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Willet (name)
Willet is an English-language given name and surname. Notable people with the surname include: Given name * Willet Babcock cabinetmaker, alderman, fireman, and opera house proprietor in Paris, Texas, United States * Willet Ball (1873 – 1 June 1962) was a British journalist and political activist * Willet Casey (1762–1848), farmer and political figure in Upper Canada * Willet Green Miller (1867–1925), American geologist, the namesake of the Willet G. Miller Medal * Willet M. Hays (1859–1927), American plant breeder and U.S. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Surname * Abraham Willet (1825–1888), Dutch art collector and amateur painter. * Andrew Willet (1562 – 4 December 1621) was an English clergyman and controversialist * Deb Willet (1650–1678), maid of Samuel Pepys, famous for her diary which chronicled her liaison with Pepys * Gerald Willet (1934–2017), American businessman and politician * Jennifer Willet (born 1975), Canadian artist, researcher and curator * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willet Babcock
Willet Babcock, a cabinetmaker, alderman, fireman, and opera house proprietor in Paris, Texas, commissioned the life-sized sculpture of a man wearing cowboy boots that was placed on his own grave. Biography Originally from Ithaca, New York Ithaca is a city in the Finger Lakes region of New York, United States. Situated on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake, Ithaca is the seat of Tompkins County and the largest community in the Ithaca metropolitan statistical area. It is named ..., born there in October 1828 according to the gravestone monument that he commissioned, Babcock moved to Paris in the 1850s, where he set up shop with A. A. Walker on South Main Street as a craftsman and furniture dealer, and was instrumental in Paris becoming a centre for furniture manufacturing. In 1860 the shop was the largest output of furniture in Texas, with 500 pieces of furniture made from of lumber, bought for $1250 and sold at an estimated total of $6000. By 1870 the census recorded his re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Willet
Gerald (Jerry) Leroy Willet (October 31, 1934 – September 10, 2017) was an American politician, businessman, and heavy equipment operator. Willet was born in Duluth, Minnesota. He grew up on a farm in rural Laporte, MN and graduated from Laporte High School in Laporte, Minnesota in 1952. After high school, he traveled the United States working as a heavy equipment operator until 1964. He then moved his family back to Minnesota where he owned and operated a furniture store in Park Rapids, Minnesota. He served on the Civil Air Patrol. Willet served in the Minnesota Senate from 1971 to 1988 and was a Democrat. He was then appointed by the Governor, Rudy Perpich, as the Commissioner of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. Willet died at the Frazee Care Center in Frazee, Minnesota Frazee ( ) is a city in Becker County, Minnesota, United States. It is the second-most-populous city in Becker County. The population was 1,335 at the 2020 census. History The community was orig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willet (band)
Willet is an American Christian rock band, and they are the three Willet brothers, Jeremy, Justin, and Jordan. They come from Westminster, Maryland, where the band started making music in 2006. They released, two extended plays, ''Sometimes a City Needs a Bomb'' in 2007, and ''Love on the Outside'' in 2012. The group have released four studio albums, ''Virus'' in 2008, ''Somewhere in Between'' in 2009, ''Teeth of a Lion, Fangs of a Lioness'' in 2010, and ''Searchlight'' in 2014. Background Willet is a Christian rock band from Westminster, Maryland Westminster is a city in northern Maryland, United States. It is the seat of Carroll County. The city's population was 18,590 at the 2010 census. Westminster is an outlying community within the Baltimore-Towson, MD MSA, which is part of a great ..., where they formed in 2006, being a group of three brothers, lead vocalist, Jeremy Willet, lead guitarist, Justin Willet, bassist, Jordan Willet, and drummer, Matt von Herbulis, who has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Willet
William Willet (November 1, 1869 – March 29, 1921) was an American portrait painter, muralist, stained glass designer, studio owner and writer. An early proponent of the Gothic Revival and active in the "Early School" of American stained glass, he founded the Willet Stained Glass and Decorating Company, a stained glass studio, with his wife and partner Anne Lee Willet, in protest against the opalescent pictorial windows which were the rage at the turn of the twentieth century. Career A descendant of Thomas Willett, the first English mayor of New York City, Willet was born on November 1, 1869 in New York. He studied under the artist William Merritt Chase, at the Tradesmen's Institute in New York City and in France and England. Originally a portrait painter, Willet made portraits for President William McKinley, John Jacob Aster, William McEwan, among others. He assisted John La Farge between 1885–1887 during which time he served as art director and painted fac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Walter Willet Pickup
Samuel Walter Willet Pickup (March 1, 1859 – November 15, 1935) was a Canadian farmer, merchant, shipbuilder, shipowner, and politician. Born in Granville Ferry, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, the son of Samuel Pickup, of English Loyalist descent, and Cyline G. Willett Pickup, his wife, of French Huguenot Loyalist descent, Pickup was educated in the Common Schools and at Mount Allison College (now Mount Allison University) in Sackville, New Brunswick. A merchant, farmer, shipbuilder, and shipowner, Pickup was a member of the Municipal Council for Annapolis County for eighteen years, during three years of which he was Warden of the County. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the electoral district of Annapolis in the 1904 federal election. A Liberal, he was re-elected in 1908 and was defeated in 1911. He was defeated again in the 1930 federal election. In 1913, he was appointed to the Legislative Council of Nova Scotia The Legislative Council of Nova ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Willet
John Willet, M.Inst.C.E. (6 February 1815 – 15 August 1891) was a Scottish engineer who was mainly involved in bridge design. His office was in Union Terrace, Aberdeen Aberdeen (; sco, Aiberdeen ; gd, Obar Dheathain ; la, Aberdonia) is a city in North East Scotland, and is the third most populous city in the country. Aberdeen is one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas (as Aberdeen City), and ..., as of 1882. At the age of 22, he became an apprentice to James Thomson.John Willet at Grace's Guide Personal life Willet married Mary Ann Rennie (1832–1915) in 1854. They had at least two children: Archibald William Willet (1858–1942) and Mary Annabelle Willet (1859–1928).[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Willet
Jennifer S. Willet (born 1975) is a Canadian artist, researcher, and curator. She is a professor in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Windsor and a Canada Research Chair in Art, Science and Ecology. Since 2009, Willet has served as the founder and director of the Incubator Art Lab. Early life and education Willet was born in 1975. Growing up in Calgary, she received a 1991–92 Rutherford Scholarship while attending Lord Beaverbrook High School. Following high school, Willet completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of Calgary in 1997. During her undergraduate studies, she drew anatomical studies of human cadavers at the Cumming School of Medicine. She then completed her Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Guelph and her PhD from Concordia University in interdisciplinary Humanities. While conducting her PhD research, she worked with an artist collective called BIOTEKNICA and completed a residency at SymbioticA in Australia. Willet a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deb Willet
Deborah "Deb" Willet (1650–1678) was a young maid employed by Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament. She and Pepys, 17 years her senior, engaged in a liaison that was chronicled in his famous diary. When Pepys's diary first was published in the late 19th century, the more explicit parts describing the author's affair with Willet were not printed. They only appeared in the most recent version of the diary. Early life Willet was the third of seven children born to the Bristol merchant Robert Willet and his wife Elizabeth. She was baptised in December 1650. Willet and Pepys In late September 1667, Pepys was introduced to Willet and she was employed as a companion for Pepys's wife, Elisabeth, from 1 October 1667, with whom she attended the theatre. In late October 1668, Willet began an intimate relationship with Samuel Pepys. Elisabeth Pepys discovered her husband with Willet and after a few weeks the maid was dismissed. Pepys wrote i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willet Ball
Willet Ball (1873 – 1 June 1962) was a British journalist and political activist. Born in Lincoln, Ball began working for the Great Northern Railway Company as a clerk in 1888. He joined the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR), and also the Social Democratic Federation. In 1900, he became a full-time sub-editor for the NUR's magazine, ''Railway Review''. In 1917, he became the publication's editor.Ball, Willet , '''' At the 1918 United Kingdom general election, Ball stood as the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Willet
Andrew Willet (1562 – 4 December 1621) was an English clergyman and controversialist. A prolific writer, he is known for his anti-papal works. His views were conforming and non-separatist, and he appeared as a witness against Edward Dering before the Star-chamber. Joseph Hall (who knew him well) eulogised Willet in ''Noah's Dove'', and Thomas Fuller modelled 'the Controversial Divine' of his ''Holy State'' on him. Life He was born at Ely in 1562, son of Thomas Willet (1511?–1598), who began his career as a public notary, and later in life he took holy orders, becoming rector of Barley, Hertfordshire, fourteen miles from Cambridge and admitted to a prebendal of Ely by his patron, Bishop Richard Coxe, with whom he had been associated as sub-almoner to Edward VI. Andrew had one brother and four sisters. After attending the collegiate school at Ely, he entered Cambridge University, matriculating at the age of fifteen (20 June 1577); he first went to Peterhouse, the master ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Willet
Abraham Willet (1825 – 1888) was a Dutch art collector and amateur painter. Willet was born in Amsterdam and married Louisa Holthuysen on 17 July 1861.Abraham Willet in the RKD Willet was a member of Arti et Amicitiae. For years, his art collection was considered the basis of the Willet-Holthuysen museum collection, but recent research has shown that his wife was perhaps more influential in forming the collection. on website of the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
