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# William Abbenseth

William Abbenseth (1898–1972) was an American photographer known for his black and white photographs of San Francisco architecture.

## Personal life & education

William Abbenseth was born in New York New York in 1898. Abbenseth describes his photography education as informal taking occasional classes at Berkeley University and learned techniques from his colleagues. He died in San Francisco California in 1972.

## Works Project Administration work

Encouraged by Joe Danysh Abbenseth became involved in the Federal Art Project in the mid-1930s. He began by photographing San Francisco architecture, paintings, and sculptures before being made supervisor of the photographic department, which paid him ten more dollars a month than his previous position, totaling approximately $94 a month in income. He primarily photographed San Francisco homes and a selection were published in books and newspapers, exhibited at then San Francisco Museum of Art, and used in a photo mural co-designed by Abbenseth and Ben Cunningham for the San Francisco City Hall. Abbenseth also worked for the Index of American Design, documenting the architecture of and artwork within Spanish missions. He had an interest in film, and began to film his activities related to the Federal Art Project, documenting work by Sargent Johnson at Aquatic Park and the art of making stained glass, which was funded by the University of California. He also created a documentary about the San Francisco Housing Authority. During his involvement in the FAP he photographed artists such as Benny Bufano and Reuben Kadish. Abbenseth credited his work with the Federal Art Project as being an educational, which allowed him to work with and learn from the photographers of Group f/64 and filmmaker Ralph Steiner.

## Notable collections

* Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
* Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
* Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
* SFMOMA, San Francisco, California
# Wilhelmine Sulzer

Friederica Catharina Sulzer better known for her stage name as Wilhelmine Sulzer (Munich, 1820 – ?) was a Munich royal court actress. She appeared in the Gallery of Beauties gathered by Ludwig I of Bavaria in 1838.

## Life

Friederica was born in Munich in 1820. She was the illegitimate child of the accountant Johannes Sulzer and a worker's daughter named Zoepf. She was orphaned at the age of 16. In 1837 she was employed at the royal court stage. A breast problem forced her to give up acting after just a few months. In 1838 she married the ministerial registrar Karl Schneider. Her date of death is unknown.

## Portrait

She was hired as a student of Heigel at the Royal Court Theater in 1837, where she attracted the attention of King Ludwig I of Bavaria who called her a "decent and virtuous girl.". The king then commissioned the court painter Joseph Karl Stieler to paint the 17-year-old actress for his Gallery of Beauties collection in Nymphenburg Palace, Munich.
In her portrait, Wilhelmine Sulze looses her auburn hair, wears a plain white off-shoulder gown, and is wrapped with a luxurious fur.
# Wilhelmine of Prussia

Wilhelmine of Prussia, Wilhelmine von Preußen in German, may refer to:
* Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1709–1758), Margravine of Bayreuth, eldest daughter of Frederick William I of Prussia and sister of Frederick II of Prussia
* Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange (1751–1820), daughter of Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia; niece of previous
* Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands (1774–1837), daughter of Frederick William II of Prussia and wife of William I of the Netherlands; niece of previous
# William Davie House

William Davie House may refer to:
* William Davie House (American Falls, Idaho), listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Power County
* William R. Davie House, Halifax, North Carolina, NRHP-listed in Halifax County
# William Davidson Niven

Sir William Davidson Niven KCB FRS (24 March 1842 – 29 May 1917) was a Scottish mathematician and electrical engineer.
After an early teaching career at Cambridge, Niven was Director of Studies at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, for thirty years.

## Life

Niven was born at Peterhead in Aberdeenshire, one of five notable mathematician brothers: Charles and James the best known. He graduated first from the University of Aberdeen, then from Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a Wrangler and was elected a Fellow of his college.
In 1882 Niven became Director of Studies at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, succeeding Thomas Archer Hirst. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (Civil division) in Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee Honours of 1897. He retired in 1903, when he was knighted by being appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.
Niven was a colleague of James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879), whose scientific papers he edited after his death. Among Niven's students was Alfred North Whitehead, to whom he taught mathematics, by instructing him in the physics of Maxwell.
In retirement Niven lived at Eastburn, Sidcup, Kent, where he died in 1917.

## Major publications

Niven edited works by J. C. Maxwell:
* 1881: A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, 2nd edition
* 1890: The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell from Biodiversity Heritage Library
# William Davie House (American Falls, Idaho)

The William Davie House, at 703 Hutchinson Ave. in American Falls in Power County, Idaho, was moved to its current location in 1925. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. It has also been known as Harms House.
It is Bungalow/Craftsman in style. The house is believed to have been built during the period of 1911 to 1918, then it was moved along with many other houses by the Bureau of Reclamation as part of a large Federal project relocating the town of American Falls, making way for the American Falls Reservoir.
It is a 33 by 43 feet (10 m × 13 m) one-and-a-half-story house. The property has a second contributing building, a 20 by 24 feet (6.1 m × 7.3 m) two-car garage.
# William Havens House

The William Havens House is a historic house at 915 East 1st Street in Webster, South Dakota. It is a two-story brick structure, built in 1890 by William Havens, one of the area's first settlers, and was considered the most elegant house in the town at the time of its construction. The house is one of the only buildings in the area made from bricks fired at a local kiln, which was only in operation for a short time. William Havens homesteaded the area in 1885, and served as Webster's first postmaster.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
# William Delacombe

William Barclay Delacombe (20 July 1860 – 14 October 1911) was an English cricketer. He played for Derbyshire between 1892 and 1900.

## Biography

Delacombe was born in Georgetown, Ascension Island, the son of lieutenant-colonel William Addis Delacombe (d.1902) of the Royal Marines, who took command at San Juan Island in 1867 and had new quarters built for his family there. He attended King's School, Bruton and captained the School XI in 1878. He joined Derbyshire Friars in the same year.
Delacombe became secretary of Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1889. He scored 86 in a match for the Incogniti in 1892 and made his playing debut for Derbyshire, then out of the league, also in the 1892 season. He made his initial first-class appearance in the 1894 season against Surrey and played sporadically between 1896 and 1900 with three games in the 1897 season, two games in the 1896 season and 1900 season and one game in other years.
Delacombe played 13 innings in 10 first-class matches with an average of 9.50 and a top score of 23 not out. He bowled twelve overs and did not take a wicket. He was described as "a good outfield and a sure catch, and useful with both bat and ball."
In 1897, playing for Incogniti, Delacombe took all ten wickets in an innings including a hat-trick. He continued as secretary of Derbyshire until his retirement in 1908. He died in Nottingham three years later aged 51.
# William Hakewill

William Hakewill (1574–1655) was an English legal antiquarian and M.P.

## Life

Born in Exeter, Devon, son of John Hakewill and his wife Thomasine (née Periam). Educated, according to Anthony Wood at Exeter College, Oxford (though he did not take a degree), he later studied law at Lincoln's Inn.
Hakewill became Member of Parliament for Bossiney in Cornwall in 1601, probably nominated for the seat by its patron, his maternal uncle Sir William Peryam, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Though a tyro MP Hakewill was active and spoke out against the excessive granting of monopolies. He also delivered speeches against allowing the export of ordnance to Spain and in favour of keeping a strong navy.
Hakewill was called to the bar in 1606, was a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn by 1616 and Lent Reader in 1625. Described by the antiquarian Anthony Wood as "a grave and judicious counsellor" but "always a puritan", Hakewill was a friend of William Prynne and an associate of John Selden whose critical views on the royal prerogative he shared.
Despite his puritan connections Hakewill was appointed Solicitor General to Queen Anne, the wife of James I in 1617. Unfortunately she died in 1619 and his benefactor Sir Francis Bacon was disgraced in 1621.
Hakewill was part of the attempt in 1614 to revive the Elizabethan "College of Antiquaries", in some ways a precursor of the Society of Antiquaries; a friend of Sir Robert Cotton, a kinsman and executor of Sir Thomas Bodley and the elder brother of the author and divine George Hakewill. In 1617 he married Elizabeth Woodhouse, a daughter of Sir Henry Woodhouse of Waxham, Norfolk, by his second wife Cecily Gresham. Her elder half-sister Ann was the third wife of Sir Julius Caesar, Master of the Rolls, to whom Hakewill addressed gratulatory Latin verses (now in the British Library).
Although originally elected to parliament for Cornish seats he sat in the parliaments of 1624 and 1628/9 for Amersham in Bucks. As a result of his researches three Buckinghamshire boroughs were re-enfranchised in 1624 (Wendover, Amersham and Marlow). Hakewill was elected as one of Amersham's two MP's and his distant relative the famous John Hampden was elected for Wendover.
He leased Chequers (now the country home of British Prime Ministers) near Ellesborough in 1619. In the latter part of his life Hakewill lived at The Hale in Wendover, Buckinghamshire and was survived by at least two sons, William and Robert. His will left instructions that expenditure on his funeral was not to exceed £40. He is buried in the Church at Wendover under a commemorative stone that still survives.

## Works

He published The Liberty of the Subject against the pretended Power of Impositions (1641), The manner how Statutes are enacted in Parliament by Passing of Bills(1641) and Modus tenendi Parliamentum; or, the old Manner of holding Parliaments in England(1659).
# William J. Fielding

William John Fielding (1886–1973) was an American author and sexologist.
# William Johnson McDonald

William Johnson McDonald (December 21, 1844 – February 8, 1926, though some sources give his date of death as February 6 ) was a Paris, Texas banker who left $850,000 (the bulk of his fortune) to the University of Texas System to endow an astronomical observatory.
The bequest was unexpected, and his will was contested, but after prolonged legal disputes the university received the money. At the time, the university had no faculty of astronomy, so in 1932 it formed a collaboration with Otto Struve at the University of Chicago, who supplied astronomers.
The McDonald Observatory is named after him, with Otto Struve becoming the first director.
McDonald was the eldest of the three sons of Sarah Johnson and Henry Graham McDonald of Paris, Texas. As a young man, he was a private in the Confederate Army. He became wealthy through his businesses as a lawyer and a banker, but remained frugal his entire life. He never married and had no children.
# William Redmond

William Redmond may refer to:

## People

    In chronological order.

### Business

* William Redmond (merchant) (1804–1874), Irish-born American merchant

### Sports

* Billy Redmond or William T. Redmond, (1853–1894), St. Louis Red Stockings shortstop

### Crime

* William Henry Redmond (1922–1992), American child molester and suspected serial killer
* William Patrick Redmond (1934–1980), American man murdered in Arizona

### Politicians
#### United Kingdom

* William Redmond (Irish politician, born 1825) (1825–1880), Irish nationalist politician, father of John Redmond
* Willie Redmond or William Hoey Kearney Redmond (1861–1917), Irish nationalist politician, son of the above.
* William Redmond (Irish politician, born 1886) (1886–1932), Irish nationalist politician, nephew of the above.

#### United States

* William A. Redmond (1908–1992), Illinois Democratic politician
* Bill Redmond (born 1955), Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Mexico
# William Riggs

William Charles Riggs (September 21, 1896 – December 20, 1973) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a CCF member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1943 to 1945 who represented the southwestern Ontario riding of Windsor—Walkerville. He was a long time municipal councillor and he briefly served as Mayor of Windsor in 1969.

## Background

Riggs was born in 1896 in Bournemouth, England, but moved to Belleville, Ontario, where he was educated. He joined the Canadian Field Artillery in 1915, and spent nearly three years in France during World War I. Riggs trained as a printer in Belleville. Riggs moved to Windsor in 1921, where he worked for 42 years as a linotype printer at the Windsor Star, and retired in 1961. He was highly active as a trade unionist, holding many offices within the Windsor Typographical Union and the Windsor District Trades and Labor Council. Riggs was one of the first members of Ontario's Labor Party in the 1930s. In 1935, he accepted his first public position was on the Windsor Library Board.
Riggs was married to Gladys and had two sons and two daughters. An apartment building in East Windsor is named after him: Riggs Manor at 4365 Wyandotte Street East.

## Provincial politics

Riggs was elected in a CCF sweep in 1943, defeating the Liberal candidate, David Croll. As an MPP, he served on several Legislative Committees including Printing, Game and Fish, Municipal Law, Education, and Labour. He lost his seat in 1945 to the Progressive Conservative candidate Rev. M.C. Davies. He was again selected as the CCF candidate for the Windsor-Walkerville riding in the 1948 Ontario election, but lost again to Davies. He subsequently ran for the CCF in the 1949 federal election in Essex East against cabinet minister Paul Martin, Sr. In 1964 he finished second in a provincial election in the riding of Windsor-Sandwich.

## Municipal politics

In the 1940s, he was defeated in his first election for alderman in Windsor's Ward 4. He was elected as alderman for Ward Three in Windsor in 1946 and was acclaimed in 1948 and 1950. He was defeated in 1952 and 1954 elections for the Board of Control, but was re-elected as alderman in 1956, a position he held for the following 13 years.
When John Wheelton resigned as mayor of Windsor in 1969, Riggs replaced him for a period of five months. Four alderman received two votes each during the city council vote for a replacement. Riggs won the job by drawing a queen from a pack of cards, the method used to break the tie. He was the first mayor to lead the Windsor Santa Claus Parade. He was replaced by Frank Wansbrough at the beginning of 1970.
# William Ruffner Middle School

William Ruffner Middle School may refer to:
* W.H. Ruffner Academy in Norfolk, Virginia
* William Ruffner Middle School (Roanoke, Virginia), located in the Miller Court/Arrowood neighborhood
# William Sheat

William Alfred Sheat (23 May 1899 – 24 May 1982) was a New Zealand Member of Parliament for two Taranaki electorates.

## Early life

Sheat was born at Pihama, Taranaki, in 1899. He was the son of Joseph Sheat and his wife Susannah (née Rose). He received his early education at Pihama Primary and Hawera District High School. He attended Victoria University College and graduated B.A. in 1920 and LL.B. in 1923. He married Ella Marjorie Newton, who was also a Victoria University College graduate (M.A. in 1925), on 22 January 1929. The wedding was held at St John's Presbyterian Church in Wellington. They had two sons, including Bill Sheat.
Sheat was admitted as a solicitor in 1922. He lectured economics at the Workers' Educational Association from 1923 to 1925. From 1926 to 1928, he taught at Marlborough College. From 1928, he farmed in Pihama.

## Political activity
### Early political career

Sheat served on the Egmont County Council for twelve years. He was initially a member of the Labour Party and stood as the Labour candidate for Taranaki in 1925, and for New Plymouth in 1931. At the 1935 election, Sheat contested the New Plymouth electorate again, this time as an Independent. He joined the National Party in 1940.

### Member of Parliament

Bill Sheat represented the Patea electorate between 1943 and 1954 and then the Egmont electorate from 1957 to 1966.
After a 1953 redistricting much of the Patea seat (including his residence) shifted to the Egmont electorate. The seat of Stratford had been recreated and the home of the incumbent MP for Egmont, Ernest Corbett, was now situated in Stratford. Sheat did not wish to represent the enlarged, mostly rural, Patea and thought it appropriate that he instead contest Egmont and Corbett contest Stratford. However Corbett was selected again in Egmont instead of Sheat, leading Sheat to accuse the local party electorate organiser of predetermining the candidacy. On 14 May 1954 he resigned his seat with the intention of winning it back at a by-election as an Independent. He narrowly held the seat in the 31 July by-election, which National did not contest. He subsequently did not stand in the 1954 general election. In 1957 Sheat returned to Parliament as MP for Egmont after Corbett's retirement until he retired in 1966.
Sheat was Undersecretary to the Minister of Works between 1949 and 1954. Prior to his selection dispute he looked certain of gaining a cabinet post, but Keith Holyoake never forgave him for resigning and overlooked him when selecting his cabinet in 1960 and 1963. This was despite Sheat still defending the National Government against Labour's criticisms (particularly with regards to financial policy) while fighting the by-election as an independent candidate.

## Death

Sheat died on 24 May 1982, aged 83 years. He was cremated in the Wellington suburb of Karori four days later.
# William Woodhouse

William Woodhouse may refer to:
* William Woodhouse (cricketer) (1856–1938), English cricketer
* William Woodhouse (artist) ((1857–1939), English artist
* William John Woodhouse (1866–1937), English classical scholar and author
* William Woodhouse (naval officer) (before 1517–1564), English naval officer and MP for Great Yarmouth, Norfolk and Norwich
* William Woodhouse (MP for Aldeburgh), MP for Aldeburgh 1604-11 and 1614-21
# William of Shoreham

William of Shoreham (fourteenth century) was an English poet.
Little is known of his life, but he probably lived in Shoreham, Kent and was vicar of Chart Sutton (near Leeds, Kent). Seven poems in English are attributed to him, all contained in a single manuscript now in the British Library (Add MS 17376). Four of the poems are didactic and address points of Christian doctrine, the other three are in praise of the Virgin Mary (one of them a translation from Robert Grosseteste's Latin). He was once thought to be the author of an English psalter, but this is now considered spurious.
# William of Sicily

William of Sicily may refer to:
* William I of Sicily, the second king of Sicily (1131-1166).
* William II of Sicily, the third king of Sicily (1155 - 1189).
* William III of Sicily, king of Sicily (1190–1198).
# William Oberhardt

William Oberhardt (1882–1958) was an American artist, portrait painter, illustrator and sculptor. His illustration of Joseph Gurney Cannon, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, appeared on the cover of the first edition of Time magazine on 3 March 1923.
Oberhardt was born in Guttenberg, New Jersey and studied at the National Academy of Design from 1897 to 1900, and then studied in Munich with Carl von Marr at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. He painted formal portraits in oil, but charcoal, crayons and lithographic crayon were his favorite mediums. He was notable for his ability to capture and reveal the character of his sitters. He worked most of his career in New York City and lived in North Pelham, New York.
In the 1920s and 1930s, Oberhardt was among the best-known and most popular illustrators in the U.S. He portrayed impoverished immigrants, pushcart peddlers, child laborers and the Manhattan skyline for The East Side magazine, which Zoe Anderson Norris (1860-1914) published bimonthly starting in 1909. Among his formal portrait subjects were Presidents William H. Taft, Warren G. Harding and Herbert Hoover; the inventor Thomas Edison, the writer Ameen Rihani and the composer Sergei Rachmaninoff.
His portrait of Uncle Joe Cannon (Speaker of the House) from Time was placed on the top of the 1939 World's Fair Time Capsule, to be opened in 2039. Subsequently, he also drew President Harding for "Time". Additionally, he was well known for his advertising work and patriotic and recruiting posters in both world wars.