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2 unusual facts about Lewis B. Gunckel


Lewis B. Gunckel

He was a delegate from the Ohio state bar to the newly formed National Bar Association from 1888 to 1890, also serving as treasurer and member of the executive committee of the latter.

He voted to repeal the bill known as the "salary grab," and always refused to accept the salary due him under the retroactive clause of that law.


Daniel Ustian

Lewis B. Campbell immediately stepped in to replace him as Chairman and interim CEO.

Lewis B. Campbell

After Daniel Ustian abruptly retired as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Navistar International Corporation on August 27th, 2012, Campbell was named interim Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the truck and engine manufacturer.

Lewis B. Parsons, Jr.

(Perry, New York, April 5, 1818 - Flora, Illinois, March 16, 1907) was one of the last officers who was promoted to brigadier general of volunteers during the American Civil War.

Parsons College was named after his father Lewis B. Parsons, Sr. His grandfather, Charles Parsons, had been an officer in the American Revolutionary War.

In 1854, he moved to St. Louis, where he became president of the Ohio and Mississippi Railway.

Lewis B. Schwellenbach

He changed the labor department from a department primarily interested in statistical information gathering to a policy-making department, actively trying to conciliate labor with management and promote a high-wage economy based on unionized labor.

Schwellenbach was born in Superior, Wisconsin, and when he was eight years old, his family moved to Spokane, Washington.

Lewis B. Stillwell

His papers (1886-1939) are held in the Manuscript Division of the Princeton University Library.

Lewis B. Sturges

Sturges was elected as a Federalist to the Ninth Congress to fill in part the vacancies caused by the resignations of Calvin Goddard and Roger Griswold.

He was reelected to the Tenth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from September 16, 1805, to March 3, 1817.

New York Court for the Trial of Impeachments

Votes against conviction: Judges Ward Hunt (Rep.), Lewis B. Woodruff (Rep.), Charles Mason (Rep.), William J. Bacon (Rep.), Thomas W. Clerke and Charles C. Dwight; State Senators Chapman, Banks, Campbell, Hubbard, Humphrey, Kennedy, Mattoon, Morgan, Wicks, Palmer, Parker, Thayer, Van Patten - 19

New York, Westchester and Boston Railway

The principal rolling stock for the NYW&B was 95 motorized coaches, designed by L. B. Stillwell and built by the Pressed Steel Car Company, with center doors for high-platform use only and end doors that could accommodate low platforms.


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