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The name Wills Hall reflects the university's connection with the Wills family. The fortune made by their famous tobacco empire, W. D. & H. O. Wills and later Imperial Tobacco, enabled Henry Overton Wills III to fund the university's foundation in 1908 with a pledge of £100,000 and he financed many of its finest buildings, such as the Wills Memorial Building.
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From 1935 to 1942, Wills and his bandmates popularized in the Tulsa venue a new kind of “hot hillbilly music" called Western swing. Cain's built a reputation as the “Carnegie Hall of Western ...
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The Wills Memorial Geology Library Wills Memorial Building, front face Great George in the tower of the Wills Memorial Building Wills Memorial Building interior. The Wills Memorial Building was commissioned in 1912 by George Alfred Wills and Henry Herbert Wills, the magnates of the Bristol tobacco company W. D. & H. O. Wills, in honour of their father, Henry Overton Wills III, benefactor and ...
Oklahoma City attorney Bob Burke may know more about Oklahoma history than any other living person. Born in Broken Bow 76 years ago, Burke has both a degree in journalism and a law degree, and he ...
English: Wills Memorial Building, Bristol University. Bristol University was founded in 1909, largely at his own personal expense, by Henry Overton Wills III (22 December 1828 – 4 September 1911) of Kelston Knoll, near Bath in Somerset, a prominent and wealthy member of the Bristol tobacco manufacturing family of Wills which founded the firm of W. D. & H. O. Wills.