Edwin Wiley Grove (Portrait of him above), also known as E.W. Grove was born on December 27, 1850. He was born in Whiteville, TN which is in Hardeman County. Grove was the son of James Henry and Mary Jane Harris Grove who were both natives of Virginia. Grove had 3 kids with a woman, Alice Gertrude, who were named Hallett, Edwin, and Helen. Sources say it is still a mystery to why he and his family moved here to Paris, TN in 1824. When Grove moved to Paris in 1824 he received a job opportunity as a clerk at a drugstore owned by Dr. Samuel Houston Caldwell. In 1830 Grove went to Memphis, TN to study pharmacy to be able to become a pharmacist. He never knew that later on, he was going to become a billionaire due to the medicine. He just had to
Earl Lloyd was born on April 3, 1928. Earl grew up with his father Theodore Lloyd and his mother Daisy Lloyd and his two older brothers Earnest and Theodore Lloyd. Earl grew up in Alexandria, Virginia. “Well, it was not a lot of fun” said Lloyd, “I could never understand as a young kid why people were allowed to trea...
Barbara Anderson's First Fieldwork Précis: “First Fieldwork” -.. 1. What is the difference between a. and a. Where did Barbara Anderson’s fieldwork take place and what was the goal of her research? Barbara Anderson’s fieldwork took place in the fishing village of Taarnby, Denmark, on the island of Amager in the Oresund in the 50’s. The goal of her research was to publish the unseen side of fieldwork. She wanted to share the personal and professional sides of fieldwork with the reader.
A 1970 advertisement for Grove Press’s Diary of a Harlem Schoolteacher features language that Coca-Cola had used in previous advertising campaigns: “It’s the real thing.” In a letter to Grove Press executive Richard Seaver, Ira C. Herbert of Coca-Cola urges Grove to discontinue the use of the phrase. Herbert employs a formal but assertive tone, a rather simplistic essay structure, and a single appeal to logic. In retort, Seaver writes a ridiculing letter which claims that there is no reason to discontinue stop the use of the slogan. The letter refutes each of Herbert’s points, while degrading his position with sarcastic attacks and effectively employing multiple appeals. Thus, Seaver’s letter is the more persuasive of the two.
Both men from New York, they had wealthy fathers as mentors. Each was inspired to branch off from their inherited wealth and create their own fortunes. How they went about this
No matter how far Gaines got away from Demopolis or St. Stephens, he would always be called upon to serve in dealings with the Choctaw Indians. William Ward, the federal agent with the Choctaw Indian tribe contacted Gaines about another treaty conference that would be held in Macon, Mississippi. William Ward wanted Gaines and his partner Glover to set up camp near the treaty and supply the food and other supplies for the guest. The treaty conference lasted five days with the Choctaw tribe being divided over the surrender of their land and the removal process. The three head district chiefs and one hundred and sixty eight members of the tribe signed the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek on September 27, 1830. After the signing of the treaty, Gaines received another title, which was the superintendent for the removal and subsistence of Indians.
Leroy Anderson was born June 29, 1908 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His parents, as children, immigrated to the United States from Sweden with their families. His father, Bror Anton Anderson, worked as a postal clerk in the Central Square post office. He also played the mandolin. Anna Margareta Anderson, his mother, was the organist at the Swedish church in Cambridge. He lived in the suburbs of Boston for twenty seven years with his parents and brother.
He was born to William and Elizabeth Cooper in Burlington, New Jersey on September 15, 1789. Cooper’s father was a congressman during the Washington administration. Elizabeth was a member of a New Jersey Quaker family and William was the founder of a frontier settlement. At one year old, his family moved to a primitive settlement in upstate New York. As the 11th of 12 children, he was fortunate to not have to endure the rough part of frontier of life. Most of his education was without books and teaching from his family.
In 1862, William Ashley (yes, his middle name was Ashley) Sunday was born to a fatherless home in Ames, Iowa. His father had died whilst serving for his divided country in the Civil War. Billy had received his name from his brave and valiant father.
Edward E. Davis, also known as Earl Davis, was born in early 1916. He is currently 97 years old, and is at least the oldest living World War II veteran in Smyth County, Virginia. At age twenty five, on September 8, 1941, Davis was drafted into the United States Army and was sent for basic training in South Carolina. He was one of five children, all boys, and they all served in the United States military. His official title in the United States Army was to be a carrier, a mortar gunner and ammunition carrier. Davis was married to Mary Irene Tolliver Davis, who unfortunately passed away on March 29, 2005 at 82 years old.
Frederick James Stanley Mead was born in Adelaide on the 30th of June 1890. He was the son of Elizabeth Maunder (Mead) and John Mead. He had one brother and three sisters. During his early years he attended Parkside Primary School. Once he had finished schooling, he decided to become a Wharf builder. When Australia announced it needed soldiers, Frederick was quick to join up. He enlisted on the 19th of August 1914 in Morphettville.
On March 2, 1793, Samuel Houston was born to Major Sam Houston and Elizabeth Paxton Houston. He was the fifth of nine children. Born at Timber Ridge, Rockbridge County, in the Shenandoah Valley. At the age of thirteen, his father, Major Sam Houston, died suddenly at Dennis Callighan's Tavern near present-day Callaghan, Virginia in Alleghany County, 40 miles west of Timber Ridge while on militia inspections. Mrs. Elizabeth Houston took her nine children to a farm on Baker Creek in Tennessee.
Isaac Sidney Ceasar was born on September 8, 1922 in Yonkers, New York. He was the youngest to three sons to Jewish immigrants Max and Ida. Caesar’s parents ran a 24-hour luncheonette, and while on his job waiting on tables Caesar learned how to mimic the different dialects of the costumers. He named this technique “double-talk” which he used throughout his career. Although it seemed apparent that he knew many languages, he could only speak English and Yiddish. At age 14 Caesar became a saxophonist in Mike Cifichello’s Swingtime Six band.
"Someplace along the line you have to come to an understanding with yourself, and I had reached mine a long time before, when I was still on my death bed. Either you overcome or let it consume you.” Davis had once said days before his death. Ernie Davis had to overcome obstacles, at a young age he had to deal with a stuttering problem, he never really took care of it, he, just kept living his life. Those difficult and early stages of his life helped him learn many things. Nothing was ever handed to Ernie. Ernie Davis led Syracuse University to the national championship as a sophomore. Ernie Davis was the first African-American man to win the Heisman Trophy, and to be picked first overall in the NFL draft, but he never ever played a pro game and passed away at the young age of 23 after contracting leukemia. Davis was a great athlete but an even better person, even when he became popular, he remained humbled and didn’t allow the many racial and disrespecting comments bother him for being a black athlete in the south, during a time where African Americans were looked down upon and wasn’t treated fairly. Ernie Davis matters, because he fought through major adversities and also broke down many barriers on his quest to becoming the first black player to win the Heisman Trophy. So, the movie The Express, takes you on a dramatized story about a great man who’s life wasn’t easy but had great personal qualities, on his quest to an NFL career. Is the movie historically accurate or not?
Garrett Augustus Morgan was born on March 4, 1877 in Paris, Kentucky, the seventh of eleven children to Sydney and Elizabeth Morgan. His parents had previously been slaves, freed by the Emancipation Proclamation. At the early age of 14, Morgan decided to travel north to Ohio in the hopes of receiving better education opportunities. During those times, there were better opportunities for blacks in the northern part of the country. Still, Morgan’s formal education never surpassed elementary school. He moved to Cincinnati and then to Cleveland, working as a handyman in order to make ends meet. In Cleveland, he learned the inner workings of the sewing machine and in opened his own sewing machine store in 1907, where he both sold new machines and repaired old ones. In 1908 Morgan married Mary Anne Hassek with whom he later had three sons.
Augustus DeMorgan was an English mathematician, logician, and bibliographer. He was born in June 1806 at Madura, Madras presidency, India and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1823. Augustus DeMorgan had passed away on March 18, 1871, in London.