Whaley Genealogy & History. Whaley is a British locational surname, from the villages of Whalley in Lancashire and Whaley in Derbyshire. Both likely come from the Old English hwealf, which means vault, arch or hill, and leah, for a clearing in a forest or a meadow.haley family history starts in 1185 with the recording of Adam de Walleg in the Pipe Rolls of Lancashire. Whaley genealogy lays claim to several notable persons, such as actor Michael Whaley and St. Louis Browns outfielder Bill Whaley.
1865-1946. 1  America's first professional forester, and founder of the U.S. Forest Service. 2  Gifford Pinchot was the leader of the utiliatarian wing of the early conservation movement, who served under President Theodore Roosevelt and later as governor of Pennsylvania.  John Muir first met Gifford Pinchot in New York in 1893.
Betty Friedan, * author of The Feminine Mystique, has been central to the reshaping of American attitudes toward women's lives and rights. new! Gabby Giffords was a U.S. Representative from Arizona when she was shot in the head by an enraged constituent.She retired and continues to overcome severe brain injury.olda Meir * was the fourth Prime Minister of the State of Israel. Meir was Israel's first and the world's third female to hold such an office. She was described as the Iron Lady of Israeli politics.