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    Edwin Leonard Waller (November 4, 1800 – January 3, 1881) was a businessman, signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, the first mayor of Austin...
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    The county was named for Edwin Waller, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and first mayor of Austin. Waller County is included in the...
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    Waller Creek is a stream and an urban watershed in Austin, Texas, United States. Named after Edwin Waller, the first mayor of Austin, it has its headwaters...
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    appointed his friend Edwin Waller to oversee the surveying of the new capital city and to develop a city plan for its layout. Waller had been an early Anglo-American...
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    B. Lamar in the 1830s. Lamar tapped Edwin Waller to direct the planning and construction of the new town. Waller chose a site on a bluff above the Colorado...
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    Waller was the seventh child of 11 (five of whom survived childhood) born to Adeline Locket Waller, a musician, and Reverend Edward Martin Waller, a...
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    first mayoral election on January 13, 1840, in which citizens elected Edwin Waller to be the city's first mayor. "Austin, Texas". Ballotpedia. Retrieved...
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    Jr. Floyd E. Ryan Walter A. Schulz Charles L. Somerville Joe Thompson Edwin Waller III W. C. Welch John C. Williams All of these candidates were Democrats...
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  • Mississippi Christopher Waller, American economist Edwin Waller, American statesman Gary Waller (1945–2017), British politician George Mark Waller, Lord Justice...
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    Edwin Arthur Schlossberg (born July 19, 1945) is an American designer, artist, and author. A pioneer and leader of interactive museum installations, he...
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    construction of the Texas State Capitol and the University of Texas at Austin. Edwin Waller was picked by Lamar to survey the village and draft a plan laying out...
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    across the island of Samar. Waller retired from the Marines holding the rank of major general. Littleton ("Tony") Waller was born in York County, Virginia...
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    Pattison, Texas (category Cities in Waller County, Texas)
    is located on FM 359 at the James Tarrant Pattison home site. Judge Edwin Waller historical marker is west of Pattison along FM 1458 near Buller Road...
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  • Edwin Wilson may refer to: B. Edwin Wilson, retired United States Air Force general Edwin Bidwell Wilson (1879–1964), American mathematician Edwin H. Wilson...
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    Stewart James G. Swisher Charles S. Taylor David Thomas John Turner Edwin Waller Claiborne West James B. Woods Texas Independence Day Timeline of the...
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    live-music crowd. Austin was planned on a 15-block grid plan developed by Edwin Waller that was bisected by Congress Avenue running north–south. The Bastrop...
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  • the bastion, was a parapet made of wood, about two feet in height.” Edwin Waller described it as "… fort of circular form, having in the center a mound...
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    Edwin Lefèvre (1871–1943) was an American journalist, writer, and diplomat, who is most noted for his writings on Wall Street business. Lefèvre was born...
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    January 1879 in Dymock, Gloucestershire, Blackburn was the third child of Edwin Waller Blackburn and Sarah Jane Blackburn (née Tate). Soon after his birth the...
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    population of the town, which was named Austin. Charged with the task, Edwin Waller designed a fourteen-block grid that fronted the river on 640 acres (exactly...
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    Waterloo Park downtown. Lamar tapped Judge Edwin Waller to direct the planning and construction of the new town. Waller chose a 640-acre (260 ha) site on a bluff...
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  • proposed a plan to co-locate Cooley with Waller High School; constructing a building on vacant land near the Waller campus. Cooley's administration objected...
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  • Edwin Martel Basil Hodge (born January 26, 1985) is an American actor. He is recognized for portraying Dante Bishop in The Purge film series, and is the...
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    Henry Miles founded the Bemerside plantation, while Arthur Neame and Edwin Waller established the Macknade plantation. The first local sugar mill was constructed...
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  • "I'll Be" is a song written and performed by American singer Edwin McCain. The song was serviced to US radio in October 1997 and was commercially released...
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  • the Republic of Texas. Waller Plan is developed as Austin's first city plan. December 27: Austin incorporated. 1840 Edwin Waller becomes first mayor. 1841...
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    went on to become the second mayor of Austin in the fall of 1840 when Edwin Waller stepped down. During his brief tenure in the winter of 1840, Ward created...
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    Health Sr. (D) - 51 (0.01%) John Romulus Brinkley (D) - 36 (0.01%) Edwin Waller III (D) - 28 (0.01%) Charles L. Somerville (D) - 20 (0.00%) Texas's 10th...
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    Edwin Lloyd Pittman (January 2, 1935 – September 25, 2024) was an American jurist and politician who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi...
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    between Shoal Creek (West Avenue) to the west and Waller Creek (East Avenue) to the east Edwin Waller in 1839. The story of the settlement of Old West...
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