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William Strong (Melbourne Mayor)
William Strong may refer to: *William Strong (priest, died 1654), English clergyman *William Strong (Vermont politician) (1763–1840), member of the United States House of Representatives from Vermont * William Kerley Strong (1805–1867), brigadier general during the American Civil War * William Strong (Pennsylvania judge) (1808–1895), U.S. Supreme Court judge who also served on the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and as a U. S. congressman *William Barstow Strong (1837–1914), American railroad executive *William Duncan Strong (1899–1962), American archaeologist and anthropologist *William Lafayette Strong (1827–1900), Mayor of New York City *William Strong (Oregon judge) (1817–1887), American judge on the Oregon Supreme Court and Washington Supreme Court *William G. Strong (1819–?), merchant and political figure in Prince Edward Island *William Strong (archdeacon of Northampton) William Strong, (13 February 1756 Peterborough - 8 September 1842 Stanground) was Archdea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Strong (priest, Died 1654)
William Strong (died 1654) was an English clergyman and then pastor of an independent congregation, and member of the Westminster Assembly. Life He was born in Dorset, and was educated at Cambridge, graduating B. A. from St. Catharine Hall, of which he was elected a fellow on 30 December 1631. In 1640 he became rector of Moore Critchell in Dorset, but he was driven out in 1643, when the royalists obtained the ascendancy in the county. He fled to London, where he met a cordial reception, and frequently preached before Parliament. On 31 December 1645 the Commons appointed him as successor to Edward Peale in the Westminster Assembly, and on 14 October 1647 he became minister of St. Dunstan's-in-the-West, Fleet Street.. On 9 December 1650 he was chosen pastor to a congregation of independents, which comprised many members of parliament, and to which he preached in Westminster Abbey. On 29 July 1652 he was appointed to a committee for selecting preachers to go to Ireland. A sermon p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Strong (Vermont Politician)
William Strong (1763January 28, 1840) was an American businessman and politician. He served as a congressman and judge from Vermont. Biography Strong was born in Lebanon in the Connecticut Colony in 1763 to Benajah and Polly (Bacon) Strong. He moved with his parents to Hartford the following year. Strong's father was one of the pioneer settlers of Hartford. Strong was self-educated and worked in land surveying and farming. Strong married Abigail Hutchinson on June 17, 1793. Strong was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives in 1798, 1799, 1801, and 1802, and was the sheriff of Windsor County from 1802 to 1810. He was elected as a Democratic-Republican US Representative to the Twelfth and Thirteenth Congresses, from March 4, 1811 until March 3, 1815. Strong returned to Vermont politics to sit once more in the state House of Representatives from 1815 to 1818, and as a judge of the Supreme Court of Windsor County from 1819 to 1821. In 1819 he was elected to the Sixt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Kerley Strong
William Kerley Strong (1805–1867) was a merchant and a brigadier general during the American Civil War. He was the commander of Benton Barracks and the districts of Cairo and St. Louis. Strong was also a prominent Democrat, noted his pro-Union speeches. Biography Strong was a wealthy wool merchant in New York. He was born on April 30, 1805, in Duanesburg, New York to Josiah Strong and Martha Green. Strong's father was an American Revolutionary War veteran who had fought in the Battle of Trenton under George Washington. Strong was married to Helen Mary Hart and they had 9 children, among whom John Lorimer, and Helen Hart, spouse of Henry Piffard. In 1839, Strong was noted for constructing a sprawling grand mansion covering 11,634 feet of living space. The property called Rose Hill Mansion was given to Robert Swan in 1850. A contemporaneous newspaper report cited that the property, which was designated a national historic landmark, was sold to Swan's father, who gave it to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Strong (Pennsylvania Judge)
William Strong (May 6, 1808 – August 19, 1895) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1870 to 1880. Strong previously served as a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1847 to 1851 and as a justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania from 1857 to 1868. He also served on the Commission that adjudicated U.S. presidential election, 1876, the disputed presidential election of 1876. Early life Strong was born in Somers, Connecticut and later moved to Pennsylvania. He was the Eldest of eleven children of William Lightbourn Strong, a descendant of Elder John Strong (colonist), John Strong and Harriet (Deming) Strong. He was the brother of Newton Deming Strong and the cousin of United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative Theron Rudd Strong of New York. William Strong attended the Monson Acade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Barstow Strong
William Barstow Strong (May 16, 1837 – August 3, 1914) served as president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway from 1881 to 1889. He is often referred to as either William B. Strong or W. B. Strong. Life and career He was born in Brownington, Vermont on May 16, 1837. Strong graduated from Bell's Business College in Chicago, Illinois, in 1855, and soon launched his career in railroading. His first railroad job was as a station agent for the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, a position that was introduced to him by his older brother James. He married Abbie J. Moore, October 2, 1859, in Beloit, Wisconsin. They had three children, a girl and two boys. He worked his way through several railroad jobs successively for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, McGregor Western Railway, Chicago and North Western Railway, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q), and as superintendent of the Michigan Central Railroad in the 1870s. In this position, Strong was su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Duncan Strong
William Duncan Strong (1899–1962) was an American archaeologist and anthropologist noted for his application of the direct historical approach to the study of indigenous peoples of North and South America. Early life and education Strong was born in Portland, Oregon. He initially studied zoology, but he changed his focus to anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, under the influence of Alfred L. Kroeber, who became his "principal teacher, mentor, and friend". Strong completed his doctorate in 1926. Career Strong's doctoral dissertation, "An Analysis of Southwestern Society", was published in ''American Anthropologist''. A related study of his, ''Aboriginal Society in Southern California'', presenting his detailed fieldwork among the Serrano, Luiseño, Cupeño, and Cahuilla peoples, has been characterized as "one of the earliest and one of the best efforts by a United States anthropologist to combine structural-functional analysis with historical data and interpre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Lafayette Strong
William Lafayette Strong (March 22, 1827 – November 2, 1900) was the 90th Mayor of New York City from 1895 to 1897. He was the last mayor of New York City before the consolidation of the City of Greater New York on January 1, 1898. Early life Strong was born on March 22, 1827 near Loudonville Ohio, in Ashland County. He was the son of Abel Strong, a farmer born in 1792 in Hartford, Connecticut. His mother, Hannah Burdine Strong was born in 1798, and was from Pennsylvania. Strong was the oldest of five children, and despite only a rudimentary rural education, became a clerk in a Wooster dry goods store to help support his family after the death of his father in 1840. Strong later attended the Vermillion Institute in Hayesville, Ohio. Career In 1853, Strong moved to New York City, where he worked at the L.O. Wilson and Company dry goods firm. In the Panic of 1857, the business failed and Strong moved on to work for Farnham, Dale, and Company. By 1870, he had his own dry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Strong (Oregon Judge)
William Strong (July 15, 1817 – April 10, 1887) was an American attorney and jurist in the Pacific Northwest. He was the 4th justice of the Oregon Supreme Court when the region was still the Oregon Territory. A native of Vermont, he settled in the Washington Territory after it was created in 1853 and served in the legislature of that territory and on the Washington Supreme Court. Later he returned to Oregon and settled in Portland. Early life Strong was born on July 15, 1817, in St. Albans, Vermont to Laura Strong and Henry Pierce Strong, a preacher.Strong, HarryThe Adventures of a Pioneer Judge & His Family.COLUMBIA Magazine: Winter 2002-03. Vol. 16, No. 4. Retrieved on February 1, 2008. He earned his primary education near the town of Rushville, New York, before entering Yale College (now university) at the age of seventeen.Corning, Howard M. ''Dictionary of Oregon History''. Binfords & Mort Publishing, 1956. William graduated from Yale in 1838 and then began teaching while a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William G
William is a masculine given name of Norman French origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Liam, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the German given name ''Wilhelm''. Both ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic ''*Wiljahelmaz'', with a direct cognate also in the Old Norse name ''Vilhjalmr'' and a West Germanic borrowing into Medieval Latin ''Willelmus''. The Proto-Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
