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William Merrill (Watergate Prosecutor)
William Merrill may refer to: * William Emery Merrill (1837–1891), American soldier and military engineer * William Henry Merrill (1868–1923), American electrical engineer and founder of Underwriters Laboratories * William P. Merrill (1867–1954), American theologian and hymn-writer * William Stetson Merrill William Stetson Merrill (1866 – 1969) was an American librarian at Newberry Library, who also contributed to the fields of library classification and history. He was the author of ''A Code for Classifiers'' in the period 1912 to 1939, and was con ... (1886–1969), American librarian See also * William Merrill Whitman (1911–1993), American lawyer and officer of the Panama Canal Company {{hndis, Merrill, William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Emery Merrill
William Emery Merrill (11 October 1837 – 14 December 1891) was an American soldier and military engineer. He was born at Fort Howard, Wisconsin to Captain Moses Merrill, who was killed in the Battle of Molino del Rey. He graduated first in his class at West Point in 1859, and from September, 1860, to July, 1861, was assistant professor of engineering there. In the Civil War, he served as assistant engineer in the Army of the Potomac during the Peninsular campaign and in the northern Virginia campaign, and from July, 1864, to September, 1865, commanded as colonel, the 1st U.S. Veteran Volunteer Engineer Regiment. During the war he received the successive brevets of captain, major, lieutenant colonel, and colonel for gallant services. In March, 1867, he was raised to the regular rank of major and in February, 1883, to that of lieutenant colonel. From 1867 to 1870, he was chief engineer on the staff of General Sherman, then commanding the Military Division of the Missouri, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Henry Merrill
William Henry Merrill, II (December 29, 1868 – September 17, 1923) was an American electrical engineer who founded Underwriters Laboratories (UL) in 1894. Biography Merrill was born in Warsaw, Wyoming County, New York. He was the son of William Henry Merrill, Jr, (1840–1907), an editorial writer of the ''Boston Herald'', and Flora Agnes Judd (1842–1880). He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT) in 1889. In 1897 he married Bessie A Henderson (1872–1956); they had five children. He was a member of the Midday and University clubs of Chicago and of the Sigma Chi college fraternity. He died on 17 September 1923 at the Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. His burial was held at the Merrill Plot at Warsaw Cemetery in Warsaw, Wyoming County, New York. Career Merrill began his professional career as an electrical engineer in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1893, he was sent to Chicago, Illinois, to investigate the World's Fair Palace of Elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William P
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic ᚹᛁᛚᛃᚨᚺᛖᛚᛗᚨᛉ, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German ''Wilhelm'' and Old Norse ᚢᛁᛚᛋᛅᚼᛅᛚᛘᛅᛋ, ''Vilhjálmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of the name should b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Stetson Merrill
William Stetson Merrill (1866 – 1969) was an American librarian at Newberry Library, who also contributed to the fields of library classification and history. He was the author of ''A Code for Classifiers'' in the period 1912 to 1939, and was connected to the American Library Association. He was also a scholar on Vinland. ''A Code for Classifiers'' Merrill's 1928 book ''A Code for Classifiers: Principles Governing the Consistent Placing of Books in a System of Classification'' is still under scrutiny in the field of information studies. It is "''essentially a description of the problems in classification arguing the need for a classifier's code, a code that transcended individual classification systems''". A second edition was released in 1939. The Code was intended as an improvement of existing schemes such as Dewey Decimal Classification, Cutter Expansive Classification and James Duff Brown's Subject Classification. Merrill contrasted the ''art of classifying'' from the ''scie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
