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2 unusual facts about Arthur W. Benson


Arthur W. Benson

In the middle of the land was Indian Field which was the home for the Montaukett tribe.

Benson founded the Brooklyn Gas Light company in 1823, when Brooklyn had 9,000 people.


A. C. Benson

His cousin James Bethune-Baker is also buried in the Ascension Parish Burial Ground.

Alfred W. Benson

Born in Poland, Chautauqua County, New York, he moved to Jamestown, New York in 1860, and attended Jamestown and Randolph Academies.

Arthur Barton

Arthur W. Barton (1899–1976), headmaster, academic author and football referee

Arthur Chickering

Arthur W. Chickering, educational researcher in the field of student affairs

Arthur Hummel

Arthur W. Hummel, Sr. (1884–1975), Christian missionary to China and Sinologist

Arthur W. Hummel, Jr. (1920–2001), American diplomat, ambassador to China, and son of Arthur W. Hummel, Sr.

Arthur Mitchell

Arthur W. Mitchell (1883–1968), first African-American elected to the United States House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party

Arthur W. Aleshire

Aleshire was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth Congress (January 3, 1937-January 3, 1939).

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress.

Arthur W. Barton

From 1922 to 1925 he was a research student at the Cavendish Laboratory (in Lord Rutherford's group).

He was a top-class football referee: he refereed the Semi-final between Austria and Poland in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, and was linesman in the 1936 FA Cup Final between Arsenal and Sheffield United.

Arthur W. Coolidge

He was a Republican and a Unitarian, a Freemason, serving as Grand Master of Masons (1943–1944) and a member of the American Bar Association and Theta Delta Chi.

Arthur W. Cutten

After studying at Guelph Collegiate, in 1888 a young Arthur Cutten left home, making his way to the United States where he settled in the rapidly growing city of Chicago.

Arthur W. MacKenzie

Mackenzie was born at Nine Mile River, Hants County, Nova Scotia, the son of Benjamin MacKenzie and Minnie Scott.

Arthur W. Mitchell

Mitchell's suit was advanced to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that the railroad violated the Interstate Commerce Act.

Arthur W. Murray

He managed a hunting club, flew some charter work for Mustang Aviation in Dallas then did some courtroom reporting for the Bosque County newspaper.

Arthur Warren Murray was born to Charles C. "Chester" and Elsie Murray in the small town of Cresson nestled in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania on December 26, 1918.

Arthur W. Overmyer

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress.

Arthur W. Page

As a document of company disclosure, the book made a list of the current directors which at that time included Charles Francis Adams III, Winthrop W. Aldrich, Lewis H. Brown, John W. Davis, W. Cameron Forbes, Myron C. Taylor, and Daniel Willard.

Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication

Bringing the center to Penn State was the idea of alumnus Lawrence G. Foster, who retired as corporate vice-president of public relations at Johnson & Johnson.

Arthur W. Sterry

He later went to work for the theatrical entrepreneur Philip Lytton, performing in a number of shows including The Waybacks.

Arthur W. V. Reeve

He donated a cup - The Arthur Reeve Cup - which is played for in the Wellington Secondary Schools rugby competition in the Under 80 kg grade.

Arthur W. Woodworth

Arthur Wellington Woodworth, also known as the Honorable Arthur Woodworth (b. May 7, 1823), was the founder and President of the First National Bank of Enosburgh, a Vermont State Senator and Representative, and member of the Woodworth political family.

Binary-coded decimal

In the 1972 case Gottschalk v. Benson, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a lower court decision which had allowed a patent for converting BCD encoded numbers to binary on a computer.

Bridget Cleary

The writer E. F. Benson took a considerable interest in the case, publishing a scholarly commentary on it, "The Recent 'Witch-Burning at Clonmel'", in the influential periodical The Nineteenth Century in June 1895, before the trial itself began.

Bruce Benson

Bruce D. Benson (born 1938), president of the University of Colorado System

Bruce D. Benson

Benson was selected as CU president amid concerns among the CU faculty and community members because to his lack of academic pedigree, climate change denial, close connection to partisan politics (Benson unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Colorado as the Republican nominee in 1994), and close ties to the oil and gas industry.

Chickering's theory of identity development

Chickering's Theory of Identity Development, as articulated by Arthur W. Chickering explains the process of identity development.

Clark G. Reynolds

Reynolds received the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature from the Naval Order of the United States, and the Admiral Arthur W. Radford Award for Excellence in Naval Aviation History and Literature from the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation in Pensacola, Florida.

Daniel Benson

Daniel R. Benson (born 1975), member of the New Jersey General Assembly

Ethan Berkowitz

He and running mate for Lieutenant Governor Diane E. Benson faced incumbent Republican Governor Sean Parnell in the November general election and were defeated by a margin of 59% to 38%.

Ezra T. Benson

During his second mission he was in New Jersey serving with John Pack when they received news of Joseph Smith's murder.

Geoffrey Madan

While still at school he earned a day’s holiday for the whole school by the excellence of his account of Eton written in Herodotean Greek, and embarked on a correspondence and friendship with A. C. Benson.

George S. Benson

Buildings are named in his honor at Harding University, Freed Hardeman University, Faulkner University, and Oklahoma Christian University.

Gerontion

Lines within the poems are connected to the works of a wide range of writers, including A. C. Benson, Lancelot Andrews, and Henry Adams's The Education of Henry Adams.

Henry Benson

Henry L. Benson (1854–1921), American politician and jurist in the state of Oregon

James Oneal

The true "Right Wing" of the party (exemplified by a large section of the publicists associate with the party, including Allan L. Benson, Charles Edward Russell, John Spargo, Emanuel Haldeman-Julius, and Carl D. Thompson peeled away in 1917-18, as American participation in the European conflict became a reality and Woodrow Wilson's argument that this was indeed a "war to make the world safe for democracy" made converts.

John C. Broger

In 1954 Broger was recruited by Admiral Arthur W. Radford to develop an ideological framework for the U.S. Military.

John T. Benson

Benson was director of education for the Marshall, Wisconsin school district and was assistant supervisor of Public Instruction of Wisconsin.

Lucy Benson

:For the U.S. Under Secretary of State, see Lucy W. Benson.

Martin A. Nelson

Nelson obtained the Republican gubernatorial nomination in 1934 and 1936, but lost both general elections to Floyd B. Olson and Elmer A. Benson, respectively.

Namwianga Mission

Namwianga also contains the George Benson Christian College, which trains secondary teachers in the areas of Math-Religious Education or English-Religious Education, and many graduates go on to plant churches around Zambia.

Nearco

With the political turmoil and the possibility of war caused by Benito Mussolini aligning Italy with Germany, in 1938 Federico Tesio sold Nearco to Martin H. Benson of Beech House Stud in Newmarket, England for £60,000 (a world-record for a sire in those days).

Prosecutor

Bruce L. Benson's To Serve and Protect lauds the role of private prosecutors, often employed by prosecution associations, in serving the needs of crime victims in England.

Samuel P. Benson

Benson was elected as a Whig to the (Thirty-third Congress) and as an Opposition Party member to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1857).

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Hawaii

In response Ezra T. Benson and Lorenzo Snow of the quorum of the 12 were sent to take over the leadership of the mission with the assistance of Joseph F. Smith who had been a missionary in Hawaii fro much of the 1850s.


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