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7351	William was a native of New York State and a saddler by trade. In early life, he removed to New Jersey and thence to Fairfield, where he occupied himself at saddlery and harness-making, doing a large and lucrative business. He finally retired upon a competency, and lived with his daughter , Mary, being seventy-seven years old. He was, during his younger years, a prominent man in the community and for a quarter of a century, officiated as the Postmaster of Fairfield.	Scudder, William Slater (I13075)
7352	William was a physician, his practice limited to diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat.	Scudder, Dr. William Byrd (I3732)
7353	William was a popular author in the 1920's. He wrote western novels.	White, William Patterson (I37101)
7354	William was a private first class in the Army during World War I. At the time of the 1930 census, he was a waiter in a restaurant.	Scudder, William Milton (I17849)
7355	William was a private first class in the U.S. Army during World War I, enlisting 13 December 1917.	Scudder, William Thomas Jr. (I18067)
7356	William was a quality controll inspector for United Trailers.He was a U.S. Army Vietnam veteran and a Protestant.He was a member of American Legion Post 30.	Huddleston, William (I49612)
7357	William was a railroad engineer.	Mallory, William (I48416)
7358	William was a railroad engineer. He moved his family to Florida in 1914.	Athearn, William Isaac (I32502)
7359	William was a real estate salesman.	Noble, William Raper (I58075)
7360	William was a registered pharmacist. He had registered in the World War I draft as working in Checotah, Oklahoma.	Scudder, William Henry Harrison Jr. (I9724)
7361	William was a school teacher.	Scudder, William J. (I17154)
7362	William was a shoemaker in 1850.	Scudder, William G. (I1663)
7363	William was a trustee of the Ewing Church, and represented his county in the state legislature,	Scudder, William (I2943)
7364	William was a U. S. Marine veteran, having received the Bronze Star for serving in the Asia-Pacific Theatre on the islands of Saipan, Iwo Jima and Mariana.	Scudder, William Lincoln (I26710)
7365	William was a veteran of the War of 1812; present at Hull's Surrender at Fort Detroit, Michigan.	Scudder, William (I1378)
7366	William was a wheelwright.	Scudder, William (I5295)
7367	William was a World War II veteran and served in the South Pacific. After the war, Bill married Carolyn Mostert of Delhi, and they moved to Pennsylvania, where he became a dairy farmer. They had three children. Tiring of the cold weather, Bill moved his family to Darien, Ga., in 1960, then to Sorrento, Fla., in 1968. He retired in 1990 from Electron Machine as a welder. Bill was an elder in the Presbyterian Church of Sorrento, Fla. He was an avid bowler and loved to play golf.	Allen, William Robinson (I59803)
7368	William was an accountant.	Scudder, William Fenwick (I5052)
7369	William was an architect.	Baker, William Edgar (I30907)
7370	William was an attorney, admitted to the California State Bar in June 1929.	Hitchcock, William Holton (I38704)
7371	William was an attorney.	Lusk, William D. (I30382)
7372	William was an auto mechanic.	Allen, William (I16537)
7373	William was an editor. He was a writer for DeWitt Publishers, a New York publishing company that carried a number of Know-Nothing publications.	Tisdale, William Scudder (I13074)
7374	William was an engineer on lock #1, Ohio River locks at Carrollton, Kentucky.	Morgan, William Francis (I18297)
7375	William was an engineer.	Higbie, William Scudder (I29702)
7376	William was an insurance agent.	Moreillon, William Henry (I28284)
7377	William was an insurance agent.	Kissam, William Wilmot (I43565)
7378	William was an oyster boat captain.	Weldon, William George (I58981)
7379	William was baptised at the Episcopal Academy.	Baugh, William Scudder (I8292)
7380	WIlliam was educated in private schools in Seaford. At age 18 he began teaching in the district schools of Sussex County and taught for six years. Then he became a bookkeeper for E. C. Kass, who conducted a canning business, and remained here for 21 years. In 1915 he became identified with the Allen Packaging Co. as secretary-treasurer. He served 11 years on the Seaford School Board, 3 years of which he was president. Since 1924 he was connected with Incorporated Canners as secretary-treasurer and manager. He was a director of First National Bank of Seaford, and for many years was a director of the old Sussex National Bank. He was past president of the Terminal Hotel of Hamlet, NC. He also owns considerable property, much of which comprises farmlands in this section of DE, there being a total of seven farms of 973 acres, and is interested in the banking and hotel businesses. A descendant of an old and well established family of this section, Mr. Lank is one of the really substantial members of this community. He is a member of the Junior Order United American Mechanics, Kiwanis Club, Methodist Protestant Church. He is considered as one of the outstanding business men of Seaford and vicinity and one of the really progressive men in this community. He is regarded with respect and esteem by those with whom he comes in contact in his business, civic and social relationships. In addition to his other work, Mr. Lank is interested in the fire insurance business, representing Kent County Mutual Fire Insurance Company" (W. L. Beven, 1929). The 1880 Census lists Will as 'crippled' in his father's household. The 1930 Census lists his occupation as insurance agent. Uncle Will wore special shoe and used crutches.	Lank, William T. (I34294)
7381	William was educated Merchant Taylor's School 1835-40 and Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, Gloucestershire. He was sent to India to wind up his brother James's affairs. William had had a serious illness in London, and it was hoped the voyage would prove beneficial to his health. He, too, liked the Nilgiri hills and decided to continue his brother's work. He became a tea planter in southern India, with many large estates. He and Harriet made their home in Runnymede House, Coonoor.	Stanes, William Henry (I1267)
7382	William was found dead in his chair by a waiter bringing over food from a local restaurant in Attica, California. He had lived there in an apartment over the Sheridan Grocery. His wife and daughter had moved to San Diego, California, to be near their son, Omer. William refused to go with them. William was left an orphan at an early age. He came west as a young man and for many years was a resident of Indianapolis. He was interested in the timber business and at one time owned a veneer factory on east Tenth street in Indianapolis, which he operated successfully for a number of years. He also acquired considerable property in that vicinity but suffered a heavy loss when the man to whom he sold most of it failed. From Indianapolis, William went to Thorntown, where he operated for a number of years, buying and shipping walnut lumber. After that section had been pretty well cleaned out he came to Attica about 1885, and took up the same work there. He bought and shipped many thousands of dollars worth of walnut logs, many of them going to the East for export to Europe. He frequently had as many as fifteen or twenty teams hauling logs at one time. He is said to have been one of the best judges of timber of any man that had ever operated in this vicinity and was widely known by the sobriquet "Sawlog Thompson." William finally retired from the timber business and opened a real estate and loan office which he conducted until failing strength rendered it impossible for him to continue. For many years he and his family owned and occupied the large brick house owned by Clint Jacobson, just north of Riverside cemetery.	Thompson, William A. (I57518)
7383	William was Head Master of St. John's Military School, Salina, Kansas, in 1910. He was a graduate of Hobart College, class of 1897, and the General Theological Seminary, class of 1903. Previous to being elected Head Master to the St. John's Military School, he was a Master in the St. Paul's School, of Concord, New Hampshire. St. John's was founded in 1888 by believers in an education which includes all sides of a boy's nature, and was maintained by the Episcopal Church.	Colton, Reverend William Neely (I13319)
7384	William was killed in a saloon fight by J. M. and W. M. Greer.	Muckleroy, William Henry (I23732)
7385	William was listed as a syrup manufacturer in the 1910 census.	Scudder, William Taylor (I13123)
7386	William was long active in civic affairs of his community, served for many years on the board of aldermen of Gloster and as a member of the executive committee of Amite county. He was formerly a partner in the firm of McLain and Tatum, cotton merchants, but following his retirement from the cotton business, had been employed by the Mississippi Power and Light company as a "right-of-way" man. He also managed several large plantations in his community. He served as mayor of Gloster for sixteen years.	Tatum, William Lee (I62330)
7387	William was mentioned in the 1815 will of his grandfather, Jesse Clark.	Clark, William Pierson (I11077)
7388	William was of the firm of Tyler & Edwards, dealers in farm machinery and buggies in Wautoma.	Tyler, William Scudder (I13342)
7389	William was president of William T. Woodhull Company, publishers' representatives in New York.	Woodhull, William Tennent (I29089)
7390	William was principal of the T.T. Minor school in Seattle, Washington, at the time of his marriage. He was thirty six when he married. When Dorr died, William left the Seattle area, settled in the North Shore of Chicago and assumed presidency of the Felt and Tarrant Co. He died of cancer (he was an avid outdoorsman and chewed tobacco) in the mid to late thirties.	Babcock, William Frank (I29798)
7391	William was reared in Burlington, Iowa, and in 1884, when a young man of nineteen years, he accompanied his parents on their removal to Oklahoma. His family settled on a farm on Wolf creek, near Menapah, where for twenty years they continued to make their home, the father passing away on that place. As a young man William was employed by J. S. Todd, who was one of the largest stockmen in Oklahoma, his ranch being situated in the Creek country, south of Muskogee. He remained with Mr. Todd for fourteen years, during which period he acquired a comprehensive knowledge of the business, and he then embarked in cattle raising on his own account, but at the end of three years formed a partnership with Mr. Todd. William established the Horseshoe L ranch, which consisted of nearly thirty sections of land and extended from Coon creek, in Washington county, to the town of Delaware, in Nowata country, all of the buildings on his ranch being country, all which his wife received as her allotment from the government. There is also a lake on the ranch, which is known throughout the county as Moore's Lake and is a popular swimming resort of the youth of the vicinity during the summer months. He was one of the first directors of the Dewey, Oklahoma, bank.	Moore, William Sherman (I9728)
7392	William was secretary and treasurer of the Jaudon Company in Savannah.	Jaudon, William Clifford (I18330)
7393	William was the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Princeton beginning in the Spring of 1810 until his death. He was ordained and installed 6 June 1810	Schenck, Reverend William C. (I808)
7394	William was the sixth in a line of ministers, although he was the first Methodist. He attended school, went to Loomis, a prep school for Yale University, then attended Yale for three years, until an argument with his father cost him college support. He married in 1947 and moved his family to Virginia, where he heard the call to the ministry in about 1950. He attended Duke University Divinity School, then began a new life in the tiny town of Boydton. He and the family moved to churches in Chesapeake, Fairfax County, Hampton, York County, and Virginia Beach, followed by retirement in Suffolk after his 24-year ministerial career.	Colton, Reverend William Neely Jr. (I16603)
7395	William Wikoff Smith, a World War II bomber pilot, inherited $10 million from his mother in 1944, and soon after the war he took over the family oil company, Kewanee Industries of Bryn Mawr. By the time he died of heart disease at 56, he had married four times, had six children, and built Kewanee into a company with $357 million in annual revenues. He was a man of many talents, including photography, ship model building and sailing. He also was a generous and discreet patron to many Philadelphia charities through the W.W. Smith Foundation, which he founded in 1951. In 1973, this foundation was liquidated by merger into the Philadelphia Maritime Museum, now known as the Independence Seaport Museum.	Smith, William Wikoff (I26832)
7396	William worked as a watchman for several years in the Manchester, New Hampshire, mills, this was where his wife's family lived. In the 1888 City directory he is a night watchman for a mill there and this is where he died in 1895.	Hickock, William Judson (I64828)
7397	William worked for the Tennessee Central Railroad.	Scudder, William Isaac (I27335)
7398	William's father, John came to Illinois in 1835 and became wealthy through real estate ventures. William at age 21, after studying mining in Heidelberg, Germany, discovered the famous mine in Leadville, Colorado.	Borden, William B. (I56885)
7399	William's occupation was paper hanging, painting, and carpentry. He was a member of the Mississippi Valley Spiritualist Association of Clinton, Iowa.	Kellogg, William Marvin (I13201)
7400	William, who was originally shocked that his brother Parley would leave a successful farm to seek after the gospel, later joined the Church himself and was serving a mission as Parley’s companion at the time of Joseph Smith’s death.	Pratt, William Dickinson (I6073)