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9 unusual facts about William Ward


Colfax massacre

Among his appointments, he installed William Ward, a black Union veteran, as commanding officer of Company A, 6th Infantry Regiment, Louisiana State Militia, a new unit to be based in Grant Parish to help control the violence there and in other Red River parishes.

Endowment House

In 1856, William Ward painted the walls of the creation room to represent the Garden of Eden, the first such temple mural.

Greenwood LeFlore

According to the historian James Taylor Carson, the US Indian agent, William Ward, "refused to enroll the Choctaw claimants' reserves" in Mississippi, which undermined LeFlore's objectives for the treaty and led him to consider it a failure.

Hannah Marshman

He was followed by William Ward, a printer; David Brunsdon, one of Marshman's students; and William Grant, who died three weeks after his arrival.

On 5 July 1818, William Carey, Joshua Marshman and William Ward issued a prospectus (written by Marshman) for a proposed new "College for the instruction of Asiatic, Christian, and other youth in Eastern literature and European science".

Marshman, her husband and their friend the printer William Ward, took the boys in tow.

Netherton Tunnel Branch Canal

The first sod was turned by the Lord Ward on 31 December 1855 and the canal opened on 20 August 1858, providing a waterway connection between the Black Country towns of Netherton and Tipton.

William Ward, 3rd Earl of Dudley

They had several children including the actress and environmentalist Tracy Louise Ward and actress Rachel Ward.

William Ward, 4th Earl of Dudley

He was the son of William Ward, 3rd Earl of Dudley, and Lady Rosemary Millicent Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, younger but only surviving daughter of Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 4th Duke of Sutherland.


Amos Sutton

By 1805, Baptist missionary society and later Amos Sutton under the auspices of Serampore Trio -- William Carey, Joshua Marshman, and William Ward attempted to preach Telugu-speaking people in northernmost parts of present Andhra Pradesh—adjoining areas to Orissa like Chicacole(present Srikakulam) and Vizagapatnam(present Vizag or Visakapatnam).

Goliad massacre

On March 22, William Ward and the Georgia Battalion (80 men plus Ward) surrendered after escaping from the Battle of Refugio.

John Ward, 1st Viscount Dudley and Ward

His son from his second marriage, William (who succeeded in the viscountcy in 1788), was the father of John Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley, Foreign Secretary from 1827 to 1828.

Thomas Foley, 4th Baron Foley

In 1837, he sold Witley Court and the heavily encumbered Great Witley estate to trustees of William, Lord Ward for £890,000.


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Bard College Campus

That same year, William Ward purchased the combined estate, renamed it after himself, and donated it to the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor.

Covered, A Revolution in Sound

# "Paranoid" (Black Sabbath cover written by Anthony Iommi, William Ward, Terrence Butler, and John Osbourne) - Avenged Sevenfold (2:44)

Jimmy Ward

James William Ward (b. September 1, 1906 in Fort William, Ontario - d. November 15, 1990 in Portland, Oregon) was a right winger in the NHL from 1928 - 1939.

John Ward, 1st Viscount Dudley and Ward

He inherited the Willingsworth estate and the rest of the manor of Sedgley on the death of his father in 1720, and the entailed portion of the Dudley estates on the death of his cousin William Ward, 5th Baron Ward in 1740.

Munnsville, New York

In 1990 the village received national media attention and interviews by Connie Chung when a local dairy farmer, Delbert Ward, allegedly murdered his brother William Ward by suffocation.

William Ward Pigman

William Ward Pigman (March 5, 1910 – September 30, 1977), also known as Ward Pigman, was a former chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at New York Medical College, and a suspected Soviet Union spy as part of the "Karl group" for Soviet Military Intelligence (GRU).