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Margaret Blake-Alverson
Rosana Margaret Kroh Blake (1836-1923) was a singer, singing coach, and author in San Francisco, California. She wrote ''Sixty Years of California Song'', an autobiography published in 1913. Her students included Lee Tung Foo and Pauline Joran. She performed on piano for miner guests at her parents home in Stockton. She lived in Boston during the Civil War. She donated music to the Oakland Free Library. He collection included diaries, musical programs, letters and pictures. She was born in Mt. Carmel, Illinois. Parents: Rev. Henry Kroh and Mary Ann Stouch were her parents. She married married George Henry Blake September 17, 1857 in Stockton, California. George Lincoln Blake and William Ellery Blake were their sons. She married David William Alverson on November 24, 1875 in San Francisco.https://occgs.com/projects/rescue/family_files/files/KROH%20Family.pdf References {{DEFAULTSORT:Blake-Alverson, Margaret 1836 births 1923 deaths American women singers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sixty Years Of California Song (IA Sixtyyearsofcali00alverich)
60 (sixty) () is the natural number following 59 (number), 59 and preceding 61 (number), 61. Being three times 20, it is called ''wikt:threescore, threescore'' in older literature (''Kopa (number), kopa'' in Slavic, ''Schock'' in Germanic). In mathematics 60 is the 4th superior highly composite number, the 4th colossally abundant number, the 9th highly composite number, a unitary perfect number, and an abundant number. It is the smallest number divisible by the numbers 1 to 6. The smallest group that is not solvable is the alternating group A5, which has 60 elements. There are 60 one-sided hexominoes, the polyominoes made from six squares. There are 60 seconds in a minute, as well as 60 minutes in a degree. In science and technology The first fullerene to be discovered was buckminsterfullerene C60, an Allotropes of carbon, allotrope of carbon with 60 atoms in each molecule, arranged in a truncated icosahedron. This ball is known as a buckyball, and looks like a soccer ball. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Tung Foo
Lee Tung Foo (also known as Frank Lee) was a Chinese American Vaudeville performer born in California who performed in English, German, and Latin.''Sixty years of California song'' By Rosana Margaret Kroh Blake Alversonwas''Yellowface: creating the Chinese in American popular music and performance'' by Moon, Krystyn R., pp 146-147 He became a film actor later in his life. At the age of 45, he ran a Chinese restaurant he bought in New York City called Jung Sy Mandarin Restaurant. He opened a second restaurant, Imig Sy, and both were str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Joran
Pauline Joran (3 August 1870 – 13 August 1954) was an American opera singer who lived and performed and mostly in the UK. She was the wife of William Ernest Bush, the first and last Baron de Bush, and mother of Paulise de Bush, who became the youngest baroness in England, known as the "Baby Baroness". She is remembered for creating the role of Saida in Arthur Sullivan's 1898 Savoy opera '' The Beauty Stone''. After a touring career as a child violinist, playing together with her pianist sisters in the U.S. and abroad in the 1880s, Joran began an opera career in England, which lasted through the 1890s. With her marriage to Baron de Bush in 1899, she retired from the stage. He was killed in an accident in 1903, and Joran lived quietly for some years, returning to society by 1910 as a hostess and patroness of music. Early life Joran was born Clara Pauline Joran in Freeport, Illinois, the second of three daughters of Vienna-born Louis Grund Joran (1830–1901), a painter, and hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1836 Births
Events January–March * January 1 — Hill Street Academy is named Colombo Academy and acquired by the Government, establishing the first public school in Sri Lanka. * January 1 – Queen Maria II of Portugal marries Prince Ferdinand Augustus Francis Anthony of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. * January 5 – Former U.S. Representative Davy Crockett of Tennessee arrives in Texas to join the Texan fight for independence from Mexico. * January 12 ** , with Charles Darwin on board, reaches Sydney. ** Will County, Illinois, is formed. * February 8 – London and Greenwich Railway opens its first section, the first railway in London, England. * February 23 – Texas Revolution: The Battle of the Alamo begins, with an American settler army surrounded by the Mexican Army, under Santa Anna. * February 25 – Samuel Colt receives a United States patent for the Colt revolver, the first revolving barrel multishot firearm. * March 1 – Texas Revolution – Convention of 1836: Delegate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1923 Deaths
In Greece, this year contained only 352 days as 13 days was skipped to achieve the calendrical switch from Julian to Gregorian Calendar. It happened there that Wednesday, 15 February ''(Julian Calendar)'' was followed by Thursday, 1 March ''(Gregorian Calendar).'' Events January–February * January 9, January 5 – Lithuania begins the Klaipėda Revolt to annex the Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory). * January 11 – Despite strong British protests, troops from France and Belgium Occupation of the Ruhr, occupy the Ruhr area, to force Germany to make reparation payments. * January 17 (or 9) – First flight of the first rotorcraft, Juan de la Cierva's Cierva C.4 autogyro, in Spain. (It is first demonstrated to the military on January 31.) * February 5 – Australian cricketer Bill Ponsford makes 429 runs to break the world record for the highest first-class cricket score for the first time in his third match at this level, at Melbourne Cricket Ground, giving the Victor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
