Danilee norris biography of william

American politician

William Hutchinson Norris (September 25, 1800 – July 13, 1893) was an American politician who was the founder of the city of Americana and a settlement in Santa Bárbara d'Oeste. A notable Confederate during American Civil War, Norris was a significant figure in the history of the Confederados following the war.

Norris was a colonel in the militia during the Mexican-American War and an Alabamasenator as well, who left the U.S. for Brazil with 30 Confederate families.

Career in the United States

Norris was born in Oglethorpe, Georgia, in 1800. His father was a North Carolina born merchant named William Norris (1757 in Johnston County, North Carolina - New Orleans, Louisiana) who was largely based in Charleston, South Carolina and New Orleans, Louisiana and was a North Carolina State Senator, his mother, Nancy Watkins (1767 in Williamsburg, Virginia - 1852 in Charleston, South Carolina) was a relative of Thomas Jefferson. His brother Frank Hutchinson Norris (1804 in Savannah, Georgia - 1878 in Santa Bárbara d'Oeste) was a South Carolina State Senator and merchant, who was a graduate of the College of Charleston. Norris served in the Alabama State Legislature, both as a senator and member of the Alabama House of Representatives from Dallas County during the late 1830s and early 1840s. On December 2, 1861, he was elected grand master of the Alabama Masonic Lodge.

Career in Brazil

On 27 December 1865, Norris, his brother, and his son Robert C. Norris arrived in Rio de Janeiro aboard the ship South America. It is uncertain what his departure point was, probably New Orleans or Mobile. Norris had left his home at Mount Pleasant in Monroe County. The only member of this immediate family who did not accompany the group to Brazil was his son Francis Johnson Norris.

Norris helped establish a Confederate American presence in Americana and Santa Bárbara d'Oeste where slavery was still legal, a

William Norris, an American locomotive manufacturer, died on Jan. 5, 1867, at the age of 64.  Norris is about as shadowy a figure as has ever infiltrated these anniversaries. We know he lived in Philadelphia and that he was a dry goods merchant until, in 1832, he teamed up with Western explorer Stephen H. Long, still a major in the U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers, to build locomotives.  The railroad era in the United States had begun in 1830 with the founding of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and railways were springing up everywhere.  Long apparently designed the very first locomotives for Norris, but he left almost immediately to do other things, so William teamed up with his brother, founded the Norris Locomotive Works in 1834, and built a large factory in Philadelphia, competing with the better-known Baldwin Locomotive Works.  We have little idea who designed these locomotives – certainly not William, who had no engineering background – but Norris locomotives were soon a hot item.  The firm had turned out 138 locomotives by 1841, and some 1000 more before William’s death in 1867, many of them being shipped to England and to Austria.

The most popular early Norris locomotive was what we now call a 4-2-0, meaning it had a four-wheel truck in the front, two main driving wheels, with no wheels following the drive wheels. This made it very maneuverable, with a great deal of traction (for the time). Norris’s day in the Sun came on July 10, 1836, when a locomotive named the George Washington pulled a ten-ton load up the Belmont Inclined Plane, a steep incline on the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad, where the grade was 1:15, quite a c

Daniel William Norris was born on 31 March 1808, in Bourbon, Kentucky, United States. He married Harriet Martha Thornton in 1829, in Bourbon, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Saint Clair Township, St. Clair, Illinois, United States in 1850. He died on 29 May 1860, in Carlyle, Clinton, Illinois, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Carlyle Cemetery, Carlyle Township, Clinton, Illinois, United States.

American businessman

William Charles Norris (July 14, 1911, near Red Cloud, Nebraska – August 21, 2006) was an American business executive. He was the CEO of Control Data Corporation, at one time one of the most powerful and respected computer companies in the world. He is famous for taking on IBM in a head-on fight and winning, as well as being a social activist who used Control Data's expansion in the late 1960s to bring jobs and training to inner cities and disadvantaged communities.

Early life

Norris was born and raised on a cattle farm in Nebraska, attending a tiny school in Inavale, Nebraska, and operating a ham radio. He attained a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Nebraska in 1932. He spent two years on his family's farm after graduation, helping weather the Great Depression and a significant drought in the Midwest by risking the use of Russian thistle as cattle feed.

Military career

Norris served in the United States Navy as a codebreaker, attaining the rank of lieutenant commander while working at the Navy's Nebraska Avenue Complex in Washington, D.C. His technical accomplishments included advancing methods for identifying U-boats.

Professional career

Before entering military service, Norris sold X-Ray equipment for the Westinghouse Corporation in Chicago, then worked for the Bureau of Ordnance as a civil servant engineer until signing with