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5 unusual facts about Hiram


Amasa Lyman

From Cleveland, Lyman walked the 45 miles to Hiram, where he was told Smith and his family were living.

Batty Langley

The eccentric landscape designer, who gave some of his numerous children names like Hiram, Euclid, Vitruvius and Archimedes, even attempted to "improve" Gothic forms by giving them classical proportions.

Hiram's Highway

It earned its name from its reconstruction of a Japanese track in the immediate post Second World War years by the Royal Marines.

Julia Montes

Having no exclusivity in her contract with the Kapuso Network, she auditioned for ABS-CBN's Hiram and was accepted.

Thomas J. Arnold

After the death of her husband, Elizabeth took the children back to England and Rugby for their initial education and then moved to Hiram, Ohio, where her children went to college.


Battle of Stone Corral

Gard's posse composed of himself and three others: Hiram Lee Rapelje, a deputized bounty hunter, Fred Jackson, a policeman from Nevada, and Thomas Burns.

Cleo Carlyle

Hiram Cleo Carlyle (September 7, 1902 – November 12, 1967) was an outfielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox during the 1927 season.

Edmund C. Weeks

A Massachusetts native, Weeks was born in the town of Tisbury, on Martha's Vineyard, to Captain Hiram Weeks and Margaret D. Cottle, a relative of New York Senator Thomas C. Platt.

Edmund Dick Taylor

On 5 February 1857, the Chicago Merchants' Exchange company was incorporated by: Edmund D. Taylor, Thomas Hall, George Armour, James Peck, John P. Chapin, Walter S. Gurnee, Edward Kendall Rogers, Thomas Richmond, Julian Sidney Rumsey, Samuel B. Pomeroy, Elisha Wadsworth, Walter Loomis Newberry, Hiram Wheeler and George Steele.

Harry C. Hatch

Four years later, Hatch acquired Hiram Walker & Sons Ltd. based in Walkerville, Ontario, and in 1927 merged the two companies under the parent company of Hiram Walker-Gooderharn & Worts Limited.

Hillsboro, Illinois

Alternatively, there is the belief that it was named for Hillsborough, North Carolina, the home of some of the early settlers, including Hiram Rountree and John Nussman.

Hiram College

The Hiram College basketball team won the gold medal in the collegiate division of the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis.

Hiram F. Mather

Hiram Foote Mather (February 13, 1796 Colchester, New London County, Connecticut - July 11, 1868 Chicago, Illinois) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Hiram Lodge

His name is also probably intended to sound vaguely Masonic: "Hiram" being the name of the Masons' legendary founder and "Lodge" being the term used for a Masonic chapter.

Hiram Powers

In 2007 the Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio presented the first major exhibition devoted to the most celebrated nineteenth-century American sculptor, "Hiram Powers: Genius in Marble".

Hiram Richard Hulse

On 12 January 1915, in New York City, Hiram Hulse was consecrated as a Bishop in Cuba for the Protestant Episcopal Church assisted by Bishop de Landes Berghes in the Mathew line.

Hiram Wilkinson

Hiram Parkes Wilkinson KC, British lawyer and judge (and son of Hiram Shaw Wilkinson)

Hiram Yeager

Hiram and Max will occasionally work all night together when doing research for coworkers as they did in Treasure of Khan, where they dug up earthquake data and cross referenced it with a custom program to test the characteristics of quakes.

Ken Kerslake

Kerslake’s colleagues at the University of Florida included photographers Jerry Uelsmann and Todd Walker, painters Hiram Williams and Lennie Kesl and sculptor Jack Nickelson.

King Hiram I

King Hiram is a character in the time travel story Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks (1983) by Poul Anderson.

Leigh Marble

The son of two Harvard, Massachusetts software engineers and nephew of science fiction novelist Piers Anthony, Leigh Marble is also the direct descendant of 19th century spiritualist Hiram Marble who spent years vainly searching for pirate's treasure that he believed lay buried within the abandoned cave of Dungeon Rock (now part of the Lynn Woods Reservation of eastern Massachusetts).

Lodge Obreros de Hiram, no. 29

The Respectable Lodge Obreros de Hiram (Hiram's Workers), no. 29 is a masonic lodge in Seville (Spain), a liberal and adogmatic one, and under the auspices of the Gran Logia Simbólica Española.

Mike Jay

After the Hiram Scott program was shut down, Jay found his way into the United States Marine Corps, where he played quarterback for the 1972 Quantico Marines, an All-Marine Football program designed to showcase the USMC for recruiting.

Red Badgro

Morris Hiram "Red" Badgro (December 1, 1902 in Orillia, Washington – July 13, 1998 in Kent, Washington) was a multi-sport athlete, best known as a professional American football end in the National Football League for the New York Yankees, New York Giants, and the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Shake Ray Turbine

Members have also played in the bands Amen Booze Rooster, Blood Feathers, Flip'n Sync, Soophie Nun Squad, William Martyr 17, Revolver Red, The Cannonballs, Hiram Ragan Experience, The Insides, Lazy Fair, The Earthworms, Hundred Years War, Heads Are Heavy, Fuse of Ire, Basil, Stoney Jacksons, Full Service Quartet, Sean Na Na, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, The Lapse, and Aspera.

Sullivan Ballou

Ballou was born the son of Hiram and Emeline (Bowen) Ballou, a distinguished Huguenot family in Smithfield, Rhode Island.

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

With Hiram Clark presiding, the missionaries included Elders Henry Bigler, Hiram Blackwell, George Q. Cannon, John Dixon, William Farrer, James Hawkins, James Keeler, Thomas Morris, and Thomas Whittle.


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