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William Hale
William Hale may refer to: Academics *William Gardner Hale (1849–1928), American classical scholar and professor of Latin * William Jasper Hale (1874–1944), president of the historically black Tennessee State University * William Mathew Hale (born 1940), specialist on Turkey and Turkish politics, and professor of politics Politicians * William Hale (British politician) (1686–1717), British Whig politician *William Hale (New Hampshire politician) (1765–1848), U.S. Representative from New Hampshire *William Hale (Michigan Attorney General) (1809–1874), Michigan Attorney General *William Hale (Wyoming politician) (1832–1885), Wyoming Territory governor, 1882–1885, and Iowa legislator Writers *William Hale Hale (1795–1870), author and Archdeacon of London * William Bayard Hale (1869–1924), American journalist *William Harlan Hale (1910–1974), American writer, journalist and editor Other *William Hale (British inventor) (1797–1870), British inventor and rocket pio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gardner Hale
William Gardner Hale (February 9, 1849June 23, 1928), American classical scholar, was born in Savannah, Georgia to a resident New England family.G.L. Hendrickson, "William Gardner Hale," 24 Classic J. 167-73 (Dec. 1928). Hale was a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy. He graduated at Harvard University in 1870, and took a post-graduate course in philosophy there in 1874–1876; studied classical philology at Leipzig and Göttingen in 1876–1877; was tutor in Latin at Harvard from 1877 to 1880, and succeeding Tracy Peck as professor of Latin in Cornell University from 1880 to 1892, when he became professor of Latin and head of the Latin department of the University of Chicago. From 1894 to 1899 he was chairman and in 1895-1896 first director of the American School of Classical Studies at Rome. Hale held honorary degrees from Princeton, St. Andrew's and Aberdeen Universities.Prof. W.G. Hale, Latin Scholar, Dies, N.Y. Times (June 24, 1928). He is best known as an original teacher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Harlan Hale
William Harlan Hale (1910 – July 1974) was an American writer, journalist, and editor. Life and career Hale was born in New York City, the son of William Bayard and Olga Unger Hale. He attended Riverdale Country School. Hale was considered "one of Yale's brightest of bright young men" in his youth, and co-founded the campus magazine '' Harkness Hoot''. In 1931, he married Jean Laughlin Barker of Santa Fe; they had two daughters and a son. In religion he was a lifelong Episcopalian and in politics, a Democrat. Hale was associate editor of '' Vanity Fair'' in 1932, a columnist for ''The Washington Post'' in 1933–34, and editorial associate at ''Fortune'' from 1934 to 1936. His first book was ''Challenge to Defeat: Goethe's World and Spengler's Century'' (1932). In 1938, he published a novel, titled ''Hannibal Hooker''. He also wrote an adventure novel, ''A Yank in the RAF'' (1940). In an historical vein, Hale wrote a popular history of America, ''The March of Freedom'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hale (director)
William Hale (July 11, 1931 – June 10, 2020) was an American film and television director. He is best known for such films and television series as '' The Virginian'', ''Journey to Shiloh'', ''SOS Titanic'', ''The Murder of Mary Phagan'' and ''The Streets of San Francisco''. Early years William Hale was born on July 11, 1931 in Rome, Georgia to Alma and William Hale. He attended local schools, and moved to Atlanta after graduation to attend college. During his freshman year, he got a job working the night shift at a local television station. It was during those night shifts that Hale had the opportunity to watch movies being broadcast by the station, and resolved to become a film director. Hollywood film and television career Hale subsequently moved to Los Angeles, where he graduated from the USC Film School. His senior year student film, ''The Towers'' caught the eye of established Hollywood director George Stevens who hired Hale as Second Unit Director on Stevens' feature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Hale
Bill Hale (1915-2007) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s and 1940s. Hale was a big front row forward who played at St. George with his younger brother Jim Hale. His career was interrupted when he was moved around N.S.W. due to his employment in the Police Force. Bill Hale played two seasons of first grade: 1936 and 1940, although he did feature in the lower grades in 1939. He later became the captain/coach of Nowra before retiring from Rugby League. Hale died on 2 July 2007 at Georges Hall, New South Wales Georges Hall, a suburb of local government area City of Canterbury-Bankstown, is located 24 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district in the state of New South Wales, Australia, and is part of the South-western Sydney r ... aged 92.Sydney Morning Herald (Death Notice) 4/7/2007 References St. George Dragons players Australian rugby league coaches Australian rugby league players Rugby league props 1915 b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William King Hale
William King Hale (December 24, 1874 – August 15, 1962) was an American political and crime boss in Osage County, Oklahoma, who was responsible for the Osage Indian murders, for which he was later convicted. He made a fortune through cattle ranching, contract killings, and insurance fraud. Born in Hunt County, Texas, Hale worked as a cowboy in Texas and Indian Territory before settling in what would become Osage County around 1900. By the 1920s, he had amassed substantial influence in the county when he ordered the contract killings of Osage woman Mollie Kyle's family in a criminal conspiracy to gain control of their headrights. He was convicted in federal court for ordering the murder of Henry Roan in October 1929, sentenced to life in prison, and released on parole in July 1947. Hale died in Arizona in 1962. His role in the killings is a major focus of David Grann's 2017 book ''Killers of the Flower Moon''. Robert De Niro portrayed him in Martin Scorsese's 2023 film adap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William John Hale
William John Hale (March 1862 – 25 November 1929) was an architect based in Sheffield, England, who produced the city's most striking early 20th-century architecture.''"Pevsner Architectural Guides – Sheffield"'', Ruth Harman & John Minnis, Yale University Press, , Pages 277, gives quote and short biography. He practised between 1896 and 1929 and designed several schools and churches in Sheffield, using the Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau styles as a basis. Biography Hale was born in Sheffield in March 1862, the third of four children of Matthew Hale and Harriet Fordham. He was brought up as a Wesleyan and was educated at Wesley College on Glossop Road in Sheffield. Upon leaving school Hale was articled to the well-known Sheffield architectural firm of Innocent and Brown. Amongst other work, the firm were responsible for designing 25 schools for the Sheffield School Board between 1873 and 1893 and the time spent by Hale as a trainee architect with the firm familiarised him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ellery Hale
William Ellery Hale (April 8, 1836 – November 16, 1898) was an American businessman, real estate investor and civic leader. He was the president of the Hale Elevator Company, one of the first hydraulic elevator companies in the United States. He owned many buildings in Chicago. Early life Hale was born on April 8, 1836, in Bradford, Massachusetts. He graduated from the Hartford High School. Career Hale first worked as a clerk in Hartford, Connecticut. He joined the Rock River Paper Company in Beloit, Wisconsin, in 1857, and he was transferred to their Chicago store in 1862, where he worked until 1871. Hale founded W. E. Hale & Co., a Chicago-based company which pioneered the construction of hydraulic elevators in the West, in 1870. Hale sold it to the Otis Elevator Company in 1887. Hale was a real estate investor in Chicago, where he owned many buildings, including the Reliance Building. He also invested in the railroads. Civic activities Hale donated $70,000 to Beloit Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hale (British Inventor)
William Hale (21 October 1797 – 30 March 1870), was a British inventor and rocket pioneer. Biography Hale was born in Colchester, England in 1797. He was self-taught although his grandfather, the educator William Cole, is believed to have tutored him. By 1827 he had obtained his first patent; he also won a first class Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Arts in Paris for his paper on ship propulsion using an early form of jet propulsion. Hale was inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame in 2004. Rocketry In 1844, Hale patented a new form of rotary rocket that improved on the earlier Congreve rocket design. Hale removed the guidestick from the design, instead vectoring part of the thrust through canted exhaust holes to provide rotation of the rocket, which improved its stability in flight. These rockets could weigh up to 60 pounds (27 kg) and were noted for their glare and noise on ignition. Hale rockets were first used by the United States Army in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Bayard Hale
William Bayard Hale (1869 – April 10, 1924) was an American journalist. He wrote the 1912 campaign biography of Woodrow Wilson. Later, after souring on Wilson, he wrote a derisive critique of Wilson's literary style. He is described in Barbara Tuchman Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (; January 30, 1912 – February 6, 1989) was an American historian and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for ''The Guns of August'' (1962), a best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of World ...'s ''The Zimmerman Telegram'' as a German propaganda agent. According to the ''Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia'' (6th edition, 2012), He died in Munich on April 10, 1924. References American male journalists 1869 births 1924 deaths {{US-journalist-19thC-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Jasper Hale
William Jasper Hale (September 26, 1874 – October 5, 1944) was an American academic administrator. He was the first president of Tennessee State University, a historically black university in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1912 to 1943. Early life Hale was born in rural poverty in Marion County, Tennessee, on September 26, 1874. He was of mixed race, and was often considered white. Hale attended Maryville College for several terms. Career Hale was a teacher in Coulterville, Retro and Chattanooga. From 1912 to 1943, he served as the founding president of Tennessee State University, a historically black university in Nashville, Tennessee. Thanks to his efforts, TSU was accredited in 1933. Hale expanded the campus, with the completion of six more buildings by 1935. He was succeeded as president by Walter S. Davis in 1943. He fundraised $40,000 for the War savings stamps of the United States. Hale was the president of the National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools in 1927 an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hale Hale
William Hale Hale (12 September 1795 – 27 November 1870) was an English churchman and author, Archdeacon of London in the Church of England, and Master of Charterhouse. Life He was son of John Hale, a surgeon, of Lynn, Norfolk; his father died when he was about four years old. He became a ward of James Palmer, treasurer of Christ's Hospital, and from 1807 to 1811 went to Charterhouse School. On 9 June 1813 he matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford, and graduated B.A. in 1817, and M.A. in 1820, being placed in the second class in classics and mathematics. He was ordained deacon in December 1818, and served his first curacy under George Gaskin at St Benet Gracechurch in London. In 1821 he was appointed assistant curate to Charles Blomfield at the church of St Botolph Bishopsgate, and when Blomfield became in 1824 the bishop of Chester Hale became his domestic chaplain, a position which he retained on the bishop's translation to London in 1828. Hale was preacher at Charterhouse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hale (Wyoming Politician)
William Hale (November 18, 1837 – January 13, 1885) was an American politician from Iowa. Hale served as Governor of Wyoming Territory from 1882 until his death in 1885. Early years Hale was born in New London, a community in Henry County, Iowa. Hale attended public school. He was admitted to the bar association when he was twenty-one years old, and began to practice law. Political life In 1868, Hale became a member of the Republican Party and was a presidential elector from Iowa in that year's election. He served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1863 to 1866. Several years later, on July 18, 1882, U.S. President Chester A. Arthur appointed Hale Governor of Wyoming Territory. Hale was sworn into office on August 3, 1882. Soon after his induction to the governorship, word came that Montana had been seeking to establish jurisdiction over Yellowstone National Park through Congress. Hearing this, Hale travelled thousands of miles in ailing health and chronic pain to r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
