William McKendree Morgan
William McKendree Morgan( December 2, 1869 – October 16, 1942), was a lawyer and politician in Idaho and served for two separate periods on the Idaho Supreme Court.
Born in Adams County, Illinois to John Milton Morgan and Mary( Gooding) Morgan, Morgan was educated in the country schools of Bourbon County, Kansas, later attending the Kansas Normal College at Fort Scott.
In 1890, when twenty years of age, he set out to win a fortune in the far west.
Making his way to Idaho, he located at Moscow in Latah County and secured employment on ranches in that vicinity.
During the winter of 1890- 91 he took up the study of law, and was admitted to the bar on October 9, 1894.
In the interim, he became a deputy sheriff of Latah County, serving in that position from 1 January 1893, until 1895, when he began practice.
He served as a Democrat in the state legislature from 1897 to 1899, and in 1897 was also appointed private secretary to Henry Heitfeld, United States senator, and continued in that position for five years or until 1902, spending most of the period in Washington, D.C.
While there, he pursued a course in the law department of Georgetown University, receiving an LL.M. in 1899.
Morgan's brother Albert was also an Idaho lawyer, and the brothers were law partners at various times.
Although they were closely associated in their professional and social interests, they had opposite political views, Morgan being a Democrat and his brother being a staunch Republican.
Morgan served as mayor of Moscow from 1906- 1908, and returned to the state legislature from 1911 to 1913, serving as the minority leader in the House.
In 1914 he was elected to the Idaho Supreme Court, and by natural rotation became Chief Justice on January 1, 1919.
Morgan resigned from the Idaho Supreme Court in 1920, returning to private practice.
However, he was returned to the Idaho Supreme Court in 1933 and served his death at age 72 in 1942.
William M. Gwin
William McKendree Gwin( October 9, 1805 – September 3, 1885) was an American medical doctor and politician, serving in elected office in Mississippi and California.
In California he shared the distinction, along with John C. Frémont, of being the state's first US senators.
Before, during, and after the Civil War, Gwin was well known in California; Washington, DC; and in the South as a determined Confederate sympathizer.
Will Carleton
William McKendree Carleton( October 21, 1845 – December 18, 1912) was an American poet from Michigan.
Carleton's poems were most often about his rural life.
Wolfgang Scheidel
Wolfgang Scheidel( born 1 March 1943) is an East German former luger who won the gold medal in the men's singles event at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo.
He also won three medals at the FIL World Luge Championships with one gold in the men's doubles( 1965) and two bronzes in the men's singles( 1969, 1970).
He won a pair of silver medals in the men's singles event at the FIL European Luge Championships( 1970, 1971).
After retiring from competitions Scheidel trained young lugers at until 1977, and after that worked as a sports instructor in a recreation home of the National People's Army.
After the German reunification he ran an oxygen station in his home town of Ilmenau.
Leota Morgan
Leota Morgan( sometimes credited as Leota Statten Morgan or Leota Morgan Boehm) was an American screenwriter, playwright, and author.
She was born in Missouri to Samuel Morgan and Della Quinn.
William McKendree Snyder
William McKendree Snyder( December 20, 1848 – September 1930) was an American painter active in Indiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries best known for detailed Indiana landscapes.
He was one of the first artists to paint in Brown County, Indiana making him a forerunner of the Brown County Art Colony.
He was born in Liberty, Indiana to a prominent Methodist minister, William W. Snyder.
The family later moved to Madison, Indiana and it was there that Snyder is best known for his landscape paintings of southern Indiana Beech trees, though he was also known to paint portraits, still lifes, and other subjects.
heavily influenced by the Hudson River School, Snyder studied with some America's most important artists of the day including Albert Bierstadt, Charles Warren Eaton, William Morris Hunt and George Inness.
Snyder's work is highly sought after today and is held in numerous public and private collections including the Indiana State Museum and Hanover College.
Jeff Barlow
Jeff Barlow was a British actor who was born in Lancashire in 1871.
Joël Henry (journalist)
Joël Henry( born 1955) is a French journalist who was born in Strasbourg.
Wolfgang Ratke
Wolfgang Ratke( also Wolfgangus Ratichius or Wolfgang Ratich)( 18 October 1571 – 27 April 1635) was a German educational reformer.
William McKendree
William McKendree( July 6, 1757 – March 5, 1835) was an Evangelist and the fourth Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the first Methodist bishop born in the United States.
He was elected in 1808.

Question: Who was born earlier, William Mckendree Morgan or Wolfgang Scheidel?