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Colby (surname)
Colby is a surname. Notable people with the surname "Colby" include A *Abram Colby, American slave * Anita Colby (1914–1972), American actress * Anthony Colby (1792–1873), American politician B *Bainbridge Colby (1869–1950), American politician * Barbara Colby (1940–1975), American actress * Brandon Colby, American physician C * Carlos W. Colby (1837–1922), American soldier * Casey Colby (born 1974), American ski jumper * C. B. Colby (1904–1977), American author * Charles Carroll Colby (1827–1907), Canadian politician * Chuck Colby, American electronics engineer * Clara Bewick Colby (1846–1916), British-American lecturer D * Danielle Colby (born 1975), American television personality E * Everett Colby (1874–1943), American politician F *Flick Colby (1946–2011), American dancer *Frank Moore Colby (1865–1925), American educator and writer * Frederick Myron Colby (1848–1920), American writer G * Gardner Colby (1810–1879), American businessman * Geoffr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abram Colby
Abram Colby was an American minister and politician who served in the Georgia House of Representatives during the Georgia during Reconstruction, Reconstruction era. He was enslaved owned by his Irish father.Freedom's Lawmakers by Eric Foner Louisiana State University Press 1996 page 47 Early life Colby was the son of an enslaved woman named Mary Minnie and an Irish plantation owner John Colby. He resided in Greene County, Georgia and was freed fifteen years prior to abolitionism in the United States, emancipation. He was an early organizer of freed slaves. Colby and minister Henry McNeal Turner helped form a chapter of the American Equal Rights Association. Abram was married to Anne Colby. He had three children: Ella Colby(died in 1833 in Atlanta, GA). Julia Colby(died in Greene County, GA) and Son William Colby (died March 1920 in Washington, District of Columbia). Abram son William married Emma Colby and they had 7 children. Samantha Colby (1893-1910) Cecil Colby (1894-1928) Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Colby
Sir Geoffrey Francis Taylor Colby (25 March 1901 – 22 December 1958) was a British colonial administrator who was Governor of the protectorate of Nyasaland between 1948 and 1956. He fought unsuccessfully against creation of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Birth and education Colby was born on 25 March 1901, son of a doctor, and was raised in Woking Surrey, England. He attended St Wilfred's, a preparatory school, at Bexhill-on-Sea between the ages of seven and thirteen, and in 1914 went on to Charterhouse, a school that taught the virtues of leadership, public service and keeping a cool head in emergencies. An excellent sportsman, he played both cricket (in the 1st XI) and football for the school. Colby retained a passion for cricket throughout his life. It was said that when Governor of Nyasaland he delayed a meeting of his executive council for half an hour so he could listen to the closing overs of a test match. Colby won an open scholarship to Clare College a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Colby
Max Colby (born 1990) is an artist known for her work in textiles, sculpture, installation, embroidery, and painting. Her work highlights precarity and vulnerability through a consistent investigation of ritual objects, most often, funereal. Touching on such ceremonial iconography, the artist constructs objects which subvert the aesthetics of patriarchal systems. To her, Colby's process is about undoing the conditioning of "inherited cultural understandings of binary gender, as well as class and taste." Colby's elaborate work in installation utilizing beads, faux flowers, sequins, ribbons, fabric and jewelry is a flamboyant celebration of self-expression thorugh the artist's meticulous process of utopian construction of a universe. Early life Colby was born in West Palm Beach, Florida. She studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and received a BFA in 2012. Exhibitions 2011 * Arches Show, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA * Concepts of the Self, MFA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Wright Colby
Leonard Wright Colby (August 5, 1846 – November 18, 1924), who hailed from the U.S. state of Ohio, was a leader of the first Nebraska National Guard, American Indian Wars veteran, state senator of Nebraska and United States Assistant Attorney General. As a teenager, he fought in the American Civil War. During his career, he commanded both Nebraska and U.S. troops. He served as commander of the Nebraska National Guard. Family, education, and early military activities Colby was born in Cherry Valley Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio in 1846. The fifth of seven children, his parents were Rowel and Abigail (Livingston) Colby. His parents were from Grafton County, New Hampshire. When he was about four years old his parents removed to a farm five miles from Freeport, Illinois. As a teenager, he enlisted in the 8th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment and served the Union Army in the American Civil War. Wounded at the Battle of Fort Blakely in 1865, in almost the last battle of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Colby
Kenneth Mark Colby (1920 – April 20, 2001) was an American psychiatrist dedicated to the theory and application of computer science and artificial intelligence to psychiatry. Colby was a pioneer in the development of computer technology as a tool to try to understand cognitive functions and to assist both patients and doctors in the treatment process. He is perhaps best known for the development of a computer program called PARRY, which mimicked a person with paranoid schizophrenia and could "converse" with others. PARRY sparked serious debate about the possibility and nature of machine intelligence. Early life and education Colby was born in Waterbury, Connecticut in 1920. He graduated from Yale University in 1941 and received his M.D. from Yale Medical School in 1943. Career Colby began his career in psychoanalysis as a clinical associate at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute in 1951. During this time, he published ''A Primer for Psychotherapists,'' an intro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Colby
Kate Colby (born 1974, Boston) is an American poet and essayist. She grew up in Massachusetts and received her undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University and an MFA from California College of the Arts. In 1997, she moved to San Francisco, where she worked for several years as a curator at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, on the board of The LAB art space, and later as a grant writer and copyeditor. In 2008, she moved to [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June Rose Colby
June Rose Colby (June 4, 1856May 11, 1941) was an American professor of literature. She was the first female faculty member and third woman hired as an instructor at Illinois State Normal University, and was a supporter of the Suffragist movement. Early life and education She was born on June 4, 1856, in Cherry Valley, Ohio, second daughter and the fourth of five children of Lewis Colby and his wife Celestia Rice. Her father was a dairy farmer, while her mother found an outlet for her literary interests by writing essays. In 1866 the family moved to Freeport, Illinois, where her father earned income as a lightning rod salesman. June had been home schooled up to this point, but now attended public school. The family moved again in 1870 to Ann Arbor, Michigan so that June's sister Vine could study at the University of Michigan. After June graduated from Ann Arbor High School, she matriculated to the University of Michigan. Four years later she graduated with an A.B. degree, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph W
Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic countries. In Portuguese and Spanish, the name is "José". In Arabic, including in the Quran, the name is spelled '' Yūsuf''. In Persian, the name is "Yousef". The name has enjoyed significant popularity in its many forms in numerous countries, and ''Joseph'' was one of the two names, along with ''Robert'', to have remained in the top 10 boys' names list in the US from 1925 to 1972. It is especially common in contemporary Israel, as either "Yossi" or "Yossef", and in Italy, where the name "Giuseppe" was the most common male name in the 20th century. In the first century CE, Joseph was the second most popular male name for Palestine Jews. In the Book of Genesis Joseph is Jacob's eleventh son and Rachel's first son, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Colby (musician)
John Andrew Colby (born April 23, 1949) is an American musician. He is a music producer composer and keyboardist. Colby produced the score for the 1981 Academy Award nominated Ken Burns documentary ''Brooklyn Bridge'', wrote and produced the score for the Academy Award nominee '' The Garden of Eden'', and received a Grammy as producer for the soundtrack of Ken Burns' ''Civil War'' in the best traditional folk category. He was music director of ESPN from 1984 to 1992 and wrote the ''SportsCenter'' theme (dadada), the best known sports theme of its time. As keyboardist and band leader for Clarence Clemons, he produced '' Live in Asbury Park I'' and '' II''. Colby wrote the NFL theme for NBC in the 1990s and wrote the themes for Super Bowls XXVI and XXVII. His music is heard all over the world on ESPN, Fox Foxes are small to medium-sized, omnivorous mammals belonging to several genera of the family Canidae. They have a flattened skull, upright, triangular ears, a poi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Colby
John Colby (December 9, 1787 – November 28, 1817) was an evangelist and itinerant preacher in the early Free Will Baptist movement in New England and various other American states. Born to Thomas and Elizabeth Colby in Sandwich, New Hampshire, he became popular as a gifted preacher in his youth. Colby's preaching was instrumental in the conversions of hundreds of new believers and the formation of many new Free Will Baptist churches in Vermont, Rhode Island and New Hampshire. He was known as a self-sacrificing, humble man who travelled tirelessly from town to town throughout the United States in search of "lost souls". Colby developed consumption and died at the house of William M. Fauquier, Deacon of the Baptist church in Norfolk, Virginia Norfolk ( ) is an independent city (United States), independent city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. Incorporated in 1705, it had a population of 238,005 at the 2020 United States Censu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Colby
Jamie Nell Colby is an American former national news correspondent and anchor for Fox News Channel (FNC). Her last assignment was to host the show, ''Strange Inheritance'', on Fox Business Network and was formerly co-host of ''America's News Headquarters'' with Eric Shawn on Sunday mornings. Colby and Fox News Channel parted ways in February, 2019. Career Colby has worked for Fox News since July 2003 as National News Correspondent and Anchor. Prior to joining FOX News Channel, Colby was a correspondent for CNN and served as an anchor and reporter for CBS News including fill-in anchor for CBS's ''Up to the Minute''. She was also an anchor for WPIX/WB-11 New York, a reporter at WNYW FOX 5 New York, and a correspondent/co-anchor on FOX News' WebMD TV. Colby is an attorney admitted to practice law in New York, California, Florida and the District of Columbia. She has received such honors as the Edward R. Murrow National Award in 2002 for her coverage of the September 11 attacks; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Colby
James Leo Colby (September 20, 1961 – February 23, 2018) was an American actor in film, television and stage. Colby appeared in multiple Broadway plays and few stage productions in Connecticut. Colby was notable for his film roles in '' The Peacemaker'' (1997), '' Tower Heist'' (2011), ''Safe'' (2012), ''The Amazing Spider-Man 2'' (2014) and in ''Patriots Day'' (2016). In television, he was known for his role as Sergeant Ray Dwyer in ''Chicago P.D.'', Burleson in ''Empire''. Early life Colby was born in Arlington, Massachusetts. He studied at Bridgewater State University and Brooklyn College. He moved to Manhattan in the 1980s to pursue his stage career. Career In stage, Colby was seen in the 1992 Broadway production of ''Hamlet''. He performed extensively Off-Broadway at The Public Theater, Roundabout Theatre Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, Westside Theatre and Symphony Space. Colby had a long association with Har ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
