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Fales is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Almira Fales (1809–1868), American nurse *David Fales (born 1990), American football player * DeCoursey Fales (1888–1966), American lawyer, banker, collector, bibliophile and yachtsman *Josef Fales, Czechoslovakian-born Soviet footballer * Martha Gandy Fales (1930–2006), American art historian and curator *Steven Fales (born 1970), American playwright and actor See also * Fales Library New York University's Fales Library and Special Collections is located on the third floor of the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library at 70 Washington Square South between LaGuardia Place and the Schwartz Plaza, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almira Fales
Almira L. Newcomb McNaughton Lockwood Fales (October 24, 1809 – November 8, 1868) was a philanthropist and nurse during the American Civil War. Early life Almira L. Newcomb was born in Pittstown, New York, the fourth child and third daughter of Ariel Newcomb and Sarah Norris of Pittsford, New York. For some time she was a resident of Iowa.Appleton's, (1900) Marriages and children Alexander McNaughton Her first husband was Alexander McNaughton, who was a merchant from Monroe, New York. They were married from 1829 until his death in 1832, and had two children, Sarah and Alexander. Leander Lockwood In 1837, she married Leander Lockwood, a widower with five children from his first marriage. The couple had two children, Charles and Thomas Hartbenton, who both served in the Union Army during the Civil War. Thomas, a corporal in the 2nd Rhode Island Infantry, died on May 3, 1863, at the Battle of Salem Church. Lockwood died in 1845. Joseph T. Fales She married her third hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Fales
David Daniel Fales (born October 4, 1990) is a former American football quarterback. He was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the sixth round of the 2014 NFL Draft. He played college football at San Jose State. Fales played high school football at Palma School in Salinas, California. After redshirting freshman year for the Nevada Wolfpack of the University of Nevada, Reno, Fales attended Monterey Peninsula College for two years and transferred to San Jose State University for his junior year in 2012. With Fales, the San Jose State Spartans went 11–2 in 2012 with the school's first-ever BCS ranking, first AP Poll ranking since 1975, and first bowl game berth since 2006. With 31 touchdown passes in his first year with San Jose State, Fales was the most accurate FBS quarterback for the 2012 season and was MVP of the 2012 Military Bowl. Early life Fales was born and raised in Salinas, California. A 2009 graduate of Palma High School in Salinas, Fales was twice selected as all- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DeCoursey Fales
DeCoursey Fales (June 1, 1888 – June 19, 1966) was an American lawyer, banker, collector, bibliophile and yachtsman. DeCoursey was born in Saranac Lake, New York. He attended Harvard University, where he developed an intense love for British and American fiction. In the last years of his life, Fales devoted himself full-time to collecting. Fales collected fiction books and manuscript materials. Fales' manuscript collecting started with Walter Scott materials, and around that core, his collection grew to around 50,000 items pertaining to various authors spanning the 18th and 20th centuries. He began donating parts of his manuscript and book collections to New York University in 1957. Other parts of his collection donated to the New York Public Library, Manhattan College, and the Morgan Library (of which he was a life fellow). DeCoursey chose to dedicate the Fales Library at NYU to his father, Haliburton Fales. Along with these two collections, Fales also donated the Fales F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Fales
Josef Fales ( uk, Йосип Георгійович Фалес, Yosyp Heorhiyovych Fales, 12 June 1938 – 17 October 2022) was a Czechoslovakian-born Soviet footballer, coach and Ukrainian sports specialist, and scientist. Fales was born in Svalyava on 12 June 1938. He was known as a defensive player who played for number of clubs among which are Trudovye Rezervy from Lviv and Leningrad (Saint Petersburg), Karpaty Lviv and others. After his sports career, Fales became docent and head of football department in the Lviv State University of Physical Culture. Fales died on 17 October 2022 in Lviv, at the age of 84. Further reading * Pylypchuk, P. ''Football personalities of Lviv''. "Halych Publishing Society, Lviv. 2008. External links Brief informationon Lviv sports college website Josef Faleson footballfacts.ru FC Karpaty Lviv Football Club Karpaty Lviv ( ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Lviv. History Early years (1963–68) The team of Karpaty was found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martha Gandy Fales
Martha Lou Gandy Fales (October 31, 1930 – February 24, 2006) was an American art historian, museum curator, and author specializing in historic American silversmithing and jewelry. She worked as a curator and keeper of the silver at the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library during the late 1950s and worked mostly as an independent historian and consultant after that. Her seminal book ''Jewelry in America'' (1995) received the Charles F. Montgomery Prize from the Decorative Arts Society. Biography Fales, who went by M'Lou, was born in Clarksburg, West Virginia on October 31, 1930. Her father, Preston Boehner Gandy, was a physician. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wilson College in 1952 and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Delaware in 1954, as one of the first graduating class of the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture. An expert on silver, she wrote her master's thesis on the Joseph Richardson family of silversmiths based in Philadelphia. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Fales
Steven Heard Fales (born March 17, 1970) is a classically trained playwright and actor who has gained broad recognition in both the theatre world gay community and the LDS community for his award-winning one-man play, ''Confessions of a Mormon Boy''. Performance The first reading of ''Confessions'' was at the Sunstone Symposium in Salt Lake City in 2001. He has performed the play off-Broadway (under director Jack Hofsiss) and across the United States and internationally at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and London's West End. The book ''Confessions of a Mormon Boy: Behind the Scenes of the Off-Broadway Hit'' was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. Before becoming a solo artist he performed in Shakespeare and musicals in regional theatres across America. ''Confessions of a Mormon Boy'' is Part One in ''The Mormon Boy Trilogy''. Part Two and Three are called ''Missionary Position'' and ''Prodigal Dad''. ''Mormon-American Princess'' is his cabaret act and deals with the subject of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
