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4 unusual facts about Benjamin Wilson


Benjamin Wilson

Benjamin F. Wilson (1922–1988), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

Ben F. Wilson (1876–1930), American actor, director, screenwriter and producer

Benjamin Davis Wilson (1811–1878), also known as Don Benito Wilson, prominent land-owner and politician in the early history of Southern California

Edward Firth

Yorkshire batted first and posted 155, thanks to Benjamin Wilson (49) and George Hirst (45), and then bowled out Australia for 107, with Schofield Haigh taking 5 for 22 on a rain affected track.


Alexander W. Hope

On June 4, 1851, Mayor Benjamin Wilson appointed him to organize and lead a volunteer force of city peace officers, to be known as the Los Angeles Rangers.

Wilmington, Los Angeles

In 1861, at the beginning of the Civil War, Banning and Benjamin Wilson gave the federal government 60 acres of land to build Drum Barracks to protect the nascent Los Angeles harbor from Confederate attack.


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Cornstalk

A Virginia officer, Col. Benjamin Wilson, wrote of Cornstalk's speech to Lord Dunmore at Camp Charlotte in 1774: "I have heard the first orators in Virginia, Patrick Henry and Richard Henry Lee, but never have I heard one whose powers of delivery surpassed those of Cornstalk on that occasion."

Henry Zouch

He was educated at Wakefield School under the Rev. Benjamin Wilson, and was admitted pensioner at Trinity College, Cambridge, on 9 April 1743.