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  Oshawa - Benjamin Wilson
Wilson, who died Mar. 5th, 1821, in the 89th year of his age." By its side a similar slab is seen which tells its own story "James Wilson, died, May 17, 1863, Age 73—son of Benj.
She appears to have clung with commendable patriotism to the romantic spot that gave her birth, for upon the old homestead she settled down with her husband, William Pickell, to whom she was married April 21st, 1811, and there raised a family of seven sons and seven daughters.
Benjamin had two daughters, Sarah and Emma, who married and spent a life time in the neighborhood of Oshawa; the former as wife of Capt. G.
www.oldandsold.com /articles38/oshawa-2.shtml   (787 words)

  
  William Lyne Wilson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Benjamin Wilson was a native of King and Queen county, Virginia, and Mary Lyne, although born in Jefferson, was a resident of that county from early infancy to the time of her marriage with him.
Wilson who was as marked by shrinking modesty as by devoted piety, gave herself to this duty with a singleness of purpose only equaled by her faith in the future usefulness and distinction of her son.
Wilson was necessarily omitted from the Committee of Ways and Means, as his party being in the minority, was entitled to but five representatives, whom Speaker Reed naturally appointed in the order of their service; but he handsomely recognized Mr.
www.wvculture.org /HISTORY/government/wilsonwilliam01.html   (1187 words)

  
 Beers: Wilson p. 487
Benjamin Wilson, the youngest of five brothers, was a native of New Jersey, born June 25, 1751, of Scotch-Irish parentage; he married in 1770, Esther Correll, also a native of New Jersey, born June 29, 1750.
Wilson came with their children to Washington county, Penn., then a vast wilderness, and entered land about one and a half miles east of Prosperity, in Morris township, where they set about to prepare themselves a comfortable home.
Benjamin Wilson was a weaver by trade, which he followed in conjunction with attending to his farm, though the number of inhabitants in the section at that time was not sufficient to give him steady employment in that line.
www.chartiers.com /beers-project/articles/wilson-487.html   (911 words)

  
 DC Board of Election Benjamin F. Wilson Confirmation Resolution, PR 14-38
Wilson is experienced in dealing with cases involving the impact of the filling of wetlands and the obligations to comply with federal and state environmental laws.
Wilson, throughout his tenure on the Board, has always insisted that the staff make determinations on challenged issues in a manner that is consistent with the law and regulations that the District is governed under.
Wilson has consistently directed that all matters under the jurisdiction of the Board, be handled with the highest degree of integrity in order to ensure respect for the election process.
www.dcwatch.com /archives/council14/14-38b.htm   (4701 words)

  
 Wilson Families of Mercer County, Illinois   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
John and Hannah Wilson Nevius are found in Keithsburg Township in 1860: #773 John Nevius, 58, Justice of the Peace, born Pa; Hannah, 54, Pa; Wesley, 21, clerk, born Il; Frazier W., 17, plasterer, born Il; Wilber, 15, laborer, born Il; Edmund, 14, Il; Sarah A., 13, born Ohio.
Benjamin Wilson married Margaret Agness Swartz on 4/1/1847 in Mercer County.
Benjamin was apparently actually 29 as the next three census records would be consistent with that (maybe he didn't want Margaret, or her parents, to know how old he was - women are not the only ones we have seen fudging in census records!).
www.geocities.com /arizona1900/Wilson.html   (4572 words)

  
 Wilson Opinion
Wilson filed a docketing statement in the appeal but failed to attach the required copy of the order from which the appeal was taken; he also indicated incorrectly that the order appealed from was not a final decision on the merits.
Wilson stated that he had not attended the attorneys' conference, but "...would be prepared for the final pretrial." Counsel for ODU indicated to the court that he still had not received an answer to the first set of interrogatories and Wilson had not yet listed any exhibits for the case.
Wilson informed Investigator Cam Moffatt that as of the date of the interview in April of 2001, the insurance adjustor in the case was seeking additional information in the matter.
www.vsb.org /disciplinary_orders/wilson_opinion.html   (5900 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Benjamin Wilson (Electrical Engineering, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Benjamin Wilson 1721–88, English portrait painter and electrician who opposed Benjamin Franklin's theory of positive and negative electricity.
Instead, Wilson supported Newton's gravitational-optical ether, which he supposed to differ in density around bodies in accordance with their degrees of electrification.
Wilson also opposed Franklin's theory of lightning rods, holding that blunt conductors performed better than pointed ones.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/Wilson-B.html   (203 words)

  
 Wilson, Benjamin - HighBeam Encyclopedia
Wilson, Benjamin 1721-88, English portrait painter and electrician who opposed Benjamin Franklin's theory of positive and negative electricity.
Instead, Wilson supported Newton's gravitational-optical ether, which he supposed to differ in density around bodies in accordance with their degrees of electrification.
Wilson also opposed Franklin's theory of lightning rods, holding that blunt conductors performed better than pointed ones.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Wilson-B.html   (216 words)

  
 Mount Wilson Observatory
Wilson's old trail was soon refurbished, however, and in the 1880's the adventuresome of Pasadena commonly made the difficult 9-mile journey.
Pickering said of Mount Wilson, ``I consider this the point of all others to place the largest and finest telescope in the world.'' By spring, Harvard had installed a Clark 13-inch refractor on the mountaintop.
It was at Martin's camp on the Mount Wilson trail, on December 20, 1904, that Hale received the news that the Carnegie Board had approved his plans for the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory (the word ``Solar'' was dropped with the completion of the 100-inch telescope in 1917).
www.mtwilson.edu /his/art/g1a1.php   (2537 words)

  
 Benjamin F. Wilson Confirmation Resolution, PR 12-471
Wilson graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1973 with an A.B. degree in.
Wilson also has represented a number of cities and local government agencies, including the Distnct of Columbia Armory Board; the District of Columbia Sports Commission, the Port of Oakland, California; New Haven, Connecticut; and New Orleans, Louisiana, on Clean Water Act Enforcement and wetlands development matters.
Wilson is experienced in dealing with cases involving the impact of the filling of wetlands and the obligations to comply with federal and state environmental laws Specifically, he has become involved in both regulatory and litigation issues arising out of the filling of wetlands as part of the expansion of airports and stadium projects.
www.dcwatch.com /archives/council12/12-471.htm   (878 words)

  
 Mount Wilson (California) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is the location of the Mount Wilson Observatory and has become the astronomical center of Southern California with 60 inch (1524 mm) and 100 inch (2540 mm) telescopes, and 60 foot (18 m) and 150 foot (46 m) solar towers.
Mount Wilson is also referred to as a metro-media center for its relay broadcasting of radio and television frequencies for the Greater Los Angeles Area.
Wilson hoped to find a suitable wood for his casks, but was disappointed by the poor quality of trees on the mountain.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mount_Wilson_(California)   (1147 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Benjamin Wilson": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Franklin's most able and energetic opponent on this seemingly small matter was Benjamin Wilson (1721-1788).46 Born into a large and well-to-do merchant's family in Leeds, Wilson had the means to cultivate an interest in...
The family's finances were managed by Benjamin Wilson 's son-in-law, James de Barth Shorb, who'd parlayed his interest in the Wilson enterprises to a $2 million fortune; he,...
But as Benjamin Wilson in his "Emphatic Diaglott" translation of the New Testament of 1864 stated in its preface that the King James Version...
www.amazon.com /phrase/Benjamin-Wilson   (606 words)

  
 Benjamin Wilson Family Records
Sarah Jane Wilson was born Oct. 27 in the morning 1829.
Wilson all departed and went as twelve month volunteers they left Transelvany the 6 of July and went to ashvill and stayed there untill the 19 of September and left there and went to ralegha to defend the rites of the sothern confedresy they went under capt. F.
Robert Wilson was taken sick the 22th of July and Deceased the 23th 1825.
www.rootsweb.com /~nctransy/resources/family/Wilson_B.htm   (757 words)

  
 Portrait of Benjamin Franklin (Wilson/Pratt) - The Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary
Sellers comments that it may not be a life portrait, though it has always been assumed to be, but that, in any case, Pratt "knew Franklin well by sight." It is a shoulder-length depiction, with the sitter filling most of the canvas.
Franklin is shown in the same posture as the Wilson portraits, but appears to lean forward to approach the viewer more closely.
In the lower left is an indistinct depiction of the "village struck by lightning" detail from the Wilson and McArdell images and the light, cloudy image from McArdell.
www.benfranklin300.org /frankliniana/result.php?id=346&sec=1   (135 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Wilson, A to B
Wilson, A. — of Newport, Carteret County, N.C. Republican.
Son of John H. Wilson and Sarah E. (Henderson) Wilson; married 1900 to Mary V. McIntosh.
Wilson, B. — of Sparta, Gallatin County, Ky. Republican.
politicalgraveyard.com /bio/wilson1.html   (598 words)

  
 Benjamin Wilson (1721 - 1788) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Benjamin (Benjamin Roubaud), Caricatures Du Jour, 19th century
Benjamin (Benjamin Roubaud), Caricature of Barye, the sculptor (1796 - 1875), 1838
Elisa Baker is the Exhibits Coordinator for the Cultural Arts Council of Sonoma County and J.J. Wilson and Diane Gillespie are Virginia Woolf Senior Scholars and...
www.wwar.com /masters/w/wilson-benjamin.html   (1475 words)

  
 Allen Benjamin Wilson
WILSON, Allen Benjamin, inventor, born in Willet, New York, 18 October, 1824; died in Woodmont, Connecticut, 29 April, 1888.
Wilson entered into partnership with Nathaniel Wheeler, a practical manufacturer, and they began to make their machines in a small shop in Watertown.
Wilson withdrew from the business and settled in Waterbury, where he engaged in other enterprises.
www.famousamericans.net /allenbenjaminwilson   (543 words)

  
 Benjamin Wilson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wilson was a fur trapper and trader by profession before coming to California.
In one instance in 1845 he was asked to pursue a band of marauding Ute Indians, led by Chief Walkara, who rustled cattle from the local ranchers.
Wilson lived out his days in present-day San Gabriel.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Benjamin_Wilson   (676 words)

  
 BBVHS - Area History - Discovery & Naming   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Benjamin D. Wilson was born in Tennessee in 1811.
By 1843 Wilson had purchased a large ranch where the City of Riverside is now located, and the following year married Ramona Yorba, a daughter of one of California's most prominent families.
This situation became a constant problem to the missions and cattle ranchers, and in July of 1845, Don Pio Pico authorized Benjamin Wilson to take a force of eighty well-armed men to pursue the raiders and teach them a lesson.
www.bigbearhistory.org /discovery.htm   (274 words)

  
 Benjamin Wilson And The Diaglott
In due course, it became necessary for religious organisations to have more distinctive titles and those associated with Benjamin Wilson became known as the Church of God of Abrahamic Faith, and those with John Thomas as the Christadelphians.
Now this can be interpreted to mean a couple of things: first, that Benjamin Wilson was the founder of the Church of God, and second, that the members of the Church of God originally did not believe in a supernatural devil but eventually accepted this doctrine and thereby drifted away from their historical convictions.
Though the Wilsons were important figures in Church of God history, the idea of the Church of God was being propounded by Elder Joseph Marsh as early as 1840.
www.carelinks.net /books/dh/dbb/2-1-1benjamin_wilson_and_the_diaglott.htm   (588 words)

  
 Los Angeles: History of Mt. Wilson, Part 1
Benjamin D. Wilson, born in 1811 in Tennessee, was a fur trapper by trade.
Wilson was chosen as the site for the proposed Spence Observatory, primarily because Pasadena civic leaders promised to build a wagon road to the summit.
In February 1889 the Harvard 13 inch telescope arrived by train and was transported to the foot of the Mt. Wilson trail in Sierra Madre.
www.oldradio.com /archives/stations/LA/mtwilson1.htm   (1036 words)

  
 Photo of Medal of Honor Recipient Benjamin Wilson
While friendly forces were consolidating the newly won gain, the enemy launched a counterattack and First Lieutenant Wilson, realizing the imminent threat of being overrun, made a determined lone-man charge, killing seven and wounding two of the enemy, and routing the remainder in disorder.
Unhesitatingly, First Lieutenant Wilson charged the enemy ranks and fought valiantly, killing three enemy soldiers with his rifle before it was wrested from his hands, and annihilating four others with his entrenching tool.
Benjamin Wilson was a Corporal stationed at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941.
www.homeofheroes.com /photos/7_korea/wilson_benjamin_recent.html   (422 words)

  
 Portrait of Benjamin Franklin (Wilson-State) - The Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin (Wilson-State) - The Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary
This portrait was painted by Wilson to serve as a model for the mezzotint by James McArdell.
It is related to Wilson's earlier paintings, but the figure of Franklin is extended to "kit kat" length, a book is in his right hand, a green curtain is in the right background, and a table in the right foreground holds a roll of papers.
www.benfranklin300.org /frankliniana/result.php?id=344&sec=0&get=true   (92 words)

  
 Benjamin F. Wilson - Moviefone
A sadly neglected American filmmaker, the pompously named Benjamin Franklin Wilson directed, produced, wrote and starred in innumerable low-budget...
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movies.aol.com /celebrity/benjamin-f-wilson/120500/main   (60 words)

  
 MOH Citation for Benjamin Wilson
After the assault platoon moved up, occupied the position, and a base of fire was established, he led a bayonet attack which reduced the objective and killed approximately 27 hostile soldiers.
While friendly forces were consolidating the newly won gain, the enemy launched a counterattack and 1st Lt. Wilson, realizing the imminent threat of being overrun, made a determined lone-man charge, killing 7 and wounding 2 of the enemy, and routing the remainder in disorder.
Unhesitatingly, 1st Lt. Wilson charged the enemy ranks and fought valiantly, killing 3 enemy soldiers with his rifle before it was wrested from his hands, and annihilating 4 others with his entrenching tool.
www.homeofheroes.com /moh/citations_1950_kc/wilson_benjamin.html   (529 words)

  
 Benjamin Wilson — Infoplease.com
He was elected fellow of the Royal Society in 1751 and received its gold medal in 1760 for his electrical experiments.
Benjamin West, John Galt, and the biography of 1816.(Critical Essay)(Biography)
A stroke of genius: on its 250th anniversary, Benjamin Franklin's famous kite experiment reveals the science behind the folklore.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0852378.html   (209 words)

  
 Benjamin Wilson Wall Obit
MADISON - Benjamin Wilson Wall, 83, of 9671 N.C. Highway 704, passed away Saturday, Sept. 10, 2005, at Britthaven of Madison.
Wilson was born Aug. 14, 1922, in Mayodan to the late William Jackson and Sallie Wilson Wall.
He was a U.S. Navy veteran having served in World War II, was an employee of Washington Mills Inc. and Tutlex, from where he retired after more than 40 years as a supervisor.
www.usgennet.org /usa/nc/county/rockingham1/webbbs/records/index.cgi?read=5527   (315 words)

  
 Benjamin Wilson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Dudley Do-Right (1999) (costumer: New York) (as Ben Wilson)
Q & A (1990) (wardrobe supervisor) (as Ben Wilson)
Find where Benjamin Wilson is credited alongside another name
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 BENJAMIN & WILSON v. THE UNITED KINGDOM - 28212/95 [2002] ECHR 636 (26 September 2002)
In the case of Benjamin and Wilson v.
His tariff period (the minimum period of detention satisfying the requirements of retribution and deterrence) was set at six years and expired in April 1989.
12.  The second applicant, Mr Hueth Wilson, was sentenced to life imprisonment for buggery of a young girl in 1977.
www.worldlii.org /eu/cases/ECHR/2002/636.html   (2963 words)

  
 Amazon.com: African Americans in Michigan: Books: Lewis Walker,Benjamin C. Wilson,Linwood H. Cousins,Benjamin C. ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
African Americans, as free laborers and as slaves, were among the earliest permanent residents of Michigan, settling among the French, British, and Native people with whom they worked and farmed.
Lewis Walker and Benjamin Wilson recount the long history of African American communities in Michigan, delineating their change over time, as migrants from the South, East, and overseas made their homes in the state.
Benjamin C. Wilson is Professor of Black Americana Studies at Western Michigan University and author of The Rural Black Heritage Between Chicago and Detroit, 1850-1929.
www.amazon.com /African-Americans-Michigan-Lewis-Walker/dp/087013583X   (971 words)

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