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HTML

<table>
    <tr id="one">
       <th>Name</th>
       <th>Start</th>
       <th>End</th>
    </tr>
    <tr id="two">
       <td>Whatever</td>
       <td>3/14/2012</td>
       <td>3/31/2012</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
       <td>Whatever2</td>
       <td>3/15/2012</td>
       <td>3/30/2012</td>
    </tr>
</table>

JavaScript

$('td:first-child').each(function(){
  var $td = $(this);
  $td.html('<a href="#">' + $td.text() + '</a>');
});