41. Genealogy Data stafford, william Parents Father stafford, william Mother VINCENT, Elizabeth FamilyMarriage 28 NOV 1803 Spouse CRAGG, Mary Parents Father CRAGG, John http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~framland/framland/html/dat19.htm

Genealogy Data Back to Main Page SMITH, Annes Family: Marriage: 23 FEB 1596 Spouse: WINDER, Robert Children: WINDER, Alice WINDER, Joan WINDER, Annis WINDER, Agnes Back to Main Page UNKNOWN, Liddia Family: Spouse: CRAGG, Robert Parents: Father: CRADGE, Daniel Mother: ALLINSON, Joan Children: CRAGG, Sarah CRAGG, John CRAGG, Thomas CRAGG, Lydiea CRAGG, Mary CRAGG, Thomas CRAGG, Mary CRAGG, Robert CRAGG, Daniel Back to Main Page UNKNOWN, Ann Family: Spouse: CRAGG, John Children: UNKNOWN, Thomas Back to Main Page UNKNOWN, Alce Family: Spouse: CLARK, Martin Children: CLARKE, Alice Back to Main Page PYKE, Anthony Parents: Father: PYKE, Robert Mother: PIKE, Widow Family: Marriage: 31 JUL 1610 Spouse: KITCHIN, Ellen Children: PYKE, Helen PYKE, Katherine PYKE, James PYKE, Ann PYKE, Jane PYKE, John PYKE, Robert PYKE, Mary Back to Main Page BREEDON, Anne Parents: Father: BREDON, Nathaniel Mother: UNKNOWN, Elizabeth Family: Marriage: 05 APR 1716 Spouse: CRAGG, John Parents: Father: CRAGG, Robert Mother: UNKNOWN, Liddia Children: CRAGG, John CRAGG, Ann Back to Main Page WINTER, Richard

42. William Stafford 1662 Ad. Futhter information on william stafford. Children of william stafford b)abt. 3. william stafford b) abt. 1689 Virginia City, Wise County Virginia. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~staffords/williamstafford1662.htm

Futhter information on William Stafford Children of William Stafford : b) abt. 1662 Elizabeth City, Pasquotank, Virginia d) 17 Feburary 1728 Carrituck, North Carolina Marriage 1. Jane Brown b) about 1663 Currituck County, North Carolina m) 1683 Virginia 1. John Stafford b) abt. 1685 Virginia City, Wise County Virginia d) 1735 Bath District, Beauford, North Carolina 2. Edward Stafford b) abt. 1687 Virginia City, Wise County Virginia 3. William Stafford b) abt. 1689 Virginia City, Wise County Virginia 4. Ann Stafford b) 1691 Stafford, Virginia 5. Frances Stafford b) 1693 Stafford, Virginia 6. Samuel Stafford b) abt. 1695 Virginia City, Wise County Virginia 7. Mary Stafford b) 1696 Currituck County, North Carolina 8. Jane Stafford b) 1698 Currituck County, North Carolina ~Back~

43. Valencia West LRC - Stafford, William stafford, william (1914 ). Pathfinder. August 1996. The following reference bookscan be used to get both biographical and critical information about authors. http://valencia.cc.fl.us/lrcwest/stafford.html

Stafford, William (1914- ) Pathfinder August 1996 The following reference books can be used to get both biographical and critical information about authors. These sources should be used as a starting pointDO NOT base all of your research on material obtained from reference books. Use these sources to become better acquainted with your author; this will allow you to utilize more effectively the sources listed under COMPREHENSIVE LITERARY RESEARCH. These sources are located at the West Campus LRC; they may also be located at other local libraries. BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES Consult the following reference sources to get an overview of your author's life. Contemporary Authors REF Z 1224 .C6 The various versions of this classic biographical source are all accessed via the Contemporary Authors Cumulative Index (REF Z 1224 .C58) Dictionary of Literary Biography REF PS 221 .D5 This multivolume biographical source is best accessed via the Contemporary Authors Cumulative Index (REF Z 1224 .C58) CRITICAL SOURCES Consult the following reference sources to obtain critical analyses of your author and his/her work. The first sources listed will provide a more general critical analyses of your author, while the second set of sources will provide critical analyses of a more specific nature.

44. William Stafford Noble The current version is available here. william stafford Noble. Formerlywilliam Noble Grundy. Liao, Li and william stafford Noble. http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~bgrundy/

This web page is no longer being maintained. The current version is available here William Stafford Noble Formerly William Noble Grundy Assistant Professor Department of Genome Sciences Department of Computer Science University of Washington Health Sciences Center, Box 357730 1705 NE Pacific Street Seattle, WA 98195 E-mail: noble@gs.washington.edu Tel: (206) 543-8930 Fax: (206) 685-7301 Office: K-328A Current Research Computational biology group homepage Brief professional biography Bioinformatics in 2011 , talk given at the Blue Sky workshop of the United States-European Commission Task Force on Biotechnology Research, September 10, 2001. Classification of yeast genes using support vector machines Gist : software for support vector machine classification and for kernel principal components analysis. Family Pairwise Search Meta-MEME: Motif-based hidden Markov modeling of protein families Meta-MEME home page Press release Software documentation Click on the links below to see abstracts. P Pavlidis, WS Noble. "Matrix2png: A utility for visualizing matrix data."

45. SkySoldier.com stafford, william D (Bill). 5/698/69. D 1503. tstaffrd@sdcoe.k12.ca.us. Unattached. http://www.skysoldier.org/php/view_member.php?id_num=2601

46. William Stafford Bibliography Critical Annotated Bibliography about william stafford's Work BooksAndrews, Tom, ed. On william stafford The Worth of Local Things. http://www.unl.edu/plains/events/resource/staffordbiblio.html

Return to: Educational Resource Center for Great Plains Studies Link to: Biography Works Critical Annotated Bibliography about William Stafford's Work Books Andrews, Tom, ed. On William Stafford: The Worth of Local Things . Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1993. This book contains reviews of fourteen of Stafford's collections, twelve general essays, eleven essays on selected poems or articles, and an extensive bibliography. In the introduction Andrews states that he wanted to include some essays that reflect on the debates about Stafford's work and essays that not only discuss the value of Stafford's work, but also question it (vii). This book would be good for the reader who wants a selection of critical responses on Stafford's work without having to search through literary journals. Carpenter, David A. William Stafford . Boise: Boise State University Western Writers Series, no. 72, 1986. Carpenter includes some biographical information as well as quotes from Stafford and others concerning his life and work. Mostly Carpenter discusses the presence of nature in Stafford's work, including how his time spent in the Midwest influenced his poetry, and also discusses some of the criticism available on Stafford at the time this piece was published. Overall a great piece to help readers understand and appreciate Stafford's poetry. Holden, Jonathan.

47. Works By William Stafford Works by william stafford For additional information www.wmstafford.orgPoetry West of Your City, Talisman Press, 1960. Traveling http://www.unl.edu/plains/events/resource/staffordworks.html

Return to: Educational Resource Center for Great Plains Studies Link to: Biography Critical Bibliography Works by William Stafford For additional information: www.wmstafford.org Poetry West of Your City , Talisman Press, 1960. Traveling through the Dark , Harper, 1962. The Rescued Year , Harper, 1962. Eleven Untitled Poems , Perishable Press, 1968. Weather: Poems , Perishable Press, 1969. Allegiances , Harper, 1970. Temporary Facts , Duane Schneider Press, 1970. (With Robert Bly and William Matthews) Poems for Tennessee , Tennessee Poetry Press, 1971. In the Clock of Reason , Soft Press, 1973. Someday, Maybe , Harper, 1973. That Other Alone , Perishable Press, 1973. Going Places: Poems , West Coast Poetry Review, 1974. The Earth , Graywolf Press, 1974. (With John Meade Haines) North by West , edited by Karen Sollid and John Sollid, Spring Rain Press, 1975. (With son, Kim Robert Stafford) Braided Apart , Confluence, 1976. I Would Also Like to Mention Aluminum: Poems and a Conversation , Slow Loris Press, 1976. Late, Passing Prairie Farm: A Poem

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51. (Joseph SMITH - Mary SMITH ) Index of Persons Della stafford william STANFIELD 23354 individuals,8224 families. Index of Persons. Della stafford ( - http://www.public.asu.edu/~bgertz/family/index/ind0777.html

Index of Persons Joseph SMITH (12 Jul 1771 - 14 Sep 1840) Joseph SMITH (23 Dec 1805 - 27 Jun 1844) Joseph SMITH (1768 - 23 Apr 1835) Joseph Meyers SMITH (21 Jan 1821 - ) Joshua SMITH ( - 20 Sep 1719) Julia O. SMITH (ABT 1852 - ) Julia V. B. SMITH Laliah Bell SMITH Leah SMITH Leander SMITH ... Lester Lemuel SMITH (21 Jul 1885 - 21 May 1971) Lewis SMITH Louisa Crayne SMITH (19 Feb 1894 - ) Lowell A. SMITH (2 Feb 1896 - 4 Apr 1944) Lucy SMITH (18 Jul 1821 - 9 Dec 1882) Margaret SMITH Margaret SMITH (10 Aug 1766 - 28 Feb 1839) Margaret SMITH (16 Mar 1737/1738 - AFT 19 Oct 1801) Margaret SMITH (16 Mar 1737/1738 - ) Maria Adaline SMITH Maria H. SMITH Marion E. SMITH Martha SMITH ... Mary SMITH (14 Aug 1711 - ) Mary SMITH Mary SMITH Mary SMITH (29 Oct 1658 - 1726) UP (Jean Pauline SHULL - Sarah SNOWDEN ) BACK (George G. SMITH - John Marsh SMITH ) NEXT (Mary SMITH - Rachel SMITH ) SURNAMES HTML created by GED2HTML v3.5b-WIN95 (Jul 28 1998) on 03/16/2003 05:25:13

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53. AXE - Special Collections - William Edgar Stafford Selected photographs and documents Calendar of the william stafford DeniseLow Correspondence. william stafford Poetry - Hutchinson Public Library. http://library.pittstate.edu/spcoll/ndxstafford.html

Skip navigation links and go to page title Axe Home Questions? Search Engines ... Catalog The William Edgar Stafford Collection Bio Links Willaim Edgar Stafford (1914-1993) a drawing by Ted Watts William Edgar Stafford was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, on 17 January 1914. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Kansas and a doctorate from the University of Iowa . The author of 35 books, Stafford received the National Book Award in 1963 for Traveling Through the Dark and a 1992 Western States Book Award for lifetime achievement in poetry. He served as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress in 1970, a post now designated "American Poet Laureate." He was a professor of English at Lewis and Clark College , Portland, Oregon, until his retirement in 1990. He died on 28 August 1993. Selected photographs and documents Calendar of the William Stafford - Denise Low Correspondence Links to related sites The Friends of William Stafford web site Kansas Poems of William Stafford by Denise Low A number of great Stafford links are located at News from Nowhere More Than Has Ever Been Found . Seventeen poems by William Stafford The Sacred Blur , a biography by Mark Mitchell The Sleep of Grass "A tribute in poetry to William Stafford" Modern American Poetry - William Stafford (biographies, interviews, bibliography, reviews)

54. AXE - Special Collections - William Edgar Stafford - Calendar Of William Staffor Calendar of william staffordDenise Low Correspondence Return to the williamEdgar stafford Collection. Denise william stafford. Purifying http://library.pittstate.edu/spcoll/stafford-low.html

Skip navigation links and go to page title Axe Home Questions? Search Engines ... Catalog Calendar of William Stafford-Denise Low Correspondence Return to the William Edgar Stafford Collection. Denise Low, a drawing by Ted Watts Denise Low, a widely published poet and instructor at the Haskell Indian Nations University, Lawrence, Kansas, states: "Once I talked with Stafford about the lasting influence of Kansas culture on his work, and he agreed that he filtered his writings through that sensibility, even years after he left the state. He had left Kansas reluctantly, in part because of his unpopular stand as a conscientious objector during World War II. The morality that he so often wrote about turned upon him in this case and hurried his move to Iowa and then to Oregon. Of course, he was not a bitter man and did not hold this difficult part of his life against his home state. "I instigated the anthology Kansas Poems of William Stafford in part because I wanted Kansas people to be aware of his writings, and it is appropriate that this correspondence remains in a Kansas library. I believe that most of his manuscripts will remain at Lewis and Clark College in Oregon . . . beyond the reach of many Kansas researchers and researchers." William Stafford. "Purifying the Language of the Tribe," poem. Typescript (photocopy), signed.

55. Genealogy Data in Old Glossop, Derbys Spouse stafford, John Birth 1786 Death 25 MAY 1833Mellor, Derbys Gender Male Parents Father stafford, william Mother BOWDEN http://www.familyworkings.com/gedcoms/gainsborough/dat159.htm

Genealogy Data Back to Main Page TUNNICLIFFE, Mary Birth : 3 JUN 1792 Death : 20 NOV 1833 Gender: Female Family: Marriage: 9 SEP 1808 in Old Glossop, Derbys Spouse: STAFFORD, John Birth : 1786 Death : 25 MAY 1833 Mellor, Derbys Gender: Male Parents: Father: STAFFORD, William Mother: BOWDEN, Hannah Children: STAFFORD, Hannah STAFFORD, James STAFFORD, John STAFFORD, Mary Birth : 2 FEB 1818 Death : Infancy Gender: Female STAFFORD, Esther Birth : 22 APR 1821 Gender: Female STAFFORD, William STAFFORD, Charlotte Birth : 25 SEP 1825 Gender: Female STAFFORD, Samuel Birth : 1829 Death : 1 MAY 1845 Waterloo Colliery, Royton, Lancs Gender: Male STAFFORD, Thomas Back to Main Page SHIRT, Peter Birth : 1807 Death : 11 AUG 1861 Gender: Male Family: Spouse: STAFFORD, Hannah Birth : 22 NOV 1809 Death : AFT. MAR 1881 (On 1881 Census) Gender: Female Parents: Father: STAFFORD, John Mother: TUNNICLIFFE, Mary Children: SHIRT, John SHIRT, William Birth : 1834 Gender: Male SHIRT, Benjamin SHIRT, Ann Birth : 1840 Gender: Female SHIRT, Mary

56. John Stafford And Margaret Brunt Parents william stafford and Jane stafford. He was married to MargaretM. Jones on 13 Aug 1857. Parents william stafford and Nancy Ulett. http://www.johnstafford.org/stafford/d106.htm

HOME SURNAME LIST NAME INDEX SOURCES ... EMAIL US William B. Stafford was born about 1832. Parents: William Stafford and Jane Stafford He was married to Margaret M. Jones on 13 Aug 1857. Children were: James Stafford William B. Stafford was born on 24 Sep 1860. He died on 28 Mar 1934. Parents: James Floyd Stafford and Margaret Carr He was married to Avie Hardiman . Children were: Carl Bane Stafford Fred Hardiman Stafford George Floyd Stafford Srah Fenn Stafford ... Walter Cecil Stafford William Bascom Stafford was born on 10 Mar 1899. He died on 1 Jun 1966. Parents: Kemper Bascom Stafford and Lardora Barke He was married to Tad Keely He was married to Bertha Unser in 1960. William Bascomb Stafford was born on 1 Mar 1860. He died on 15 Sep 1890. Parents: James Mitchell Stafford and Laura Jane French William Cecil Stafford was also known as Billy or Snake. Parents: Henry Stuart Stafford and Mary Edna Sadler He was married to Violet Austin . Children were: Mary Stafford Henry Stafford Crystal Noel Stafford William Chapman Stafford was born on 26 Dec 1921. He died on 23 Jul 1984. Parents:

57. John Stafford And Margaret Brunt Lois Judith stafford, Chester Jefferson stafford, Fannie Mae stafford, John Randolphstafford, Virginia Fay stafford, william Chapman stafford, Robert Brown http://www.johnstafford.org/stafford/d8.htm

HOME SURNAME LIST NAME INDEX SOURCES ... EMAIL US Winnie Brotherton (Private). ? Brown He was married to Delta Hurst Catherine Brown was born in Indiana. She was married to Nathan Mahoney . Children were: Oliver Perry Mahoney David Lee Brown He was married to Mary Jane Stafford Elizabeth Brown died in 1828. She was born. She was married to John Stafford . Children were: John Stafford Thomas Stafford Joseph Stafford Elizabeth Stafford ... Christopher Stafford Children were: Catherine Fair Fannie Mae Brown was born on 26 Sep 1881. She died on 8 Mar 1965. She was married to James Romulus Stafford on 31 Oct 1900. Children were: Rupert Stafford Mary Malissa Stafford Lois Judith Stafford Chester Jefferson Stafford ... Robert Brown Stafford Frank E. Brown He was married to Kathryn Stafford Janet Brown She was married to Dean C. Stafford Jr. . Children were: Dean C. Stafford III Mark McLeod Stafford John Brown He was married to Mary Stafford Judith Brown was born in 1870. She died in 1933. She was married to James Earl Meadows Mary Brown She was married to George Phillip Hedrick Stella Brown Children were: Robert Ives Stafford Eleanor Kramer Stafford William Brown He was married to Julia Stafford Andrew Brownlee Greene M. Bruce

58. William Stafford Noble william stafford Noble. Formerly william Noble Grundy. Submitted. Leslie, Christina,Eleazar Eskin, Adiel Cohen, Jason Weston and william stafford Noble. http://www.gs.washington.edu/~noble/

William Stafford Noble Formerly William Noble Grundy Assistant Professor Department of Genome Sciences Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Washington Health Sciences Center, Box 357730 1705 NE Pacific Street Seattle, WA 98195 E-mail: noble@gs.washington.edu Tel: (206) 543-8930 Fax: (206) 685-7301 Office: Health Sciences J-205 and Sieg 323E We are accepting applications for two postdoctoral research positions Courses CS 590CB : Reading and Research in Computational Biology (with Martin Tompa). Continuing. GENOME 540/541 : Introduction to Computational Molecular Biology: Genome and Protein Sequence Analysis (with Phil Green and Joe Felsenstein). Winter/Spring 2003. GENOME 559 : Introduction to Statistical and Computational Genomics. Autumn 2002. Research Brief professional biography Research statement Gist : software for support vector machine classification and for kernel principal components analysis. : matrix visualization software and web server. Family Pairwise Search Meta-MEME : Motif-based hidden Markov modeling of protein families Columbia computational biology group homepage Click on the links below to see abstracts.

59. The Mozart Project: The Mozart Myths: A Critical Reassessment The Mozart Myths A Critical Reassessment. Author stafford, william PublishedStanford Stanford University Press, 1991 ISBN 08047-1937-3 http://www.mozartproject.org/books/stafford.html

HOME BIOGRAPHY COMPOSITIONS SELECTED ESSAYS ... RELATED SITES The Mozart Myths: A Critical Reassessment Author: Stafford, William Published: Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991 ISBN: At 280 pages, this may be one of the slimmest studies of Mozart's life yet written. And Stafford's spare and intelligent prose is conducive to a quick read. But this little book packs a mighty punch: After you read it, you'll never look at another Mozart biography the same way again. Mozart's late career and his death are poorly documented, creating the sort of vacuum biographers abhor. Naturally, they have tried to fill it. As a result, all sorts of "myths" ranging from spurious gossip to wishful thinking have been offered up over the years as explanations for Mozart's character and "genius." Stafford separates these myths into several broad categories ("Beast and angel," "Genius and misfit," "Existentialist skepticism" and so forth). Then he examines each, meticulously sifting the facts from the chaff. Those facts are few, thanks to Stafford's insistence on original sources. He describes the documentary evidence of Mozart's medical history as an inverted pyramid: Because of widespread plagiarism and embellishment, a very wide body of secondary literature rests upon a very narrow body of evidence. For example, though much has been written about it, little is known for certain about Mozart's final illness. And though there are several possible diagnoses, Stafford concludes that poison is not one of them. Mozart was not murdered, least of all by court composer Antonio Salieri.

60. Stafford, William Edgar stafford, william Edgar. Born in Hutchinson, Kansas on January 17, 1914, williamEdgar stafford grew up with parents who listened to their children’s ideas. http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/S/staffordwillia

Stafford, William Edgar Born in Hutchinson, Kansas on January 17, 1914, William Edgar Stafford grew up with parents who listened to their children’s ideas. They also loved to read, and would "luxuriate in stories." In terms of literary influences, Stafford consistently claimed his mother to be most significant. His father’s generosity comes through in a story William told of being on a walk with him and seeing a hawk land in a cottonwood across a field. When they approached the tree, his father said, "Bill, maybe your eyes are better than mine. Maybe you will be the one to see the hawk." By such moves his father brought him right alongside him, even as a "partner." In the way he describes his writing time in an interview with Nancy Bunge, he reveals something more of his shelter. "It’s a confirming, satisfying activity to do. And it’s almost devotional. Maybe that’s too strong, but it’s as if a day of my life deserves a little attention from life. It’s my kind of attention to stop long enough, to let the evaluative, the speculative, the exploratory impulses that are native to that portion of my time be manifest in a sustained way so that I can recognize them and get sustenance from them." While in high school William went on what he described as an Indian vision quest, camping out in the breaks above the Cimarron River: "That encounter with the size and serenity of the earth and its neighbors in the sky has never left me. The earth was my home; I would never feel lost while it held me." Or as he said in his poem "One Home:" "Wherever we looked the land would hold us up." You can see where his steadiness comes from.

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