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William Thomas Sharp was born in Hannibal in Marion County, Missouri on May 30, 1838. [1] [2] Sharp was a Confederate soldier during the American Civil War, [3] serving under Major General Sterling Price. [4] Early in the war, he received numerous wounds and was paroled from the army. [3] He was then put in a wagon for the far west. [4]
The paternal lineage of American founding father Alexander Hamilton was rooted in Scotland, where his relations were landed gentry known as the Hamiltons of Grange.. The Hamiltons of Grange descended from Walter de Hamilton, founder of the Cambuskeith branch of Clan Hamilton, who held lands in Edinburgh by a charter from Robert III of Scotland given between 1390 and 1406.
Location of the City and County of Denver in Colorado. This is a list of some notable people who have lived in the City and County of Denver, Colorado, United States.. People born elsewhere but raised in Denver are marked with a §.
William Graves Sharp (March 14, 1859 – November 17, 1922) ... The family's Elyria home was purchased in 1945 by the Washington Avenue Christian Church ...
Cyrus Hall McCormick Sr., founder of the McCormick business dynasty. Robert McCormick Jr. (1780–1846) was an American inventor who lived in rural Virginia. [1] His maternal grandparents were Scottish immigrants, George Sanderson and Catharine (née Ross) Sanderson, and paternal grandparents were Thomas (1702–1762) and Elizabeth (née Carruth) McCormick, Presbyterian immigrants born in ...
Mary Lucille Hamilton (October 13, 1935 – November 11, 2002) was an African American civil rights activist.Her case before the United States Supreme Court, Hamilton v. . Alabama, decided that an African American woman was entitled to the same courteous forms of address customarily reserved solely to whites in the Southern United States, [2] and that calling a black person by his or her first ...
William Sharp (12 September 1855 – 12 December 1905) was a Scottish writer, of poetry and literary biography in particular, who from 1893 wrote also as Fiona Macleod, a pseudonym kept almost secret during his lifetime. [1]
The Sharp family was notable in Yorkshire, and its members included, John Sharp who had been an Archbishop of York, and Abraham Sharp a mathematician and astronomer. [2] William's education was initially undertaken by his uncle at Wakefield Grammar School until he joined Westminster School in 1817. He learnt to be a surgeon from another uncle ...