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  Descendants of of William Wotherspoon/Witherspoon
William Wotherspoon was born on 24 Jun 1898 in Hughenden, Queensland, Australia and died in 1971 in Innisfail, Queensland, Australia, at age 73.
William Thomas Conner was born on 9 Jan 1905 in Rockhampton Q and died on 22 Jan 1982 in Charleville Q, at age 77.
William was born on 27 Apr 1872 in Aylesbury, Buckingham, England, died on 16 Nov 1956 in Rockhampton, at age 84, and was buried in Rockhamptn.
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 1850 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Lawrence, U.S. Episcopalian bishop of Massachusetts (d.
December 22 - William Plumer, U.S. lawyer and lay preacher (b.
William Lawson, British explorer of New South Wales (b.
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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 1850   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
William Lawrence, U.S. Episcopalian bishop of Massachusetts (died 1941)
William Pugsley, Canadian politician and lawyer (died 1925)
William Lawson, British explorer of New South Wales (born 1774)
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 Clan Dinwiddie - Dinwoodie History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
William's original house was used for some years as refreshment rooms, but in 1884 was replaced by a new building used as a museum.
William and Grace GRANT, with their sons William, John and Daniel, and daughter Elizabeth came to the Manchester area in 1783 with a letter of introduction to Mr.
William GRANT built St. Andrews Church in Ramsbottom in 1832 at his own expense, and it is still in use as a parish church.
www.electricscotland.com /webclans/dtog/dinwiddie3.html   (5374 words)

  
 The General Slocum Disaster: General Slocum in News
Adella Wotherspoon, the last survivor of the deadliest disaster in New York City history until Sept. 11, 2001 — the burning and sinking of the steamboat General Slocum in June 1904 — died on Jan. 26.
Wotherspoon, then the 6-month-old called Adele Liebenow, was part of the 17th annual Sunday school picnic of St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church, on the heavily German Lower East Side.
Wotherspoon for 25 years, said that the organizers of the 100th annual Slocum commemoration had hoped she could attend the event, planned for June 12 and 13, which is to include a wreath-laying off North Brother Island.
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Blagdon, Francis William Paris as it was and as it is, or A sketch of the French capital, illustrative of the effects of the revolution, with respect to sciences, literature, art, religion, education, manners and amusements.
Hooker, William Jackson Garden ferns or, Coloured figures and descriptions with the needful analyses of the fructification and venation, of a selection of exotic ferns adapted for cultivation in the garden, hothouse, and conservatory (1862) 713.
Williamson, William Crawford [A] monograph on the morphology and histology of stigmaria ficoides (1887) 1285.
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 Clan Wotherspoon
A Roger Wythisspon is recorded in Renfrewshire in the thirteenth century, and a Widderspune was the King's fowler in 1496.
WOTHERSPOON, WEDDERSPOON: The origin of this name is believed to be from the old English WEDERSPONG 'sheep pasture'.
General William Wallace Wotherspoon (1850- 1921), head of the state canal system in New York, was of Scottish descent.
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 The Army Medical Department 1865-1917: The Indian Wars
Evidence that Maj. William J. Sloan, medical director of the Department of Dakota, was planning for the medical aspects of the expedition is scanty.
Williams supervised the work of five medical officers and bore the ultimate responsibility for the health of a total of 925 officers and men, 700 of them from Custer's 7th Cavalry.
Obviously proud of what he had accomplished as far as sanitation was concerned, Wotherspoon was distressed that in the summer of 1892 Spotswood's replacement, Capt. William C. Borden, considered his new charges to be filthy.
history.amedd.army.mil /booksdocs/spanam/gillet3/ch3.html   (12533 words)

  
 URI History and Timeline
Another highlight of the year was the appointment, of Captain William Wallace Wotherspoon, as the first Professor of Military Science and Tactics.
Captain Wotherspoon gave further inspiration and stimulus to military work at the college by his own advancement to Major General in 1912, and to Army Chief of Staff in 1914.
William R. Ferrante was appointed as Acting President; Research Aquarium (later renamed Ann Gall Durbin Research Aquarium Facility) opened; Science Research and Nature Preserve Buildings completed at W. Alton Jones Campus; The Community Planning Building opened.
www.uri.edu /home/about/history_timeline.html   (4235 words)

  
 Leonard Wood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wood participated in the last campaign against Geronimo in 1886, and was awarded the Medal of Honor, in 1898, for carrying dispatches 100 miles through hostile territory and for commanding an infantry detachment whose officers had been lost.
Wood was personal physician to Presidents Grover Cleveland and William McKinley through 1898.
In 1914, Wood was replaced as Chief of Staff by William Wotherspoon.
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Governor Charles S. Whitman was chairman, William A. Orr was secretary, and Joseph H. Wilson was auditor of the council.
William A. Orr, Secretary of the State Council of Defense and State Director of the U.S. Public Service Reserve, kept files of direct enrollment inquiries and referrals from the National Director William E. Hall, and Associate Director A. Smith.
Memoranda and correspondence to William Orr, as State Director of the Reserve, from the U.S. Department of Labor concern employee quotas, the status of common labor and needs for skilled trades in the manufacture of essential war materials, and also referrals of applicants to await requests for men needed to work government contracts.
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 Bib-SrOff
Athearn, Robert G. William Tecumseh Sherman and the Settlement of the West.
Sherman, William T. Memoirs of General William T. Sherman.
Wotherspoon, William C. Birtle, Andrew J. "The U.S. Army's Pacification of Marindugue, Philippine Islands, April 1900-April 1901." Journal of Military History 61 (April 1997): 255-82.
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 The Scotsman - Scotland - Sex-change father poses ethical dilemma   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
William Wotherspoon, a former soldier, changed his name to Lisa-Anne Docherty following a six-hour operation to change his gender in 2001.
Mr Wotherspoon, 37, had already fathered four children as a man before he changed his gender in September 2001 in an operation at Nuffield Hospital in Sussex.
Mr Wotherspoon, who served as a soldier in the Parachute Regiment in Kuwait during the first Gulf war, now plans to marry Ms Barraclough in a ceremony that will be legal because he is still a man in the eyes of the law.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /scotland.cfm?id=511452003   (805 words)

  
 North Bay Police Service - History of the North Bay Police   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
On 1925 10 23, William Clark was appointed Chief Constable and held that position until September 1943 when he died suddenly of a heart attack, In October 1943, Alvin Forsyth who had formerly been Chief Constable in Prescott, Ontario, was appointed to the position.
Deputy Chief of Police William Wotherspoon, upon the death of Chief Thurlow, was appointed Chief of Police on 1967 06 24.
Chief Wotherspoon had been appointed to the North Bay Police as a constable on 1947 03 28 and had been promoted through the ranks to Deputy Chief of Police before being promoted to Chief of Police.
www.northbaypolice.on.ca /history.shtml   (717 words)

  
 The Daily Record - NEWS - News Feed - BECOMING A WOMAN WAS BIG MISTAKE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Docherty, who as William fathered five children, spent her life savings to become a woman three years ago.
But in an interview last month, she said the op was "a mistake" and she wanted to be a man again.
In 1995, as William, she was acquitted of murdering a father-of-two in Bellshill, but in 1997 she was jailed for 18 months for fracturing James Hunter's skull with an axe, putting her actions down to hormonal mood swings.
www.dailyrecord.co.uk /news/news/tm_objectid=16164073&method=full&siteid=66633-name_page.html   (315 words)

  
 Dear Cousin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
William's parents were married at Strichen 3 days before William's christening.
Donald Kirkham (the source of this information) is descended from Thomas and Margaret's third son, William, one of whose sons, Thomas came with his wife and young family in 1860 to settle on the land in Singleton, NSW.
I give to the children of William Hill of Theddingworth in the County of Leicester, Grazier, lawfully begotten or to be begotten on the body of Ann now the wife of the said William Hill and which shall be living at the time of my decease the sum
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 Wotherspoon Family Genealogy Forum
William Arthur Wotherspoon and Eliza born abt 1861 - Emily Hanson 2/19/05
Re: Wotherspoons from Wishaw - Anna Wotherspoon 11/04/99
Re: Wotherspoons from Wishaw - Judith Wotherspoon 7/23/00
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 Michael Witherspoon's Family Genealogy
John William traveled a lot working for the railroad, but managed to have 12 children during his life.
William Henry Witherspoon moved his family to Arkansas by covered wagon to get in on the lumber business.
He was killed by a fatal shotgun wound.
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 Huachuca Illustrated, vol 1, 1993: Timeline
Yellow fever and malaria were eliminated from the Canal Zone by Col. William C. Gorgas.
William W. Wotherspoon replaced Wood as Army Chief of Staff.
Hugh L. Scott replaced Wotherspoon as Army Chief of Staff on 16 November.
www.lib.byu.edu /estu/wwi/comment/huachuca/HI1-11.htm   (600 words)

  
 Joseph Bristow papers - Kansas State Historical Society
He met William McKinley in October of 1894 when he came to Kansas to campaign for the Republicans; this meeting was the basis for McKinley’s appointment of Bristow as Fourth Assistant Postmaster General after McKinley was elected president in 1896.
Correspondents include: William Allen White; Bertha Bristow (JLB response to her 9/10 to Las Cruces, NM); Sallie Lindsay White; Frederick Funston (writing from the Philippines 9/28 and 10/24 re distress at not being appointed major-general—had been appointed colonel of Kansas 20th volunteer regiment in 1898, then brigadier general of volunteers by Pres.
Note: William Allen White was in California December through early May of 1913, hence there is no correspondence from him to Bristow in these files.
www.kshs.org /research/collections/documents/personalpapers/findingaids/bristow_joseph.htm   (8965 words)

  
 Trousdale GenealogyDecember 1999
He married (1) MARIE WOTHERSPOON January 08, 1913 in Ogden, UT, daughter of ROBERT WOTHERSPOON and BESSIE MORLEY.
She was born January 19, 1891 in Ogden, UT, and died November 02, 1913 in Ogden, UT. He married (2) ELSIE MANN January 19, 1916 in Reno, NV, daughter of SIMON MANN and AUGUSTA KADY.
He married BEATRICE HOLLEY March 21, 1919 in Bertrand, MO. She was born November 02, 1899 in Baperville, TN, and died in Charleston, MO.
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 William Wallace Wotherspoon Biography
William Wallace Wotherspoon listed his address as New York City form 1844 to 1848 and from 1852 to 1883.
His landscape paintings were mainly of White Mountain scenes during the 1844 to 1848 period.
Wotherspoon was elected an Associate Member of the National Academy in 1848.
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 North Bay Police Service - Police Chief History: Wotherspoon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Bill Wotherspoon was born in 1925 in Dunfermline, Culross County, Fifeshire, Scotland, where the main industry, after whiskey making, was digging coal out of the ground.
He settled with his family in the North Bay area and they took up residence in North Bay proper in 1938.
This Chief, during his service with the this Force, had been involved in all aspects of police work.
www.northbaypolice.on.ca /chief-wotherspoon.shtml   (196 words)

  
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William J. Looney James 2/15/1932 Native of Ireland Looney Jane 8/1/1924 Native of Ireland Loose Alice Wallmann 9/20/1942 Lopes Frank 1889 1943 Lopes Maria 1888 1946 Loretz Eulalia A. Loretz John J. Lorton Hortense P. 1843 1925 Native of Missouri Louarn Jean 1880 1919 Born in France.
William A. Warn Edmund M. Warn Jessie S. Warren Katie 4/10/1864 12/3/1872 Daughter of John W. & Hannah B. Norton Waterman Grace E. Watson Albert J. Watson Bruce Innes Jr.
Native of England Williams David 1895 1954 Williams Gertrude 11/2/1913 9/29/1991 Williams Jean 1857 1930 Wife of F.W.Williams -- Sweetheart Williams John William 1880 1956 Williams Marie Emilie Parrott 2/18/1883 2/21/1967 Born in London, England.
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 U.S. government departments and offices, etc.
1921) 5 Mar 1913 - 9 Jun 1915 William Jennings Bryan (b.
1974) 22 Jan 1969 - 3 Sep 1973 William Rogers (b.
1817) 22 Oct 1816 - 4 Mar 1825 William H. Crawford (b.
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 Official Machinery
At the beginning of its existence, early in 1904, the Advisory Board consisted of Edward A. Bond, chairman, William A. Brackenridge, Elmer L. Corthell, Alfred Brooks Fry and Thomas W. Symons, and during its life there were but two changes in membership.
Harvey J. Donaldson was appointed on May 1, 1908, William B. Milliman on June 28, 1911, and Edwin S. Harris on December 23, 1914.
The Legislature of 1915 abolished the office and in its place created in the department of the Superintendent of Public Works a bureau of appraisal to consist of a Special Examiner and Appraiser and such subordinates as the Superintendent deemed necessary, all to be appointed by the Superintendent.
www.history.rochester.edu /canal/bib/whitford/1921/CHAP22.html   (3802 words)

  
 Empress of Ireland - LostLiners.com
Salvage operations were prompted by an onslaught of claims being filed by passengers and victims' families for valuables aboard the vessel.
CPR contracted a joint American and Canadian dive team led by William Wallace Wotherspoon.
In late July the first dives were made to map out the wreck and get an idea of it's orientation.
www.lostliners.com /Liners/Canadian_Pacific/Empress_Ireland/legacy.html   (1516 words)

  
 Index of Persons - All Surnames
Wotherspoon, Agnes Mulholland (5 Mar 1901 - 27 Oct 1974)
Wotherspoon, Mary (20 Mar 1923 - 19 Apr 2002)
Wotherspoon, William Guthrie (Oct 1914 - 15 Nov 1988)
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 Tales from the Easel: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Narrative Paintings, circa 1800-1950; essay by Dr. ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The figures who crowd the urban scenes of William Glackens and the Ashcan school, of Reginald Marsh and countless other painters of the city scene, may interact, may constitute a community.
Also concerned with education, but depicted in a more impressionistic, less documentary manner, is William Wotherspoon's sun-dappled Scene outside a Southern Schoolhouse (cat.
The education of young fl children, such as Wotherspoon depicted, would have been unlikely in the antebellum South, when literacy among slaves was discouraged; the subject, as well as the sparkling plein-air style, suggest a postwar date, in the late 1860s or later in the artist's life (1821-1888).
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 The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.3, page 128, Feb. 1891, U. of Illinois Press
William Wallace Wotherspoon (~8so-~9~), an army officer who commanded a company of troops at Mt. Vernon Barracks, Ala., from 1889 to 1894.
He was in charge of 500 Apache prisoners of war, including Geronimo.
Wotherspoon served with the Twelfth Infantry in the Philippines for more than three years beginning in 1899 and eventually attained the rank of major general.
www.historycooperative.org /btw/Vol.3/html/128.html   (394 words)

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