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William Sanders was born near Frankfort, Kentucky to wealthy attorney Lewis Sanders (Saunders), Jr., and his wife Margaret Hubbel (Price). Through his mother he was a descendent of John Gano, a Revolutionary War patriot. [1] His family moved circa 1839 to Natchez, Mississippi, where he was raised.
Sanders' Knoxville Raid (June 14–24, 1863) saw 1,500 Union cavalry and mounted infantry led by Colonel William P. Sanders raid East Tennessee before the Knoxville campaign during the American Civil War. The successful raid began at Mount Vernon, Kentucky and moved south, passing near Kingston, Tennessee.
Private William F. Zion, USMC, for action in the Boxer Rebellion; Technical Sergeant Charles Coolidge, US Army, last person to receive the award during World War II; Other notables Cal Ermer, Major League Baseball player and Marine Corps veteran. William P. Sanders, Civil War Union Army officer. Timothy R. Stanley, Brigadier General during the ...
Sanders is a patronymic name, meaning "son of Alexander".The name derives from the abbreviation xander, with Alexander deriving from the Greek "Ἀλέξανδρος" (Aléxandros), meaning "Defender of the people".
William Sanders (statistician) (1942–2017), senior research fellow with the University of North Carolina William Sanders (writer) (1942–2017), American speculative fiction writer William David Sanders (1951–1999), U.S. teacher and victim of Columbine High School massacre
Sanders' maternal grandfather was born in Chicago to German Jewish parents while his maternal grandmother was also born in Chicago to Irish Catholic parents. [3] [4] [5] He was raised in El Paso, Texas. [6] In 1964, Sanders graduated from Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. [7]
In June 1863, Union General William P. Sanders marched through Wartburg and captured 104 Confederate soldiers in the vicinity. [14] In 1870, Morgan County elected to move its county seat from the now-defunct town of Montgomery, which had a population of just 50 residents and had been economically overshadowed by Wartburg. A new courthouse ...
In 2011, a Wiki Governance Team was set up, which in 2015 was replaced by the Governance Council whose role was to oversee the direction and management of the Research Wiki. [11] [12] In late March 2016, the wiki was transitioned to WikiMedia 1.23.10, a newer, more stable platform which required less maintenance from FamilySearch computer ...