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unusual facts about Samuel W. Ferguson


Kate Ferguson

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


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.

Bessie Potter Vonnoh

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

Brian: Portrait of a Dog

During his parole hearing, he references the court case Plessy v. Ferguson, but unfortunately for him, the council believe that it's stupid to listen to a dog.

While arguing his case before the city council, Brian tries to reference the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, before being cut off.

Caesar Antoine

Plessy's action ultimately led to the Plessy v. Ferguson decision by the United States Supreme Court, which affirmed the legality of "separate-but-equal" facilities.

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 A. Ferguson

Charles Albert Ferguson (July 6, 1921 – September 2, 1998) was a U.S. linguist who taught at Stanford University.

Daniel C. Ferguson

Ferguson then attempted a 14 billion dollar merger with Rubbermaid to try to restore confidence of others which failed to produced the expected results.

In 1950 after earning an MBA from Stanford University he began his business carrier with Newell Rubbermaid and beginning in 1962, the affiliated Newell Companies, including Western Newell, Newell Window Furnishings and Newell Manufacturing were consolidated into a single corporation and was headquartered in Freeport, Illinois.

David Ferguson

David R. Ferguson (born 1962), American sound engineer and record producer

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.

Detroit Historical Museum

In attendance were such dignitaries as Governor G. Mennen Williams, Mayor Albert E. Cobo, U.S. Senator Homer S. Ferguson, the French and British ambassadors and Detroit native and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Ralph Bunche of the United Nations.

Emory C. Ferguson

Along with Edson F. Cady, he was a founder of Snohomish, which would become the county seat from 1862 until 1896.

In March 1860 Ferguson arrived at Cadyville, the town having been established by and named after Edson Cady.

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?"

George Ferguson

G. E. Ferguson (1864–1897), Fante government official in the British colony Gold Coast

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.

Herbert M. Allison

Allison retired from TIAA-CREF in 2008, and was succeeded by Roger W. Ferguson, Jr..

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.

Joseph Dippolito

On April 16, 1971, his sentence was reduced from ten to five years by Judge Warren J. Ferguson and he started serving his sentence.

Lanercost Priory

In the 1870s, there was further restoration by the Carlisle architect C. J. Ferguson.

Miriam A. Ferguson

After her victory in the Democratic primary, she defeated George C. Butte, a prominent lawyer and University of Texas dean who emerged as the strongest Republican gubernatorial nominee in Texas since Reconstruction in 1869.

Pat Morris Neff

Neff was succeeded as governor by Miriam Wallace "Ma" Ferguson, wife of controversial former Governor James E. Ferguson, who defeated a stronger-than-usual Republican nominee, George C. Butte, an American jurist who had opposed James Ferguson's line item veto of the 1917 University of Texas appropriations bill.

Peel, Oregon

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

R. v. Stevens

On this issue, Wilson gave extensive consideration to the majority decision of the British Columbia Court of Appeal in R. v. Ferguson, 1987 6 W.W.R. 481.

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.

Short title catalogue

STC: A. W. Pollard and G. R. Redgrave, editors: A short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland and Ireland, and of English books printed abroad 1475-1640. Second edition, revised and enlarged, begun by W. A. Jackson and F. S. Ferguson, completed by K. F. Pantzer.

Thomas A. Ferguson

Since retiring from government service, Ferguson has run a consulting business based out of Howard County, Maryland.

Thomas C. Ferguson

From 1984 to 1987 Mr. Ferguson was Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service in Washington, DC.

On April 8, 1987 he was nominated to be the ambassador Ambassador of the United States to Brunei Darussalam.

Warren J. Ferguson

Upon return, he earned his J.D. from University of Southern California in 1949.

Wilkie D. Ferguson

Ferguson was a member of the panel that investigated the 1968 Liberty City riots.

William R. Reed

Reed first joined the Big Ten in 1939 before leaving for a six-year period to serve in the United States Navy during World War II and then as an assistant to Homer S. Ferguson, United States Senator from Michigan.


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