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William Thompson Wallace (March 22, 1828 – August 11, 1909) was the 12th Chief Justice of California and the 6th Attorney General of California. He served on the Supreme Court of California from 1871 to 1879 and as Attorney General from 1856 to 1858.
William Wallace Barbour Sheldon (May 15, 1836 – March 17, 1915), commonly known as Wallace, was an architectural engineer and pioneer of California, a leading figure of the engineering history of the California coast. Wallace began his career with the Central Pacific Railroad and was present at the laying of the Golden Spike at Promontory ...
Tiny Naylor's was a restaurant chain in Southern California started in 1949 by William Wallace "Tiny" Naylor and later run by his son Biff Naylor.W.W. Naylor had previously owned more than a dozen Tiny's Waffle Shops in Central California. [1]
On the 1883 map of the town site is the name of the surveyor, John Herbert Wallace.It has been widely assumed that he is the one the town is named after. However, according to historian Sal Manna in the July 2006 issue of Las Calaveras, the quarterly magazine of the Calaveras County Historical Society, the town is named for John Herbert Wallace's father, John Wallace, who was a well-known ...
Sir William Wallace (Scottish Gaelic: Uilleam Uallas, pronounced [ˈɯʎam ˈuəl̪ˠəs̪]; Norman French: William le Waleys; [2] c. 1270 [3] – 23 August 1305) was a Scottish knight who became one of the main leaders during the First War of Scottish Independence.
A 70-year-old convicted serial killer from Lake Elsinore has confessed to another slaying in Southern California, putting an end to a decades-old cold case, authorities announced Tuesday.
William Walker (May 8, 1824 – September 12, 1860) was an American physician, lawyer, journalist, and mercenary. In the era of the expansion of the United States , driven by the doctrine of " manifest destiny ", Walker organized unauthorized military expeditions into Mexico and Central America with the intention of establishing colonies .
William Anders, an Apollo astronaut who snapped the iconic 1968 “Earthrise” photo of the Earth while orbiting the moon, died at age 90 in a plane crash near the San Juan Islands on Friday ...