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Willis, John (John A.) (15)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68d1t2n (person)

Epithet: MD Epithet: of Add MS 32658 Editor and compiler, John Willis, was responsible for creating Dance World (1966-1979), an annual reference guide that served as the official chronicle of each year's dance season. Willis was born in Morristown, Tennessee. After graduating from Morristown High School in 1934, he attended Milligan College and later took extension classes at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (1938-41...

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Clark, John Willis, 1833-1910 (20)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64t7whg (person)

Epithet: Registrary of Cambridge University 1891 John Willis Clark (1833-1910), man of science and archaeologist, was born in Cambridge on 24 June 1833, the son of Dr William Clark, professor of anatomy at the university, and the nephew of Professor Robert Willis. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1856), and became a fellow in 1858. He was superintendent of the Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, 1866-1891, and registrar of Cambridge University, 189...

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Ellis, John Willis, 1820-1861 (13)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qs2sph (person)

John W. Ellis was Governor of North Carolina, from 1859-1861. This broadside was issued to call the North Carolina legislature into special session on April 17, 1861. The session was called as a result of Abraham Lincoln's call to arms "for the invasion of the peaceful homes of the South ..." John Willis Ellis was a Salisbury, N.C., lawyer, Democratic Party leader, and governor of North Carolina, 1858-1861. John Willis Ellis (1820-1861) was a Salisb...

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Fleming, John Willis, MP (8)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60s9jxw (person)

Epithet: MP

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Willis, John Walpole, 1793-1877 (9)

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Epithet: Justice of K B, Upper Canada Epithet: Colonial judge In 1837 Willis was appointed a judge of the N.S.W. Supreme Court. In 1840 he became the first resident judge at Port Phillip. He was dismissed by Sir George Gipps in 1843. Epithet: judge in Demerara

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Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John), 1863-1934 (5)

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Willis, John, 1857-1944 (4)

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John Willis was born near Columbia, Missouri, in 1856. He left home at age fourteen and worked on the plains as a cowhand, mule-skinner, buffalo hunter, horse breaker, and cattle butcher. In the 1870s, he moved through the mountain regions: he owned a saloon in Denver, another in Socorro, New Mexico; he mined in the Black Hills; ran whiskey to Alberta; and hunted buffalo and freighted in Montana. He settled in Thompson Falls, Montana, in 1882, where he ran a general store until it burned down...

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Menard, John Willis, 1838-1893 (5)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vt9438 (person)

John Willis Menard (April 3, 1838 – October 8, 1893) was a federal government employee, poet, newspaper publisher and politician born in Kaskaskia, Illinois to parents who were Louisiana Creoles from New Orleans. After moving to New Orleans, on November 3, 1868, Menard was the first black man ever elected to the United States House of Representatives. His opponent contested his election, and opposition to his election prevented him from being seated in Congress. John Willis Menard was born i...

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Willis, John, 1948- (3)

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Gertsch, Willis John, 1906- (3)

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Entomologist, specialist in arachnids. Gertsch was a Curator in the Dept. of Entomology, American Museum of Natural History, 1932-1968.

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