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Schoellkopf Family
Schoellkopf or Schöllkopf is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Members of the American Schoellkopf business family: ** Jacob F. Schoellkopf (1819–1899), American business magnate ** Arthur Schoellkopf (1856–1913), American business magnate and politician ** Jacob F. Schoellkopf Jr. (1858–1942), American business magnate ** Henry Schoellkopf (1879–1912), American football player and coach ** Paul A. Schoellkopf (1884–1947), American business magnate * Jean-Louis Schoellkopf (born 1946), French photographer * Ulrich Schöllkopf (1927–1998), German chemist * Xavier Schoellkopf (1870–1911), French architect See also * Schoellkopf Field * Schoellkopf Power Station The Schoellkopf Power Station was built on land owned by Jacob F. Schoellkopf above the Niagara Gorge near the American Falls, downriver from Rainbow Bridge (Niagara Falls), Rainbow Bridge. Understanding the growing need for electricity and the r ... * Schoellkopf Geological Museum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Jacob, later known as Israel, is a Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions. He first appears in the Torah, where he is described in the Book of Genesis as a son of Isaac and Rebecca. Accordingly, alongside his older fraternal twin brother Esau, Jacob's paternal grandparents are Abraham and Sarah and his maternal grandfather is Bethuel, whose wife is not mentioned. He is said to have bought Esau's birthright and, with his mother's help, deceived his aging father to bless him instead of Esau. Then, following a severe drought in his homeland Canaan, Jacob and his descendants migrated to neighbouring Egypt through the efforts of his son Joseph, who had become a confidant of the pharaoh. After dying in Egypt at the age of 147, he is supposed to have been buried in the Cave of Machpelah in Hebron. Per the Hebrew Bible, Jacob's progeny were beget by four women: his wives (and maternal cousins) Leah and Rachel; and his concubines Bilhah and Zilpah. His sons were, in order of their b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Schoellkopf
Arthur Schoellkopf (June 13, 1856 – February 3, 1913) was an American industrial leader who helped develop the hydroelectric resources of Niagara Falls and served as the fifth Mayor of Niagara Falls, New York. Early life Arthur Schoellkopf was born in Buffalo on June 13, 1856, the third son of industrialist Jacob F. Schoellkopf (1819–1899) and Christiana T. Duerr (1827–1903). He started his education at private schools in Buffalo and when he was 9 years old he was sent to the Academy of Kirchheim in Germany, where he spent the next four years. Upon returning to the United States, Arthur finished his schooling at St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute in Buffalo and then attended Bryant and Stratton College. Career Business career In 1873, upon completion of his studies, he went to work for the "North Buffalo and Frontier Mills" in Buffalo, operated by "Thornton & Chester", and afterward, "Schoellkopf & Matthews." He worked at Frontier Mills for four years, and in 1877, bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Schoellkopf
Henry Schoellkopf (December 14, 1879 – December 5, 1912) was an American football player and coach. He was selected as an All-American fullback while attending Harvard Law School in 1903. He was the head coach of the Cornell Big Red football team from 1907 to 1908, compiling a record of 15–3–1. Early life Henry Schoellkopf was born December 14, 1879, in Buffalo, New York, to Henry Schoellkopf Sr. (1848–1880) and Emily Vogel. Henry Sr. was the oldest son of Buffalo, New York, businessman Jacob F. Schoellkopf and his wife, Christiana T. (Duerr) Schoellkopf. Henry's father learned the tannery business and leather trade from Henry's grandfather, Jacob F. Schoellkopf, and later worked with Jacob's cousin and business partner, Frederick Vogel and his business partner, Guido Pfister, in Wisconsin. Henry Sr. married Vogel's daughter, Emelie (Emily) Vogel (Henry's mother) in 1875. Prior to his father's early death in 1880, he partnered with Vogel and Pfister and opened ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Paul may refer to: People * Paul (given name), a given name, including a list of people * Paul (surname), a list of people * Paul the Apostle, an apostle who wrote many of the books of the New Testament * Ray Hildebrand, half of the singing duo Paul & Paula * Paul Stookey, one-third of the folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary * Billy Paul, stage name of American soul singer Paul Williams (1934–2016) * Vinnie Paul, drummer for American Metal band Pantera * Paul Avril, pseudonym of Édouard-Henri Avril (1849–1928), French painter and commercial artist * Paul, pen name under which Walter Scott wrote ''Paul's letters to his Kinsfolk'' in 1816 * Jean Paul, pen name of Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (1763–1825), German Romantic writer Places * Paul, Cornwall, a village in the civil parish of Penzance, United Kingdom *Paul (civil parish), Cornwall, United Kingdom * Paul, Alabama, United States, an unincorporated community * Paul, Idaho, United States, a city * Paul, Nebraska, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Louis Schoellkopf
Jean-Louis Schoellkopf (born 1946) is a French photographer. Work Schoellkopf's work explores the problems that cities face with economic change, which have led to new arrangements of urban spaces, creating new ways of thinking and of living within the city that cause conflicts. Schoellkopf tries to shed light on these issues, in France and across Europe, according to historical, geographical and sociological perspectives. Exhibition Schoellkopf has exhibited at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, also known as MACBA, his 1987 photos of different families with different furnishings, living in identical Corbusier apartments in Firminy Firminy (; ) is a commune in the Loire department in central France. It lies on the river Ondaine, 13 km southwest of Saint-Étienne by rail. History The ancient name of the town was ''Firminiaco'' or ''Firminiacus'' (lit. "place of Fir ..., France. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Schoellkopf, Jean-Louis 1946 bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulrich Schöllkopf
Ulrich Schöllkopf (11 October 1927 – 6 November 1998) was a German chemist and together with Georg Wittig discovered the Wittig reaction in 1956. Later in 1981 he published the synthesis method for amino acids known as the Bislactimether method or Schöllkopf method. Schöllkopf studied with Georg Wittig at the University of Tübingen where he received his PhD with work on the Wittig reaction in 1956 and received his habilitation at the University of Heidelberg with Wittig in 1961. He became professor at the University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen (, commonly referred to as Georgia Augusta), is a Public university, public research university in the city of Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany. Founded in 1734 .... References 1927 births 1998 deaths 20th-century German chemists People from the Free People's State of Württemberg {{Germany-chemist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xavier Schoellkopf
Xavier Schoellkopf (1870 Serpukhov, Russian Empire – 1911 Paris, France), was a Russian-born French architect, now recognized as one of the handful of Parisian masters of Art Nouveau at the turn of the twentieth century. Education Schoellkopf was born in Serpukhov in 1870 to French parents. He matriculated to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he trained under the ''patrons'' Julien Guadet and then Edmond Paulin when the latter took over Guadet's atelier in 1895. These men were traditional classicists; in 1863–64 Guadet had been one of the students who led a successful revolt against the medievalist Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-duc when the latter had been appointed to head the school. Beginning his studies in 1889 in the entry-level second class, he distinguished himself with four medals there and was promoted to the first class in 1892, receiving medals for his work submitted to the salons of 1895 and 1896. he left the Ecole that year without a degree to begin his own pra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schoellkopf Field
Schoellkopf Field is a 21,500-capacity stadium at Cornell University's Ithaca campus that opened in 1915 and is used for the Cornell Big Red football, sprint football and lacrosse teams. It is located just north of Cascadilla Creek on the southern end of the campus, next to Hoy Field and Lynah Rink; Schoellkopf Memorial Hall, adjacent to the stadium, contains the Robison Hall of Fame Room, the hall of fame for Cornell athletics. History During the 1800s, Cornell athletic teams played on Percy Field, located where Ithaca High School now stands. As the university and town grew, the need for a larger, dedicated stadium on campus became apparent. Following the death of former Cornell football player and head football coach Henry Schoellkopf in 1912, his close friend, Willard Straight, donated $100,000 () to construct the Schoellkopf Memorial Hall in honor of Henry Schoellkopf. The building was completed in 1913. In response to Straight's gift, members of the Schoellkopf fam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schoellkopf Power Station
The Schoellkopf Power Station was built on land owned by Jacob F. Schoellkopf above the Niagara Gorge near the American Falls, downriver from Rainbow Bridge (Niagara Falls), Rainbow Bridge. Understanding the growing need for electricity and the role of harnessing the Falls, Schoellkopf purchased the land for the hydraulic canal on May 1, 1877 for $71,000. After his death in 1903, his sons took over the operation of the power business. In 1918, Schoellkopf's Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power and Manufacturing Company merged with the Niagara Falls Power Company, which was owned by Edward Dean Adams. Much of the site is, as of 2014, occupied by the Maid of the Mist tour boat company as a maintenance area and off-season boat storage yard. The power station remains form a part of a fully accessible tourist attraction associated with Niagara Falls State Park and is connected with its Niagara Gorge hiking trail system. ''Note:'' This includes an''Accompanying photographs''/ref> Station No. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schoellkopf Geological Museum
The Niagara Gorge Discovery Center, also known as the Schoellkopf Geological Museum, was a museum within Niagara Falls State Park and the city of Niagara Falls, New York. It opened in 1971. Its role was to showcase the natural history of the Falls and the Niagara Gorge via the ancient rock layers and minerals. The museum also showcased the history of the Great Gorge Route trolley line and featured a number of hiking trails. The museum's location was where the Schoellkopf Power Station, one of the first hydroelectric plants in the United States, stood until it was destroyed by rockfall in 1956. The museum closed in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and never reopened. In 2024, the vacant building was repurposed as an expansion of the Aquarium of Niagara, which is located nearby. The removal of the Robert Moses State Parkway The Niagara Scenic Parkway (known as the Robert Moses State Parkway until 2016) is a state parkway in western Niagara County, New York, in the United S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
