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  William Cardinal Allen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1575 Allen made a second journey to Rome, where he helped Pope Gregory XIII to found another college For this purpose possession was obtained of the ancient English hospice in Rome, now turned into a seminary to send missionaries to England and Jesuits were placed there to help Dr Maurice Clennock, the rector.
Allen wrote that all Englishmen were bound, under pain of damnation, to follow this example, as Elizabeth was no lawful queen.
Allen helped plan the invasion of England, and was to have been Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor had it succeeded.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: William Allen
He was the third son of John Allen of Rossall, Lancashire, and at the age of fifteen went to Oriel College, Oxford, where he graduated B. in 1550, and was elected Fellow of his College.
On the accession of Elizabeth, and the re-establishment of Protestantism, Allen was one of those who remained most stanch on the Catholic side, and it is chiefly due to his labours that the Catholic religion was not entirely stamped out in England.
The means of support included, besides Allen's private income, and other voluntary donations, a yearly pension of 200 ducats from the King of Spain, and later on one of 100 gold crowns a month from the Pope.
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 William Allen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Allen (1704-1780), Chief justice of colonial Pennsylvania and founder of Allentown
William Allen (died 1891), justice of Massachusetts supreme court
William Cardinal Allen (1532-1594), English cleric exiled by Elizabeth I
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 William M. Allen Biographies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
William Allen is considered to be the father of modern commercial jet aviation.
Allen was born in Lolo, Mont. He was graduated from the University of Montana and the Harvard University Law School.
It was during Allen's tenure that Boeing developed the 707, 727, 737 and 747 series of jetliners and became the leading producer of commercial aircraft in the world.
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 Encyclopedia: William Allen White   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
William Lindsay White (born 1900) is the son of William Allen White.
William Allen White was the young and little-known editor of an undistinguished small-town newspaper, The Emporia Gazette of Kansas, when his editorial "What's the Matter with Kansas?" catapulted him into national prominence.
Born in Emporia, Kansas (additional info and facts about Emporia, Kansas) on February 10, 1868, William Allen White was a nationally-known newspaper editor for much of his life, having purchased in 1895 and continuing as its editor until his death on January 31, 1944.
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 William Allen White - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born in Emporia, Kansas, on February 10, 1868, William Allen White was a nationally known newspaper editor for much of his life.
In Dreamcast episode 1 William Allen White was the name of an elementary school.
William Allen White at This Might Be A Wiki - with links to WAW thong underwear!
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 William Allen and the Search for Economic Security
Allen had many other real estate investments in the city, from the docks along the Delaware, to his townhouse and stores on Water Street, to his country estate Mount Airy on the road to Germantown.  In fact, Allen was one of the largest purchasers of Philadelphia real estate in the eighteenth century.
Allen was one of the seven commissioners representing Pennsylvania at the joint commission which met to resolve this dispute at New Castle, Delaware in 1750.
William Allen to Thomas Penn, November 17, 1752, in Edwin Swift Balch, “Arctic Expeditions sent from the American Colonies,” PMHB 31(1907), 421.
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 Red Rocks, William Allen White House State Historic Site
In 1915 William Allen White wrote to architect Frank Lloyd Wright and suggested that he "do over" the house, which was "warted all over with bow windows, and towers and gables and fibroid tumors, acute angles, meaning nothing and merely serrating the sky line." Wright soon began to develop preliminary designs for the house.
William Allen died in 1944; Sallie in 1950.
William Lindsay died in 1973 and Kathrine died in 1988.
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 §22. Joseph Henry Allen; William Francis Allen; James Bradstreet Greenough. XXV. Scholars. Vol. 18. Later National ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Joseph Henry Allen; William Francis Allen; James Bradstreet Greenough.
Allen with Greenough wrote the Allen and Greenough Latin Grammar, published 1872, and an Elementary Latin Composition, published 1876.
Allen contributed the historical and archæological material to the Allen and Greenough series, and later edited Tacitus.
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 William Henry Allen
William Henry Allen was born in Readfield, Maine on March 27, 1808 to Jonathan and Thankful Allen.
Allen became principal of an Augusta, Maine high school soon thereafter but only six months of his administration had passed when he was offered the chair of the departments of chemistry and natural history at Dickinson.
Three of Allen's four wives, one of whom was the sister of Andrew Gregg Curtin, Class of 1837, had died relatively young, and only a daughter lived to adulthood.
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 Boeing: Community and Education Relations - Volunteer Programs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
William M. Allen, for whom the company's community volunteerism award is named, was president of The Boeing Company from 1945 to 1968 and chairman from then until 1972, when he became chairman emeritus.
Allen's strength of character and uncompromising ethics were respected nationally and internationally, reflected by the prestigious awards he received.
The William M. Allen Award is given to Boeing employees in honor of Allen's deep commitment to community life.
www.boeing.com /companyoffices/aboutus/community/volunteer_allen.html   (630 words)

  
 History of William Allen (c1752-c1830)
William's sons Nathaniel and John and his son-in-law John Stephenson (husband of Lydia) enlisted in the 2nd Division, 12th and 13th Regiments, of the Consolidated Louisiana Militia.
William and sons Nathaniel, John and Daniel are recorded in St. Helena in 1820.
William, Hannah and children Nathaniel, Peter, Lydia, John and Mary were there in November 1821 when the estate of William Anders of North Carolina, father of William's first wife Keziah, was settled.
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 Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: User Home Pages: WILLIAM ALLEN (1711-1799) of Arcola, Virginia
This insignia is inscribed on the tomb of Patrick Allen in Ireland.
In 1762, William Allen purchased 900 acres from Rev. Charles Green which was part of a 1739 grant from Lord Fairfax to Catesby Cocke.
Allen spent his long and useful life in the neighborhood, loved and respected by all.
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 William Allen
THE Honorable WILLIAM ALLEN, a Justice of this Court from the fifth day of September, 1881, died at his residence in Northampton on the fourth day of June, 1891.
Justice William Allen has passed through the valley of the shadow of death, but "the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world," illumines the pathway of the just from the sepulchre into the opening heavens, and we are comforted.
Judge Allen was an able lawyer and an accomplished jurist; a man of sound learning, of clear and vigorous intellect, of breadth and flexibility of view, of strong sensibilities under firm control, having that refinement and delicacy of feeling which find their natural expression in the silent and pervasive influence of the daily life.
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 William Allen White Home Dedication, Emporia, Kansas
William Lindsay served in the Kansas legislature in 1931-32, working in Washington, and was a war correspondent for 40 American daily newspapers during the 1930s.
In 2001 William Lindsay White's daughter, Barbara, and her husband, David Walker, donated the house to the Kansas State Historical Society.
William Allen contracted with Wight and Wight architectural firm of Kansas City for reconstruction, changing the look to Tutor Revival and moving the entrance from Exchange St. to 10th St. Simultaneously the house was enlarged.
www.washburn.edu /cas/art/cyoho/archive/Events/WAWhite   (896 words)

  
 William Allen White's 1924 Gubernatorial Campaign by Jack Wayne Traylor, Summer 1976
IN 1924, at the age of 56, William Allen White was a nationally known editor, author, and political observer.
William Allen, or Will as he was known during his youth and by boyhood friends the rest of his life, made satisfactory progress at the public schools, but never was an outstanding student.
Allen filed charges against White, but the attorney general refused to prosecute, much to the editor's chagrin since he had hoped to test the issue in the courts.
www.kancoll.org /khq/1976/76_2_traylor.htm   (4909 words)

  
 The Family History of William Allen II (1671-1713)
Thomas Allen was a brother of John Allen, although perhaps not that of William’s father.
William Allen, son of William and Ann Allen, appeared in the records of St. Peter’s Parish as Mr.
William married second Mary (Hunt) Minge, a widow with at least two children, no later than 18 November 1741 when a deed from Mary’s son-in-law George Baskerville, and her daughter Tabitha Minge to William Allen related the circumstance that Allen had married Mary, the widow of Robert Minge. 
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 Allen County Homepage - allencounty.org is the official website of Allen County Kansas, and the communities within.
Allen County Homepage - allencounty.org is the official website of Allen County Kansas, and the communities within.
Allen County [Kansas], founded in 1855 and named for William Allen, U.S. Senator and Governor of Ohio, is located in the southeast part of the State.
Allen County is 505 square miles, or 322,560 acres, in size, and is divided into ten townships.
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 William Allen White 50th
The William Allen White Awards are presented to authors chosen by Kansas’s students in grades 3 through 8.
William Allen White was born in Emporia, KS on Feb. 10
William Allen White’s editorial of Mary’s death ended with this paragraph: “A rift in the clouds in a gray day threw a shaft of sunlight upon her coffin as her nervous, energetic little body sank to its last sleep.
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 William Allen White - This Might Be A Wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
William Allen White is the jolly, smiling face so familiar to fans of They Might Be Giants.
In 1996, one hundred years after W. White's career making editorial "What's the Matter with Kansas" was published,a group of 15 historians came to concensus that he was the most influential person in all of Kansas history.
This is probably the only place in the world where you can buy a William Allen White coffee mug or William Allen White thong underwear.
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 Rhetoric Society Quarterly: William G. Allen's "Orators and Oratory": Inventional Amalgamation, Pathos, and ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
It is most fitting, then, that as a rhetor, Allen employed a kind of inventional amalgamation, drawing on all the available means of persuasion and the traditions of oratory to further social justice.
This study explores William Allen's rhetoric through an analysis of "Orators and Oratory," an address delivered to the Dialexian Society of New York Central College on June 22, 1852.
Allen accepted a professorship in Greek, German, rhetoric, and belles lettres in 1850 at New York Central College, which was founded by the American Baptist Free Mission Society in 1849 in what was then McGrawville.
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 William Allen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
William T. Allen holds the Jack H. Nusbaum Chair in Law and Business and is the Director of New York University Center for Law and Business, a joint venture between Stern and the NYU School of Law.
Chancellor Allen also taught at Stanford Law School, and was an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Chancellor Allen received his Bachelor of Science from New York University, his Jurist Doctorate from the University of Texas and the Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the Dickinson Law School.
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 1896: William Allen White
The year was 1896, and a presidential election between the Republican candidate, William McKinley, and the Democratic choice, William Jennings Bryan, was underway.
The Republicans were determined to replace Grover Cleveland, the Democratic incumbent, with a representative of their own party and so restore the monopoly of the presidency they had enjoyed since the beginning of the Civil War.
He remained a national figure for the rest of his life and is remembered in the William Allen White School of Journalism of the University of Kansas.
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 Allen, William on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
ALLEN, WILLIAM [Allen, William] 1704-80, American jurist, b.
Allen was (1750-74) chief justice of Pennsylvania, secured (1763) postponement of the sugar duties, and helped (1765) Benjamin Franklin in his efforts to have the Stamp Act repealed.
WILLIAM WEST Agence France Presse 07-10-2005 Britain's Prince William (L) speaks with WWII veteran and former rugby's All Black captain Fred Allen (R) after laying a wreath at the AucklandCenotaph in Auckland, 10 July 2005.
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 JS Online: Allen was a coach to kids in both sports and life
William Allen - better known as Billy Allen - did more than coach a lot of basketball and baseball the last 35 years.
Allen went on to a job with the Milwaukee water department, handling the normal variety of assignments, including water main breaks in the winter.
Allen coached Amateur Athletic Union basketball for the Milwaukee Mustangs boys teams, taking two teams to state championships and to play at the nationals in the late 1980s, his son said.
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 SEVENTH GENERATION
William Allen Pine was born on 16 Dec 1819 in Greenwich Twp, Gloucester Co, NJ.
The only one of these children to come west Was William Allen Pine, Sr., head of the family when it came to Kansas in 1868.
Allen Pine is spoken of by his children as being very fond of walking, often going long distances for exercise in his last years.
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 William Allen --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Dulles, Allen W. diplomat and intelligence expert, who was director (1953–61) of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during its early period of growth.
Known throughout the United States as the “Sage of Emporia,” William Allen White was the publisher of a small-town newspaper.
William Harvey's studies were the beginnings of the science of physiology.
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 The Telegraph - News - 07/21/2005 - William Allen ALTON
The Telegraph - News - 07/21/2005 - William Allen ALTON
William J. "Bill" Allen, 70, died at 5:23 p.m.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a sister, Elizabeth Allen; and a granddaughter, Amber Range.
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 Archives: Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
William Thomas Allen, age 65, of Topeka, passed away, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2006, at Midland Hospice House.
William was born Feb. 20, 1940, in Leavenworth, to Walter Edward and Beatrice Lula McCaully Allen.
He was preceded in death by a daughter, Tina Allen Howe in 1994; he was also preceded in death by siblings, Walter, Jerry, Jack and Mary Catherine Allen.
www.leavenworthtimes.com /articles/2006/01/14/obituaries/obit05.txt   (352 words)

  
 Our Ancestors of South Hampton Roads
She was married to Johnnie ALLEN in 1967.
She is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, WILLIAM J. and MARY ALLSBROOK of Virginia Beach; 8 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren.
WILLIAM S. MARABLE of Spartanburg, South Carolina; 3 sons, ROGER L. ALTON of Norfolk, THOMAS J. ALTON of Endicott, New York and WILLIAM J. ALTON of Greenville, South Carolina; 21 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren.
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