According to Groucho Marx, when Erlanger approached Gen. Lew Wallace about acquiring the stage rights to his epic novel Ben-Hur, Wallace asked him fiercely, "Do you believe in our lord, Jesus Christ?"
The trial was presided over by Union General Lew Wallace and featured chief Judge Advocate General (JAG) prosecutor Norton Parker Chipman.
It should not be confused with the official Union Army VIII Corps, which was commanded by Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace and on guard duty along the B & O Railroad during this time.
Named "Cottonwood" when it was founded in the late 19th century, it changed its name to "Ben Hur" (possibly in honor of Lew Wallace, author of the book Ben Hur) in 1895, because several other communities in Texas were named "Cottonwood." A post office was located there from 1895 until 1906.
In 1883, for reflecting upon Gen. Lew Wallace, the American Minister to the Ottoman Empire, in an editorial in Havatzelet (xiii. No. 6), headed "An American and yet a Despot", the Havatzelet was suspended, and Frumkin was imprisoned for forty-five days, by order from Constantinople directed to the pasha of Jerusalem.
In 1878, the new territorial governor, retired Union General Lew Wallace, offered an amnesty to the combatants in order to bring a long-lasting truce between the factions.
Lew Wallace and Thomas Taggart were among their first Ceremonial Class, held in 1885.
The final major piece of the THI&E was the 1912 addition of the Indianapolis Crawfordsville and Danville Electric Railway, nicknamed the "Ben Hur Route" in honor of Lew Wallace of Crawfordsville, author of the novel "Ben Hur."
William Wallace | Wallace Stevens | George Wallace | Mike Wallace | Alfred Russel Wallace | Wallace Reid | Wallace | Lew Wallace | Edgar Wallace | David Foster Wallace | William Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire | Wallace Collection | Mike Wallace (journalist) | Dee Wallace | Rusty Wallace | Lew Grade | Lew Ayres | Wallace Beery | Randall Wallace | Wallace B. Smith | Irving Wallace | George Wallace William Hanger | Beryl Wallace | Westland Wallace | Wallace Stegner | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | Steve Wallace | Lew Tabackin | Lew Irwin | Lew Hoad |
George appeared in the film, a silent called Tainted Money in 1915 She starred as Esther in the hugely successful 1899 Broadway adaptation Ben Hur from Lew Wallace's novel.
Lew Wallace wrote the final parts of his book Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ in this building while serving as territorial governor in the late 1870s.
Incumbent governor John Hubert Hall, who took over after Snell's death until the election, lost the Republican nomination 51.13-48.87%, to state senator Douglas McKay, and the Democrats nominated state senator Lew Wallace, who had previously lost to Earl Snell in the 1942 gubernatorial election in a landslide.