In 1948 two widely read books were published that would inspire a " neo-Malthusian " debate on population and the environment: Fairfield Osborn ’ s Our Plundered Planet and William Vogt ’ s Road to Survival.

2, 600 loyalists and British regulars under General William Tryon, governor of New York, raided the 3, 500-person town in July 1779, but did not torch it as they had with Danbury in 1777, or Fairfield and Norwalk a week after the New Haven raid, leaving many of the town's colonial features preserved.

The name of Fairfield was first proposed for this county, but was changed on the passage of the bill to Butler, in honor of Captain William Butler.

The office of Maine state land agent led the armed civil posse with Deputy Land Agent William Parrott at Fort Fairfield and Captain Stover Rines at Camp Jarvis on the Fish River ( later Fort Kent, Maine ).

The ships were built by the following companies: Robert Napier & Company, Randolph Elder & Company, Dobbie Hedderwick & Co., Dobie & Company, Mackie & Thomson, Smith & Rodgers, London & Glasgow Engineering and Iron Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., William Beardmore & Company, John Elder & Company, Fairfield Shipbuilding & Eng.

Son of the prominent railroad tycoon William Henry and Virginia Reed Osborn, Henry Fairfield Osborn was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, 1857.

Artists in the permanent collection include Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Jim Dine, Helen Frankenthaler, David Hockney, Bruce Nauman, William Wegman, Nancy Graves, Dale Chihuly, Arthur Dove, Louise Bourgeois, Andrew Wyeth, Fairfield Porter, Georgia O ' Keeffe, Frank Stella, Lesley Dill, Romare Bearden, Christian Boltanski, Robert Mapplethorpe, Garry Winogrand, Kojo Griffin, Jim Hodges, Wayne Thiebaud, Hung Liu, Marcus Antonius Jansen, and Stephen Scott Young.

In 1843 the engineer William Bridges Adams founded the Fairfield Locomotive Works in Bow, where he specialized in light engines, steam railcars ( or railmotors ) and inspection trolleys, including the Fairfield steam carriage for the Bristol and Exeter Railway and the Enfield for the Eastern Counties Railway.

However, there are a few examples of later tank engines, thus William Bridges Adams of the Fairfield Locomotive Works () in Bow supplied a 2-2-0 well tank to the Roman Railway in 1850.

The earliest recorded visit to the Fairfield District by Europeans is described in William Bradley's Journal where he noted an expedition from Rose Hill to Prospect Creek to determine whether Prospect Creek led to Botany Bay.

William Fairfield Whiting ( born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, on July 20, 1864, died August 31, 1936 ) was United States Secretary of Commerce August 22, 1928 to March 4, 1929, during the last months of the administration of Calvin Coolidge.

Whiting was the son of Massachusetts politician and businessman William Whiting and Anna Marin Fairfield Whiting.

When Whiting's father, who organized the Whiting Paper Company, became president of that business, William Fairfield Whiting became treasure.

The couple had four childrend: William Whiting, Edward Chapin Whiting, Fairfield Whiting and Ruth Whiting Fowler.

In addition to the fire station, the building housed a police station on Whitworth Street, an ambulance station on Minshull Street South, a branch of William Deacon's bank at the corner of London Road and Fairfield Street ,< a Coroner's Court, and a gas-meter testing station on London Road.

There was a general " neo-Malthusian " revival in the 1950s, 60s and 70s after the publication of two influential books in 1948 ( Fairfield Osborn's Our Plundered Planet and William Vogt's Road to Survival ).

The business moved to a new yard at the former Fairfield Farm at the Govan riverside in 1868, changing its name to the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, after the old farm, in 1886, at which time it was owned by Sir William Pearce.

The Liberty ship, launched in June 1944 as the William Hodson, which served as the Chung Tung under Lend-Lease to the Republic of China, was renamed Arthur P. Fairfield in 1947, then Admiral Arthur P. Fairfield in 1948, while being operated by the American Pacific Steamship Company.

In 1976 the building was rechristened " Warren Towers " as a tribute to three generations of the Warren family at Boston University: William Fairfield Warren ( the University's first president ), William Marshall Warren ( a Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences ; son of William Fairfield Warren ), and Shields Warren ( a famous physician ; son of William Marshall Warren and grandson of William Fairfield Warren ).

Such writers as William Faulkner and Robert Penn Warren have led the field of somewhat less important writers in a sort of post-bellum renaissance.

He is too deeply steeped in William Faulkner and Robert Penn Warren.

In 1952, William Buckler identified the author of the novel as Charles Warren Adams and in 2011 American investigator Paul Collins found a number of lines of evidence that confirmed Buckler's initial claim.

* 1894 – Warren William, American Broadway and film actor ( d. 1948 )

Among his predecessors as editors-in-chief were Hugh Chisholm ( 1902 – 1924 ), James Louis Garvin ( 1926 – 1932 ), Franklin Henry Hooper ( 1932 – 1938 ), Walter Yust ( 1938 – 1960 ), Harry Ashmore ( 1960 – 1963 ), Warren E. Preece ( 1964 – 1968, 1969 – 1975 ), Sir William Haley ( 1968 – 1969 ), Philip W. Goetz ( 1979 – 1991 ), and Robert McHenry ( 1992 – 1997 ).

Current honorary NL President William Y. Giles presented the league champion Astros with the Warren C. Giles Trophy.

Among the early influences on individualist anarchism were William Godwin, Henry David Thoreau ( transcendentalism ), Josiah Warren (" sovereignty of the individual "), Lysander Spooner (" natural law "), Pierre Joseph Proudhon ( mutualism ), Anselme Bellegarrigue, Herbert Spencer (" law of equal liberty "), and Max Stirner ( egoism ).

Stephen Pearl AndrewsFor American anarchist historian Eunice Minette Schuster " It is apparent ... that Proudhonian Anarchism was to be found in the United States at least as early as 1848 and that it was not conscious of its affinity to the Individualist Anarchism of Josiah Warren and Stephen Pearl Andrews ... William B. Greene presented this Proudhonian Mutualism in its purest and most systematic form .".

For American anarchist historian Eunice Minette Schuster " It is apparent ... that Proudhonian Anarchism was to be found in the United States at least as early as 1848 and that it was not conscious of its affinity to the Individualist Anarchism of Josiah Warren and Stephen Pearl Andrews ... William B. Greene presented this Proudhonian Mutualism in its purest and most systematic form .".

* 1921 – U. S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft Chief Justice of the United States.

On May 10, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge appointed Hoover as the sixth director of the Bureau of Investigation, following President Warren Harding's death and in response to allegations that the prior director, William J. Burns, was involved in the Teapot Dome scandal.

For American anarchist historian Eunice Minette Schuster " It is apparent ... that Proudhonian Anarchism was to be found in the United States at least as early as 1848 and that it was not conscious of its affinity to the Individualist Anarchism of Josiah Warren and Stephen Pearl Andrews ... William B. Greene presented this Proudhonian Mutualism in its purest and most systematic form .".

* Sweet, William Warren ( 1954 ) Methodism in American History, Revision of 1953, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 472 p.

* Sweet, William Warren ( ed.

* Johansson, Warren & Percy, William A. Outing: Shattering the Conspiracy of Silence.

Starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Ben Johnson, Warren Oates, Jaime Sánchez and Edmond O ' Brien, the film detailed a gang of veteran outlaws on the Texas / Mexico border in 1913 trying to exist within a rapidly approaching modern world.

Justice Arthur Goldberg ( joined by Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justice William Brennan ) expressed this view in a concurring opinion in the case of Griswold v. Connecticut ( 1965 ):

William Rehnquist ( left ) takes the oath as Chief Justice from retiring Chief Justice Warren Burger in 1986, as his wife, Natalie, holds the Bible and President Ronald Reagan ( far right ) looks on.

* Sweet, William Warren Methodism in American History, ( 1954 ) 472pp.

* Sweet, William Warren ( ed.

" Instant History and the Legacy of Scandal: the Tangled Memory of Warren G. Harding, Richard Nixon, and William Jefferson Clinton ", Prospects, 28: 597 – 625, 2003 Issn: 0361-2333

Stars such as Dorothy Mackaill, Bebe Daniels, Frank Fay, Winnie Lightner, Bernice Claire, Alexander Gray, Alice White, and Jack Mulhall that had characterized the urban, modern, and sophisticated attitude of the 1920s gave way to stars such James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Edward G. Robinson, Warren William, and Barbara Stanwyck who would be more acceptable to the common man.

* September 24 – Warren William, American actor ( b. 1894 )

* April 18 – American Revolution: Paul Revere and William Dawes, instructed by Dr. Joseph Warren, ride from Boston to Lexington to warn John Hancock and Sam Adams that British forces are coming to take them prisoner and to seize colonial weapons and ammunition in Concord.