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Profession. Military Officer, Cotton Factor. Military service. Rank. Brigadier-General, United States Volunteers. Battles/wars. American Civil War. Battle of Honey Hill. William Gurney (August 21, 1821 – February 2, 1879) was a soldier and statesmen from New York and South Carolina, who distinguished himself in the Civil War and within the ...
Chief opportunities officer, US Federal Government James Joyce: 1892 U.S. House of Representatives: Charles Cyrus Kearns: 1894 U.S. House of Representatives: William J. Keating: 1950 U.S. House of Representatives: Henry W. King: 1839 Ohio Secretary of State: Walter Lanfersiek: Attorney and executive secretary of the Socialist Party of America ...
William Brodie Gurney (1777–1855) was an English shorthand writer and philanthropist of the 19th century. Biography [ edit ] Gurney was the younger son of Joseph Gurney , shorthand writer, who died at Walworth, Surrey, in 1815, by a daughter of William Brodie of Mansfield.
International Editor, Cosmopolitan; Former editor-in-chief, U.S. Cosmopolitan. Spouse. David Brown. . . ( m. 1959; died 2010) . Helen Gurley Brown ( née Helen Marie Gurley; February 18, 1922 – August 13, 2012) [ 1] was an American author, publisher, and businesswoman. She was the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine for 32 years.
The mayor is the chief citizen and represents the borough throughout their year of ... 1892/93 William Gurney Benham; 1891/92 Wilson Marriage; 1890/91 Lent J Watts ...
Their six children included Anna Gurney, an Old English scholar, and Hudson Gurney (1775–1864), who later inherited wealth from his father and acted as the head of the Norwich Gurney family. He became MP for Newtown, Isle of Wight in 1816, a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1818, and High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1835. [ 9 ]
Simon Girty (November 14, 1741 – February 18, 1818) was a Pennsylvania-born pioneer. As a child he and his brothers James and George were captured and adopted by Native Americans. During the American Revolutionary War, after attempting to join the Pennsylvania Continental Army he became a Loyalist who organized and led Native American tribes ...
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet Buxton of Belfield and Runton (1 April 1786 [ 1] – 19 February 1845), was an English Member of Parliament, brewer, abolitionist and social reformer. [ 2] He married Hannah Gurney, whose sister became Elizabeth Fry, and became a great friend of her father Joseph Gurney and the extended Gurney family .