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unusual facts about Lewis F. Muir


Lewis F. Muir

Muir composed productively in 1912–1913 and travelled to London with pianist Pete Wendling to play ragtime in the Oxford Theatre.


Bernard Segal

In 1981, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review devoted a unique issue to Segal, with tributes from Supreme Court Justices William J. Brennan, Jr. and Lewis F. Powell, Jr., Judges Arlin M. Adams and Louis H. Pollak and other legal luminaries.

Charles Warren Stone

Stone was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lewis F. Watson.

David Mallett

His songs have been recorded by more than 150 artists, including Pete Seeger, Alison Krauss, John Denver, Arlo Guthrie, Emmylou Harris, Peter, Paul & Mary, Bok, Trickett, Muir, and Liam Clancy among others.

David O. Stewart

Stewart was law clerk to Associate Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. of the United States Supreme Court during October Term, 1979, after working as law clerk for two appellate judges, J. Skelly Wright and David L. Bazelon of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

David S. Muir

He also worked closely with Peter Mandelson and Philip Gould on the Labour Party's 2010 general election campaign.

David Westin

After graduation, he served as a law clerk to J. Edward Lumbard of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and later clerked for Lewis F. Powell of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Edwin Michael Kosik

Kosik was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on May 14, 1986, to a seat vacated by Malcolm A. Muir on the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.

Henry Wade

The execution was scheduled for May 8, 1979 but U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., ordered a stay only three days before the scheduled date.

John H. Hager

Hager was elected Lieutenant Governor of Virginia in 1997, defeating Democrat Lewis F. Payne, Jr. Hager is believed to be the first disabled individual to serve in an elected statewide office in Virginia.

Lewis F. Payne, Jr.

Payne was elected as a Democrat to the 100th United States Congress, by special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative Dan Daniel and reelected to the four succeeding Congresses (serving from June 14, 1988 to January 3, 1997).

Lewis Powell

Lewis F. Powell, Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Mount Linn

The mountain was named by John C. Frémont in honor of Lewis F. Linn, a senator from Missouri, who played an important roll in the acquisition of the Oregon Territory.

Muir Army Airfield

The airfield was named in honor of Major General Charles H. Muir, the Commanding General of the 28th Division during World War I.

Ragtime Cowboy Joe

"Ragtime Cowboy Joe" is a popular song: lyrics by Grant Clarke, music by Lewis F. Muir and Maurice Abrahams.

The 1912 copyright version published by F.A. Mills credits Lewis F. Muir and Maurice Abrahams as composers and Grant Clarke as the lyricist.

Samuel Estreicher

After law school Estreicher clerked for the late Harold Leventhal of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, practiced with a union-side law firm, and then clerked for the late Lewis F. Powell, Jr. of the United States Supreme Court.

Southwest Waterfront

Hubert Humphrey lived there while serving as U.S. Vice President, and Thurgood Marshall, Lewis Powell, and David Souter all had homes in Southwest during their tenures on the United States Supreme Court.

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

From 1968 to 1970, a TV sitcom entitled The Ghost & Mrs. Muir starring Hope Lange and Edward Mulhare aired on NBC and ABC with the same premise as the book and film, but with a contemporary American setting.

In early 1900s England, a young widow, Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney), moves to the seaside village of Whitecliff and into Gull Cottage with her daughter Anna (Natalie Wood) and her maid Martha (Edna Best), despite the fierce disapproval of her mother- and sister-in-law.

Stuart Holmes as Man Ordered Out of Train Compartment by Captain

William Lanteau

He later appeared in over eighty different television shows, among them The Donna Reed Show, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Here's Lucy, No Soap, Radio, Newhart and Amen.

Wintergreen Resort

The following year, however, Melba Investors, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Bankers Trust Co. of New York acquired Wintergreen from Cabot, Cabot & Forbes, and Lewis F. Payne, Jr. founded Wintergreen Development, Inc. to operate the resort and serve as the developer and managing agent.


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