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11 unusual facts about Ellsworth


Clyde Apperson

Allegedly Pickard and Apperson previously manufactured LSD in Oregon, in Aspen, Colorado, in Santa Fe, New Mexico and in Ellsworth, Kansas.

Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery

Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery is a producer of cheese curds located in Ellsworth, Wisconsin.

Ellsworth, Minnesota

Early history: Ellsworth is located in Grand Prairie Township in the extreme southwestern corner of Nobles County.

Ellsworth, Nebraska

Cattleman Bartlett Richards began assembling the expansive Spade Ranch in the same year, making Ellsworth a company town for the ranch.

Ellsworth, New Hampshire

The name of the town was changed to Ellsworth in 1802, in honor of Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth.

Jack Trice Stadium

The Olsen Building, named in honor of prominent Ellsworth, Iowa farmer and ISU alumnus, houses the strength and conditioning facilities, the team meeting rooms, and the locker rooms.

Keith Ackerman

He graduated with a Bachelor of Science from Marymount College in Salina, Kansas in 1971, while working at the St. Francis Boys Home in nearby Ellsworth.

LeRoy J. Louden

LeRoy J. Louden (born October 12, 1936) is a Nebraska state senator from Ellsworth, Nebraska, United States.

Lyle Bettger

Hawks in the story line had been sheriff in Ellsworth, Kansas, but he turned outlaw after citizens there refused to reinstate him following his recovery from wounds sustained on the job.

Paula D. Silsby

Her father, Judge Herbert T. Silsby, is a Superior Court justice in Ellsworth, Maine.

Tarring and feathering

In 1851 a Know-Nothing mob in Ellsworth, Maine, USA, tarred and feathered a Swiss-born Jesuit priest, Father John Bapst, in the midst of a local controversy over religious education in grammar schools.


Anchisaurus

Sauropodomorph remains were first discovered in North America in 1818, when some large bones were discovered by Mr. Solomon Ellsworth while excavating a well in East Windsor, Connecticut.

Bill Kirchenbauer

Kirchenbauer was born in Salzburg, Austria, the son of Hester Elaine (née Andrews) and Alfred Ellsworth Kirchenbauer, who served in the U.S. army.

Boone and Crockett Club

Among the most noteworthy contributions are "The Vanished Game of Yesterday" by Madison Grant, "An Epic of the Polar Air Lanes" by Lincoln Ellsworth, "Aeluropus Melanoleucus" by Kermit Roosevelt, "Taps for the Great Selous" by Frederick R. Burnham, "Volcano Sheep" by G.D. Pope, "Three Days on the Stikine River" by Emory W. Clark, and "Giant Sable Antelope" by Charles P. Curtis.

Charles C. Ellsworth

In the spring of 1863, during the Civil War, Ellsworth was appointed by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln to be Paymaster of Volunteers in the Union Army, in which position he served until the end of the war with the rank of major.

Columbian half dollar

The ship on the reverse did not have sufficient detail in Warner's version; Barber requested a photograph of the caravel to be exhibited at the fair from Ellsworth, then turned the reverse over to his assistant, George T. Morgan.

Elizabeth Borton de Treviño

Elizabeth was born in Bakersfield, California, the daughter of attorney Fred Ellsworth Borton and Carrie Louise Christensen.

Ellsworth Handcrafted Bicycles

Ellsworth Handcrafted Bicycles is a bicycle manufacturer based in Ramona, California with manufacturing facilities in Vancouver, Washington.

Glenn Joseph Ellsworth

Ellsworth's ancestors originally came from England but made the move overseas in hopes to settle new land.

Henry W. Ellsworth

Ellsworth was a poet and frequent contributor to The Knickerbocker magazine.

Hollick-Kenyon Peninsula

The peninsula is named for Herbert Hollick-Kenyon, the pilot of Ellsworth's flight, whose demonstration of the practicability of landing and taking off an airplane in isolated areas constitutes a distinct contribution to the technique of Antarctic exploration.

Hollick-Kenyon Plateau

It was discovered by Lincoln Ellsworth on his trans-Antarctic airplane flight during November–December 1935, and named by Ellsworth for his pilot, Herbert Hollick-Kenyon.

Hotel Statler

Statler Hotels, A chains of hotels founded by Ellsworth Milton (E. M.) Statler.

James Ellsworth

James Ellsworth was vitally interested in polar exploration and donated vast sums of money to Roald Amundsen's expedition to the North Pole in 1925, in which Lincoln was a pilot.

Jean Toomer

Problems of Civilization, by Ellsworth Huntington, Whiting Williams, Jean Toomer and others, (New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1929)

Kiko Ellsworth

In March 2007, Ellsworth returned to daytime television in the role of Stan Johnson on another ABC daytime drama, General Hospital.

KWXY

In addition, the on-air lineup boasted Dave Hull, named one of the top ten greatest broadcasters in Los Angeles radio history, and his KFI colleague Scott Ellsworth.

Matney

Matney Peak, a peak in the Heritage Range of the Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica

Mount Liavaag

It was discovered by Lincoln Ellsworth on his trans-Antarctic flight of November 23, 1935, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for First Mate Liavaag of the Wyatt Earp in 1935–36, and also a member of Ellsworth's two earlier Antarctic expeditions.

Mount Weems

It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Captain P. V. H. Weems, a retired inventor from the U.S. Navy and a developer of air navigation instrumentation and techniques and consultant to Ellsworth on air navigation problems of this flight.

Music of the Spheres Society

Inspired by the Neoplatonic academies of 16th and 17th-century Italy, which combined discourse with musical presentations, the Music of the Spheres Society was founded in 2001 by its artistic director and violinist, Stephanie Chase, and hornist Ann Ellsworth.

Percy Ellsworth

Ellsworth attended Southampton High School in Courtland, Virginia, where he was a Super Prep All-American as a senior.

Prince Charles of Luxembourg

Born as Prince of Luxembourg, Prince of Nassau, Prince of Bourbon-Parma, he married at St. Edward's, in Sutton Park, Guildford, Surrey, on 1 March 1967 Joan Douglas Dillon (born New York City, New York, 31 January 1935), daughter of U.S. Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon and wife Phyllis Chess Ellsworth.

Raymond Yiu

Subtitled A Musical Diversion Suggested by the Lives of Chung Ling Soo, The Original Chinese Conjuror was based on the real life story of William Ellsworth Robinson, a.k.a. Chung Ling Soo, It was an experiment to combine different theatrical protocols into an integrated whole.

Richard E. Ellsworth

In the early 1950s, Ellsworth befriended Hollywood producer Herman Cohen during the filming of Battles of Chief Pontiac. The picture was shot on-location in western South Dakota, using Lakota Indians from a nearby reservation to portray the Native Americans.

Robert Ellsworth

On November 9, 2010, Ellsworth provided commentary to KFMB regarding an unexplained missile launch off the coast of Los Angeles.

Robert H. Crosthwaite

A Republican, Crosthwaite represented District 38, which included Ellsworth, Otis and Trenton, all in Hancock County while in the Maine House of Representatives.

Rutford Ice Stream

Therefore between the bed of the ice stream and the height of the Ellsworth Mountains there is a vertical relief of 7 km over a distance of only 40 km.

S. George Ellsworth

Ellsworth spent his career from 1951-1983 as a professor of history at Utah State University.

After his mission Ellsworth went to Logan, Utah where he studied at what is now Utah State University earning a bachelors degree in history and math.

Ellsworth also wrote a Sesquecentennial History of the LDS Church in French Polynesia with Kathleen C. Perrin and a history of the early LDS settlement in the area of Logandale, Nevada.

Smoky Hill River

Besides Junction City, other Kansas towns along the river are Ellsworth, Marquette.

Tarring and feathering

Bapst fled Ellsworth to settle in nearby Bangor, Maine, where there was a large Irish-Catholic community, and a local high school there is named for him.

Thanatosensitivity

A 2004 news story describes how Yahoo! denied the family of Justin Ellsworth, a deceased US marine, access to his email, preventing them from accessing information necessary for handling the aftermath of the account owner's death.

United States Senate election in South Dakota, 2008

Recent examples include $248,000 for the Dahl Arts Center in Rapid City, $11 million for Ellsworth Air Base, $400,000 for Rosebud Sioux Reservation, and $37 million for Mni Wiconi Rural Water System.

Washington Irving Memorial Park and Arboretum

Ellsworth arrived at Fort Gibson in Oklahoma on October 8, 1832, along with Irving, naturalist Charles La Trobe, and Swiss nobleman Albert de Pourtalès.

William W. Ellsworth

Born in Windsor on November 10, 1791, Ellsworth was the son of Founding Father Oliver Ellsworth, and son-in-law of Noah Webster, who named Ellsworth executor of his will.