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	London Majors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Founded circa 1925, the Majors play in the nine-team Senior Intercounty Baseball League; their home games are played at the 5200-seat, natural-grass stadium, Labatt Memorial Park (originally known as Tecumseh Park from 1877 until December 31, 1936), which is believed to be the oldest continuously operating baseball grounds in the world.
		The 1948 London Majors are considered to be one of the best amateur men's baseball teams of all time and have been inducted into the London Sports Hall of Fame at the John Labatt Centre.
		Alexander left the Majors part way through the 1951 season, during which the Majors won the Intercounty title with star pitchers, Bill and Stan Slack.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/London_Majors (1215 words)

	Alexander Majors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alexander Majors (1814 - 1900) was a U.S. businessman, often credited along with William Hepburn Russell and William B. Waddel as the founders, owners, and operators of the Pony Express.
		Majors was awarded contracts to haul supplies to United States Army posts along the Santa Fe Trail in 1853.
		Majors was resposible for the freighting part of the business, Waddell was to manage the office, and Russell was to use is Washington DC contacts to aquire new contracts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Majors (335 words)

	Alexander Majors SAR - Life of Alexander Majors in Kansas City
		Majors ran his wagon trains of 25 each, pulled by at least a dozen oxen.
		Alexander Majors and his two partners operated not only a vast freighting operation, but also founded and operated the famous Pony Express.
		He and his great freighting firm, Russell, Majors, Waddell, are responsible for establishing Kansas City's commercial destiny along with the foundation and principles on which the west was built.
	www.geocities.com /sary2k/AlexanderMajors.html (555 words)

	College Student Journal: College students' interest in their major
		The present study examined the level of interest students who were majoring in education, business, economics, and accounting had in their college majors, and whether that interest varied as a function of their year in school.
		Alexander (1997) claimed that situational interest was the primary motivator during the acclimation stage, but that with increasing expertise situational interest becomes less important and personal interest takes on a greater role.
		A survey of interest in majors offered at a small liberal arts college helped to establish the level of interest students had in an education or business major and whether interest in their stated major was significantly higher than their interest in the other major.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FCR/is_3_37/ai_108836912 (1418 words)

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		When it was built before the Civil War, the Alexander Majors home at 8145 State Line was on 320 acres of land, with a good spring near the house.
		Alexander Majors' wagon caravans to Santa Fe operated at a time when this area was the western outpost.
		Majors got his start in 1848 when he bought six wagons and oxen and wrote a pledge for the men to sign, that while in Majors' employ they would not use profane language, get drunk, gamble or treat animals cruelly.
	www.kclibrary.org /localhistory/media.cfm?mediaID=35276 (278 words)

	Alexander Majors, Entrepreneur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Alexander was born in Franklin, Kentucky on October 4, 1814.
		In 1854, it was decided that the military needed one contract for supplies so that resupply could be planned.
		Neither Majors or William Russell had the money alone, but together they did.
	members.aol.com /Gibson0817/majors.htm (189 words)

	Expedite Now.Com: Fleet Profile: Majors, Russell and Waddell
		One of the most interesting, enterprising men of the late, great 19th century was Alexander Majors, a guy not much different from you and me. At fifteen years of age, having become expert with a twenty-foot whip, Majors signed on with a wagon train as a fully qualified bullwhacker--a job few adults could handle.
		Alexander Majors secured a truce of sorts with the Mormons when he gave his word--and kept it--not to transport whiskey, wanton women or gamblers into Mormon communities or across Mormon territory.
		Alexander Majors issued every employee an expensive leather-bound bible; he required all new hires to sign an oath "not to use profane language, get drunk, bet on games of chance, or treat their animals cruelly." So there were no further "incidents" between the freighters and the devout Mormons.
	www.expeditenow.com /2000/April/Features47.html (1468 words)

	AOL CityGuide Ghost Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Alexander Majors made his mark during the westward expansion of the 1850s, creating a freighting company that held large government and private contracts.
		The house is now in the possession of the Russell Majors Waddell Historic Trust and has been lovingly restored right down to the original white pine floors and herb gardens.
		Sadly, her dream of a pristinely restored Majors House would never be realized within her lifetime -- she died in the caretaker's cottage before formal restoration on the house was begun.
	www.digitalcity.com /kansascity/halloween/iframe.adp?page=ghostframe&story=c2 (210 words)

	Ex-nurse goes on trial in elderly patients' deaths
		The long-awaited trial of 38-year-old Orville Lynn Majors Jr., LPN, opened Sept. 7 in Clay County Circuit Court with prosecutor Nina Alexander accusing Majors of "exercising life and death power that belongs in the hands of God." Majors maintains all of the patients died of natural causes.
		Alexander told the jury medical experts would testify that the death of each patient was consistent with lethal injections of potassium chloride.
		Stirek began checking time cards and found that Majors was on duty for 130 of the 147 deaths in the ICU from May 1993 to March 1995.
	www.nurseweek.com /news/99-9/47e.html (333 words)

	Santa Fe National Historic Trail Photos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Alexander Majors House was built in l855, on the east side of State Line Road near 85th Street in Kansas City, Missouri.
		Majors was the leading freighter on the Santa Fe Trail from 1848 to the Civil War, being the primary contractor for military freight on the route.
		In partnership with William Russell and William Waddell, Majors sent thousands of wagons over the trail.
	www.nps.gov /safe/fnl-sft/photos/mopages/amajor.htm (74 words)

	Court TV Online - T R I A L S - Indiana v. Majors Updates
		Majors is on trial for allegedly murdering seven patients who died in his care while he worked at Vermillion County Hospital's Intensive Care Unit between 1993 and 1995.
		When Elias maintained on the stand that the patients he treated died naturally and that he had no reason to suspect Majors of any wrongdoing, prosecutor Nina Alexander pointed out that the doctor was the subject of a negligence suit filed by several patients' families.
		Since Majors' arrest in 1997, 65 families have filed suit against Vermillion County Hospital and several officials, including Elias, claiming that doctors were negligent in their supervision of Majors.
	www.courttv.com /trials/majors/092999_ctv.html (553 words)

	www.waldokc.com
		Alexander Majors was born on October 4, 1814, near Franklin, Simpson County, Kentucky, the eldest of the family of two boys and a girl.
		His father, Benjamin Majors, was a farmer born in North Carolina in 1794, and was brought when a boy by his father, Alexander Majors, to Kentucky about the year 1800.
		When Alexander grew up and became a married man with daughters to be clothed and educated he found it impossible to meet his growing necessities as a struggling Cass County farmer.
	www.waldokc.org /historyofwaldo_am.html (664 words)

	NPS Historical Handbook: Fort Union
		Alexander Majors made two round trips to New Mexico, one with a consignment of goods from Independence to Santa Fe, the other under government contract from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Union.
		In this year, the firm of Russell, Majors, and Waddell contracted to deliver all freight turned over to it by the Government and by 1860 and 1861 was the biggest company operating between Fort Leavenworth and Fort Union.
		A typical train, according to Majors, consisted of 25 wagons, and the company ran as many trains as necessary to haul the amount of freight under contract.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/hh/35/hh35r.htm (1156 words)

	Pony Express
		Alexander Majors was a religious man and resolved "by the help of God" to overcome all difficulties.
		Major M. Jeff Thompson was soon to leave St. Joseph to become a famous Confederate general.
		Alexander Majors returned to freighting and in 1867 moved to Salt Lake City.
	www.ci.st-joseph.mo.us /history/ponyexpress.cfm (1338 words)

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		In the 1850s Alexander Majors' freighting firm of Russell, Majors and Waddell and his short-lived Pony Express were "major." As was his vast network, the Overland Stage Company.
		Majors, "the great bullwhacker", was born October 4, 1814 in Franklin, Kentucky.
		On the Missouri side of State Line at 81st Street, Majors built his two-story frame farmhouse in 1855.
	www.kclibrary.org /localhistory/media.cfm?mediaID=34918 (254 words)

	Negro League Baseball Message Board
		Alexander had retired after his 14th season in baseball and was a postal worker in Detroit when his wife encouraged him to try out with the Majors.
		The intense young athlete whom Alexander had encouraged to pursue a career in professional baseball was starring in and#8220;The Jackie Robinson Storyand#8221; at Londonand#8217;s Odeon theatre.
		Re: Pitcher Ted Alexander, posted by Rob O'Mara on 5/8/2005 7:37:40 PM I was interested in seeing the name Jimmy Wilkes, I remember as a teenager watching Jimmy play for the Brantford Red Sox of the Intercounty league and then after he retired he stayed in the league as an umpire.
	www.nlbpa.com /message_view.asp?imsg=1132 (624 words)

	History of the pony express
		The Pony Express was the experimental brainchild of William H. Russell, Alexander Majors,and William Bradford Waddell, thus the name Russell, Majors, and Waddell.
		Alexander Majors was a very religious man, and he believed that a business could not operate properly without these rules.
		Russell, Majors, and Waddell did not receive the million dollar contract due to the telegraph, political pressures, and the on coming civil war.
	www.angelfire.com /ks2/butterbean72454/History.html (552 words)

	National Postal Museum
		With precision and expertise which would be envied by any military tactician, Alexander Majors arranged for the purchase of over 400 ponies; the building of 200 stations in desolate, uninhabited areas; the hiring of station masters to staff them; the stocking of provisions; and, of course, the hiring of the riders themselves.
		Majors' task, difficult under the best circumstances, had to be completed in two months.
		When he hired the riders, Alexander Majors gave each of them a Bible and required them to sign a pledge promising not to swear, drink alcohol, or fight with other employees.
	www.postalmuseum.si.edu /resources/6a2b_ponyexpress.html (984 words)

	www.Ghost-Investigators.com - Stories - Alexander Majors Mansion
		Alexander Majors helped run one of the biggest freighting companies from Kansas City.
		Majors also created the Pony Express and gave a job to a 12 year-old boy known as "Buffalo Bill" Cody.
		Alexander Majors Mansion 8140 State Line Rd. Kansas City, Missouri Alexander Majors is buried in Union Hill Cemetery (downtown Kansas City).
	www.ghost-investigators.com /Stories/view_story.php?story_num=21 (142 words)

	Alexander Majors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Majors was not one to stay at home while his employees worked the trail.
		When he formed the partnership of Russell, Majors and Wadell, he was the field man, overseeing the actual running of the wagons on the Oregon Trail.
		Majors steeled himself against the adversity which overtook him and remained in the freighting business.
	www.xphomestation.com /amajors.html (399 words)

	Pioneer Spirit: A History of the Winterhalder Family in Santa Cruz County
		According to family legend, Majors, born in 1806 in Bell Buckle, Bedford County, Tennessee, was a relative of Alexander Majors, the founder of the Pony Express.
		While Majors was released at the urgings of his Mexican wife, the rest were shipped off to San Blas, Mexico, where they were kept under horrifying conditions until their release months later.
		Under the Bear Flag Republic, Majors became the first mayor (or alcalde) of Santa Cruz, served on the first city council in 1848 and, when California was admitted to the Union, was elected to represent the city at the state's first constitutional convention in Monterey, although he did not attend.
	www.santacruzpl.org /history/people/winterh.shtml (4346 words)

	West on the Wagon Train, By E. Cody Kimmel , Illustrated by Scott Snow, from HarperCollins Publishers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Majors the sudden paralysis that had overtaken his right hand and most of his arm.
		An important man like Alexander Majors didn't need to hear that Bill simply couldn't face his family again, that the last good-bye had nearly done him in, that he just needed to get on with it now and head west with a job to do.
		Majors tell John Willis he was sending a total of forty-one wagon trains over the plains, some to stop at Fort Laramie or Fort Kearny before continuing on to supply the Army of Utah.
	www.harpercollinschildrens.com /HarperChildrens/Kids/BookDetail.aspx?BDMode=8&isbn13=9780060291136 (843 words)

	Benjamin Franklin Ficklin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yet, William Hepburn Russell, Alexander Majors, and William B. Waddel are more often credited as the founders, owners, and operators of the Pony Express.
		He was cleared of suspicion and released upon his swearing a loyalty oath to the Union.
		After the Civil War, Major Ficklin opened an express stagecoach business in Texas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Ficklin (537 words)

	Do Unto OthersProject-Church of the Science of God
		Alexander Majors, of the freight-hauling firm of Russell, Majors and Waddcll, which underwrote the venture, gave every employee a little calfskin-bound Bible.
		Alexander Majors says it was, and William Lightfoot the first historian of the event, and W. F Bailey, writing in The Century magazine in 1898, say so too It’s nice to have some agreement.
		Majors lived to see the twentieth century, and he didn’t write his memoirs until more than 30 years after the last rider of the Pony Express had galloped across the continent.
	www.dountoothers.org /theponyexpress.html (3394 words)

	U of U, Theatre Department, All Courses Offered
		Introduces theatre majors and minors to the Department, and to the art and craft of contemporary theatre.
		The Alexander Technique is a dynamic process of body learning that will help you learn to move more freely and have greater mental flexibility and expressiveness.
		A seminar for theatre education majors to discuss specific theatre education issues, new research in teacher education, new teaching methods, and share personal learning and teaching experiences.
	www.theatre.utah.edu /programs/schedule.htm (4145 words)

	Grover Alexander
		In 1911, Alexander broke into the majors in Philadelphia with style, going 28-13 with 31 complete games, 7 shutouts, and a 2.56 ERA.
		In 1915, he led the Phillies to the World Series with a 31-10 record and a 1.22 ERA, the ninth lowest single season ERA in history.
		He also accomplished his major league high by his 7th inning strikeout against Yankees' Tony Lazzeri with bases loaded.
	www.cmgww.com /baseball/alexand (240 words)

	The History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Russell, Majors, and Waddell set out to prove that winter was not a factor in traveling the Central Route.
		The result was that Russell, Majors, and Waddell were heavily in debt.
		Although it was Russell, Majors, and Waddell that proved the Central Route could be used year-round, Congress asked the Overland Mail Company to move their operation from the Southern Route to the Central Route and gave the Overland Mail Company the mail contract in March 1861.
	www.stjosephmuseum.org /PonyExpress/history.html (835 words)

	The Founders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		To meet the demands for a more dependable form of communication with the west, the stage and freight company of Russell, Majors, and Waddell proposed a mail relay service between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California.
		In 1860, Russell, Majors, and Waddell formed the Central Overland California & Pikes Peak Express (the Pony Express) to show that mail could be carried year round over the Central Route to California.
		While the Pony Express was successful in delivering the mail in record time, Russell, Majors and Waddell lost out to Alexander Butterfield for the mail contract.
	www.bonus.com /contour/pony_express/http@@/www.xphomestation.com/founders.html (333 words)

	The Bible (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Early in his freighting business, Alexander Majors adopted the unheard of practice of observing the Sabbath as a day of rest, and presented each of them with a small Bible.
		Each employee was required to take an Oath and each rider was presented with his own copy of a Bible using up a stock of specially bound copies Majors had ordered for his company's wagon-train crews.
		He forbad his drivers and employees to drink, gamble, curse, and travel on Sundays; he desired them to peruse Bibles, distributed to them gratis; and though he refrained from a lengthy proclamation commanding his lieges to be good boys and girls he did not the less expect it of them.
	bonus.com /contour/pony_express/http@@/www.xphomestation.com/bible.html (400 words)

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