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2 unusual facts about Samuel S. Stratton


Knox Street Historic District

Just past Myrtle Avenue one block south of the district is the Samuel S. Stratton Veterans Administration hospital, part of a large complex of health-care facilities.

Stratton Air National Guard Base

The base is named after conservative Democratic US Representative Sam Stratton, who represented the Albany area.


Agri-Fab, Inc.

Other products made by Agri-Fab are ground-engaging attachments (rock rake, disc cultivator, row crop cultivator, scraper box, tow-behind tiller), an ATV/UTV compatible rough-cut mower, 15 and 25 gallon tow-behind sprayers, and a Mow-N-Vac and Chip-N-Vac (both with Briggs & Stratton engines).

Annals of Mathematical Statistics

In 1938, Samuel Wilks became editor-in-chief of the Annals and recruited a remarkable editorial staff: Fisher, Neyman, Cramér, Hotelling, Egon Pearson, Georges Darmois, Allen T. Craig, Deming, von Mises, H. L. Rietz, and Shewhart.

Ard Patrick

Before the start of the 1903 season, Gubbins reportedly turned down an offer of £15,000 for Ard Patrick from Samuel S. Brown of Pittsburgh.

Brian Stratton

McNulty's predecessor was Stratton's father and fellow former mayor of Schenectady, Samuel S. Stratton.

Church of St Vigor, Stratton-on-the-Fosse

This church is one of only two English churches dedicated to him, the other being at Fulbourn in Cambridgeshire.

Colorado School of Mines

The honorary named Colorado School of Mines buildings commemorate Dr. Victor C. Alderson, Edward L. Berthoud, George R. Brown, Dr. Regis Chauvenet, Dr. Melville F. Coolbaugh, Cecil H. and Ida Green, Simon Guggenheim, Nathaniel P. Hill, Arthur Lakes, Dr. Paul D. Meyer, Winfield S. Stratton, and Russell K. Volk.

Dorothy C. Stratton

She is the namesake of the Coast Guard's third National Security Cutter, the USCGC Stratton (WMSL-752).

In 2008, the Coast Guard named its third National Security Cutter the USCGC Stratton (WMSL-752) in her honor.

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ELTO

Meanwhile, the Evinrude Motor Co. floundered, and in 1929, Stephen Foster Briggs, co-founder of its new owner, Briggs & Stratton Corporation; proposed a merger between the Evinrude Motor Co., the Elto Outdoor Motor Co., and the Lockwood Motor Co. of Jackson, Michigan.

Grover Lewis

In 2005, the University of Texas Press released a compendium of his entire career entitled Splendor in the Short Grass, edited by and with an introduction by Jan Reid and W.K. Stratton, and with a foreword by Dave Hickey and a remembrance by Robert Draper.

Ingersoll Power Equipment

In the late 1990s the tried and true, yet obsolete and expensive Onan twin cylinder engine was abandoned for the Briggs & Stratton Vanguard OHV twin.

John L. N. Stratton

Stratton was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses, serving in office from March 4, 1859 to March 3, 1863, but was not a candidate for renomination in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth.

John Stratton

John L. N. Stratton (1817–1889), American Republican Party politician in New Jersey

Maryland Route 195

The street itself was named for Samuel S. Carroll, the owner of the land around present day Takoma Junction prior to its purchase by Benjamin Franklin Gilbert in 1883 to create his planned suburb of Takoma Park.

MCA Solutions

MCA Solutions customers have included: Bobst Group, Boeing, Bombardier Aerospace, Briggs & Stratton, Brocade Communications Systems, Cymer, KLA-Tencor Corporation, Lam Research, Lockheed Martin, Rockwell Collins, Sysmex Corporation, Tellabs, U.S. Navy and Varian Semiconductor

Nellie Walker

In 1902, reclusive Colorado Springs millionaire W. S. Stratton died and someone there realized that Walker was in town and asked her to make a death mask, which she did.

Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT

Under the leadership of Director Julius A. Stratton and Associate Director Albert G. Hill, it continued investigation on problems in physical electronics that involved cathodes, electronic emission, and gaseous conduction.

Richard A. Stratton

He developed an early interest in aviation with initial visits in the mid-1930s to Dennison’s Airport (Squantum), Quincy, Massachusetts, the home of the Harvard Aero Club and host to such luminaries as Amelia Earhart.

His father was Charles Arthur Stratton (1902–1975) of South Boston, Massachusetts, a veteran of WW I (U.S. Navy) and WW II (Massachusetts State Guard).

SAE Supermileage Competition

Teams are required to use a one cylinder lawnmower engine provided by Briggs & Stratton, but significant modification is allowed.

Samuel Day

Samuel S. Day (1808–1871), Canadian-born American Baptist missionary

Samuel Marshall

Samuel S. Marshall (1821–1890), American politician, U.S. Representative from Illinois

Samuel S. Bloom

Samuel S. Bloom (Hebrew: שמואל (סם) בלום) (December 25, 1860 - October 10, 1941) was an U.S. Jewish Zionist leader and industrialist and And innovator in the field of dentures.

Samuel S. Bowne

Elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh Congress, Bowne served as United States Representative for the nineteenth district of New York from March 4, 1841 to March 3, 1843.

Samuel S. Carroll

Transferred with this brigade to the Northern Virginia area, he was severely wounded in the chest in a fight near the Rapidan River.

Samuel S. Conner

Conner was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fourteenth Congress (March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1817).

Samuel S. Coursen

In continuous service since, the ferry has carried heads of state visiting Governors Island and New York City including Queen Elizabeth II in her first visit as queen on October 21, 1957, and the King of Norway in a visit in the early 1990s.

Samuel S. Cox

He was a backer of the Life Saving Service, later merged into the United States Coast Guard.

He served two terms, was defeated by Lyman Tremain in the New York state election, 1872, running for Congress at-large on the state ticket, but was elected to the vacant Congressional seat of the late James Brooks in 1873.

Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial

The gallery contains art by Violet Oakley, tiles by Henry Chapman Mercer, 18th-century Portuguese art, and primitive European art, as well as the religious art from the original church.

Samuel S. Koenig

He died at his home at 107 West 86th Street in Manhattan, and was buried at the Union Field Cemetery in Ridgewood, Queens.

Samuel S. Marshall

Marshall was elected to the Thirty-ninth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1875), and was the candidate of his party for Speaker of the House in 1867.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress.

Samuel S. Montague

The two men shaking hands at the center of this photograph are Samuel S. Montague Chief Engineer for the Central Pacific and Grenville M. Dodge, Chief Engineer for the Union Pacific.

Samuel S. Phelps

He served until March 16, 1854 when the Senate resolved that he was not entitled to the seat on the grounds that he had been legally appointed by the Governor of Vermont when the Vermont General Assembly was not in session, but that the General Assembly had not acted to fill the vacancy at its subsequent session, as required by law.

Samuel S. Thompson

The third County Supervisors in 1854 for Los Angeles were David W. Alexander, Stephen C. Foster, Juan Sepulveda, Cristobal Aguilar, and Samuel S. Thompson.

Samuel S. Wilks

Wilks assembled an advisory board for the journal that included major figures in statistics and probability, among them Ronald Fisher, Jerzy Neyman, and Egon Pearson.

Samuel Slater

:For the New York politician, see Samuel S. Slater.

Stephen Foster Briggs

Stephen Foster Briggs (December 4, 1885 – October 16, 1976) was an American engineer, co-founder of the company manufacturing Briggs & Stratton small internal-combustion engines and founder of Outboard Marine Corporation.

Bill Juneau, a coach at South Dakota State, knew of Briggs' ambition and the entrepreneurial interests of Harold M. Stratton, a successful grain merchant who had a farm next to Juneau's farm.

Timothy J. Campbell

He was elected as a Democrat to the 49th United States Congress, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Samuel S. Cox, was re-elected to the 50th, and was elected again to the 52nd and 53rd United States Congresses, holding office from November 3, 1885, to March 3, 1889; and from March 4, 1891, to March 3, 1895.


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