Henry Villard was an American journalist and financier who was an early president of the Northern Pacific Railway.
Oswald Garrison Villard was an American journalist and editor of the New York Evening Post. He was a civil rights activist, and along with his mother, Fanny Villard, a founding member of the NAACP. In 1913, he wrote to President Woodrow Wilson to protest his administration's racial segregation of federal offices in Washington, D.C., a change from previous integrated conditions. He was a leading liberal spokesman in the 1920s and 1930s, then turned to the right.
Muller is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Halliday or Haliday is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Critchley is an Anglo-Saxon surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Oswald Garrison "Mike" Villard Jr. was an American professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University.
Schaefer is an alternative spelling and cognate for the German word schäfer, meaning 'shepherd', which itself descends from the Old High German scāphare. Variants "Shaefer", "Schäfer", the additional alternative spelling "Schäffer", and the anglicised forms "Schaeffer", "Schaffer", "Shaffer", "Shafer", and "Schafer" are all common surnames.
Swartz is a German surname related to the German word Schwarz. It may refer to:
Helen Frances “Fanny” Garrison Villard was an American women's suffrage campaigner, pacifist and a co-founder of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. She was the daughter of prominent publisher and abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison and the wife of railroad tycoon Henry Villard.
Paynter is a surname. It can either be of British origin, meaning "the head/end of the land" in the Cornish language, or it can be of English-language origin, where it is occupational and refers to a painter. It may refer to:
Salmon is a surname. Alternative spellings are Salmons, Sammon and Sammons.
Cogan is a surname of Gaelic origin. Notable people with the surname include:
Grose is a surname of two possible origins. Cornish origin: a toponymic surname for a person who lived near a stone cross, from Cornish "crows" or "crous" for "cross". French origin: from Old French gros: "big, "fat", a variant of surname Gros.
Mallon is a surname. An Irish variant is "Ó Mealláin". The name may refer to any of these well-known people:
The Women's Peace Society was an organized movement that focused on demilitarization in the United States and iniquity of violence. The Women's Peace Society was an active organization for fourteen years, being founded in 1919 and evolving into a separate peace movement-Women's Peace Union of the Western Hemisphere- in 1933. The Women's Peace Society was created on September 12, 1919, in the United States when a group of women that included Fanny Garrison Villard, Elinor Byrns, Katherine Devereaux Blake, and Caroline Lexow Babcock resigned from the executive committee of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom because they found "a fundamental lack of unity in the membership as a whole and in the executive committee". The leader of the group, Fanny Garrison, Villard sought to bring importance to humanitarian issues and raise awareness for the importance of all lives after the deadly consequences of World War I.
Henry Serrano Villard was an American foreign service officer, ambassador and author.
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