Cady (surname)
Cady is a surname that may refer to: People bearing it include: * Benjamin A. Cady (1840–1920), American lawyer and politician * Bertha Chapman Cady (1873–1956), American entomologist and educator * Burt D. Cady (1874–1952), American politician * Calvin Brainerd Cady (1851–1928), musician, music teacher and educational philosopher and writer * Carol Cady (born 1962), American shot putter and discus thrower * Charles A. Cady (1819–?), American politician * Charlie Cady (1865–1909), American baseball player * Chauncey G. Cady (1803–1893) American farmer and politician * Claude E. Cady (1878–1953), American politician * Daniel Cady (1773–1859), American jurist, father of Elizabeth Cady Stanton * Duane L. Cady (born 1946), American philosopher * E. F. Cady (), American entrepreneur and settler * Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902), American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist and leading figure of the early women's rights movement * Ernest Cady (18 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Surname
In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several given names and surnames are possible in the full name. In modern times most surnames are hereditary, although in most countries a person has a right to name change, change their name. Depending on culture, the surname may be placed either at the start of a person's name, or at the end. The number of surnames given to an individual also varies: in most cases it is just one, but in Portuguese-speaking countries and many Spanish-speaking countries, two surnames (one inherited from the mother and another from the father) are used for legal purposes. Depending on culture, not all members of a family unit are required to have identical surnames. In some countries, surnames are modified depending on gender and family membership status of a person. C ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Frank Cady
Frank Randolph Cady (September 8, 1915 – June 8, 2012) was an American actor best known for his role as storekeeper Sam Drucker in three American television series during the 1960s – '' Petticoat Junction'', '' Green Acres'', and '' The Beverly Hillbillies'' – and his earlier role as Doc Williams on ''The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet''. Early life Cady was born in Susanville, California, the youngest of three children of Leon and Clara Cady. In high school, he worked at a local newspaper, ''The Lassen County Advocate''. Cady's family later moved to Wilsonville, Oregon. He studied journalism and drama at Stanford University, where he was involved with the campus humor magazine, the '' Stanford Chaparral''. Following college graduation, Cady served an apprenticeship at the Westminster Theater in London, appearing in four plays. In England, he made an early television appearance on the BBC in late 1938. He returned to Stanford in 1939 for graduate studi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Walter Guyton Cady
Walter Guyton Cady (December 10, 1874 – December 9, 1974) was a noted American physicist and electrical engineer. He was a pioneer in piezoelectricity, and in 1921 developed the first quartz crystal oscillator. Cady was born in Providence, Rhode Island, graduated from Brown University in 1895, and studied 1897-1900 at the University of Berlin, receiving his Ph.D. in Physics in 1900. (From 1895 to 1897 he was also instructor in mathematics at Brown.) He was a magnetic observer from 1900 to 1902 with the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and from 1902 to 1946 he was a professor of physics at Wesleyan University, where his principal interests included electrical discharges in gases, piezoelectricity, ultrasound, piezoelectric resonators and oscillators, and crystal devices. Before World War I, Cady investigated arc discharges and radio detectors, but during the war became interested in crystals as he worked with General Electric Company's Research Laboratory, Columbia Unive ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Virgil H
Publius Vergilius Maro (; 15 October 70 BC21 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil ( ) in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the ''Eclogues'' (or ''Bucolics''), the ''Georgics'', and the epic ''Aeneid''. A number of minor poems, collected in the ''Appendix Vergiliana'', were attributed to him in ancient times, but modern scholars generally regard these works as spurious, with the possible exception of a few short pieces. Already acclaimed in his own lifetime as a classic author, Virgil rapidly replaced Ennius and other earlier authors as a standard school text, and stood as the most popular Latin poet through late antiquity, the Middle Ages, and early modernity, exerting inestimable influence on all subsequent Western literature. Geoffrey Chaucer assigned Virgil a uniquely prominent position among all the celebrities of human history in ''The House of Fame'' (1374–85), describi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mark Cady
Mark Steven Cady (July 12, 1953 – November 15, 2019) was an American jurist. He served on the Iowa Supreme Court for 21 years from 1998 to 2019. From 2011 to 2019, he was the chief justice of the court. He was the author of the court's opinion in '' Varnum v. Brien'', which legalized same-sex marriage in Iowa. Early life and career Mark Steven Cady was born on July 12, 1953, in Rapid City, South Dakota. His parents were Kenneth and Suzanne Cady. He graduated from Austin High School in Austin, Minnesota, in 1971. He graduated from Drake University in 1975 with a degree in economics. In 1978, he earned his Juris Doctor degree from Drake and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Judicial career Cady began his legal career in Fort Dodge, Iowa, where he practiced law for five years, including one year as a law clerk and one year as an assistant Webster County attorney. In 1983, Cady was appointed as an Iowa District Associate Judge, and in 1986, he was appointed to be an Iowa Dis ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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John Hutchins Cady
John Hutchins Cady (January 17, 1881 – September 27, 1967) was an American architect, architectural historian, author, and historical preservationist in Rhode Island. Biography Cady was born January 17, 1881, in Providence, Rhode Island. He was the youngest son of John Hamlin Cady of Providence, and Mary Tabitha Eddy, of Somerset, Massachusetts. His older brothers were Walter Guyton Cady and William H. Cady. Cady attended the University Grammar School and Hope High School (Rhode Island), Hope High School before graduating from Brown University in 1903 with a Bachelor of Philosophy. He was President of his class of 1903 at Brown and member of Alpha Delta Phi. Afterwards, he went to study architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and graduated in 1906. Cady worked for numerous architectural firms in the area during this period including Clarke & Howe (1904); Stone, Carpenter & Willson, Stone, Carpenter & Wilson (1905); Peabody and Stearns, Peabody & Stearns (19 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jerome Cady
Jerome Cady (August 15, 1903 – November 7, 1948) was a Hollywood screenwriter. What promised to be a lucrative and successful career as a film writer - graduating up from Charlie Chan movies in the late 1930s to such well respected war films as '' Guadalcanal Diary'' (1943), a successful adaptation of '' Forever Amber'' (1947) and the police procedural ''Call Northside 777'' (1948) - came to an abrupt end when he died of a sleeping pill overdose on board his yacht off Catalina Island in 1948. At the time of his death, he was doing a treatment for a documentary on the Northwest Mounted Police. There was a Masonic funeral service for him. He received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay for ''Wing and a Prayer'' in 1944. A native of West Virginia, Cady started as a newspaper copy boy. He was later a reporter with the ''Los Angeles Record,'' before joining the continuity staff of KECA-KFI, Los Angeles in June 1932. He spent time in New York in the 1930s with Fletch ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jack Cady
Jack Cady (March 20, 1932 – January 14, 2004) was an American author, born in Kentucky. He is known mostly as an award winning writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He won the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Bram Stoker Award. Cady was a conscientious objector during the Korean War, but served in the U.S. Coast Guard in Maine. He later had several jobs, including truck driver, auctioneer, landscaper and finally university instructor. He first taught creative writing at the University of Washington from 1968 until 1973, and he then had a number of brief teaching stints at colleges in Illinois, Pennsylvania and Alaska from 1973 to 1978. During 1985 he began teaching writing at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, and he retired from that job in 1998. Cady married fellow writer Carol Orlock in 1977, and they remained married until his death. Cady's collected literary papers were donated to the Mortvedt Library at Pacific Lutheran University d ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Horace H
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC),Suetonius, Life of Horace commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his '' Odes'' as the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."Quintilian 10.1.96. The only other lyrical poet Quintilian thought comparable with Horace was the now obscure poet/metrical theorist, Caesius Bassus (R. Tarrant, ''Ancient Receptions of Horace'', 280) Horace also crafted elegant hexameter verses ('' Satires'' and ''Epistles'') and caustic iambic poetry ('' Epodes''). The hexameters are amusing yet serious works, friendly in tone, leading the ancient satirist Persius to comment: "as his friend laughs, Horace slyly puts his finger on his every fault; once let in, he ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hick Cady
Forrest Leroy "Hick" Cady (January 26, 1886 – March 3, 1946) was an American baseball backup catcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox (1912–17) and Philadelphia Phillies (1919). Cady batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Bishop Hill, Illinois. In a seven-season career, Cady was a .240 hitter with one home run and 74 RBI in 355 games played. Cady managed in the minors in 1922 and 1924. Cady died in a hotel fire in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Cedar Rapids is a city in Linn County, Iowa, United States, and its county seat. The population was 137,710 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List of cities in Iowa, second-most populous city in Iowa. The city lies o ..., at the age of 60. References External links Baseball Almanac* 1886 births 1946 deaths People from Bishop Hill, Illinois Boston Red Sox players Philadelphia Phillies players Major League Baseball catchers Baseball players from Henry County ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Harrison Cady
Walter Harrison Cady (1877–1970) was an American illustrator and author, best known for his ''Peter Rabbit'' comic strip which he wrote and drew for 28 years. Biography Early life and career Cady was born in Gardner, Massachusetts, to a town selectman, Edwin Cady, who ran a local general store. His father fostered a love of nature and encouraged his art skills. Cady entered an apprenticeship with a local painter, Parker Perkins. His first publication came as early as 1894: an illustration in a supplement to ''Harper's Young People'' (signed Walter H. Cady). Harrison was 18 when his father was killed in Boston. He moved to New York City and within a year found work as an illustrator with the ''Brooklyn Eagle The ''Brooklyn Eagle'' (originally joint name ''The Brooklyn Eagle'' and ''Kings County Democrat'', later ''The Brooklyn Daily Eagle'' before shortening title further to ''Brooklyn Eagle'') was an afternoon daily newspaper published in the city ...'' newspaper. His ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hamilton Cady
Hamilton Perkins Cady (May 2, 1874 – May 26, 1943) was an American chemist who in 1907 in collaboration with David McFarland discovered that helium could be extracted from natural gas. Early life On May 2, 1874, Cady was born in Skiddy, Kansas. He is the son of Perkins Elijah Cady and Ella Falkenbury. Education After attending Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, he enrolled at the University of Kansas, where he graduated in 1897 with an A.B., and in 1903 with a Ph.D. During his senior year he carried out the initial experiments on the electrical conductance of solutions of salts in liquid ammonia, opening up a new and fruitful field of research. This constituted the first step in the development of the ammonia system of compounds, a concept which, owing to the later contributions of Edward C. Franklin and Charles A. Kraus, became an outstanding feature of American chemical achievement. Following the completion of his undergraduate work he was granted a scholarship ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |