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Willard (name)
The name Willard may refer to: People Surname * Aaron Willard (born 1757), Boston industrialist * Adam Willard, (born 1973), drummer * Aimee Willard (1974–1996), murder victim * Alexander Hamilton Willard (1778–1865), member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition * Alice Willard (1860-1936), American journalist and businesswoman * Archibald Willard (1836–1918), American painter * Ashbel P. Willard (1820–1860), American politician, governor of Indiana * Barbara Willard (1909–1994), British author * Beatrice Willard (1925–2003), American botanist * Charity Cannon Willard (1914–2005), American scholar and author * Charles W. Willard (1827–1880), American politician from Vermont * Clarence E. Willard (1882-1962), American vaudeville performer * Cyrus Field Willard (1858–1942), American journalist, political activist, theosophist, and freemason * Dallas Willard (1935–2013), American philosopher and author * Dan Willard, American computer scientist and logician * Danie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Willard
Aaron Willard (October 14, 1757 – May 20, 1844) was an entrepreneur, an industrialist, and a designer of clocks who worked extensively at his Roxbury, Massachusetts, factory during the early years of the United States of America. While at the family farm at Grafton, Aaron Willard developed his career conjointly with his three brothers, who became celebrated horologists too (though Aaron's and his brother Simon's creations are the most significant). Both brothers moved to Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts, (where the peninsular town of Boston joined to the mainland) where they developed one of the first modern American industries, independently from each other. Simon and Aaron Willard's clocks were the first economically accessible timepieces of the country. Willard Family The first American ancestor of Willard's family was Simon Willard who arrived in 1634, together with his wife Mary Sharpe, stemming from Horsmonden, Kent, England. In America, Simon Willard became a milita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elen Willard
Elen Willard (born November 19, 1935) is an American retired character actress who worked in American network dramatic television series from 1960-66. Her first aired performance was a supporting role in a 1960 episode of the short-lived CBS detective series, '' Markham''. Career Collectively, over a six-year period, Willard portrayed twenty-four characters in twenty different dramatic television series consisting of various featured guest star and supporting performances, including most notably '' Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond'', ''Perry Mason'', ''Ben Casey'', '' Dr. Kildare'', ''Combat!'', '' Gunsmoke'', ''Whispering Smith'', and '' Have Gun - Will Travel''. Willard may be best-known for her standout portrayal of the character Ione Sykes in the gothic-themed western episode of the science fiction/fantasy/horror anthology series ''The Twilight Zone'' entitled " The Grave", with a cast that included Lee Marvin, Lee Van Cleef, Strother Martin, James Best, and Stafford Repp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Willard (playwright)
John Willard (November 28, 1885 – August 30, 1942) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. Biography Willard's most famous work is '' The Cat and the Canary'' (1922), which was made into the influential silent film of the same name in 1927. Also, the work was filmed in 1930, in 1939 (starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard) and in 1979 (by Radley Metzger). Willard also co-wrote '' The Blue Flame'' (1920) with George V. Hobart. Willard worked as a miner and a reporter, and he was also a published novelist. He also appeared as one of the actors in the Broadway production of ''The Cat and the Canary''. His other acting on Broadway began with ''George Washington, Jr.'' (1906) and ended with ''The Mikado'' (1936). He was born in San Francisco, California, a son of portrait painter John Willard Clawson and Mary Alice Clawson. Born Willard Wesley Clawson, and known locally as Wesley Clawson, he began his career as a baritone singer and actor. His performance in '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Willard (judge)
John Willard (May 20, 1792 Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut - August 31, 1862 Saratoga Springs, Saratoga County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. Life He graduated from Middlebury College in 1813. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1817, and commenced practice in Salem, Washington County, New York. In 1829, he married Elizabeth Smith (1794–1859). They were the parents of a daughter, Sarah Elizabeth (Willard) Fowler (1830–1852). Willard was First Judge of the Washington County Court from 1826 to 1835; Surrogate of Washington County from 1832 to 1837; Judge of the Fourth Circuit Court from 1836 to 1847; a justice of the New York Supreme Court (4th D.) from 1847 to 1853; and ex officio an associate judge of the New York Court of Appeals in 1853. At the New York state election, 1855, he ran on the Hard Democratic ticket for a seat on the Court of Appeals, but was defeated by George F. Comstock, the Know Nothing candidate. Willard w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Willard
John Willard ( 1657 - August 19, 1692) was one of the people executed for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, during the Salem witch trials. He was hanged on Gallows Hill, Salem on August 19, 1692. At the time of the first allegations of witchcraft Willard was serving as a constable in the village of Salem and his duties included bringing the accused before the court. Soon, however, he began to doubt the truth of the accusations and in May 1692 he refused to make any more arrests. In retaliation Ann Putnam, Jr. and others accused him of witchcraft, and of murdering thirteen citizens. Some of Willard's in-laws, the Wilkins, also made accusations against him. Benjamin Wilkins would tell the court that Willard had previously beat his wife, Samuel Wilkins testified that he had repeatedly been irritated and afflicted by an entity in a dark colored coat he identified as Willard. John Wilkins would blame the death of his wife, after having delivered a baby, on John Willard, and the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Willard (other)
John Willard may refer to: * John Willard (died 1692), American witchcraft defendant * John Willard (Australian politician) (born 1857), New South Wales politician * John Willard (judge) (1792–1862), New York lawyer and politician * John Willard (playwright) John Willard (November 28, 1885 – August 30, 1942) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. Biography Willard's most famous work is '' The Cat and the Canary'' (1922), which was made into the influential silent film of the sam ... (1885–1942), American * John D. Willard (1799–1864), New York lawyer and politician See also * {{hndis, Willard, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jess Willard (footballer)
Cecil Thomas Frederick Willard (16 January 1924 – 6 May 2005), known as Jess Willard, was an English professional footballer who played as a right half and inside forward in the Football League for Brighton & Hove Albion and Crystal Palace. After his retirement from playing he became a coach and trainer, first managing the youth team and serving as first team coach at Crystal Palace, then later working as trainer at Brentford and presiding over one match as caretaker manager in January 1975. Personal life Willard attended the Lancastrian School in his home town of Chichester and later worked for Shippam's. He boxed in his youth and acquired the nickname " Jess". Willard served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. As of March 2001, Willard was living in Turners Hill Turners Hill is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England. The civil parish covers an area of , and has a population of 1,849 (2001 census) increasing to 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jess Willard
Jess Myron Willard (December 29, 1881 – December 15, 1968) was an American world heavyweight boxing champion billed as the Pottawatomie Giant who knocked out Jack Johnson in April 1915 for the heavyweight title. Willard was known for size rather than skill, and though held the championship for more than four years, he defended it rarely. In 1919, when he was 37 years of age he lost the title in an extremely one sided loss by declining to come out for the fourth round against Jack Dempsey, who became a more celebrated champion. Soon after the bout Willard began accusing Dempsey of using something with the effect of a knuckle duster. Dempsey did not grant Willard a return match, and at 42 years old he was KO'd, following which he retired from boxing, although for the rest of his life continued claiming Dempsey had cheated. Ferdie Pacheco expressed the opinion in a book that the surviving photographs of Willard's face during the Dempsey fight indicate fractures to Willard's facia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huntington Willard
Huntington Faxon Willard (born c.1953) is an American geneticist. In 2014, he was named to head the Marine Biological Laboratory, and is a professor in human genetics at the University of Chicago. He stepped down from leading the lab in 2017 to return to research. Willard was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2016. Earlier, beginning in 2003 he was the Nanaline H. Duke Professor of Genome Sciences, the first director of the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, and Vice Chancellor for Genome Sciences at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. Willard graduated from the Belmont Hill School in Belmont, Massachusetts in 1971. He received his A.B. degree in biology from Harvard University in 1975 and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1979. He did a postdoctoral fellowship in medical genetics at Johns Hopkins University from 1979-81. He then held positions at the University of Toronto from 1982 to 1989, Stanford University from 1989 to 1992, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horace B
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his ''Odes'' as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."Quintilian 10.1.96. The only other lyrical poet Quintilian thought comparable with Horace was the now obscure poet/metrical theorist, Caesius Bassus (R. Tarrant, ''Ancient Receptions of Horace'', 280) Horace also crafted elegant hexameter verses ('' Satires'' and '' Epistles'') and caustic iambic poetry ('' Epodes''). The hexameters are amusing yet serious works, friendly in tone, leading the ancient satirist Persius to comment: "as his friend laughs, Horace slyly puts his finger on his every fault; once let in, he plays about the hearts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Willard
George Willard (March 20, 1824 – March 26, 1901) was a politician and newspaperman from the U.S. state of Michigan. He served two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and was also instrumental in opening the University of Michigan to women. Biography Willard was born in Bolton, Vermont, where he attended school and received instruction from his father. He moved with his parents to Battle Creek, Michigan in 1836 and graduated from Kalamazoo College in 1844. He taught school, studied theology, and was ordained a minister of the Episcopal Church in 1848. He served as rector of churches in Coldwater, Battle Creek, and Kalamazoo until 1863. He was a professor of Latin in Kalamazoo College in 1863 and 1864 and engaged in newspaper work in Battle Creek. He served as member of the Michigan State Board of Education from 1857 to 1863 and member of the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan from 1863-1872. While a regent, he was a strong proponent of the admis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Willard
Frederic Charles Willard (September 18, 1933 May 15, 2020) was an American actor, comedian, and writer. He was best known for his roles in the Rob Reiner mockumentary film '' This Is Spinal Tap'' (1984); the Christopher Guest mockumentaries '' Waiting for Guffman'' (1996), '' Best in Show'' (2000), '' A Mighty Wind'' (2003), '' For Your Consideration'' (2006), and ''Mascots'' (2016); and the ''Anchorman'' films; as well as for his television roles on ''Fernwood 2 Night'', ''Everybody Loves Raymond'', and ''Modern Family'' the latter of which earned him two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Early life Frederic Charles Willard was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 18, 1933. Willard's mother, Ruth (née Weinman) was a housewife. His father, Frederick Charles Willard, died in 1945 when he was 12 years old. He was raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Willard graduated from the Kentucky Military Institute in 1951 and the Virginia Military Institute in 1955. He was stationed in Germa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
