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# William Henry Kimball

William Henry Kimball (April 10, 1826 – December 30, 1907) was a Mormon pioneer and was the oldest son of Heber C. Kimball, an early Latter-day Saint leader.
Kimball was born in Mendon, New York. He earned his place in Latter-day Saint pioneer history for his bravery and gallantry in defending his family and the Latter-day Saints. Kimball served as a general in the Utah Militia and led his men in the Indian wars and handcart pioneer rescue. As one of "Brigham's Boys", he was on call to serve whenever and wherever Brigham Young and the other Latter-day Saint leaders needed minutemen to protect the pioneers. Kimball settled in Parley's Park, where his stage station and hotel gained notoriety with travelers, including Mark Twain. Like many early Latter-day Saints, Kimball practiced plural marriage and had five wives and twenty-five children. (He was eventually divorced from two of his wives.) His house and barn stand to this day at Kimball's Junction near Park City, Utah.
Kimball was a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in England from 1854 to 1856.
Kimball died in Coalville, Utah.
# William Samuel Moore

William Samuel Moore (12 July 1830 – 17 July 1901) was an Irish-born engineer who had a career as headmaster and Anglican priest in Adelaide, South Australia.

## History

Moore was born in Ireland and trained for a career as a civil engineer. He left for South Australia in 1861 and, not finding work in his chosen profession, took a temporary position as headmaster of the Pulteney Street School, which was later made permanent. When Moore took the position, the school had 12 pupils, the number growing during his incumbency to around 300. He retired in 1883, and on 22 February 1883 was honoured at a presentation ceremony.

### Religious

Moore took holy orders in 1880 and in 1881 was enrolled as an officiating minister under the Marriage Act.
While headmaster of Pulteney Street School, he also served as curate of St Bartholomew's Church, Norwood, 1880–1881 and St John's Church, Adelaide 1881–1884. From 1884 to 1900 he was rector of St Mary's, South Road, coupled with oversight of Christ Church, O'Halloran Hill, following the resignation of Rev. C. H. Young. Over that period he was similarly attached to St George's Church, Goodwood.

## Death and recognition

He was afflicted with partial paralysis on 11 June 1900 and died at his home in Millswood on 17 July 1901. His remains were buried in St Mary's churchyard, South Road.
On 11 May 1902 a brass plaque was unveiled at the Pulteney Street School in recognition of his long service. The inscription read:
    In Memorian
    Erected by the Old Scholars
    of Pulteney St School
    to the memory of the
    Rev. William Samuel Moore.
    Headmaster from 1861 to 1884.
    Died July 17, 1901.
    "Honour to whom honour is due."
One of the four houses of Pulteney Grammar School is named "Moore-Sunter", in recognition of his long service as head master of the college, coupled with that of James Sunter.

## Family

Moore had two children:
* William Alfred Moore (1865 – 8 November 1912) was curate at St Luke's Church, Adelaide 1893–1895, followed by Mt Gambier, then St Mary's, South Road with his father. Later postings include Melrose, Blakiston, Woodside, Coromandel Valley and Clarendon. He operated Glenelg Grammar School around 1905. He married (Kate) Leslie Frances Roe on 10 February 1898.
* Marcella Grace Moore (1868 – 27 October 1923) married George Thomas Ragless on 11 November 1890.
# William Logan Crittenden

Colonel William Logan Crittenden (1823–1851) was a United States Army officer who fought in the Mexican–American War and later accompanied Narciso López's 1851 filibustering Lopez Expedition in Cuba. He was captured by Spanish forces and executed in Havana on August 16, 1851.

## Early life

Crittenden was born to Henry and Anna Marie (Allen) Crittenden in 1823. His brother was Thomas Theodore Crittenden, who became Governor of Missouri in 1881 and issued a bounty for Jesse James. At the time of Crittenden's participation in the López expedition, his uncle, John J. Crittenden, was serving as Attorney General of the United States.
Crittenden's paternal grandfather was John Crittenden, who served as a major with the Virginia militia in the American Revolution and was one of the first settlers in Kentucky. His maternal grandfather was John Allen, a Kentucky soldier who was killed in action at the Battle of Frenchtown in 1813. Through Allen, he was also a descendant of Benjamin Logan, an early Kentucky pioneer.

## Military career

Crittenden attended the Military Academy at West Point, and after graduation, served in the Mexican War. After the war, he resigned his commission and, in 1851, joined López's expedition to liberate Cuba from Spanish rule. The expedition departed New Orleans on August 3, 1851 on the steamer Pampero. The filibusters disembarked at the village of Morillos on August 12. Upon their arrival, however, they found little support among the local Cuban population and López traveled inland, leaving Crittenden in command of a force of 100 men. Spanish forces quickly surrounded Crittenden's troops, who desperately tried to escape the island in four small fishing boats. They were quickly captured by the Spanish steamer Habanero on the 15th. Crittenden and 50 of his men were taken to Havana and executed as pirates on August 16.
Americans in both the north and the south were infuriated when news of the executions reached the States. Even if they disapproved of the filibusters' breach of neutrality, many Americans saw the response of the Spanish officers as unnecessarily brutal. In New Orleans, growing anti-Spanish sentiment resulted in riots that attacked the Spanish consulate in the city. However, the U.S. government refused to officially protest Spain's actions, maintaining that the expedition had been an illegal operation.
Crittenden became a martyr and folk hero to the people in Kentucky in the years following his death. A popular story purported that he had refused to be blindfolded or kneel to his executioners, proclaiming that "A Kentuckian always faces his enemy and kneels only to his God."
# William T. Golden

William T. Golden (October 25, 1909 – October 7, 2007) was an American investment banker, philanthropist, and science adviser.
Golden was born October 25, 1909, in New York City; his parents were both the children of poor Lithuanian immigrants to the U.S., and his father worked in the textile industry and later became a banker. He was an early fan of technology, and earned a ham radio license at the age of 13. He earned a baccalaureate in English and biology at the University of Pennsylvania, and then studied for a year at the Harvard Business School before beginning work for Harold F. Linder on Wall Street. Much later in his life, he earned a master's degree in biology from Columbia University in 1979, and five honorary doctorates.
During World War II, Golden worked for the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Ordnance, and helped develop antiaircraft gun firing technology. After the war, he worked with Lewis Strauss at the newly formed Atomic Energy Commission. In the 1950s, when president Harry Truman consulted Golden concerning the possible re-establishment of the wartime Office of Scientific Research and Development, Golden instead suggested appointing a science adviser to the president. Truman agreed, and the first science adviser was Oliver Ellsworth Buckley. Golden was also instrumental in establishing the National Science Foundation during Truman's term as president.
Golden served on the boards of directors of multiple businesses, agencies, and universities, including the Carnegie Institution for Science, the American Museum of Natural History, the Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The William T. Golden Center for Science and Engineering, the headquarters of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, was named after Golden in 1995. In 2001, Golden received the AAAS Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was a member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences.
Golden was married three times, to Sibyl Levy, with whom he had two daughters, to mathematician Jean Taylor, and to Catherine Morrison.
# William Owtram

William Owtram D.D. (17 March 1626 – 23 August 1679) was a clergyman who published notable theological works. After leading the church of the House of Commons, St. Margaret's, Westminster, he gained preferment as the Archdeacon of Leicester.

## Life

Son of Robert Owtram, he was born at Barlow, near Chesterfield in Derbyshire, on 17 March 1625–6. On 13 May 1642 he was admitted a sizar of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1646. He was afterwards elected to a fellowship at Christ's College, where he graduated M.A. in 1649. In 1655 he held the university office of junior proctor, and in 1662 he was created D.D. His first church preferment was in Lincolnshire, and he subsequently obtained the rectory of St. Mary Woolnoth, London, which he resigned in 1666. In 1664 he was also Minister, but not Rector, of St. Margaret's, Westminster. He stayed in London during the plague in 1665 On 30 July 1669 he was installed Archdeacon of Leicester. On 30 July 1670 he was installed prebendary of Westminster.

## Death

Owtram died on 23 August 1679, and was buried in Westminster Abbey, where a monument, with a Latin inscription, was erected to his memory. His will, dated 5 November 1677, was proved in London 3 September 1679 He bequeathed lands in Derbyshire and Lincolnshire, and left legacies to the children of his brother Francis Owtram, deceased, and of his sisters Barbara Burley and Mary Sprenthall, both deceased, and Jane Stanley, then living.
An elaborate catalogue of his library was compiled by William Cooper, London, 1681, 4to. Owtram's widow lived forty-two years after him, until 4 October 1721
Owtram was a nervous and accurate writer. and an excellent preacher, and he was reputed to have extraordinary skill in rabbinical learning.

## Major works

His principal work is De Sacrificiis libri duo; quorum altero explicantur omnia Judaeorum, nonnulla Gentium Profanarum Sacrificia; altero Sacrificium Christi. Utroque Ecclesiae Catholicae his de rebus Sententia contra Faustum Socinum, ejusque sectatores defenditur, London, 1677, 4to, dedicated to Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby. An English translation, entitled 'Two Dissertations on Sacrifices,' with additional notes and indexes by John Allen, was published in 1817. After his death Joseph Hindmarsh published under his name six Sermons upon Faith and Providence, and other subjects, London, 1680, but they are not genuine.
In order to do justice to his memory, his relatives caused Twenty Sermons preached upon several occasions to be published from the author's own copies, by James Gardiner, D.D., afterwards Bishop of Lincoln (2nd ed., London, 1697.
# William Thomas Lockhart

William Thomas Lockhart (November 29, 1839 – June 4, 1900) was an Ontario merchant and political figure. He represented Durham West in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal member from 1890 to 1894.
He was born in Smith Township, Peterborough County, Upper Canada in 1839 and educated in Oshawa. In 1880, he married Mary Renwick. Lockhart was a grain dealer in Newcastle. He served in the local militia. Lockhart was defeated in his bid for reelection in 1894. He died at Bowmanville in 1900 after a brief illness.
# William Selwyn (British Army officer)

Major General William Selwyn (1655 – 6 April 1702) was an officer in the British Army, MP and briefly Governor of Jamaica.

## Early life

He was the 5th and eldest surviving son of William Selwyn of Matson, Gloucestershire and Margaret, the daughter of Edward Nourse of Gloucester and was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, matriculating on 11 April 1674.

## Military career

Selwyn served in the Army of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, in the time of King Charles II. He served at the head of his regiment at the Battle of Landen on 29 July 1693, distinguishing himself under the eye of the King William III. He then took part at the siege of Namur in the summer of 1695 and was promoted to the rank of brigadier general during the siege.
He became Mayor of Gloucester in 1675. He inherited Matson House in Matson, Gloucester, in 1679 on the death of his father.
He was elected MP for Gloucester in 1698, sitting until 1701. Although he was naturally a Whig, being from the Gloucester countryside, Selwyn was on duty at the execution of William, Lord Russell, the leader of the Country Party.
Selwyn was appointed Governor of Jamaica in January, 1702, but died there three months later, in the year of his 47th birthday. His body was transported back to England to be buried at Matson. He had married Albinia, daughter of Richard Betensen and Albinia, daughter of Christopher Wray on 26 May 1681 at Westminster Abbey with whom he had 4 sons and 3 daughters. Their eldest son John and a younger son Charles both became MPs.
# William Semple

William Semple may refer to:
* William Semple (footballer) (1861–1940), Scottish footballer
* William F. Semple, American dentist, commonly referred to as the first person to patent a chewing gum
* Billy Semple (born 1946), Scottish footballer.
# William Tunks

William Tunks (8 April 1816 – 12 April 1883) was an Australian politician.
He was born in the Nepean district to timber merchant John Tunks and Esther Arndell. He was an apprentice carpenter at Parramatta and later the licensee of an inn and a metal contractor. He was the first mayor of St Leonards and was re-elected fifteen times. On 11 December 1838 he married Margaret McCone Bisseck, with whom he had eleven children. In 1864 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for St Leonards, serving until his retirement in 1874. Tunks died at St Leonards in 1883.
He was also a cricketer. He played one first-class match for New South Wales in 1855/56.
# William Stevenson Meyer

Sir William Stevenson Meyer GCIE KCSI (13 February 1860 – 19 October 1922) was an Indian Civil Service officer. From 1920 until his death two years later, he served as the first High Commissioner for India.

## Biography

Meyer was born to a Presbyterian minister, Theodore Jonah Meyer, and his wife Jane Ann. His younger sister was the mathematician Margaret Meyer. He attended University College School and University College London, before entering the Indian Civil Service in 1881. Meyer was assigned to the Madras Presidency as an assistant secretary, where he rose to become Chief Secretary of the Board of Revenue in 1890. In 1895, he entered the service of the Government of India as a deputy secretary in the Financial Department, and was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) on 9 November 1901. From 1902 to 1908, he was the editor of The Imperial Gazetteer of India along with Sir Herbert Hope Risley, Sir Richard Burn and James Sutherland Cotton.
He subsequently served on the Royal Commission of Decentralization from 1907 to 1909 and on the Nicholson Committee on the British Indian Army in 1912-13. He was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE) in the 1909 Birthday Honours list.
From 1914, Meyer served as Finance Member of the Government of India, incurring some criticism concerning its perceived lack of enthusiasm for the Mesopotamian Campaign (1914-18) conducted by the Military Department of India. However, he was cleared of all blame by a parliamentary committee, which showed he had always released funds to the Indian military upon request. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI) in the 1915 Birthday Honours list. Appointed President of the Central Recruiting Board in 1917, he succeeded in attracting large numbers of recruits. He retired the following year. For his long service in India, he was appointed a Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (GCIE) on 27 September 1918.
Sir William was appointed the first High Commissioner for India on 19 September 1920, with J. W. Bhore as his secretary. However, Meyer did not last long in his new post; on 19 October 1922, while walking on the street in Westminster, he collapsed and died of a sudden heart attack, aged 62. His secretary Bhore served as acting High Commissioner until April 1923, when Dadiba Merwanji Dalal was appointed.
# William Smith (rugby union)

William Ernest Smith (9 March 1881 – 25 May 1945) was a New Zealand rugby union player. He was educated at Nelson College where he was a member of the 1st XV in 1897. A first five-eighth, Smith represented Nelson at a provincial level, and played only one match for the national side, the All Blacks, in 1905, an international against Australia in Dunedin.
Smith served in the Canterbury Infantry Battalion in World War I and was wounded at Gallipoli. He died in Wellington in 1945 and was buried in the soldiers' section of Karori Cemetery.
# William Smith (ship captain)

William Smith (1768–1846) was an American ship captain and Revolutionary War veteran. He is the only known Revolutionary War veteran buried in the state of California.

## Early life

William Smith was born in 1768 in Flowerdew Hundred Plantation in Virginia.

## Military and career

When Smith was 11 years old he joined the Virginia Navy alongside his father. Together, the two served on the Tartar and the Manly.
In 1789, he went to the West Indies 23 times as a captain of a merchant ship. Smith worked for Bryant & Sturgis, a mercantile based in Boston, where he resided. He traveled to California for the company in 1800. In California he befriended George Vancouver. In 1810, he sailed to Guangzhou, China to deliver 63,000 otter and seal skins from the Farallon Islands. In 1816, he returned to California after working in Hawaii and Southeast Asia, where he participated in the sandalwood trade.
In California, he became captain of the Albatross. While traveling along the California coast, Smith stopped to get provisions. He and a four of the ship's crew were detained by Spaniards who believed the men were smugglers. The Albatross shipwrecked in the Pacific Northwest and Smith lost all of his belongings. He returned briefly to Boston in 1819 and then returned to California, where he settled in Sonoma, California in the 1840s.

## Death and legacy

Smith died on May 5, 1846, at the home of Jacob P. Leese in Sonoma. Leese informed the United States Consulate in Monterey, California about Smith's death in a letter dated May 8. In the letter, Leese said that Smith was buried "on the South Cide of the Sonoma Mountain North of the Town in a verry Noted Place." The exact location of Smith's grave was unsuccessfully sought by the Sons of the American Revolution, who created a monument near the presumed site at Mountain Cemetery in Sonoma. He is the only veteran of the American Revolution believed to be buried in California.
# William S. Yellow Robe Jr.

William S. Yellow Robe Jr. (February 4, 1960 – July 19, 2021) was an Assiniboine actor, author, director, educator, playwright, and poet.

## Life and career

A member of the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Yellow Robe was raised by his mother on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana. He studied writing and performing arts at the University of Montana.
Yellow Robe's works have been performed in venues across the United States, including the Penumbra Theatre Company in St. Paul; the Public Theater in New York; the Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, RI; and the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. He was a member of Penumbra, as well as the Ensemble Studio Theater, Amerinda, Inc., and the advisory board for Red Eagle Soaring Native Youth Theatre.
Yellow Robe has also taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Brown University, and the University of Maine.
He died following a long illness in Bangor on July 19, 2021. The day after he died, Yellow Robe was named the recipient of a $40,000 award in recognition of his contributions to theatre. His papers joined the many playwright and poetry archives at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin in 2022 and are available there for research.

## Awards

* New England Theater Conference Special Award winner (2004)
* New York Community Trust Helen Merril Award for Playwrighting (2021), announced one day after Yellow Robe died.
# William Wood-Sims

William Wood Wood-Sims (10 February 1858 – 30 November 1926) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire between 1879 and 1886.
Wood-Sims was born at Ironville, Derbyshire as William W Sims, the son of Joseph W Sims a boiler plate roller at an ironworks, and his wife Alice. Sims became a slater, and by 1881 was living with his parents at Alfreton. Later he changed his name to Wood-Sims. He played a game for Derbyshire in 1878 against a 16-man Uppingham team, but his first-class debut was in the 1879 season against Yorkshire in July. He then played one match in the 1880 season and one in the 1882 season before playing a fuller season in 1884. Also in 1884, he played one game for North against South. In the 1885 season he played 14 games for the club, some of which were not first-class. He played one game for Derbyshire in the 1886 season against MCC. He ended his first-class career playing for North against South when he was bowled for 4 by W. G. Grace, but took four wickets in return. In 1887 he played for a United XI against Scotland. His last appearance for Derbyshire was in the 1891 season when Derbyshire matches were not accorded first-class status.
Wood-Sims was a right-hand batsman and played 45 innings in 25 matches with an average of 12.04 and a top score of 46. He took five first-class wickets at an average of 14.00 and a best performance of 3 for 22. Wood-Sims opened frequently for Derbyshire, although he tended to score more highly when dropped down the order.
Wood-Sims died at Lambeth, London at the age of 68.
# William Salkeld

William Salkeld may refer to:
* William Salkeld (legal writer) (1671–1715), English legal writer
* William Salkeld (politician) (1842–1901), member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
* Bill Salkeld (1917–1967), American baseball player
# William Sale Jr.

William Merritt Sale Jr. (16 February 1899, Louisville, Kentucky — 7 January 1981, Ithaca, N. Y.) was a professor of English at Cornell University, considered an authority on 18th-century English literature.
After studying at Yale, where Chauncey Brewster Tinker directed his thesis, Sale went on to join the faculty at Cornell in 1936.
Named Goldwin Smith Professor of English in 1959, he was named professor emeritus upon retirement in 1968.
From 1944 to 1960 Sale was the chief reader in English composition for the College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB).
His students at Cornell included Louis Auchincloss, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Harold Bloom, Whitney Balliett, and Helen Vendler.
Sale had three sons: William M. 3d of St. Louis, Roger of Seattle and Kirkpatrick of New York.

## Publications

* 1936: Samuel Richardson: A Bibliographical Record
* 1950: Samuel Richardson, Master Printer
* 1972: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë; William Sale (editor). New York: Norton Critical Editions