Robert M Hensel
Robert Michael Hensel (born May 8, ) was born with the birth defect known as Spina bifida. He is also a Guinness World Records holder for the longest non-stop wheelie in a wheelchair, covering a total distance of miles. As part of setting his record, he raised money for wheelchair ramps throughout Oswego, New York, his hometown.
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The Murphysboro Paving Brick Company, a large industry situated at Murphysboro, Illinois, is one of the concerns which have in late years made the industrial interests of Jackson county become a potent factor in the business world, and have assisted in building up and developing this part of the country in a manner that could have been accomplished, perhaps, in no other way. The agitation for good streets, probably fostered by the advent of the automobile, has caused even the smallest and poorest of towns and villages to make improvements in the way of street paving, and as the center of a community that is the home of progressive, wide-awake citizens, Murphysboro offers all the advantages that could be found for a business carrying on operations in Southern Illinois.
This company was organized March 31, , with a capital of one hundred thousand dollars, which has been increased to one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, and the present officers are William H. Hill, of East St. Louis, president; H. D. Sexton, of East St. Louis, vice-president; and H. H. Jenkins, of Murphysboro, secretary and treasurer. Owning a fifty-acre tract of land
HILL, GEORGE WILLIAM, marble cutter, sculptor, and teacher; b. 8 May in Shipton (Danville), Lower Canada, son of George Taylor Hill and Eleanor A. Carty; m. 16 April Elsie Annette Kent in Granby, Que., and they had at least one son and two daughters; d. 17 July in Outremont (Montreal) and was buried there two days later in Mount Royal Cemetery.
After studying at St Francis College in Richmond, George William Hill worked for eight years as a marble cutter with his father. During most of that time he practised this trade as chief sculptor. In March he attended the modelling class of Olindo Gratton* at the school of the Council of Arts and Manufactures of the Province of Quebec in Montreal at the same time as the painter Maurice Galbraith Cullen. Admitted to the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Hill started his training there on 11 June with painters Jean-Paul Laurens and Léon Gérôme and with painter and sculptor Alexandre Falguière. That year he took courses from the sculptor Henri-Michel Chapu at the Académie Julian. Hill also trained with sculptor Jean-Antoine Injalbert at the Académie Colarossi. The Canadian artists George
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Robert Michael Hensel was born with the birth defect known as Spina bifida. He is also a Guinness World Records holder for the longest non-stop wheelie in a wheelchair, covering a total distance of miles. As part of setting his record, he raised money for wheelchair ramps throughout Oswego, New York, his hometown. In , realizing the need to focus more on one's abilities and less on their disabilities, Hensel sought to have a week designated that would bring to light the many talents and accomplishments being made by individuals with disabilities. Due to his efforts, Oswego County passed a motion that year recognizing Oct. as Beyond Limitations week.
Disability campaigner who, at miles, set the Guinness World Record for the longest non-stop wheelchair wheelie.
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