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Adrian Webb (born 1943), British academic; Aileen Osborn Webb (1892–1979), American aristocrat; Ambrose Henry Webb (1882–1964), Irish judge; Amy Webb (born 1974), American author
William Robert Webb (November 11, 1842 – December 19, 1926) also known as "Sawney" Webb, was an educator who founded the Webb School and served briefly as a Democratic United States Senator from Tennessee.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The following is a list of notable people who owned other people as slaves, where there is a consensus of historical evidence of slave ownership, in alphabetical order by last name. Part of a series on Forced labour and slavery Contemporary ...
The precise meaning and origin of the word are still uncertain. Early ethnographer James Mooney asserted in 1902 that the name "can not be analyzed" and its meaning lost. [2] But more recent research suggests that Cherokees adapted it from an earlier Yuchi word meaning "meeting place".
William is related to the German given name Wilhelm. Both ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic *Wiljahelmaz, with a direct cognate also in the Old Norse name Vilhjalmr and a West Germanic borrowing into Medieval Latin Willelmus. The Proto-Germanic name is a compound of *wiljô "will, wish, desire" and *helmaz "helm, helmet". [3]
The Interior of South Carolina. A Corn-Shucking. Barnwell District, South Carolina, March 29, 1843" [14] in William Cullen Bryant's Letters from a Traveler, reprinted in The Ottawa Free Trader, Ottawa, Illinois, November 8, 1856 [15] List is organized by surname of trader, or name of firm, where principals have not been further identified.