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Basil William Spalding

Basil Spalding was born on December 11, 1846 to John Spalding, a slave-holding tobacco plantation owner and his second wife, Mary Carroll, a great-granddaughter of Daniel Carroll, a Founding Father of the United States.

Bruce Chadwick

I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation (Wiley, 2009), about the slaying of a Founding Father, published in the winter of 2008.

Epeli Nailatikau I

Ratu Epeli's eldest son, Ratu Penaia Kadavulevu inherited the title of Vunivalu, while his second daughter, Adi Moce was the wife of Ratu Alifereti Finau and the grandmother of Fiji's Founding Father, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara.

Fanny Kemble

Though they lived in Philadelphia, Butler was the grandson of the Founding Father Pierce Butler, and heir to a large fortune in cotton, tobacco and rice plantations.

George Clymer

George Clymer (March 16, 1739 – January 23, 1813) was an American politician and founding father.

James Alexander Hamilton

Hamilton was born in New York City, New York, on April 14, 1788, the third son of American founding father Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton.

Jefferson Elementary School

Jefferson Elementary School is an often-used name in the United States to honor Thomas Jefferson, a popular founding father.

New London Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania

It was the birthplace of U.S. Founding Father Thomas McKean.

William W. Ellsworth

Born in Windsor on November 10, 1791, Ellsworth was the son of Founding Father Oliver Ellsworth, and son-in-law of Noah Webster, who named Ellsworth executor of his will.

Yen Ngoc Do

Đỗ Ngọc Yến, known in America as Yen Ngoc Do (May 25, 1941 — August 17, 2006) was a Vietnamese American newspaper publisher; the founder of Nguoi Viet Daily News, the oldest and largest Vietnamese daily publication; and a founding father of Little Saigon in Orange County, California.


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1720s

September 27, 1722 – Samuel Adams, American statesman, political philosopher and Founding Father of the United States (d. 1803)

Amedeo Mecozzi

Amedeo Mecozzi (January 17, 1892 – November 2, 1971) was an Italian fighter ace of World War I, a general of the Italian Regia Aeronautica and a military theorist credited as the founding father of the "Attack air force" doctrine, which made him a strong opponent to general Giulio Douhet's theories.

Balclutha, New Zealand

James McNeil from Bonn Hill, Dumbartonshire, Scotland, who is regarded as the town's founding father, arrived in 1853 - via Port Chalmers, NZ in 1849.

Balsfjord

Rev. Bomstad left St. Peter traveling by mule to Kandiyohi County, Minnesota, where near the east bank of a lake (previously called "Lake Lillian"), he became the founding father of Lake Lillian, Minnesota in May 1864 (one hour ahead of the town's next settler, Mr. O.E. Hart, previously of New York).

Battle for No.3 Post

Following the Turkish War of Independence he became known as Atatürk (Father of the Turks) and became the first president of the new Republic of Turkey, where he is acknowledged as the nation's "founding father".

Berliner Singakademie

On 11 March 1829, the 20-year old Felix Mendelssohn, who was himself a pupil of Zelter, conducted here his famous revival of Bach's St Matthew Passion, a major milestone in re-establishing its composer's reputation as a founding father of European musical traditions.

CAARE

CAARE (Council for the Advancement of Arts, Recreation & Education) is a charity founded in 1996 by Denis Vaughan, the founding father of the National Lottery in Britain.

Charles Phelps Norton

He was the son of Charles Davis Norton and Jeannette Phelps; whose grandmother Betsy Law (Sherman) Phelps was the granddaughter of American founding father Roger Sherman.

Circular economy

This realisation triggered the thought process of a few scientists and thinkers, including Walter R. Stahel, an architect, economist, and a founding father of industrial sustainability.

David E. Maas

Maas, David E., "George Washington: The Founding Father of the American Presidency," In George Washington In and As Culture: Bicentenary Explorations, edited by Kevin L. Cope.

DDP-24

Of notability, Max Mathews, considered by many to be the founding father of computer music, used among others, a DDP-224 and a DDP-24 computer to develop his GROOVE music system, as related by Professor Barry Vercoe in a 1999 MIT Media Lab interview.

Frédéric Soret

Due to his old ties to Saxe-Weimar and Eisenach he became a close friend to Johann Gustav Stickel, another founding father of Islamic numismatics.

Fujiwara no Toshihito

He was the son of Fujiwara Mimbu-no-kyo Tokinaga who in turn was grandson of Fujiwara no Uona (771 - 778) founding father of the Northern Fujiwara.

Goldsborough Hall

The story goes that Robert Byerley captured a fine brown horse at the Battle of Buda, the Byerley Turk, which is the eldest founding father to all thoroughbred horses.

Heart Bristol

It should also be noted that GWR's oldies service was originally called Brunel Classic Gold, after the Great Western Railway's founding father Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

Indian Evidence Act

The law is mainly based upon the firm work by Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, who could be called the founding father of this comprehensive piece of legislation.

Ira C. Allen Mansion

Allen, who had interests in real estate, banking, the railroad, marble, and slate, was a distant relative of American Revolutionary War patriot and Vermont Founding Father Ethan Allen.

John Adrian Chamier

Air Commodore Sir John Adrian Chamier CB, CMG, DSO, OBE (26 December 1883 - 3 May 1974) is known as "The Founding Father of the ATC" for his role in the foundation of the Air Training Corps.

John Jay

In Jay's honor, St. Louis Cardinals' outfielder Jon Jay has, at various times, been nicknamed "The Federalist", "The Founding Father", and "The Chief Justice".

Jon Jay

At various times, he has been nicknamed "The Federalist", "The Founding Father", and "The Chief Justice" in honor of John Jay.

Kensington, New Zealand

The lower slopes of Montecillo Ridge were at one time the site of "Hillside", the home of Dunedin city's founding father Captain William Cargill.

Kingwood, West Virginia

James McGrew (1813 – 1910), a founding father of West Virginia.

Lavelle Road

It also houses the Kempegowda Museum which contains information on the founding father of Bangalore.

Le Mat Trophy

The trophy was donated by the founding father of ice hockey in Sweden, Raoul Le Mat, and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. in 1926.

Luebbering, Missouri

The founding father of Luebbering was John Frederick Luebbering (February 4, 1830, Schwaförden, Lower Saxony, Germany - February 9, 1904, St. Louis), who served as the first postmaster and merchant until April 18, 1896.

Masada: Alef

The album takes its inspiration from the mass suicide of Zealots at Masada in 73 CE, and is dedicated to Asher Ginzberg (1856–1927), the founding father of Cultural Zionism.

Mavelikkara

Archbishop Aboon Geevarghese Mar Ivanios - Founding father of the Syro–Malankara Catholic Church.

Merian family

The founding father of all the Merians of Basel is one Theobald Merian (c.1415 – c.1505), a Basel episcopal bailiff or steward in Lüttelsdorf (now Courroux) in the Swiss canton of Jura.

Minyans

Greek mythographers gave the Minyans an eponymous founder, Minyas, perhaps as legendary as Pelasgus (the founding father of the Pelasgians), which was a broader category of pre-Greek Aegean peoples.

Nicholas Kazan

Through his mother, Kazan is a direct descendant of classicist and college administrator Thomas Anthony Thacher, Yale president Jeremiah Day, and founding father Roger Sherman.

Philadelphia Independence

For men's soccer, this backing came in the form of a supporters' association known as the Sons of Ben, named for Founding Father and Philadelphia icon Benjamin Franklin, founded in January 2007.

Slamet Abdul Sjukur

Slamet A. Sjukur (Born in 1935 in Surabaya), is the founding father of contemporary Indonesian music.

Sukarno

Indonesian actor Tio Pakusadewo portrayed Sukarno in the 2012 movie 9 Reasons, telling the stories of 9 women in the life of the founding father: Oetari (portrayed by Acha Septriasa); Inggit Garnasih (Happy Salma); Fatmawati (Revalina Sayuthi Temat); Hartini (Lola Amaria); Haryati; Kartini Manoppo (Wulan Guritno); Ratna Sari Dewi (Mariana Renata); and Yurike Sanger (Pevita Pearce).

Taiichi Ohno

Born in 1912 in Dalian, China, and a graduate of the Nagoya Technical High School (Japan), he joined the Toyoda family's Toyoda Spinning upon graduation in 1932 during the Great Depression thanks to the relations of his father to Kiichiro Toyoda, the son of Toyota's founding father Sakichi Toyoda.

The Eagle Has Landed

John Amery, founding father of the The Legion of St. George, was sentenced to death for high treason by Mr Justice Humphreys in No .1 Court at the Old Bailey in November 1945, and Harvey Preston's comrades of the British Free Corps fared no better.

Vladimir Shlapentokh

Vladimir Shlapentokh is widely considered a “founding father” (together with Vladimir Yadov, Boris Grushin, and Yuri Levada) of Soviet sociology.

Wang Ch'ung-hui

He was a close associate of the republic's founding father, Sun Yat-sen, an active member of the Kuomintang ("Chinese Nationalist Party"), and a judge on the Permanent Court of International Justice in the Hague.

William S. Johnson

William Samuel Johnson (1727–1819), United States founding father and Senator for Connecticut