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Simpson Everett Stilwell (August 18, 1850 – February 24, 1903) was a United States Army Scout, Deputy U.S. Marshal, police judge, and U.S. Commissioner in Oklahoma during the American Old West. He served in Major George A. Forsyth 's company of scouts when it was besieged during the Battle of Beecher Island by Indian Cheyenne Chief Roman Nose ...
Al Sieber (February 27, 1843 [2] [notes 1] – February 19, 1907) was a German-American immigrant who fought in the American Civil War (1861-1865), and in the American Old West frontier against the Native Americans.
In 1931, the founder of Scouting and Chief Scout of the World, Lord Baden-Powell, met Somers during a tour of Australia and was impressed by his commitment to Scouting. [10] On Somers' return to Britain, The Boy Scouts Association appointed Somers as its Chief Commissioner in 1932 and then its deputy Chief Scout from 1935 to 1941. Baden-Powell ...
Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB, KStJ, DL (/ ˈ b eɪ d ən ˈ p oʊ əl / BAY-dən POH-əl; [3] 22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941) was a British Army officer, writer, founder of The Boy Scouts Association and its first Chief Scout, and founder, with his sister Agnes, of The Girl Guides Association.
Scouts Victoria is a branch of Scouts Australia that delivers its programs in Victoria for children and youths from the ages of 6 to 26. In 1923, The Boy Scouts Association of the United Kingdom formed a branch in Victoria which was incorporated in 1932 [9] and, upon the formation of The Scout Association of Australia in 1958, became its Victorian branch.
Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America [61] Jeff Brown: 1976 c. Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas [62] Rex Brown: 1980 c. Musician and author [63] Sherrod Brown: 1968 Representative (1993–2007) and senator from Ohio (2007–) [64] William O. Burch † 1922
Charles Albert Varnum (June 21, 1849 – February 26, 1936) was a career United States Army officer. He was most noted as the commander of the scouts for George Armstrong Custer in the Little Bighorn Campaign (of which he was the last of the surviving officers to die of natural causes) during the Great Sioux War, as well as receiving the Medal of Honor for his actions in a conflict at Drexel ...
Academic and early leader in the field of youth development through recreation and extracurricular activity, later the second Chief Scout Executive of the BSA and then Chief Scout Heber J. Grant: Seventh President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Francis C. Kelley: Bishop of Oklahoma John Mott