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The family moved to Kirby, Vermont, from Compton. Grout married Loraine M. Smith in 1860, and they had two children who died while in infancy. Loraine died in 1868. [12] Grout's brother Josiah Grout, was the Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives and was the 46th Governor of Vermont. [13] [14]
The Sharp family was notable in Yorkshire, and its members included, John Sharp who had been an Archbishop of York, and Abraham Sharp a mathematician and astronomer. [2] William's education was initially undertaken by his uncle at Wakefield Grammar School until he joined Westminster School in 1817. He learnt to be a surgeon from another uncle ...
Born to Asael Smith and Mary Duty. At the age of 24, he married Lucy Mack in Tunbridge , Vermont on January 24, 1795. He was one of the Eight Witnesses of the Book of Mormon 's Golden Plates and was the first Presiding Patriarch of the early Latter Day Saint church.
Sharp was known as the Father of Air Mail due to his vision of using aircraft for postal delivery. He crafted legislation for this goal which was eventually successful in being passed. He was one of two Elyrians to have served in Congress and also one of two Lorain Countians (Myron T. Herrick) to have served as Ambassador to France during the ...
William Sharp (12 September 1855 – 12 December 1905) was a Scottish writer, of poetry and literary biography in particular, who from 1893 wrote also as Fiona Macleod, a pseudonym kept almost secret during his lifetime. [1]
William Sharp (engraver) (1749–1824), English engraver William Sharp (lithographer) (1803–1875), English-born lithographer and painter; lived in Boston, Massachusetts William Sharp (writer) (1855–1905), Scottish author and poet, pseudonym Fiona MacLeod
Sharp's brother William held a regular surgery for the local poor at his surgery at Mincing Lane, and one day in 1765 when Sharp was visiting, he met Jonathan Strong. Strong was a young black slave from Barbados who had been badly beaten by his master, David Lisle, a lawyer, with a pistol to the head.
William Sharpe (sometimes referred to as Sergeant Sharp or William Sharp) was an early Virginia colonist, soldier, ancient planter, and Virginia Company shareholder who settled in the Bermuda Hundred area that became part of Charles City County, Virginia. He served in the Virginia House of Burgesses in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1629.