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unusual facts about Samuel W. Crawford


Bessie Potter Vonnoh

In 1898, she received the commission for a bust of General Samuel W. Crawford for the Smith Memorial Arch in Philadelphia.


Absent-minded professor

Examples in film of absent-minded professors include "Doc" Emmett Brown from Back to the Future, the title character in the film The Absent-Minded Professor and its less successful film remakes all based on the short story A Situation of Gravity, by Samuel W. Taylor, as well as Professor Farnsworth of Futurama and Professor Frink in The Simpsons.

Arminghall

The site was visited a week later by O.G.S. Crawford, who pronounced it to be the Norwich Woodhenge but it was not until 1935 that it was first excavated, by Grahame Clark.

Bicycle City

The concept of Bicycle City has been influenced by the ideas of new urbanism, smart growth development and healthy, active communities, as well as the work of people such as Frank Lloyd Wright, John Naisbitt, Andreas Duany, Paolo Soleri, John Robbins, Scott Martin, Maria Montessori, Richard Register, and J.H. Crawford.

Camp Casey

Camp Casey, Crawford, Texas, an encampment outside the George W. Bush ranch in Crawford, Texas during his five-week vacation there in August 2005

Canton, Connecticut

Samuel W. Collins (1802–1871), founder of the Collins Axe Factory for which Collinsville is named

The Canton Historical Museum in Collinsville is located in a building of the former Collins Axe Company, founded by Samuel W. Collins and one of the first ax factories in the world.

Charles Crawford

Charles H. Crawford (1879–1931), Los Angeles criminal and political figure

David Meeks

Meeks was reared in the Springhill Community in Faulkner County and attended first Greenbrier High School in Greenbrier but graduated from Samuel W. Wolfson High School in Jacksonville, Florida.

Earl T. Ricks

Ricks bought the home of spa and railroad entrepreneur Samuel W. Fordyce in 1932.

Eric Hurley

Hurley attended Samuel W. Wolfson High School in Jacksonville, Florida, where he was teammates with fellow first round draft pick Billy Butler who was selected by the Kansas City Royals.

Ernest Medina

:"Do I see Lieutenant Calley? Do I see Captain Medina? Do I see Gen'ral Koster and all his crew?"

Fred L. Crawford

Crawford was the ranking minority member on the Committee on Public Lands in the 81st and 82nd Congresses (1950–1952).

Frederick H. Crawford

Colonel Frederick Hugh Crawford CBE, JP (21 August 1861 – 5 November 1952) was an officer in the British Army.

George A. Crawford

In 1857, along with Norman Eddy and others, he purchased and founded the city of Fort Scott, Kansas.

George Sykes

His 3rd Division, the Pennsylvania Reserves, led by Brig. Gen. Samuel W. Crawford, attacked from Little Round Top, drove the Confederates across the "Valley of Death" and ended the deadly fighting in the Wheatfield.

George W. Crawford

On November 16, 1943 the keel was laid for the SS George Walker Crawford, a liberty ship built by the J.A. Jones Construction Company in Brunswick, Georgia honoring Crawford for his service to the state of Georgia.

Greg Turk

He attended Santa Monica High School in the 1970s, where he was a member of the nonmusical group "The Olive Starlight Orchestra," along with David Linden, Keith Goldfarb, David Coons, Sandra Tsing Loh, Susan P. Crawford, Eric Enderton, and Jan Steckel.

Jack Van Impe

Twice during the broadcast, once in the middle of the broadcast and once at the end, announcer Chuck Ohman, who many years before was a trumpeter for Percy B. Crawford's "Youth on the March" television broadcasts, describes a DVD that is being sold by the ministry, and how to order.

James Miller McKim

McKim was depicted in the The Resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia, a lithograph by artist Samuel W. Rowse, which was widely published to help raise funds for the Underground Railroad.

Jim Crawford

James W. Crawford, Jr. (born 1937), known as Jim, Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly

Johnson T. Crawford

Johnson Tal Crawford was a district judge in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, United States.

Kate Ferguson

She married the Civil War hero General Samuel W. Ferguson (1834-1917), and their house became a social center in Greenville, Mississippi.

Larry Northern

In August 2005 Northern was arrested and charged with criminal mischief after he drove his pickup truck through the Arlington West display of memorial crosses (each bearing the name of an American soldier killed in Iraq) that had been set up at Camp Casey, the protest site organized by peace activist Cindy Sheehan near the ranch of President George W. Bush near Crawford, Texas.

Peel, Oregon

Peel post office was established in 1888 and named for congressman Samuel W. Peel of Arkansas.

Robert L. Crawford, Jr.

In 1959, Crawford's appearance on the CBS anthology series Playhouse 90 was nominated for Best Single Performance on the 11th Primetime Emmy Awards.

RuSHA Trial

The judges in this case, heard before Military Tribunal I, were Lee B. Wyatt (presiding judge), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia; Daniel T. O'Connell of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, and Johnson T. Crawford from Oklahoma.

Samuel Dexter

Samuel W. Dexter, founder of Dexter, Michigan, was his son.

Samuel Richards

Samuel W. Richards (1824–1909), religious and political leader in Utah

Samuel W. Alderson

In 1966, the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act was passed, which together with Ralph Nader's book, "Unsafe at Any Speed" put the search for an anatomically faithful test dummy into high gear.

Samuel W. Eager

Eager was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian candidate to the Twenty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hector Craig and served from November 2, 1830, to March 3, 1831.

He was not a candidate at the election held the same day for the Twenty-second Congress.

Samuel W. Koster

Freelance investigative journalist Seymour Hersh broke the story of the massacre to the wider public in November 1969.

On March 16, 1968, a company of Americal Division troops led by Captain Ernest Medina and Lieutenant William Calley slaughtered hundreds of civilians in a South Vietnamese hamlet known as My Lai (referred to as "Pinkville" by the troops).

Samuel W. Martien

Grandson Norman Hopkins Martien, Jr. (1926-2012), a Waterproof native, was a graduate in chemical engineering of Louisiana Tech University in Ruston and an engineering project manager for Kaiser Aluminum in Gramercy, Louisiana.

Samuel W. Moulton

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress, and was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1865 – March 4, 1867).

He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1881 – March 4, 1885) and served as chairman of the Committee on Mileage (Forty-eighth Congress).

Samuel W. Peel

He served as chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs (Fiftieth and Fifty-second Congresses).

Peel was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1893).

Samuel W. Rowse

Henry Brown, a slave, had escaped from Richmond, Virginia in 1849 by having himself shipped overland express to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in a small box, where he was received by Reverend James Miller McKim and other members of the Anti-Slavery Society.

Samuel W. Thornton

He participated in several of the bloodiest battles of the war, including the Battle of Shiloh, Battle of Vicksburg, and Battle of Memphis, where he was shot in the thigh and hospitalized until the end of the war.

Susan Crawford

Susan P. Crawford (b. 1963), American professor of law at the Cardozo School of Law

Susan J. Crawford, American judge and senior Pentagon official, the convening authority for Guantanamo military commissions 2007–2010

Susan J. Crawford

Eric Montalvo chose to travel to Afghanistan at his own expense to aid Jawad.

The Ultimate Dr. John

# "Iko Iko" (James "Sugarbaby" Crawford) – 4:08

William Bell Clark

He was succeeded as editor and his work continued by Dr. William J. Morgan, who in turn was succeeded by Dr. William S. Dudley, and then by Dr. Michael J. Crawford.


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