It is true that ranch dressing was invented at Hidden Valley Ranch near Santa Barbara, California, by a real salad-wranglin' rancher. In the 50s and 60s Steve Henson and his wife, Gayle, shared their 120-acre dude ranch with University of California at Santa Barbara students and other festive partiers for rousing weekend shindigs.
William was born in Calgary while his father, Michael Nylander, played for the Calgary Flames. He spent the majority of his youth in the United States where his father played for a multitude of NHL teams, spending the summers in Sweden. His family later moved to Sweden when he was 14.
William Henry Seward started his life in Florida, New York, a small town in Orange County. He was born in 1801, eight years before Abraham Lincoln. His father, Samuel Seward, was the town postmaster. The elder Seward did in fact own slaves. Slavery was not abolished in New York State until 1827.