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3 unusual facts about Signer


Signer

Roman Signer (b. 1938 in Appenzell) is principally a visual artist who works in sculpture, photography, and video.

Rudolf Signer (1903-1990) contributed to the discovery of the DNA double helix.

Walter Signer (October 12, 1910 - July 23, 1974) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Chicago Cubs in 1943 and 1945.


Alice Gore King

Alice was born in New York City on July 17, 1914 to Marion Morrison King (An Assistant Librarian at the New York Society Library for many years and relative to Elizabeth Cady Stanton) and Frederick Gore King (A banker and great grandson of Rufus King - American lawyer, politician, diplomat and signer of the US Constitution).

Belcher-Ogden Mansion-Price, Benjamin-Price-Brittan Houses District

Bonnell served as a member of the General Assembly of the Province of New Jersey in 1692 and the last official reference to him is as a signer of the 1696 petition for relief against the oppression of the Lords Proprietor.

Benjamin Harrison Memorial Bridge

It is named after Benjamin Harrison V, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a Governor of Virginia, who lived nearby at Berkeley Plantation.

Biržiška

Mykolas Biržiška, Lithuanian historian of literature, politician, signer of the Act of Independence of Lithuania

Charles River Valley Boys

Although the group's membership changed frequently, the core performers of the Charles River Valley Boys in the early years were Eric Sackheim (guitar, mandolin), Bob Siggins (banjo, vocals), and Clay Jackson (guitar, vocals), all students at Harvard, and Ethan Signer (guitar, mandolin, autoharp, vocals), a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ganado, Arizona

The first name for the settlement was probably Pueblo Colorado, but when Don Lorenzo Hubbell (Nov 27, 1853 - November 12, 1930) purchased the post in 1876, he changed the name to Ganado in honor of Ganado Mucho, the last Navajo peace chief and the twelfth signer of the Navajo peace treaty of 1868.

Harrison family of Virginia

Nearby along Virginia State Route 5 and the Virginia Capital Trail, the Benjamin Harrison Memorial Bridge, a major drawbridge across the James River, is named in honor of Benjamin Harrison V, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and Governor of Virginia.

Hugh McShane O'Neill

Robert Treat Paine Signer of the Declaration of Independence, cousin through his father

J.E. Hamilton

Decedents on his mother's side include Samuel Huntington who was a signer of both the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation, and Major David Huntington who was the first gun maker in America and provided weapons for George Washington's army.

John Brice, Jr.

In 1766, Brice became embroiled in a war of words Samuel Chase, a vocal opponent of the Stamp Act and later a signer of the American Declaration of Independence.

Jose Bonilla

Juan José de Bonilla y Herdocia, Costa Rican politician, signer of Declaration of Independence

Josiah Bartlett

Despite the spelling difference, the character (played by Martin Sheen), who is also a former governor and Congressman from New Hampshire, is a fictional direct descendant of the New Hampshire signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Judge Samuel Holten House

During the American Revolutionary War, it was the home of Judge Samuel Holten, who served in the Continental Congress, including as its president pro tempore, was a signer of the Articles of Confederation, and who was an early member of the United States House of Representatives (March 4, 1793-March 3, 1795).

Martin Luther King, Jr., Records Collection Act

The bill was introduced in the House of Representatives by Cynthia McKinney in 2002 and 2005; John Kerry brought it to the Senate in 2006, with Hillary Clinton as a co-signer.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

King was a native of New York City, a graduate of West Point, a brevet lieutenant, the son of the president of Columbia College and the grandson of U.S. Constitution signer Rufus King.

Motel Capri

The song grew out of a bet made to J-F Pauzé by signer Karl Tremblay to manage writing a song with bizarre, random expressions like Jaromir Jagr haircut, butt crack and Velveeta.

Nancy C. Detert

She is a descendant of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence.

New Carrollton, Maryland

Carrollton was named after early Maryland settler Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a delegate to the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Oath of citizenship

Administered at a ceremony presided over by assigned officers, the oath is a promise or declaration of fealty to the Canadian monarch and a promise to abide by Canada's laws and customs; upon signing the oath, citizenship is granted to the signer.

Old House, South Carolina

The site includes the grave of Thomas Heyward, Jr., a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and of the Articles of Confederation as a representative of South Carolina.

Oswald Eve

He attended the College of Philadelphia and was an associate of Dr. Benjamin Rush, later signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Richard E. Brooks

Statue of Robert Treat Paine (a Signer of the Declaration of Independence) in Taunton, Massachusetts (1904)

Richard Field Conover

He was a grandson of Richard Stockton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Ridley Park, Pennsylvania

John Morton, signer of the American Declaration of Independence, was born and raised in a log cabin adjacent to East Ridley Avenue.

Robert Morris University

Like its Illinois namesake, Robert Morris University is named after Robert Morris, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and financier of the American Revolution.

Robert Paine

Robert Treat Paine (1731–1814), signer of the United States Declaration of Independence

Roman Signer

A photo of Signer's "Wasser Stiefel" serves as the cover art of Upgrade & Afterlife (1996), an album by American experimental music group Gastr del Sol.

Rudolf Signer

Rudolf Signer (*17 March 1903 Herisau † 1 December 1990 Gümlingen ) contributed to the discovery of the DNA double helix.

Ruth Langer

Tikva Frymer-Kensky, David Novak, Peter Ochs, David Fox Sandmel, Michael A. Signer (Westview Press, 2000), 189-195, 386-7.

Sanford Ransdell

He was a descendant of Edward Ransdell who was a signer of the historic Leedstown Resolutions a document written up in defiance of the Stamp Act.

SS Abraham Clark

She was named after Abraham Clark, a signer of the Declaration of Independence from New Jersey.

St. Charles College, Maryland

Ambrose Maréchal, the future third archbishop of Baltimore, and other Sulpician priests are frequent guests at Doughoregan, saying Mass there often and gaining the ear of the Signer.

Thomas Heyward, Jr.

(July 28, 1746 – March 6, 1809) was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and of the Articles of Confederation as a representative of South Carolina.

Thomas Larkin

Thomas O. Larkin (1802–1858), early American emigrant to Mexico and a signer of the original California Constitution

Thomas Rush

Sir Thomas' most famous name-bearing descendant is Dr. Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

Vetcho Lolas

Vetcho Lolas (birth name Hervé Bié) is an Ivoirian signer, musician, attalakutiste and disc-jockey of Guéré origin in the style Coupé-Décalé.

Westernville, New York

Buried here are Gen. William Floyd, a famous Revolutionary War soldier and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, Admiral Montgomery Sicard of Civil War fame, and Gustavus Swan.


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