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Fredericka
Fredericka is a given name and may refer to: * Fredericka Douglass Sprague Perry (1872-1943), American philanthropist and activist * Fredericka Mandelbaum (1818–1894), New York entrepreneur and criminal fence operator * Fredericka of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1715-1775), German noblewoman and member of the House of Wettin * Fredericka Elisabeth of Saxe-Eisenach (1669-1730), German noblewoman and member of the House of Wettin See also * Frederica (other) * Freddy and Fredericka, 2005 satiric novel by Mark Helprin {{given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fredericka Of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
Fredericka of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (17 July 1715 – 2 May 1775), was a German princess, a member of the House of Wettin and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Weissenfels. Born in Gotha, she was the fifteenth of nineteen children born from the marriage of Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst. From her eighteen older and younger siblings, only eight survived to adulthood: Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, William, John August, Christian William, Louis Ernest, Maurice, Augusta (by marriage Princess of Wales), and John Adolph. Life In Altenburg on 27 November 1734, Fredericka married Prince Johann Adolf of Saxe-Weissenfels as his second wife. Two years later (1736), Johann Adolf inherited the paternal domains after the death of his older brother. The union produced five children, all of them died in infancy: # Karl Frederick Adolf, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Weissenfels (Weissenfels, 7 June 1736 – Weissenfels, 24 March 1737). # ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fredericka Douglass Sprague Perry
Fredericka Douglass Sprague Perry (August 9, 1872 – October 23, 1943) was an American philanthropist and activist. Perry founded the Colored Big Sister Home for Girls in 1934 in Kansas City, Missouri. With her husband, John E. Perry, she worked to provide better health care to African-American children. Early life and education Born Fredericka Douglass Sprague in Rochester, New York, on August 9, 1872. She was the daughter of Rosetta Douglass and granddaughter of Frederick Douglass. She was the fifth oldest child of the seven children of Rosetta Douglass Sprague and Nathan Sprague. She attended public school in Washington, DC, and then the Mechanics Institute in Rochester, New York. Career In 1906, she moved to Jefferson City, Missouri, where she taught home economics at Lincoln University. She married Dr. John Edward Perry in 1912, founder of the Wheatley-Provident Hospital (previously called the Perry Sanitarium), the first private hospital for Black people in Kansas Cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fredericka Mandelbaum
Fredericka "Marm" Mandelbaum (March 25, 1825 – February 26, 1894)Holub, Rona"Fredericka Mandelbaum."In ''Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present'', vol. 2, edited by William J. Hausman. German Historical Institute. Last modified October 15, 2013. operated as a criminal fence to many of the street gangs and criminals of New York's underworld, handling between $1–5 million in stolen goods between 1862 and 1884. Like her principal rival John D. Grady and the Grady Gang, she also became a matriarch to the criminal elements of the city and was involved in financing and organizing numerous burglaries and other criminal operations throughout the post-American Civil War era. With George Leonidas Leslie, she was involved in the 1869 Ocean National Bank robbery and the 1878 Manhattan Savings Institution robbery. Life and career Mandelbaum was born Friederike Weisner in Kassel, a city in modern-day Germany. Not much is known of her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
