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    (1803–78) and Jane (née Wield) Harkness. His father was a pastor and moved the family to the United States. Harkness served in the military, traveled...
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    Lamon Harkness was born in Bellevue, Ohio, the son of Daniel M. Harkness, who was the half-brother of both Henry Flagler and Stephen V. Harkness, both...
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    Rebekah West Harkness (née Semple West; April 17, 1915 – June 17, 1982) also known as Betty Harkness, was an American composer, socialite, sculptor, dance...
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    completed in 1922, it is named for Charles William Harkness, brother of Yale's largest benefactor, Edward Harkness. The tower was constructed between 1917...
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    Standard Oil until his death. Stephen Harkness was born on November 18, 1818, in Fayette, New York, to David M. Harkness and Martha Cook. His mother died before...
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    High Watch (category Harkness family)
    1948 to William Hale Harkness, heir to the Standard Oil Company fortune. Stephen Vanderburgh Harkness was a progenitor of the extended Harkness family...
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    Harkness (January 22, 1874 – January 29, 1940) was an American philanthropist. Given privately and through his family's Commonwealth Fund, Harkness'...
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    Charles William Harkness (December 17, 1860 – May 1, 1916) was a son of Stephen V. Harkness (an original investor in the company that became Standard...
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  • William Harker (23 June 1819 – 18 September 1905) was a wool merchant, banker and Liberal politician who represented Ripon. Harker was born at Pateley...
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  • exiled to the United States William Sampson (playwright) (1590?–1636?), collaborated with Gervase Markham William Harkness Sampson, Methodist minister...
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  • include: Albert Harkness (1822–1907), American classical scholar and educator Alistair Harkness (born 1974), Australian politician Angela Harkness (born 1976)...
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    friend Joseph Cunningham Harker (1855–1920), a set designer at the Lyceum Theatre in London and father of actor William Gordon Harker (1885–1967) as well as...
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    The Harkness table, Harkness method, or Harkness discussion is a teaching and learning method involving students seated in a large, oval configuration...
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  • player Susannah Harker (born 1965), English actress Wiley Harker, actor, Crane Tolliver in the soap opera General Hospital William Harker (1819–1905), wool...
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  • founded as a coeducational institution. Lawrence's first president, William Harkness Sampson, founded the school with Henry R. Colman, using $10,000 provided...
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    Harkness became a major stockholder in Standard Oil and one of the wealthiest individuals of his day. Harkness was the son of Dr. David M. Harkness and...
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    Thomas William Harkness (born December 23, 1937) is a Canadian former professional baseball first baseman, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from...
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    Mary Stillman Harkness or Mary Harkness (1874 – 1950) was an American art collector and noted philanthropist. Harkness was the daughter of a prominent...
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    Nancy Harkness Love (February 14, 1914 – October 22, 1976), born Hannah Lincoln Harkness, was an American pilot and airplane commander during World War...
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  • story of Rebekah Harkness, the founder of Harkness Ballet, when she resided in Swift's Rhode Island mansion. It details how Harkness married into an upper-class...
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    George Harkness JP (21 July 1850 – 9 January 1930) was a 19th-century independent conservative Member of Parliament from Nelson, New Zealand. Harkness, the...
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  • influenza in 1916. Florence Harkness (1864–1895), who married the widower Louis Henry Severance (1838–1913). Edward Stephen Harkness (1874–1940), who married...
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  • Robert William Harker (born 6 March 2000) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward. Robert William Harker was born 6 March 2000 in...
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  • (Hooper & Whyld 1992:332) (Hooper & Whyld 1992:332) (Harkness 1967:205–6). (Harkness 1967:185–88) (Harkness 1967:187) "The calculation of ECF Grades on a monthly...
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  • his retirement and he was also buried in the Ecclefechan churchyard. William Harkness (1837–1903), an astronomer, was born at Ecclefechan. Janet Little (1759-1813)...
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    house in 1905. The Fisks sold it four years later to William Harkness and his wife Edith Harkness, the latter of whom sold the house in 1923. The house...
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  • James Harkness is a Scottish actor. He is known for his roles as Craig Myers in the BBC crime drama The Victim (2019), as James in BBC drama The Nest (2020)...
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    was independently observed by Charles Augustus Young (1834–1908) and William Harkness (1837–1903) in the coronal spectrum. Since this line did not correspond...
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    William Harker was a 19th-century American slave trader notable for his longevity. As historian Frederic Bancroft put it in Slave Trading in the Old South...
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    Carillon (sometimes incorrectly referred to as the Harkness Carillon) is a carillon of 54 bells in Harkness Tower at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut...
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