Gibbs Family Tree
Notes
Matches 2,101 to 2,150 of 2,251
| # | Notes | Linked to |
|---|---|---|
| 2101 | Walter Antony Gibbs (2nd son), born at Frognal, Hampstead, Middlesex 19 January and baptised 20 February 1850 at St. John's, Hampstead. Died at St. Dunstan's, Regents Park, of typoid fever 16th and was buried 21 July 1858 at Clifton Hampden. Monumental Inscription there. Miniature by Angelo Tricca of Florence, 1858, in possession of Alban Gibbs. | Gibbs, Walter Antony (I1636)
|
| 2102 | Walter Francis David Long, 2nd Viscount Long (14 September 1911 – 23 September 1944), was a British peer and soldier. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Long,_2nd_Viscount_Long | Long, Major Walter Francis David 2nd Viscount (I5058)
|
| 2103 | Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long, PC, JP, FRS (13 July 1854 – 26 September 1924), was a British Unionist politician. In a political career spanning over 40 years, he held office as President of the Board of Agriculture, President of the Local Government Board, Chief Secretary for Ireland, Secretary of State for the Colonies and First Lord of the Admiralty. He is also remembered for his links with Irish Unionism, and served as Leader of the Irish Unionist Party in the House of Commons from 1906 to 1910. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Long,_1st_Viscount_Long | Long, Viscount Walter Hume (I5050)
|
| 2104 | Was appointed Governor of Bermuda from April 1764 until his death in 1780. Was also a military figure in the King's army with the rank of Lt Col. Following his death in 1780 he was buried under the floor boards of St Peter's Church in St George, Bermuda. His coffin was rediscovered in 2008 during an excavation project. George Bruere, son of George James Bruere, became Governor in 1780. He has been described as "a benign, simple and kindly man with a large family" and by the historian Sir John William Kaye as "a staunch royalist... loyal to the core". However, Kaye reports further that - "Of this Governor Bruere the colonial annalists relate that he was a man of an irascible temper and overbearing disposition, living and ruling in a perpetual state of antagonism with the Assembly and the People. He was a soldier, and a good one; but he was habituated to command, and impatient of opposition." Governorship of Bermuda On taking up his appointment as governor, Bruere was taken aback by the way slaves were treated in the Bermuda islands. He made a speech to the House of Assembly of Bermuda in 1766 in which he proposed the need for stricter controls, including "...haveing the Doors lock'd where they are, under the inspection of a white Person". Familiar with the control of slaves in other colonies, he advised the Bermudians: "Bring your Negroes to a better regularity and due obedience... prevent their unlawfull Assemblys, Thefts, and pernicious practices of leaving their Masters Houses and going to meetings... by night." On 21 March 1767, the House of Assembly resolved to appoint a Committee consisting of its Speaker and eleven other members to address His Majesty the King on "the tyranny and oppression of the Governor" if they deemed it necessary during the House's adjournment. Bruere was interested in agriculture, and he and his wife bought 60 acres (240,000 m2) of land to the north of St George's to grow grapes, hoping to produce the equivalent of Madeira. American War of Independence On 20 August 1774, Bruere wrote to the Colonial Secretary, the Earl of Dartmouth, that some Bermudians were showing sympathy for the rebellion on the North American mainland: "As the People here, have thought themselves of Sufficient Consequence, to Choose Delegates, and Address the Congress at Philadelphia, I hope the Government will think they have Sufficient Reason to put some Check upon them and Support the few Officers of Government." In 1775, after the Battle of Lexington, the Continental Congress announced a trade embargo against British colonies remaining loyal to the Crown. Bermuda offered to supply the Patriots with salt, but they were unimpressed and asked for gunpowder. Meanwhile, in June 1775 Bruere lost his son John, who was killed fighting on the British side at the Battle of Bunker Hill. On 14 August, to the fury of Bruere, Bermudians sympathetic to the Revolution stole the island's supply of gunpowder from the Powder Magazine in St George's and shipped it to the rebels. Trade with Bermuda developed, for which Bruere was not blamed in London. Death Exhausted by his last years in office, Bruere became ill in July 1780, probably a result of chronic stress, and he died in St George's on 10 September 1780, at the age of fifty-nine. He was later said by the historian Henry Wilkinson to be "the victim in the eyes of his family of five years of incessant strain and foul play", in particular caused by the dealings of the islanders with the rebel colonists. Perhaps because he was said to have died of yellow fever, he was buried under the floor of St Peter's Church, St George's. Sir John William Kaye noted that "In spite... of the internecine strife into which he plunged the islands, he governed them for nearly twenty years, and might have governed them still longer, but that, in the very crisis of the warfare, he was suddenly removed by death." Bruere was succeeded as governor by his son, George Bruere (1744–1786), who as a lieutenant in the 18th Regiment of Dragoons had been wounded at Bunker Hill, and who in 1777 had married Martha Louisa Fatio, then aged fourteen. The younger Bruere was Lieutenant Governor of the Bermudas from 1780 to 1781. A surviving portrait of Bruere is attributed to John Russell, RA and now hangs in the Tucker House Museum (located in the former home of President Henry Tucker), St. George's. In 2008, Bruere's skeleton was unexpectedly found under the floorboards of St Peter's Church when archaeologists from Boston University were searching for evidence of the foundations of the original church on the site, built in 1612. His wooden coffin had crumbled away, but a copper plate supposed to be from the top of the coffin was found in the skeleton's chest cavity, bearing the inscription "His Excellency / George James Bruere ESQr / Governor of Bermuda / And Lieut. Colol. In His/ Majestys Service OB / The 10 September 1780/ AE 59 Years". The vicar of the church commented that he had no record of the funeral. From the bones, it was estimated that Bruere was 5 feet 4 inches (1.63 m), in height, which was about the average for the 18th century. Children Bruere had at least nine children: William; George (ca. 1744–1786); John (killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775); Frederick; Elizabeth; Pendock; Frances (born 18 May 1749, Bermuda, died 20 November 1813, Cheltenham); Charlotte (born 1762, at Alderston, East Lothian, died 22 February 1827); and James (1765–1838). Bruere's son William Bruere became secretary to the Government of the Bengal Presidency of British India and a member of the Council of India. He married Anne Sadleir, and their daughter Nancy Sadleir Bruere married in 1846 William Otter, later Principal of King's College London and Bishop of Chichester. | Bruere, George James (I5807)
|
| 2105 | Was in business in Genoa 1771-80; afterwards partner till his death in 1782 in his brother nation's business in Exeter. Member from 1780 of the Incorporation of Weavers, Fullers and Shearsmen of The Tuckers' Hall, Exeter. | Gibbs, Abraham (I1706)
|
| 2106 | Was with BBC News (TV) 1963-67 and married Istly Patricia Mary Simmonds (divorced 1967) by whom he has 2 daughters: married 2ndly Ingrid Helen Una Fosse. | Woodall, Corbett Stafford (I2296)
|
| 2107 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Gibbs, Eion Roland Merry (I4054)
|
| 2108 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | R.S. (I5863)
|
| 2109 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | J.A. (I5553)
|
| 2110 | Went to Harare (Salisbury) in 1977, and he died there in October 2004 | Hunter Blair, John David (I603)
|
| 2111 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Gibbs, Madelaine Susannah (I2508)
|
| 2112 | Westhampnett, Sussex, 2b 223 | Rapson, Frank (I1590)
|
| 2113 | While serving as 2nd in command of the 6th Bengal Cavalry & 10th Bengal Lancers. | Baker, George Anthony Aufrere (I3222)
|
| 2114 | Whippany Burialyard | Lindsley, Joseph (I2159)
|
| 2115 | White Lodge, Richmond Park | Elizabeth, Princess of Cambridge, Duchess of Teck Mary Adelaide Wilhelmina (I4336)
|
| 2116 | Widow of Capt. Peter George William Savile Foljambe (see Liverpool, E.), and younger daughter of Major Eric Charles Montagu-Flint, DSO of Hembury Castle, nr. Torrington, Devon. Baptised at Holy Trinity, Folkestone. During the Second World War she worked in a department of the Foreign Office at Bletchley until 1941. She married in August 1942 Captain Peter G.W.S.Foljambe. By this marriage she had a daughter, and a son born after the death of his father in action. This son succeeded his great-uncle in 1969 as 5th Earl of Liverpool. Portrait: in oils by Ludmilla Trapp, last in possession of Andrew A Gibbs. | Flint, Elizabeth Joan (I1938)
|
| 2117 | Widow of Captain Michael Desmond Hamilton Wills, MC and eldest daughter of Lt. Col. Philip Mitford, of Berryfield, Lentran, Invernesshire (see Burke's 'Landed Gentry'). Member of British Red Cross, British Legion, W.R.V.S. Compulsive gardener and took part in botanical trek to Sikkim1979. Portrait by L. Trapp last in own possession. | Mitford, Mary Margaret (I2448)
|
| 2118 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Longworth, Jane Phoebe (I2280)
|
| 2119 | Widow of Dr. William H. de Bargue Hubert, MRCS, LRCP, eldest daughter of Major Guy Molesworth Kindersley, OBE, MP, MP. | Kindersley, Agnes Ruth (I2651)
|
| 2120 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Rankine, Susan Heather (I1885)
|
| 2121 | Widow. | Robertson, Ethel Manwaring (I197)
|
| 2122 | Widowed; married name Jeanie Yeoman | McKnaught, Jeanie (I5306)
|
| 2123 | Wife of George Anthony Molteno, the first Molteno to settle in London. Her tombstone lies cemented into the floor of the coffee house that now exists in the crypt of St Martin’s in the Fields, Trafalgar Square. Her children included James Anthony, John, Charles Dominic, Mary, Emma and Eloise Molteno. | Lewis, Mary (I1754)
|
| 2124 | Wife of John Molteno. Daughter of George Bower who rose to a senior position in the Bank of England. After the death of her husband at young age in 1827, she moved with her children out of Central London to Peckham, at that time a small village on the city’s outskirts, where her father had a house. Caroline lived in Peckham for the rest of her life, for some of the time supporting herself by running a school. A great sadness to her, four of her children emigrated to distant parts of the world. Only her son, Fred Molteno and his children, returned to live in Peckham. Her eldest son, John Charles Molteno, kept in touch with her by letter, although the post in those days was slow and irregular. But she had the joy of seeing him twice as a grown man, including during his lengthy visit to Europe with his wife, Maria, and daughters, Caroline and Betty, in 1860-61. | Bower, Caroline (I422)
|
| 2125 | Wife of Westlake, baptised at Topsham 1 January 1612, a widow 1662. | Gibbe, Rose (I236)
|
| 2126 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Matthews, Wilfred James (I3359)
|
| 2127 | Will administration 7 September 1721 in the Peculiar Court of the Vicars Choral, Exeter. | Gibbs, Robert (I2988)
|
| 2128 | Will dated 10 May, proved July 1631 in the Archdeaconry Court of Exeter. His will mentions his nephew John Baker. William Gibbe was churchwarden of Clyst St. George 1607 and William Gibb 1618, 1626, and 1629, all doubtless No. 3. His mother Cecily warden in 1597. For these and other Gibbs churchwardens of Clyst St. George see Clyst St. George 'Booke of Accomptes (extracted in Ellacombe's 'Clyst St. George' and in 'Aldenham General Collections' Vol. A, pp. 396-7) and the parish Registers. Besides Claypitt with its 23 acres William had a lease on lives of a moiety or halfendeale of Court Farm in Clyst St. George, and both passed to his nephew Baker. For 'Court' see entry for George Gibbs of Pitt. | Gibbe, William of Claypitt (I2960)
|
| 2129 | Will dated 17 Nov. 1691, proved 24 Nov 1691, in London The seal on his will of 1691 contains the earliest recorded use by a member of the Clyst St. George branch of the arms of Gibbs of Fenton in Dartington, viz., argent, 3 battle axes sable. It also shows for crest on an esquire's helmet, an arm embowed, in armour, holding a battle axe. These same arms and crest were placed by his first cousin George Gibbs of Pytte in Clyst St. George on the monument which he erected in 1708 to his father and grandfather, John Gibbs of Exeter, nephew of the first named George, sealed his will of 1741 with the same arms and crest, and John's son-in-law Adam Pierce impaled the same in a seal of his arms. On the arms see also Preface to the Third Edition of the Gibbs Pedigree and the opening to the earliest recorded Gibbses, i.e. John Gibbe (taxed in goods 1524). | Gibbs, George of London (I3023)
|
| 2130 | Will dated 2 May 1820 in Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Doctors Commons, London. | Gibbs, Joanna (I1772)
|
| 2131 | Will dated 27 August 1688, proved 27 February 1701-2 in the Peculiar Court of the Vicars Choral, Exeter. Will mentions wife Dorothy; daughters Anstice Pearce, Dorothy Lyde, Elizabeth Gibbs, daughters-in-law Joan Kentibeare, Elizabeth Gibbs son Robert; grandson Robert; friends Abraham Gibbs and George Gibbs, yeoman. N.B. - A Joan Gibbs married John Kensbeer, 2 October 1684. | Gibbs, Robert of Ebford (I2974)
|
| 2132 | Will dated 4 December 1732, proved 27 February 1723-3 in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Doctors Commons, London. | Pierce, Adam (I3044)
|
| 2133 | Will dated February 1747-8, proved same year in Principal Registry of the Bishop of Exeter. She is mentioned in the will of her mother's relation Margaret (born Lane and widow of Hunt), wife of Nicholas Prideaux (son of Nicholas Prideaux of Soldon, near Holsworthy, Devon). The wills of Anne and John and Anne Gregson mention her as their aunt, but Margaret Prideaux in her own will of 1698, proved 1704 (in the Principal Registry of the Bishop of Exeter), calls Isaac - the father of the first two - her cousin. It will be of interest to note the coincidence that the manor and advowson of Clyst St. George belonged to the Prideaux family from 1557 till it was sold in 1643 by Sir John Prideaux of Nutwell in the adjoining parish of Woodbury. Another coincidence to be mentioned is that in 1554 Robert Gibbes of Honington, co. Warwick, a family which like our own (the Clyst St. George) family claims relationship with Gibbs of Fenton in Dartington, married a Margaret daughter of Humphrey Prideaux of Thuborough, near Holsworthy, a relation of the Prideaux who bought the manor of Clyst St. George; see p. 15 of the Treatise by John Arthur Gibbs filed in 'Aldenham General Collections', Volume A, p. 621. | Gibbs, Anne (I3037)
|
| 2134 | Will mentions wife Tryphaena; daughters Elizabeth, Mary, son Abraham; brothers-in-law William Rowe, gent, and Benjamin Brinley, grocer; and (1st cousin) Philip Gibbs, yeoman. | Gibbs, Abraham of Topsham (I232)
|
| 2135 | William Beresford, 1st Baron Decies (16 April 1743 – 6 September 1819) was an Anglo-Irish clergyman. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Beresford,_1st_Baron_Decies | Beresford, William 1st Baron Decies (I6222)
|
| 2136 | William Bruere became secretary to the Government of the Bengal Presidency of British India and a member of the Council of India. He married Anne Sadleir, and their daughter Nancy Sadleir Bruere married in 1846 William Otter, later Principal of King's College London and Bishop of Chichester. | Bruere, William (I5370)
|
| 2137 | William Bruère Otter (28 May 1805 – 25 June 1876) was an Anglican cleric who was the Archdeacon of Lewes from 1855 until his death in 1876. William Otter was the son of William Otter, Bishop of Chicester and his wife, born Nancy Sadleir Bruère. He was educated at Rugby, Charterhouse and King's College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1828. Ordained in 1830, he was Vicar of Eyeworth from 1832 to 1836, Vicar of Kinlet from 1837 to 1847, Vicar of Cowfold from 1839 to 1876 and Prebendary of Chichester from 1850 to 1876. He died at Cowfold on 25 June 1876. Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bruère_Otter | Otter, Rev. William Bruere (I2320)
|
| 2138 | William Buller Fullerton Elphinstone, 15th Lord Elphinstone and 1st Baron Elphinstone (18 November 1828 – 18 January 1893), known as William Elphinstone until 1861, was a Scottish Conservative politician. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Elphinstone,_15th_Lord_Elphinstone | Elphinstone, William Buller Fullerton Baron Elphinstone (I3449)
|
| 2139 | William Carr (14 June 1862 – 28 January 1925) was a biographer for the Dictionary of National Biography, historian, magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant for Norfolk, England. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Carr_(biographer) | Carr, William (I5258)
|
| 2140 | William Charles Wentworth (13 August 1790 – 20 March 1872) was an Australian explorer, journalist, politician and author, and one of the leading figures of early colonial New South Wales. He was the first native-born Australian to achieve a reputation overseas, and a leading advocate for self-government for the Australian colonies. For details see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wentworth | Wentworth, William Charles (Crowley) (I237)
|
| 2141 | William Douglas Weir, 1st Viscount Weir GCB PC (12 May 1877 – 2 July 1959) was a Scottish industrialist and politician, who served as President of the Air Council in 1918. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Weir,_1st_Viscount_Weir | Weir, William Douglas 1st Viscount Weir (I6304)
|
| 2142 | William Heneage Legge, 6th Earl of Dartmouth GCVO KCB VD TD JP (6 May 1851 – 11 March 1936), styled Viscount Lewisham between 1853 and 1891, was a British peer and Conservative politician. He served as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household between 1885 and 1886 and again between 1886 and 1891. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Legge,_6th_Earl_of_Dartmouth | Legge, William Heneage 6th Earl of Dartmouth (I4846)
|
| 2143 | William Henry Edgcumbe, 4th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, GCVO, PC, DL (5 November 1833 – 25 September 1917), styled Viscount Valletort between 1839 and 1861, was a British courtier and Conservative politician. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Edgcumbe,_4th_Earl_of_Mount_Edgcumbe | Edgcumbe, William Henry 4th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (I1508)
|
| 2144 | William Hucks (1672–1740) was an English brewer and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1709 and 1740. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hucks | Hucks, William (I4990)
|
| 2145 | William Judd Harding was the son of a yeoman of ancient family. Educated and sent to India by M.C.Judd. He was gentleman of the bedchamber to George III and called his house "Baraset" after the college in Calcutta where he trained. He married Harriet Sweedland, the illegitimate daughter of Miss Plowden and the Earl of Craven. She took her nurses name (Sweedland). A great beauty at school in Bath. She was drawn in pastels by Sir Thomas Lawrence. | Harding, William Judd (I1198)
|
| 2146 | William Otter (23 October 1768 – 20 August 1840) was the first Principal of King's College, London, who later served as Bishop of Chichester. He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge where he was later made a fellow. He was appointed Principal of the newly established King's College, London, in 1831, and held the post until 1836 when he was appointed Bishop of Chichester. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Otter | Otter, Rt. Rev. William (I2324)
|
| 2147 | William Procter (7 December 1801 – 4 April 1884 ) was a British candlemaker and industrialist, who later emigrated to the United States. He was the founder and co-eponym of Procter & Gamble Company in 1837, along with James Gamble. A native of England, William Procter was born in Herefordshire and educated at the Luckston School. He entered into business in 1818 and was connected with the clothing industry in London in the late 1820's. In 1827, he became acquainted with William Hooper, who urged Procter to emigrate to America. He arrived in the United States in 1830 and began to manufacture candles in New York City. He moved west with his first wife, Martha Peat Procter. She died during their westward journey in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1832. Planning only on staying for a short while before resuming his relocation plans, he decided to stay and spent the remainder of his life there. He started his business and married Olivia Norris in 1833. At his father-in-law Alexander Norris's suggestion, he joined forces in 1837 with his brother-in-law, James Gamble, to establish the company that bears their names. The company began to manufacture Ivory soap and profits grew to enormous proportions. His son William Alexander Procter and grandson William Cooper Procter were company presidents. Procter is buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, as is his business partner, James Gamble. Stories handed down the Long Blue Line—whether heartwarming or heartbreaking—give us great glimpses into the past that shine a light on our roots and inspire us to work harder to improve everyday life today, and tomorrow. The account of founder William Procter’s journey with his wife Martha from England to Cincinnati is, as his grandson describes it in his memoirs, “a pathetic story of two young people starting out in the new world.” Procter’s fledgling woolens store in London, ravaged by fire and ransacked by robbers in close succession in the early 1830s, left him destitute and desperate to start a new life and get out of debt. Had he not been given a gift of a thousand pounds by a friend of his father’s, Sir John Lubbock, who had “taken a great fancy to him”, he and Martha could not have even considered such a move. Their pilgrimage west across America through the Allegheny Mountains was relatively uneventful, despite rumors of pirates along the riverbanks who would prey on westward travelers like them. Being warned of them early on, Procter kept his rifle ready and was spared their advances along the way. But their fortune would come to an end one dark day on the Ohio River: When the young couple reached Cincinnati and tied up, the plague was on and she took cholera and died; she was buried there with the cholera victims. He said he did not care to go any further... Reeling from the sudden loss of his closest companion in life, Procter decided to settle in Cincinnati, where he "got a position in the bank." Perhaps it was the emotional connection to Martha’s burial plot, or the uncertainty of continuing on, that compelled him to stay. But he would never leave Cincinnati after that loss. There is much more to this story. But the cause of Martha’s untimely death is a tragedy that we should stop to ponder, because of its sobering significance to P&G today. Now, almost 180 years after Martha’s death, cholera is still a global killer, claiming the lives of thousands of children and adults with its deadly grip throughout the developing world. How remarkable—and inspiring—that the small soap and candle company the grieving William Procter would soon form would one day devote significant energy and resources toward preventing the very disease that claimed the life of his wife. Today, P&G and 100 global partners have formed an all-out front against the spread of cholera and other water-borne diseases through the P&G Children’s Safe Drinking Water (CSDW) Program. Without a doubt, the P&G CSDW Program is one that, if alive today, William Procter would pour himself into with every ounce of passion he had. How rewarding that so many of the everyday lives we touch today connect so closely to this "pathetic story" that took place at the dawn of our Long Blue Line. Though pathetic, it’s a story that serves to deepen the roots of our resolve to improve more lives caught in the crosshairs of cholera. Manufacturer. Co-Founder of the Procter and Gamble Company. A native of England, he was born in Herefordshire and educated at the Luckston School. Procter entered into business in 1818 and was connected with the clothing industry in London in the late 1820's. In 1827, he became acquainted with William Hooper, who urged him to emigrate to America. Procter arrived in the United States in 1830 and began to manufacture candles in New York City. He moved west with his first wife, Martha Peat Procter. She died during their westward journey in Cincinnati, Ohio. Planning only on staying for a short while before resuming his relocation plans, he decided to stay and spent the remainder of his life there. He then married Olivia Norris in 1833 and was convinced by his father-in-law, Alexander Norris, to enter into a partnership with his brother-in-law, James Gamble. They established the Procter and Gamble Company in 1837. By 1859, sales reached $1 million. In the 1880's, the company began to manufacture Ivory soap and profits grew to enormous proportions. His son, William A. Procter, succeeded him as the company's president. Procter died in Cincinnati. (bio by: K Guy) Taken from Find A Grave. William Procter left England for America in 1830, after his London woolens shop was destroyed by fire and burglary. He worked as a candlemaker in New York City, then headed west with his wife, Martha, to settle in the new frontier. When she became ill they stopped in Cincinnati to seek emergency medical help, and there she died of cholera. Procter remained in Ohio, where he continued as a candlemaker. He soon met the woman who would be his second wife, Olivia Procter, whose sister Elizabeth was married to James Gamble, a soapmaker. Eventually the sisters' father suggested that Procter and Gamble should merge their businesses, saving on larger quantity purchase of lye and sharing the ash and meat scraps they both used in preparing their products. The two men established their first storefront at Cincinnati's Main and Sixth streets on 12 April 1837, and their location -- near the Ohio River in a city that was a major rail hub -- allowed the business to expand quickly. In 1851 an early version on Procter & Gamble's familiar moon-and-stars trademark -- needed to identify their products in a time when many customers were illiterate -- debuted on boxes of their Star brand candles, and the company's annual sales first surpassed $1M in 1859. As the US Civil War approached, Procter and Gamble worried that war could interrupt their supply of a certain kind of Southern pine sap used to make rosin, a key ingredient in several of their products, so the partners sent their sons, William Alexander Procter and James Norris Gamble, to purchase huge quantities of pine sap in Louisiana. This shrewd move allowed P&G to dominate the market during the Civil War, with a lucrative contract to provide numerous products for the Union Army. Several years after Procter's death, his son William became President of P&G, and after his 1907 suicide Procter's grandson William Cooper Procter took charge of the business. According to company folklore, another of Procter's sons, Harley Procter, came up with the name "Ivory" for the company's new floating soap in 1858, inspired by the Biblical mention of "ivory palaces whereby they have made thee glad" (Psalm 45:8). | Proctor, William (I6337)
|
| 2148 | William Shakespeare (bapt. 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare | Shakespeare, William (I6475)
|
| 2149 | William Waldegrave Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne KG GCMG PC (17 October 1859 – 26 February 1942), styled Viscount Wolmer between 1882 and 1895, was a British politician and colonial administrator. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Palmer,_2nd_Earl_of_Selborne | Palmer, William Waldegrave 2nd Earl of Selborne (I1384)
|
| 2150 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Gibbs, Patricia Helen (I2033)
|