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  William Wilson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Wilson, member of the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1815-19.
William Wilson (1844-?), a writer on swimming, and the inventor of water polo.
William Wilson is a sailor in Elizabeth Gaskell's novel Mary Barton.
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 William Bauchop Wilson
William Bauchop Wilson, the son of a coal miner, was born in Blantyre, Scotland, on 2nd April, 1862.
Wilson remained active in the union until he was sacked and fllisted in 1882.
Wilson, while steadily working to bring the opposing forces together and to re-establish the conference plan, sometimes lost the confidence of some of the more radical of the men he was leading.
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William Ronald, a native of Scotland, was a delegate in the Virginia Convention of 1788.
William Houston, son of Sir Patrick Houston, was a Delegate to the Continental Congress (1784-87) and a Depute from Georgia to the Convention for revising the Federal Constitution.
William Harper (1790-1847), born in Antigua, Leeward Islands, of Scottish parents, was Chancellor of the University of South Carolina (1828-30, 1835-47) and Judge of the Court of Appeals of South Carolina (1830-35).
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 Willard Footnotes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
John Williams was president of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers from 1911 to 1919.
William Cox Redfield (1858-1932) was U.S. secretary of commerce (1913-19).
William Bauchop Wilson was the first U.S. secretary of labor, serving from 1913 to 1921.
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 all things William: A List of Firsts
William of Vercelli (aka William of Monte Vergine) was the founder of the Hermits of Monte Vergine, or Williamites, in 1119.
William Whewell invented the English word "scientist" in 1833; before this time the only terms in use were "natural philosopher" and "man of science." The term "palaetiology" was coined in 1837 by Whewell to refer to those sciences which have as their object the reconstruction of the past based on the evidence of the present.
William J. Schroeder became the first artificial heart recipient to be discharged from the hospital in 1985, as he moved into an apartment in Louisville, Ky. Among all artificial heart recipients, Schroeder lived the longest, surviving 620 days with a Jarvik-7 heart until his death in 1986.
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 Glossary.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
His clients included William Haywood in 1906-7 and the McNamara brothers in 1911, and he was chief counsel for the miners in the arbitration of the 1902 coal strike.
Wilson was master workman of District 3 of Knights of Labor National Trade Assembly 135 from 1888 to 1894 and headed the Independent Order of the KOL, organized by the United Mine Workers of America, from 1894 to 1897.
Wilson was elected to Congress as a Democrat from Pennsylvania in 1906, serving from 1907 to 1913 and chairing the House Committee on Labor between 1911 and 1913.
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 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Wilson, U to Z
Wilson, W. — of Sandy, Salt Lake County, Utah.
Wilson, William Henry (1877-1937) — also known as William H. Wilson — of Pennsylvania.
Canarsie Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. Wilson, William Stephen (1827-1898) — of Athens,
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 Glossary
William Haywood in 1906-7 and the McNamara brothers in 1911, and he was chief counsel for the miners in the arbitration of the 1902 coal strike.
Hutcheson, William Levi (1874-1953), was born near Saginaw, Mich., and became a shipyard carpenter's apprentice at age fourteen.
Wilson, William Bauchop (1862-1934), was born in Blantyre, Scotland, and immigrated to Arnot, Pa., in 1870.
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Son of William Henry Allard and Florence Benson Allard, of "Mosslyn," North Rd., Brighton, Victoria.
Son of William and Agnes Berriman, of Punchbowl Rd., Punchbowl, New South Wales.
Son of William George and Isabella Hamilton Bosward, of 48, Selwyn St., Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales.
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 Blossburg: William Bauchop Wilson: United Mine Workers of America
It is interesting to the researchers that three of our primary sources, Babson's biography, Wilson's manuscript, and Flashbacks, a brief history by Phyllis Swinsick of the southeastern section of Tioga County, do not overlap in their tellings of the strike of 1899-1900, despite its national and local significance.
Wilson created all the documents issued for publication to sway and maintain public sympathy to the miners' cause, but he credits Mitchell with the success of the strike, "Through [the Republican National Committee], political pressure was brought to bear upon the financial interests and a settlement arrived at.
Wilson also argued that corporations are fundamentally associations of capitalists who band together and hire collectively.
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 Wilson, William Bauchop on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
As chairman (1912-13) of the House Labor Committee, he helped draft the bill creating the Dept. of Labor.
The first Secretary of Labor in U.S. history, William B. Wilson organized the department and introduced machinery for mediation in labor disputes.
Bibliography: See R. Babson, W. Wilson and the Department of Labor (1919).
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 William Wilson -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
William Wilson of Pennsylvania, Member of the (The lower legislative house of the United States Congress) House of Representatives 1815-1818
William Wilson of Ohio, Member of the (The lower legislative house of the United States Congress) House of Representatives 1823-1828
Admiral William Wilson, a character in the 1999 film ((RAF rank) one who is next below a Group Captain) Wing Commander
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 This Month in Scottish History - April   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Born in 1785 in Paisley to rich manufacturer John Wilson and Margaret Sym, he attended Glasgow and Oxford universities, graduating from the latter in 1807.
The birth of William Bauchop Wilson, labor leader and first American Secretary of Labor, in Blantyre, Lanarkshire.
He was a career politician who served in several offices under William Pitt the Younger and was known as 'King Harry the Ninth' and ‘The Uncrowned King of Scotland’ for his skillful management of Scottish politics, 1775-1805.
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 Wilson, William Julius --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Wilson was educated at Wilberforce University (B.A., 1958) and Bowling Green State University (M.A., 1961) in Ohio, as well as at Washington State University (Ph.D., 1966).
We know now that welfare reform works." American sociologist William Julius Wilson, however, would be one of the first to disagree, even though he had helped shape much of Clinton's social policy since 1992 as his unofficial adviser.
At the age of 8 Harold Wilson posed before the prime minister's residence at 10 Downing Street in London, England, for a snapshot taken by his father.
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 AllRefer.com - William Bauchop Wilson (Labor, Biography) - Encyclopedia
William Bauchop Wilson 1862–1934, American labor leader, U.S. Secretary of Labor (1913–21), b.
Coming as a child to the United States in 1870, he worked in Pennsylvania coal mines after 1871 and helped organize (1890) the United Mine Workers of America.
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 Tom Mooney
Critics of the march such as William Jennings Bryan, claimed that the Preparedness March was being organized by financiers and factory owners who would benefit from increased spending on munitions.
William Randolph Hearst had used his newspapers to campaign for the conviction of Tom Mooney.
Felix Frankfurter, on a mission to examine and report to President Wilson on labor difficulties in the West, saw through the plot and warned the president of the danger in the execution of an innocent man whose fate was exciting workers all over the world.
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 HSP Manuscript Guide: 1500-1599
The papers of a controversy between Lucien H. Alexander, Philadelphia lawyer and member of the James Wilson Memorial Committee, and Burton Alva Konkle, historian and secretary of the committee that originated the idea of bringing the remains of James Wilson from North Carolina to Philadelphia in 1906.
Subjects addressed include: banking, including the recharter of the Second Bank of the United States; churches and charities, particularly Christ Church in Philadelphia, for which both William and William M. Meredith were wardens and vestrymen; Federalist, Whig, and Republican politics at the local, state, and national levels; education; prison reform; and arts and letters.
William A. Armstrong was a Philadelphia stone contractor.
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 William Bauchop Wilson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Bauchop Wilson (1862 - 1934) was a U.S. Scottish-born) labor leader and political figure.
He served as the first Secretary of Labor between 1913 and 1921 under Woodrow Wilson.
This page was last modified 00:07, 26 October 2005.
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 Blossburg: William Bauchop Wilson: The Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
"Wilson is a constructive man, a friend of capital as well as of labor, and one whom no just man need fear."
This is the goal of the current William B. Wilson pages.
This man helped shape the United States, advocating eight-hour workdays, strong unions, workers compensation, child labor laws, and workplace safety during his years of labor activism and political influence.
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 Morgan, William Wilson --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
June 21, 1994, Williams Bay, Wis.), discovered the spiral shape of the Milky Way Galaxy after years of observing and analyzing the distances and arrangements of stars.
It was introduced in the early 1950s by the American astronomers Harold Lester Johnson and William Wilson Morgan and has largely superseded the less accurate system using the north polar sequence.
April 20, 2000, Columbus, Ohio), developed with fellow astronomer William Wilson Morgan the influential MK (for Morgan Keenan) system for classifying stars by their luminosity and spectral type.
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 USA in the 20th Century
By this time the American government knew the truth about the case as the Secretary of Labor, William Bauchop Wilson, had arranged for a dictaphone to be installed in the private office of the District Attorney in San Francisco and had discovered that Mooney had been framed.
As he interpreted it, the trial represented a tragic failure to uphold the American ideals of tolerance, equality, and justice for all and was ultimately a travesty of justice.
The conviction of Stokes was important to the United States district attorney, Francis Murray Wilson, because Stokes was both a wealthy socialite and prominent socialist.
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William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield
William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham
William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chattingham
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 wilderness to Windsor Locks. Alphabetic Index to Entries. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
William I, emperor of Germany and king of Prussia
William II, emperor of Germany and king of Prussia
William III, king of England, Scotland, and Ireland
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 John and Norman Lind: An Inventory of Their Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society
Supported Wilson's policy of neutrality with respect to World War I. Appointed chairman of Minnesota chapter of League to Enforce Peace by its president, former President William Howard Taft.
Also discussed are Lind's 1888 campaign, the senatorial contest between William D. Washburn and Dwight M. Sabin (December 1888-January 1889), local politics, management of Lind's property and his financial affairs, Minnesota elections in 1890, a proposal to require religious teaching in public schools (1889), and uniform grade standards for agricultural products (1891).
There is also a letter from Woodrow Wilson (October 5, 1918) with an enclosure from the U.S. Secretary of State regarding Lind's proposal to send propagandists to Finland.
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 William Lyne Wilson
Wilson, William Lyne, 1843–1900, American legislator, cabinet member, and university president, b.
He was a private in the Confederate army in the Civil War, and after teaching (1865–71) Latin at Columbian College (now George Washington Univ.) and practicing law (1871–82) in Charles Town, W.Va., Wilson was (1882–83) president of the Univ. of West Virginia.
William Lyne WILSON - WILSON, William Lyne (1843—1900) WILSON, William Lyne, a Representative from West Virginia;...
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 The Project Gutenberg eBook of Scotland's Mark On America, by George Fraser Black. Ph.D.
He was noted for his obstinacy and strength of character, and may have been the prototype of the Scotsman of the prayer: "Grant, O Lord, that the Scotchman may be right; for, if wrong, he is eternally wrong." Captain William Bean was the first white man to bring his family to Tennessee.
As with the medical and theological professions the legal has shared the dominating influence of Scotland, and indeed it is perhaps not too much to say that much of the distinctive character of American jurisprudence is due to the influence of men of Scottish blood at the bench and bar.
Miller Grieve (1801-78), born in Edinburgh, Representative in the Georgia Legislature, Chairman of Board of Trustees of Oglethorpe University, was Chargé d'Affaires at Copenhagen.
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 TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Pennsylvania Bolters -- Oct. 27, 1930
Roper who, away from Princeton, is a Philadelphia councilman from the Germantown district, announced that he would bolt his party to support John M. Hemphill, Democratic nominee, because he was a thoroughgoing Wet.
William Larimer Mellon, nephew of the Secretary of the Treasury, announced that there would be no Republican bolting in that family.
His Wetness cost Nominee Hemphill the votes of William Bauchop Wilson, onetime (1913-21) Democratic Secretary of Labor and Vance Criswell McCormick, onetime (1916) Chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
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 Personal Names Browse for Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania Catalog
Williams, Ottalie Kroeber, -- 1901- -- joint author.
Wilson, Robert D. -- (Robert Davis), -- 1860-1890.
Wilson, Robert E. -- Wilson and related familes of Virginia.
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 William Griffith - The Info Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
William Bauchop Wilson the first United States Secretary of Labor.
William Wilson of Ohio, Member of the House of Representatives 1823-1828
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