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William Harvey (1 April 1578 – 3 June 1657) [1] was an English physician who made influential contributions to anatomy and physiology. [2] He was the first known physician to describe completely, and in detail, pulmonary and systemic circulation as well as the specific process of blood being pumped to the brain and the rest of the body by the heart (though earlier writers, such as Realdo ...
William Harvey JP (1787 – 25 December 1870) was an English industrialist, cotton mill owner, deacon, and activist. He was an advocate for parliamentary reform, temperance, vegetarianism and against tobacco. Harvey helped found the Bible Christian Church and served as deacon from 1809 till his death.
William Hope "Coin" Harvey (August 16, 1851 – February 11, 1936) was an American lawyer, author, politician, and health resort owner best remembered as a prominent public intellectual advancing the idea of monetary bimetallism.
In the United Kingdom, William Harvey's life and work is also commemorated by the Harveian Society of London and in the annual Harveian Oration at the Royal College of Physicians of London. In North America, the Harvey Society of New York City hosts an annual lecture series on recent advances in biomedical sciences.
William Fryer Harvey AM (14 April 1885 – 4 June 1937), known as W. F. Harvey, was an English writer of short stories, most notably in the macabre and horror genres. Among his best-known stories are " August Heat " (1910) and "The Beast with Five Fingers" (1919), described by horror historian Les Daniels as "minor masterpieces".
William King "Bill" Harvey (September 13, 1915 – June 9, 1976) ... Early life and education. Harvey was born on September 13, 1915, in Cleveland, ...
William was born in 1839 to Thomas Fletcher (1807-after 1865) and Eliza Miller (1814-before 1849), Thomas worked as a carpenter [3] and slave driver or overseer in Texas but left in 1836 due to the Texas Revolution and moved east to Louisiana where he met Eliza and they had William 3 years later. [1]
William Harvey Gibson was born at Cross Creek Township, Jefferson County, Ohio [1] on May 16, 1821, to John Gibson (1778–1852) and Jeannette Gibson (née Coe) (1782–1850). He was raised in a family that valued hard work, plain dress, temperance and sympathy for the unfortunate and opposed slavery and "social gilded livery."