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unusual facts about Edward E. Willard


Edward Willard

Edward E. Willard (1862–?), American mayor of Chelsea, Massachusetts


Charles W. Willard

Willard was born in Lyndon, Vermont, son of Thomas Willard and Abigail (Carpenter) Willard.

Clorindy: The Origin of the Cakewalk

He met much rejection before bringing his cast uninvited to a rehearsal hall where he heard that another act was auditioning for Edward E. Rice, manager of the Casino Theatre's Roof Garden.

See, for example, New York Herald, July 31, 1898, and Edward E. Rice's advertisement in the August 20, 1898 New York Dramatic Mirror.

Edward Cross

Edward E. Cross (1832–1863), newspaperman and Union Army general during the American Civil War

Edward E. Cox

It took until 1924, when Cox finally won the Democratic nomination from Park, and was elected to the 69th United States Congress.

In the Eighty-second Congress (his final term), Cox was chairman of the United States House Select Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations.

Cox died of a heart attack on December 24, 1952, between his victory in the 1952 general election and the start of the 83rd United States Congress.

Edward E. Cross

Edward Ephraim Cross (April 22, 1832 – July 3, 1863) was a newspaperman and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Edward E. Denison

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress and for election in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress.

Denison was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1931).

Edward E. Miller

Miller was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1925), but he declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1924.

Edward E. Moore

Moore was also instrumental in persuading the Los Angeles Railway Company to abandon its right-of-way on Santa Barbara Avenue between Figueroa Street and Third Avenue so the tracks could be lowered to street level and the entire roadway resurfaced.

At that time the district encompassed the Hyde Park and Angeles Mesa annexations, Vermont Avenue south to 62nd Street, and a shoestring strip leading to Westchester, Mines Field and the Hyperion sewage screening plant.

Edward E. Willey, Jr.

His wife, Kathleen Willey, was a White House volunteer aide who later claimed to have been sexually assaulted by then-U.S. President Bill Clinton on November 29, 1993, four and one-half years earlier.

Edward E. Wilson

Moving to Chicago, he filled the post of assistant state attorney for Cook County, Illinois, from 1912 until his retirement in 1947.

Edward Potter

Edward E. Potter, Union general in the American Civil War; actions included the Battle of Boykin's Mill

F.D.C. Willard

On the 15th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics in 1978 in Grenoble, Hetherington’s second author was exposed; Hetherington had signed his article with the paw prints of his co-authors and sent some copies to friends and colleagues.

Frederick Hallen

Before her vaudeville days Fuller was on the legitimate stage in productions like the libretto Adonis, by Edward E. Rice and William F. Gill and Edward E. Rice’s Evangeline, in which she stepped in to replace Fay Templeton when the actress was unable to go on stage.

George L. Willard

The 3rd Brigade marched northward in heat and dust of the summer of 1863, halting at Uniontown, Maryland, on June 30.

Gyatt

Edward E. Gyatt (1921-1942), a United States Marine Corps private awarded the Silver Star during World War II

Hancock County, Indiana

Edward E. Moore, Indiana state senator and Los Angeles City Council member

John Haden Wilson

Wilson was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative-elect Edward E. Robbins.

John Joseph Braham, Sr.

Around New York in 80 Minutes (contributing composer, with Edward E. Rice)

John Thibaut

The research group which he headed at UNC was regularly attended by Harry Upshaw, Jack Brehm, Kurt Back, and Edward E. Jones.

Kate Shelley

Frances E. Willard, a reformer and temperance leader, wrote president Isabella W. Parks of Simpson College at Indianola, Iowa, offering $25 toward an advanced education for Shelley.

Laura Joyce Bell

Bell made her first notable appearance in New York in the spring of 1872 at Niblo's Garden performing in the “spectacle pantomime” Azeal, possibly based on the earlier musical by Daniel Auber, and afterward made a hit in the title role of the Edward E. Rice and J. Cheever Goodwin extravaganza, Evangeline, first played at the old Boston Globe Theatre on June 7, 1875 and reprised the following season at the Boston Museum.

Pauline Hall

By 1880 she was working for Edward E. Rice, who cast her in several of his musical productions, giving her, among others, the trouser role of the hero Gabriel in a revival that year of Evangeline.

Robert Ayres Barnet

It was performed by the "Boston Cadets, who always present Barnet's pieces before they are staged professionally. The new piece is ... a fairy Mother Goose burlesque. The music is by A.B. Sloane. ... Augustus Pitou, Klaw & Erlanger, E.E. Rice, and other prominent gentlemen" attended.

Strain gauge

Invented by Edward E. Simmons and Arthur C. Ruge in 1938, the most common type of strain gauge consists of an insulating flexible backing which supports a metallic foil pattern.

Trouble for Two

However, his father, the King (E. E. Clive), reminds him of his duty and their somewhat precarious position; only three years earlier, a revolution was suppressed, and the ringleaders are still at large.

Virginia Earle

After completing two seasons with Hallen and Hart she became associated with producer Edward E. Rice and in 1891 traveled to Australia with a troupe of actors that included George Fortescue, his wife and daughter (both named Viola) and actresses Lillian Karl, and Agnes Pearl.


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