Center, the Verizon Wireless Theater ( formerly Aerial Theater ), and Jones Hall, home of the Houston Symphony Orchestra.
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In 1987, HGO officially moved into its home at the Wortham Theater Center, a facility featuring two theaters — the Alice and George Brown Theater and the Roy and Lillie Cullen Theater — which together comprise over 3, 300 seats.
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* Cornelius Wortham, former National Football League and Alabama Crimson Tide player.
* Biography of Mrs. Lucy Wortham James
The Town of Kirvin is served by the Wortham Independent School District.
Wortham is a town in Freestone County, Texas, United States.
Wortham is located at ( 31. 788472 ,-96. 462209 ).
Wortham lies near the highest point between Dallas and Houston, nearby Tehuacana Hills.
Wortham is situated on a grant given in 1834 by Mexico to Robert B. Longbotham, an immigrant from England who settled there in 1839.
It incorporated in 1910, and by 1914 it had a cottonseed-oil mill, three cotton gins, two banks, a weekly newspaper, the Wortham Journal, and a population of 950.
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His objective was, essentially, to repair those aspects of orthodox astronomy responsible for its deficiencies in achieving these ends.
`` Shann was responsible for the report.
Sherman was responsible for the story when he said in his memoirs that this was the only time he could recall seeing Thomas ride so fast.
And Pike never did find out if Robinson was really responsible for the `` Vale '' letter.
And of course the Soviet threat was responsible for NATO, the grand alliance of the Atlantic nations.
It was responsible and sometimes dangerous work because the thieving is awful in the port of New York.
As America on wheels was responsible for an industry of motor courts, motels, and drive-in establishments where you can dine, see a movie, shop, or make a bank deposit, the ever-increasing number of boating enthusiasts have sparked industries designed especially to accommodate them.
Fing, a lean, chiseled, impeccable gentleman of the old school who was once mistaken on the street for Sir Cedric Hardwicke, is responsible for the rediscovery of Verdi's earliest, most raucous opera, Nabisco, a sumptuous bout-de-souffle with a haunting leitmotiv that struck me as being highly reminiscent of the Mudugno version of `` Volare ''.
There was further elimination of all companies that were not accompanied by the name of a responsible company executive.
If the bottom name in each column did not have a responsible executive identified, the next name above which identified such a responsible executive was substituted.
If the master of scops who was most responsible for the poem ever used kennings that were traditional, he was at least partly deprived of free will and not inclined towards shrewd and sophisticated misuse of speech elements.
The fundamental difficulty of which the Selden case was `` a striking ( though not singular ) example '', concluded Hough, `` will remain as long as testimony is taken without any authoritative judicial officer present, and responsible for the maintenance of discipline, and the reception or exclusion of testimony ''.
Each of the five principal posts was to have a director, responsible to a director-general at New Orleans.
The Republicans some weeks ago served notice through Senator Thruston B. Morton ( R ) of Kentucky, chairman of the Republican National Committee, that the Kennedy administration would be held responsible if the outcome in Laos was a coalition government susceptible of Communist domination.
This was disclosed today by a responsible source amid intensified efforts by the Soviet Union to gain a greater role in the staff and operation of the United Nations.
but naturally, the royal ritual, which provided unusual control over already supremely powerful divine spirits, was held responsible for regulating the universe and insuring the welfare of the kingdom.
Man, to whom Mij gave endless affection and fealty, was responsible in the form of a road worker with a pickaxe who somehow becomes an abstract symbol of the savage in man.
For a time he was head of Hut 8, the section responsible for German naval cryptanalysis.
Edward Burnett Tylor | Sir Edward Tylor was responsible for forming the definition of animism currently accepted in anthropology.
He was responsible for the destruction of the musical clock organ that Elizabeth I of England sent to the court during the reign of his father.
As he was dying on the voyage back from Egypt, he gave instructions to those close to him that they should not be responsible for making any image of his person, be it modeled or painted or copied, " For if I have accomplished any glorious feat, that will be my memorial.
He was responsible for foundations at Scone and Inchcolm.
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