James Barker (Rhode Island)
James Barker( 1622–1702) was an early leader and deputy governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Charles Hastings Collette
Charles Hastings Collette( 1816–1901) was a British 19th- century solicitor and writer of Protestant popular controversialist apologetics.
He was the father of actor Charles Henry Collette and the organizer of the Joseph Mendham library.
As a volunteer in the First Middlesex Artillery, he compiled a handbook for drill instruction.
His" Novelties of Romanism", developed from a sermon, was translated into Spanish and, from Spanish, into Portuguese( under the translated name of" Carlos" Hastings Collette) and remains in print to this day.
William Benning Webb
William Benning Webb (1825 March 15, 1896) was an American politician and attorney who was the Police Superintendent of Washington, D.C., and president of the board of commissioners for the District of Columbia, U.S., from 1886 to 1889.
Webb was born in 1825, in Washington.
He was only 19 years old when he graduated from Columbia College (now George Washington University, and was admitted to the District of Columbia bar Three years later.
Upon admission he entered practice, in which he remained until 1861.
That year, the capital's Metropolitan Police Department was organized, and Webb was appointed its first superintendent by Mayor Richard Wallach.
It was under Webb's administration that the police force conducted the investigation into the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
That same year, Webb resigned from the Police Department and returned to his Washington law practice, where he commanded an extremely high reputation among his colleagues.
The "Washington Post" said of Webb that "his digest of municipal laws, as affecting the national capital, is regarded as the standard authority."
In 1885, upon the vacancy of Joseph Rodman West from his seat on the D.C. Board of Commissioners, President Grover Cleveland surprised the city establishment by offering the appointment to the popular and respected Webb, who accepted and joined the commission for its sixth session in July, 1885.
When board president James Barker Edmonds declined reappointment on April 1, 1886, Cleveland raised Webb to the position.
Webb died at his home in Washington on March 13, 1896, at the age of 70.
In 1901, The William Benning Webb School, named in his honor, opened at 15th and Rosedale, NE.
It was an all-white school, but by 1947 it had become unused and at late that year became an annex to all-black Browne Junior High School.
It was shut down some time shortly thereafter and has been used for school storage ever since.
James Barker Edmonds
James Barker Edmonds( May 20, 1832 – December 29, 1900) was president of the board of commissioners for the District of Columbia, United States, from 1883 to 1886.
Edmonds was born in Saratoga County, New York.
He began the study of the law early and was only 21 when he was admitted to the New York State bar in 1853 and entered practice.
Three years later, in 1856, Edmonds relocated to Iowa City, Iowa, then the capital of the state, where he opened a law partnership with Charles T. Ransom and grew the firm into one of the most prestigious and wealthy in the Midwest.
Edmonds successfully practiced law in Iowa for 19 years, but in 1875 his poor health force him to relocate to Washington, D.C., where he settled into a retirement from the legal practice but remained a sought- after consultant for other attorneys in the city.
Although he remained the board's Republican commissioner until 1885, when former Louisiana Senator Joseph Rodman
West resigned from the presidency of the D.C. Board of Commissioners in 1883, President Chester A. Arthur nominated Edmonds to serve as the board's Democratic commissioner and its chair.
Edmonds served as chair of the commission from March 3, 1883, to April 1, 1886, at which time both his presidency and his term as a commissioner expired.
President Grover Cleveland offered him reappointment, but Edmonds turned it down.
According to the" Washington PostMr. Edmonds was one of the most efficient and popular officials of those who have presided over the affairs of the district, and his refusal to accept a renomination for office was greatly regretted."
Edmonds died at his home on K Street in Washington on December 29, 1900, at the age of sixty- nine.
James Barker Edmonds Elementary School in Washington, DC was named in his honor in 1903.
It closed in the 1970s and was occupied at various times by a credit union, the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education, the Associates for Renewal in Education and a daycare center.
In 2014 it became a condominium known as the Edmonds School.
James Barker
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Bruce Baden Collette
Bruce Baden Collette( born 1934) is an American ichthyologist.
James A. Barker
James A. Barker( 1857–1943) was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate.
James Barker (Royal Navy officer)
James Barker (1772–1838), was a captain in the royal Navy.
Barker was the son of Mr. James Barker, a shipowner at Rotherhithe.
He was born on 2 March 1772, and was entered on the books of the "Beaver sloop", as early as 13 June 1780.
He afterwards, whilst still a child, was on board the "Prudent" in the West Indies, and was present in the engagement at St. Kitts 25 and 26 January 1782.
In 1794 he was serving on board the Russell, of 74 guns, and in her shared in the glories of 1 June.
He was then transferred to the "Jupiter", carrying the broad pennant of Commodore J. W. Payne; and in the following spring was in the royal yacht, on the occasion of bringing over the "Princess Caroline of Brunswick", a service that gained for him promotion to the rank of lieutenant, 13 April 1795.
He was afterwards appointed to the "Orion", with Captain Sir James Saumarez, and, continuing in her, had a part in the victories of L'Orient, Cape St. Vincent, and the Nile; the last engagement gave him commander's rank on 8 Oct. 1798.
Later he commanded the hired ship "Moriston" in the Bristol Channel and on the coast of Cornwall, and was made post-captain on 12 Aug. 1812.
He had no further employment in the navy, but settled down in the neighbourhood of Bristol, where he died 4 May 1838.
James Barker (athlete)
James J. Barker( born 6 November 1892 in Ilkeston, England, date of death unknown) was a British track and field athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.
In 1912 he ran in the first round of the 100 metres competition, but failed to advance.
Jennifer Weiner
Jennifer Weiner( born March 28, 1970) is an American writer, television producer, and journalist.
She is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Her debut novel, published in 2001, was" Good in Bed".
Her novel" In Her Shoes"( 2002) was made into a movie starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, and Shirley MacLaine.

Question: Did James Barker Edmonds and Bruce Baden Collette share the same nationality?
Answer: yes