Steuart pittman biography of william
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Digital Identifier
JFKOH-SLP-01
Interviewee(s)
Pittman, Steuart (Steuart Lansing), 1919-2013
Biographical Note
(1919 - ) Assistant Secretary of Defense for Civil Defense (1961-1964)
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Description
Pittman discusses ledning support for civil defense programs and the construction of federally funded community fallout shelters, among other issues.
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Donated to the United States
Series
Series 1. John F. Kennedy Oral History Interviews, 1964-2012.
Preferred Citation
Steuart L. Pittman, recorded interview bygd William W. Moss, September 18, 1970, (page number), John F. Kennedy Library Oral History Program.
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William Pittman Lett
Journalist, bureaucrat, and poet
William Pittman Lett | |
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Age 51, April 1870, Ottawa (Topley Studio / Library And Archives Canada) | |
| Born | 1819, Duncannon, Ireland, Wesleyan Methodist |
| Died | 1892, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Burial place | Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa, section 34, lot 28 NW |
| Nationality | Irish Canadian |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, bureaucrat |
| Employer(s) | First city clerk and a founding father of the City of Ottawa, 1855–1891 |
| Known for | 19th-century commentator and poet, theatre pioneer, naturalist and sportsman |
| Political party | Tory |
| Movement | Orangeman, Master Mason, Freemason, Militia captain (Fourth Battalion, Richmond Volunteer Military Company) |
| Spouse | Maria Hinton (1828–1881 accidental death) |
| Children | Andrews John (1854), Joseph Benjamin Havelock (1857), William Pittman (1859–1933), Frederick Piercy Austin (1863–1898), Norman Harold Hinton (1865–1940), Robert Chamberlain Westover (1870–1957), Rebecc • STEWART, WILLIAM, businessman, militia officer, politician, and farmer; baptized 24 July 1803 in Carbost, near Loch Harport, Isle of Skye, Scotland, son of Ranald Stewart and Isabella McLeod; m. 16 April 1838 Catherine Stewart of Cuidrach, Isle of Skye, and they had four sons and five daughters; d. 21 March 1856 in Toronto. William Stewart was 13 when he arrived at Quebec in 1816 with his nine brothers and sisters, his widowed mother, his maternal grandmother, and his uncle. The family proceeded to Upper Canada and settled in Lancaster Township, Glengarry County, where William’s education was rounded out under the tutelage of army doctor Roderick Macleod. Stewart’s first employment was with a Montreal merchant, whom he represented at the sale of timber rafts at Quebec in 1825. He spent the next two years at Longueuil before moving in March 1827 to Bytown (Ottawa), then a construction camp. There, in partnership with John G. Mc |