The William T. Young Library, located on the campus of the University of Kentucky in Lexington, is named for William T. Young, a prominent local businessman, horse breeder, philanthropist and alumnus of the university, who began fund raising efforts with a donation of $5 million.
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The top donor who kick-started the project was Lexington businessman and horse breeder William T. Young who gave $5 million; the University would later raise $21.5 million.
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On May 2, 2008 it was announced that the team had been purchased by William T. Kelsey and Eric Zimmerman and that Phil Giebler would return to the team to drive its entry in the 2008 Indianapolis 500.
Some dealt with historical figures, such as American Revolutionary War general Benedict Arnold and his pre-traitorous victory at the Battle of Saratoga (issue #2, Jan. 1966), while "Foragers" (issue #3, April 1966) focused on a fictitious soldier in General William T. Sherman's devastating March to the Sea during the American Civil War.
On October 16, 1846, unaware of Long's prior work with ether during surgery, William T. G. Morton administered ether anesthesia before a medical audience at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
In 1982 he published Cognitive Structures, in which he developed a novel scheme for grounding cognition in perception and action as conceived in the control theory of William T. Powers.
During the American Civil War, Jenkins served in Union Army under Generals Grant, Pope, Sherman and Burnside in the Western Theater.
The painting was purchased for the United States national art collection by the well-known art collector William T. Evans and is now displayed in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
William T. Granahan (1895–1956), Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Pennsylvania
The composition of the Foundation's first Board of Director's, per John D. MacArthur's will, included J. Roderick MacArthur, Catherine T. MacArthur (his second wife), his attorney William T. Kirby, two officers of Bankers Life and Casualty, and Radio Commentator Paul Harvey.
Some of the guests who visited Bidwell Mansion were President Rutherford B. Hayes, General William T. Sherman, Susan B. Anthony, Frances Willard, Governor Leland Stanford, John Muir, Joseph Dalton Hooker and Asa Gray.
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William T. Kirby, a founding member of the board of directors and Chairman of the Board until his death, suggested that the MacArthur Foundation create the Fellows Program.
He then married Ruth Riker, and they had 9 children, among them congressmen Samuel Lawrence (1773–1837) and William T. Lawrence (1788–1859), and State Senator John L. Lawrence (1785–1849).
They include the murder of a personal servant of Major Brooks, commander of Fort Defiance, by an arrow in the back on July 12, 1858 for the slaughter of the Navajo livestock on the grazing grounds.
Following the expiration of his term as Secretary of State, Governor Gabriel Slaughter appointed Hardin to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by William T. Barry, who resigned.
Perceptual control theory (PCT) is a model of behavior based on the principles of negative feedback, but differing in important respects from engineering control theory developed by William T. Powers.
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The unaffiliated scientist William T. Powers recognized that to be purposeful implies control, and that the concepts and methods of engineered control systems could be applied to biological control systems.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall (2002) is a novel by William T. Quick that serves as a prequel to the Planet of the Apes film "re-imagining" by Tim Burton.
William T. Price (1824–1886), for whom Price County was named, was President of Wisconsin Senate and an early logger in Price County; he later was elected to the U.S. Congress.
Four of the five African Americans whose signatures have appeared on U.S. currency were Registrars of the Treasury (Blanche K. Bruce, Judson W. Lyons, William T. Vernon and James C. Napier).
It was accidentally found in Taiwan's Tashi Fish Market by William T. White and a colleague of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Hobart, Australia.
According to island historians Charles Leng and William T. Davis, it was only after another prominent businessman, Erastus Wiman, promised to "canonize" him in the town's name that Law agreed to relinquish the land rights for a ferry terminal.
A display of the largest cicada collection (approx. 35,000 specimens) in North America, which includes numerous type specimens of species originally described by William T. Davis.
William T. Clement (1897–1955), general of the United States Marine Corps during World War II
William T. Cope (1836–1902), Republican politician in the state of Ohio and Ohio State Treasurer
William T. Howe (born 1835), farmer and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada
William T. Kane (1932–2008), Corning scientist related to fiber optics
William T. Pine (1873–?), American mayor of Marlborough, Massachusetts
William T. Redmond (born 1955), Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Mexico
William T. Ryder (1913–1992), first American paratrooper, later a brigadier general
William T. Sampson (1840–1902), American admiral and commander in the Spanish-American War
Additionally, he is a member of the board of directors of Nexant, Inc, and a Director on Board of Directors and Advisory Council of the Business Executives for National Security.
Considered the greatest Rules Chairman of all time, Culpepper will be remembered as one of the architects of the co-speakership (James B. Black and Richard T. Morgan) in 2003 and the driving force behind passage of the state's education lottery in 2005.
He has represented clients such as NASCAR and Florida Power & Light, and he is involved in class-action litigation against Quixtar.
On the night of October 5, 1863, Glassell and a crew of three in the diminutive torpedo boat David attacked the most powerful ship in the United States Navy, New Ironsides.
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The city of Orange was founded by attorneys Andrew Glassell and Alfred Chapman, who had participated in the partition of Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana and were active in similar land lawsuits.
William Trayton Jackson (May 8, 1876 – October 3, 1933) was an American politician.
If he's remembered it's for the hilarious 'baby-bastard' sequence in Universal's early sound musical King of Jazz (1930).
He founded the First Christian Church (affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) denomination) and built the city's first public meeting hall, Major's Hall, which hosted an early convention of the Illinois branch of the Republican Party and became best known as the site of "Lincoln's Lost Speech".
As the first head of Warner Bros. Television department, Orr forged a fruitful alliance with ABC, which resulted in the network having a number of prime time hits, such as Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip, and F Troop.
On March 20, 1954, he was married in the fashionable Everglades Club in Palm Beach, Florida, to Frances Margaret Laacke (September 30, 1892-July 8, 1993) (She was first married to and divorced from physician Samuel G. Higgins; she then married and became the widow of Milwaukee brewer/real estate dealer George E. Uihlein).
Piper served in the Spanish-American War and World War I, in the latter as a captain in the Corps of Engineers.
The former Sampson Naval Training Base, that became the Sampson Air Force Base and is now a New York State Park on the eastern shore of Seneca Lake were named in his honor.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress.
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Schulte was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1943).
Built for Sutherlin in 1859, the home became famous as the temporary residence of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America
Wickner then spent 17 years on the faculty of UCLA, during which time he earned honors including an American Cancer Society Faculty Research Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship and an NIH Merit Award.
In 1991, he was appointed to the executive committee of CDC Development Solutions by President George H. W. Bush and took trips to Poland, where he trained businesspeople.
That same year the first of three Piper Cub training planes were presented to Girl Scouts by William T. Piper, President of Piper Aircraft (August 17, 1945).