X-Nico

unusual facts about James W. Reid


James W. Reid

James William Reid (1859–1933), physician and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada


Boys and Girls High School

A new building was planned on the east side of Nostrand Avenue between from Halsey and Macon Streets, designed by Superintendent of Buildings James W. Naughton, but by the time it opened in 1886, enrollment had increased to the point where it was decided to use this building as the girls' high school and to and build a separate building for the boys.

Campbell, Australian Capital Territory

Many buildings built by Robert Campbell and his family are still standing around Canberra, including Blundell's Cottage, St John the Baptist Church, Reid, Duntroon House (now part of RMC Duntroon) and Yarralumla House (now Government House).

Charles C. Reid

Reid was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1911).

Cimetidine

Cimetidine was the culmination of a project at Smith, Kline and French (SK&F; now GlaxoSmithKline) by James W. Black, C. Robin Ganellin, and others to develop a histamine receptor antagonist to suppress stomach acid secretion.

Clayton Lawrence Bissell

Between October and December 1925, he served as assistant defense counsel for Mitchell during his court martial, under the direction of lead counsel Congressman Frank R. Reid.

Confucius Lives Next Door

Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West is a 1999 book by Washington Post writer T.R. Reid.

Crédit Mobilier of America scandal

In 1872, the House of Representatives submitted the names of nine politicians to the Senate for investigation: Senators William B. Allison (R-IA), James A. Bayard, Jr. (D-DE), George S. Boutwell (R-MA), Roscoe Conkling (R-NY), James Harlan (R-IA), John Logan (R-IL), James W. Patterson (R-NH), and Henry Wilson (R-MA); and Vice President Schuyler Colfax (R-IN).

Daniel G. Reid

In 1918, Reid built for his daughter the Jacobean-style mansion Dunnellen Hall.

Frank R. Reid

Reid was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1923-January 3, 1935).

He served as chairman of the Committee on Flood Control (Sixty-ninth through Seventy-first Congresses).

Gibbons–Hawking–York boundary term

The necessity of such a boundary term was first realised by York and later refined in a minor way by Gibbons and Hawking.

H. Reid

An avid fan of steam locomotives, he helped capture the last days of steam motive power on America's Class I railroads, notably on the Virginian Railway, and ending with the Norfolk and Western in 1960, the last major U.S. railroad to convert from steam.

James Hubbard

James W. Hubbard (born 1948), American politician in the Maryland House of Delegates

James Marshall House

James W. Marshall House, Lambertville, New Jersey, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)

James McMillan

James W. McMillan (1825–1903), Union officer during the American Civil War

James R. Reid

James R. Reid resigned for health reasons in 1904, and was succeeded as president by Dr. James M. Hamilton, an economist.

James Rutherford

James W. Rutherford (1925–2010), American politician; former mayor of Flint, Michigan

James W. Adams

James W. Adams of Southville, Kentucky was a carpenter, builder, and designer in south central Shelby County, Kentucky.

James W. Borden

His brother, physician Joseph Borden (1806–1875) and his family moved to California and named the town of Borden, California.

There was a minor territorial dispute over the remote Johnston Atoll.

James W. Bryan

He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress.

Bryan was elected as a Progressive to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1915).

James W. Bryce

In 1937 Bryce was approached by Howard Aiken of Harvard University, who persuaded IBM to fund a programmable calculator which became the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), better known as the Harvard Mark I.

James W. Davidson

Leaving in 1914, he spent CAN$250,000 of his own money to establish branches of Rotary International in Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Jerusalem, Burma, Siam (Thailand), Java, and in several of the Malay states including Seremban, Kuala Lumpur, Malacca, Penang, Ipoh, Klang and Singapore.

In June 1897, he was appointed by President Cleveland consular agent for the island of Formosa, where he remained nine years, during which time he wrote numerous monographs on Formosan affairs.

James W. Duckett

Major General James W. Duckett, (July 8, 1911 – January 21, 1991) South Carolina Unorganized Militia, succeeded Gen Hugh P. Harris as President of The Citadel in 1970.

James W. Dunbar

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

James W. Faulkner

His pallbearers were: William F. Wiley, Herbert R. Mengert, Jasper C. Muma, Robert F. Wolfe, Judson Harmon, James M. Cox, William A. Stewart, Bayard L. Kilgour, William Alexander Julian, Russell A. Wilson, W. F. Burdell and Nicholas Longworth.

James W. Forsyth

He died on October 24, 1906 in Columbus, Ohio, and is buried in Green Lawn Cemetery.

James W. Hennigan, Jr.

Hennigan is the Hennigan referred to in Morgan v. Hennigan since he was head of the Boston School Committee at the time.

James W. Nichol

His first novel, Midnight Cab, won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel, and was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger.

James W. Pumphrey

Pumphrey's stable was located near the National Hotel, which was Booth's Washington residence at the time.

James W. Smith

A few years later he trained for the renowned owner of Idle Hour Stock Farm, Edward R. Bradley, for whom he

James W. Stone

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1852 to the Thirty-third Congress.

James W. Walter, Sr.

His wife, Monica Walter, died in 1982, leaving two sons, James W. Walter Jr. and Robert Walter.

James W. Wise

Due to a prolonged illness, he was unable to qualify for or attend the 68th Congress.

James W. York

In any physical theory, it is important to understand when solutions to the fundamental field equation exist, and answering this question has been the central theme of York's scientific work, culminating in the achievement, with Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, of formulating the Einstein field equation as a well-posed system in the sense of the theory of partial differential equations.

Jón Jónsson

In August 2012, Jón traveled to New York with his friend, Kristján Bjarnason, and after an audition with L.A. Reid was signed to Reid's Epic Records label.

L. W. Beineke

Tournaments, K. B. Reid, L. W. Beineke - Selected topics in graph theory, 1978

Mount Marcus Baker

Mount Marcus Baker was originally called "Mount Saint Agnes"; according to Bradford Washburn, James W. Bagley of the USGS named it after his wife Agnes, adding the "Saint" in hopes of making the name stick.

Pete Peterson

He defeated James W. Grant, a politician who grew unpopular after switching from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party in the middle of his second term.

Samuel Shumack

For a year beginning Easter 1895, and again in 1904, Shumack was elected a churchwarden at St John's, Canberra.

State v. Reid

Though the defendant and amici curiae, the Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey (ACDL) and the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey (ACLU), argued that notice of the subpoena must also be given to the subscriber, the court again deferred to McAllister, where it ruled that notice is not constitutionally required in order for law enforcement to obtain bank records through a grand jury subpoena.

Susan L. M. Aumann

Prior to 2002, District 42 was represented by Democrats James W. Campbell, Maggie McIntosh, and Samuel I. Rosenberg.

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.

William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil

He was buried in Canberra at historic St John the Baptist Church, Reid and remains the only Australian governor-general to die in office.

William Reese

James W. Reese, American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient, went by his middle name "William"

Women's Centennial Congress

John G. Reid, Viola Florence Barnes, 1885-1979: a historian's biography, University of Toronto Press, 2005, page 97

You Said

Released in 1991, the entire album was produced by "The LaFace Family", consisting of L.A. Reid, Babyface, Kayo, and Darryl Simmons.


see also