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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 ]
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
The United States Disciplinary Barracks (USDB), colloquially known as Leavenworth, is a military correctional facility [2] located on Fort Leavenworth, a United States Army post in Kansas. It is one of two major prisons built on Fort Leavenworth property, the other is the military Midwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility , which opened on 5 ...
As McKinley had appeared on a version of the 1903-dated Louisiana Purchase Exposition dollar, the 1916 release made him the first person to appear on two issues of U.S. coins. The coins were to be sold at a premium to finance the National McKinley Birthplace Memorial at Niles, Ohio, and were vended by the group constructing it.
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 ...
In the basement of the new annex, the Richard Allen Cultural Center offers tutoring to children. [1] Tutors typically include military officers from Fort Leavenworth's Buffalo Soldier Chapter of ROCKS, a professional development organization which began in the 1960s to support the professional advancement of African-American military officers in the U.S. Army. [5] Members of THE ROCKS continue ...
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.