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Emmons can refer to: People * Buddy Emmons (1937–2015), American musician * Bobby Emmons (1943–2015), American musician * Carlos Antoine Emmons (born 1973), American football player * Carlos Emmons (politician) (1799–1875), New York physician and politician *Delos Carleton Emmons (1889–1965), United States general * Ebenezer Emmons (1799–1863), American geologist * Frederick Earl Emmons (1907–1999), American architect * George F. Emmons (1811–1884), American admiral * George T. Emmons (1852–1945), American ethnographic photographer * Harriet Cole Emmons (1873–1956), American clubwoman * Howard Wilson Emmons (1912–1998), American educator * KateÅ™ina Emmons (born 1983), Czech sport shooter * Lyman W. Emmons (1885–1955), American businessman and politician * Matthew Emmons (born 1981), American sport shooter * Nathanael Emmons (1745–1840), American theologian * Phillip Emmons, pen name of Bentley Little (born 1960), American author of horror novels * Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buddy Emmons
Buddy Gene Emmons (January 27, 1937 – July 21, 2015) was an American musician who is widely regarded as the world's foremost pedal steel guitarist of his day. He was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 1981. Affectionately known by the nickname "Big E", Emmons' primary genre was American country music, but he also performed jazz and Western swing. He recorded with Linda Ronstadt, Gram Parsons, The Everly Brothers, The Carpenters, Jackie DeShannon, Roger Miller, Ernest Tubb, John Hartford, Little Jimmy Dickens, Ray Price, Judy Collins, George Strait, John Sebastian, and Ray Charles and was a widely sought session musician in Nashville and Los Angeles. Emmons made significant innovations to the steel guitar, adding two additional strings and an additional pedal, changes which have been adopted as standard in the modern-day instrument. His name is on a US patent for a mechanism to raise and lower the pitch of a string on a steel guitar and return to the ori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phillip Emmons
Bentley Little (born 1960 in Mesa, Arizona) is an American author of horror fiction. Publishing an average of a novel a year since 1990, Little avoids publicity and rarely does promotional work or interviews for his writing. Early life Little is an Arizona native who, according to his professional biography, was born one month after his mother saw the world premiere of Alfred Hitchcock's film '' Psycho''. He studied at California State University Fullerton, from which he earned a BA in Communications and an MA in Comparative Literature. His thesis for the latter was his first novel, ''The Revelation'', which was later published and won a Bram Stoker Award. Style and recognition Little's novels tend to have brief titles (many use the construction "The oun, like ''The Mailman'' and ''The House'') and fall squarely into the horror genre. He dislikes his work being categorized as "suspense" or "supernatural thriller", preferring the more straightforward genre label. His work has be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Emmons (Utah)
Mount Emmons (or Emmons Peak) is a summit in Duchesne County, Utah, United States. It is located within the Ashley National Forest and the High Uintas Wilderness. It is situated about southeast of Kings Peak and has an elevation of . It was named for geologist Samuel Franklin Emmons (as was another peak in Colorado). Mount Emmons is also the name of a very small community southeast of the town of Altamont, Utah. and about south of Emmons Peak. See also * List of mountains in Utah * Mount Emmons (Colorado) Mount Emmons is a mountain summit in the Elk Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains in north-central Gunnison County, Colorado, United States. Description The peak is located within the Gunnison National Forest, west-northwest ( bearing 288Â ... References External links * Mountains of Utah Mountains of Duchesne County, Utah {{Utah-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Emmons (New York)
Mount Emmons is a mountain in the Seward Range of the Adirondack Mountains in the U.S. state of New York. It is the 40th-highest of the Adirondack High Peaks, with an elevation of . The mountain is located in the town of Harrietstown in Franklin County. It is named for New York state geologist Ebenezer Emmons, who gave the mountains the popular name "Adirondacks", named at least five individual mountains, and made ascents of four during a survey of the region between 1837 and 1842. During the 19th century, the name "Mount Emmons" was bestowed upon a different mountain, today known as " Blue Mountain". Russell M. L. Carson proposed the name "Mount Emmons" be given to an unnamed peak south of Mount Seward in his 1927 book Peaks and People of the Adirondacks. The earliest recorded ascent was likely made on October 14, 1870, by surveyor Verplanck Colvin and trail guide Alvah Dunning during a hike to Mount Seward. The summit of Emmons can be accessed on unmarked trails. The easie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Emmons (Colorado)
Mount Emmons is a mountain summit in the Elk Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains in north-central Gunnison County, Colorado, United States. Description The peak is located within the Gunnison National Forest, west-northwest ( bearing 288°) of the Town of Crested Butte. The mountain was named in honor of geologist Samuel Franklin Emmons (as was another peak in Utah). Historical names * Mount Emmons * Red Lady See also * List of Colorado mountain ranges * List of Colorado mountain summits ** List of Colorado fourteeners ** List of Colorado 4000 meter prominent summits ** List of the most prominent summits of Colorado * List of Colorado county high points This is a list of the 64 counties of the U.S. State of Colorado by their points of highest elevation. Of the 50 highest county high points in the United States, 30 are located in Colorado. The highest point in Colorado and the Rocky Mountai ... * Mount Emmons (Utah) References External links * {{cite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Emmons (Alaska)
Mount Emmons is a post-caldera stratovolcano within the Emmons Lake caldera on the Alaska Peninsula within the Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States. Description The summit is one of three cones constructed within the caldera, which also contains an elongated crater lake on its southwest side. The most recent of several caldera-forming eruptions at Emmons Lake occurred more than 10,000 years ago. No historical eruptions have occurred at Emmons Lake. The peak is located within the Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge. Mount Emmons is a local name published on a USGS map in 1943. See also * List of mountain peaks of Alaska This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks of the U.S. State of Alaska. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways: #The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summi ... References External links One-thousanders of the United States Aleutian Range ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmons Glacier
Emmons Glacier is on the northeast flank of Mount Rainier, in Washington. At , it has the largest surface area of any glacier in the contiguous United States. The glacier was named after the geologist Samuel Franklin Emmons after his involvement in a survey of Mount Rainier in 1870. Starting at an elevation of over , the Emmons glacier flows down eastward. Near the Disappointment Cleaver at , the Emmons is joined by the Ingraham Glacier flowing to the south. The glaciers flow together and remain connected until they split up upon reaching the wedge of Little Tahoma Peak. As the Emmons flows northeast, the massive glacier descends until it reaches its rocky lower terminus at about in elevation. In the 1930s, the glacier was found to be receding quickly. In 1963, however, a rock fall from Little Tahoma Peak covered the lower glacier with rock debris. The debris cover insulated the ice from melting. As a result of decreased melting, the glacier advanced rapidly in the early 1980 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmons County, North Dakota
Emmons County is a county in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,301. Its county seat has been Linton since 1899. History The county was created by the Dakota Territory legislature on February 10, 1879, with territories partitioned from Burleigh and Campbell counties. It was not organized at the time, but it was not attached to another county for administrative and judicial purposes. This continued until November 9, 1883, when the governing structure was organized. The county was named for James A. Emmons (1845–1919), a steamboat operator and early Bismarck merchant and entrepreneur. The first non-Native settlers of Emmons County came from Europe and the eastern United States. The earliest were mostly soldiers discharged from Fort Yates, but civilians began arriving in the 1880s. Two large ethnic groups soon developed: Germans from both Russia and Germany (the latter called Reich Germans) and Hollanders who had come from the eas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmons, West Virginia
Emmons is an unincorporated community located on the Big Coal River in Boone and Kanawha counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Jay Rockefeller's political affiliation with West Virginia began in 1964–1965 while he served as a VISTA Vista may refer to: Software *Windows Vista, the line of Microsoft Windows client operating systems released in 2006 and 2007 * VistA, (Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture) a medical records system of the United States ... volunteer in Emmons. The community bears the name of the Emmons family. References Unincorporated communities in Boone County, West Virginia Unincorporated communities in Kanawha County, West Virginia Unincorporated communities in West Virginia Charleston, West Virginia metropolitan area {{MetroValleyWV-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmons, Minnesota
Emmons ( ) is a city in Freeborn County, Minnesota, Freeborn County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 391 as of the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. History Emmons was incorporated in 1899, and named for Henry G. Emmons, an early settler. A post office has been in operation at Emmons since 1899. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. Emmons is southwest of Albert Lea, Minnesota, Albert Lea, along U.S. Route 69#Minnesota, U.S. Highway 69. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 391 people, 174 households, and 119 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 190 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 96.4% White (U.S. Census), White, 0.3% Native American (U.S. Census), Native American, 0.8% from Race (U.S. Census), other races, and 2.6% from two or more races. Hispanic (U.S. Census), Hispanic or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirlee Emmons
Shirlee Emmons (August 5, 1923 – April 16, 2010) was an American classical soprano, voice teacher, and author on vocal pedagogy. She began her career in the early 1940s as a concert soprano, eventually becoming one of the original singers in the Robert Shaw Chorale in 1948. She branched out into opera in the 1950s; performing mainly with regional companies in the United States. She achieved several honours as a performer, including winning the Marian Anderson Award in 1953 and an Obie Award in 1956. In 1964 Emmons abandoned her career as a singer to begin a second career as a voice teacher which lasted until her death 46 years later. She taught on the faculties of several universities, including Boston University and Princeton University, and gave masterclasses and guest lectures at schools like the University of California and Westminster Choir College. Several of her students have had successful singing careers, including Metropolitan Opera stars Harolyn Blackwell and Hei-K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Franklin Emmons
Samuel Franklin Emmons (March 29, 1841 – March 28, 1911) was an American geologist. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University in 1861 and studied at the École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris, ''Ecole des Mines'' in Paris, France, from 1862 to 1864 and at the Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg (Saxony) mining school in 1865. In May 1867, he was appointed assistant geologist under Clarence King on the Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel, American geological exploration of the fortieth parallel, and in July 1879 became geologist in charge of the Colorado division of the United States Geological Survey. He traveled extensively throughout the United States in connection with his work, and in 1870 made a survey, along with A. D. Wilson, of Mount Rainier, the highest and most inaccessible peak in the Cascade Range. The largest glacier in the contiguous United States, Emmons Glacier, is located along their su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
