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A captain in the United States Army, Lewis selected William Clark, a former Army lieutenant and younger brother of American Revolutionary War hero George Rogers Clark, as co-leader of the expedition. Lewis and William Clark had served together, and chose about thirty men, dubbed the Corps of Discovery, to accompany them. Many of these were ...
William West, 1st Baron De La Warr (c. 1520–1595), British political figure William H. West (judge) (1824–1911), politician and member of the Ohio Supreme Court, 1872–1873 William H. West (policeman) (1842–1915), soldier and police officer
William West (23 October 1770 – 17 November 1854) ... 1837, 8vo (the autobiographical portion is alone of any value). 3. ‘The History, Topography, and Directory ...
By November 1903, only about 10,000 of the gold pieces had been sold, including sales to the fair's promoters and others interested in it. [20] According to numismatist Q. David Bowers , fairgoers likely accounted for several thousand coins, but the bulk of the distribution was to coin dealers and collectors. [ 17 ]
Location: Leavenworth, Kansas: Coordinates: 1]: Status: Operational: Security class: Medium-security (with minimum-security satellite camp): Population: 1,706 [1,579 at the FCI, 127 in prison camp] (September 2024; official BOP website): Opened: 1903: Managed by: Federal Bureau of Prisons: Warden: Donald Hudson: The Federal Correctional Institution, Leavenworth [2] is a medium-security federal ...
Vories was born in Leavenworth, Kansas in 1880. He graduated from Colorado College in 1904. At first, he hoped to be an architect, although he came to Japan in 1905 as an English-language teacher, with an intention to engage in Christian missionary work.
William Leavenworth in 1834 introduced the pantograph, allowing the same form to be reproduced from a pattern, and manufactured wood type in Allentown, New Jersey. [ 48 ] [ 49 ] [ 50 ] A pantograph has remained a standard way of making wood type, although several other methods have been used such as die-cutting [ 51 ] and making the letter as a ...
William Thornton Kemper Sr. (November 2, 1867 – January 19, 1938) was an American banker who was the patriarch of the Missouri Kemper family, which developed both Commerce Bancshares and United Missouri Bank to become a major banking family in the Midwest.