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Henry Blair

Henry W. Blair (1834–1920), U.S. Representative and Senator from New Hampshire

Henry W. Blair

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Albert Toney

Toney played with many popular players of the day, including Rube Foster, Dangerfield Talbert, Henry W. Moore, Chappie Johnson, William Binga, Walter Ball.

Alexander St. Clair-Abrams

Soon after Robert Alston and Henry W. Grady joined the business; Abrams was managing editor, Grady was general editor and Alston the business manager.

Anita K. Blair

Blair and two other women involved in this organization, Rosalie (Ricky) Gaull Silberman and Barbara Olson, subsequently co-founded the Independent Women's Forum (IWF) in 1992, serving as the organization's first General Counsel and as executive vice-president.

Anson Dodge

First attracted to the forests of Ontario in 1866, with an invitation from Henry W. Sage, possibly at a time when Sage was considering disposing of his Bell Ewart mill.

Battle of Chickasaw Bayou

On January 5, Sherman sent a letter to General-in-Chief Henry W. Halleck, summing up the campaign (in a manner reminiscent of a famous statement by Julius Caesar), "I reached Vicksburg at the time appointed, landed, assaulted, and failed."

Charles A. Blair

Blair held several public offices including serving as prosecuting attorney for Jackson County.

Charles Alvin Beckwith

Beckwith was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1929, and was an all-state football player for his Boys High School team.

Clarence Harris

On February 1, 1960, Ezell A. Blair, Jr. (later Jimbaeel Khazan), Frank McCain, Joseph McNeil and David Richmond, four young African-American students from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T), entered the downtown Greensboro Woolworth's and sat at the "whites only" lunch counter.

Doreen Gentzler

She is a 1979 graduate of the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia.

Ezell A. Blair, Jr.

Blair graduated from Dudley High School, where his father taught, and was awarded a B.S. in sociology from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in 1963.

Francis Blair

Frank S. Blair (1839–1899), Virginia lawyer and Attorney General of Virginia

George A. Blair

Cypress Gardens A special tribute was held at Cypress Gardens on March 30, 2008

George Blair

George A. Blair (born 1915), businessman, entrepreneur, and waterskier

Gertie Gitana

Her music hall repertoire included "A Schoolgirl's Holiday", "We've been chums for fifty years", "When the Harvest Moon is Shining", "Silver Bell", "You do Look Well in Your Old Dutch Bonnet", "Queen of the Cannibal Isles", "Never Mind", "When I see the Lovelight Gleaming", and especially "Nellie Dean" - written by Henry W. Armstrong - which an audience first heard her sing in 1907.

Henry Anderson

Henry W. Anderson (1870–1954), United States attorney and leader of the Republican Party in Virginia

Henry Collier

Henry W. Collier (1801–1855), Democratic Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama

Henry Downs

Henry W. Downs (1844–1911), Union Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

Henry Dwight

Henry W. Dwight (1788–1845), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts

Henry Holt

Henry W. Holt (1864–1947), Chief Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court

Henry Petrie

Henry W. Petrie (1857–1925), American composer and performer

Henry W. Anderson

While in the Balkans Anderson became infatuated with Queen Marie of Romania, and the two began a daily exchange of letters and presents.

Coolidge chose Anderson in 1924 as the agent to settle the Mexican claims resulting from retaliatory raids against Pancho Villa in 1916.

Henry W. Butner

Before being promoted to major general on 1 February 1936, Butner commanded additional units and had once again traveled across America before taking command of the Panama Canal Department.

Henry W. Clune

Henry W. Clune (February 8, 1890 - October 9, 1995) was a well-known journalist for the Democrat and Chronicle newspaper in Rochester, New York.

He attended West High School and for a short time was a student at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.

Henry W. Ellsworth

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

Henry W. Grady High School

The Advanced and Chamber Choruses form Grady's performance chorus, and have performed at Spivey Hall (Clayton State University), Falany Hall (Reinhardt College) and the Recital Hall of Georgia State University.

Henry W. Keyes

He died in 1938 in North Haverhill, New Hampshire, and is buried at the Oxbow Cemetery in Newbury, Vermont.

Henry W. Miller

From 1864 Miller led a group of Mormons in founding a settlement they called Millersburg at what is now Beaver Dam, Arizona.

Henry W. Moore

He played for Chicago teams Chicago Giants and Leland Giants almost exclusively for the rest of his baseball career, with exception of part of a season he played for the French Lick, Indiana Plutos in 1913.

Jacob B. Blair

He was a probate judge for Salt Lake County, Utah from 1892 to 1895, and surveyor general of Utah from 1897 to 1901.

James B. Dudley High School

Ezell A. Blair, Jr., African American civil rights activist, graduated from Dudley High School.

James Clemmer

Clemmer managed the Fifth Avenue theater (1925-1926) (designed by Robert C. Reamer), the Winter Garden, the Music Box (1928-1930) (designed by Henry W. Bittman), various Blue Mouse theaters, the Music Hall, one of Portland, Oregon's Paramount theaters (1928) (designed by Rapp & Rapp with Priteca & Peters), and the Orpheum (1926-1927) (designed by B. Marcus Priteka).

James T. Blair, Jr.

He received the Air Medal, Legion of Merit, and Bronze Star among other awards as he rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

Jered Carr

He is the Director of the L.P. Cookingham Institute of Urban Affairs and Professor of Henry W. Bloch School of Management at University of Missouri-Kansas City and was a former researcher at Center for International Public Management,.

Luce Memorial Chapel

It was designed by the architect and artist Chen Chi-Kwan in collaboration with the firm of noted architect I. M. Pei, and named in honor of the Rev. Henry W. Luce, an American missionary in China in the late 19th century and father of publisher Henry Luce.

Philippine local election, 1899

The first local elections under the American occupation were held in Baliuag, Bulacan, supervised by US General Henry W. Lawton.

Portland Hotel

He generated enough interest and subscribers to his plan, among them Henry W. Corbett, Henry Failing, Simeon Reed and William S. Ladd, to get construction started again.

Richard T. Warner

He serves on Governor Sonny Perdue’s Georgia Film, Video and Music Advisory Commission; the Grady Board of Trust of the University of Georgia’s Henry W. Grady School of Journalism and Mass Communications; Atlanta’s Grady Hospital Board; and is a past president of the American Marketing Association’s Atlanta chapter.

Rising Appalachia

After working with visual arts during her early school days Leah Smith graduated from Grady High School and moved at the age of nineteen to Mexico to study and work alongside the Zapatista movement.

Seth C. Moffatt

He was re-elected in 1886 to the 50th Congress, serving from March 4, 1885 until his death at the age of forty-six in Washington, D.C. Henry W. Seymour was elected on February 14, 1888, to fill the vacancy caused by his death.

Steven W. Plattner

Plattner conducted oral history interviews with the project's key photographers—Clyde Hare, Harold Corsini, Esther Bubley, Russell Lee, James P. Blair, Richard Saunders, Elliott Erwitt, Sol Libsohn, and Arnold S. Eagle—and co-authored and edited Witness to the Fifties, published in 1999 with the help of a grant from the Howard Heinz Endowment.

Tom Means

He played with some popular players of the day, including Clarence Lytle, Home Run Johnson, MIke Moore, Johnny Davis, William Binga, and Sherman Barton.

USS Pontoosuc

Seven of Pontoosucs sailors received the Medal of Honor for their actions during this campaign: Cabin Boy John Anglin, Coxswain Asa Betham, Boatswain's Mate Robert M. Blair, Captain of the Forecastle John P. Erickson, Landsman George W. McWilliams, Chief Quartermaster James W. Verney, and Sailmaker's Mate Anthony Williams.

Will Horn

Horn played with several popular players of the day, including Bill Gatewood, Bruce Petway, Dangerfield Talbert, Henry W. Moore, Chappie Johnson, Albert Toney, George Hopkins, and Harry Hyde.

William E. Chandler

He took charge in 1883 in planning for the rescue of Lt. Adolphus Greely's Lady Franklin Bay Expedition.

William Price Williamson

Another descendant of Confederate Chief Engineer William Price Williamson is Admiral Dennis C. Blair, United States Navy (Ret.), nominated for the post of Director of National Intelligence in the Obama administration.

William R. Blair

In 1917, the Army established the Signal Corps Radio Laboratories at Camp Vail, in eastern New Jersey.


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