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Jemison (surname)
Jemison is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alice Lee Jemison (1901–1964), American political activist * Charlie Jemison (born 1903), American baseball player * Dick Jemison (1886–1965), American sportswriter * Eddie Jemison (born 1963), American actor * Edwin Francis Jemison (1844–1862), American Civil War soldier * G. Peter Jemison (born 1945), Native American artist * Julio Jemison (born 1994), Bahamian footballer * Kelly Jemison, American geologist * Mae Jemison (born 1956), American astronaut, engineer and physician * Marty Jemison (born 1965), American cyclist * Mary Jemison (1743–1833), Scots-Irish American frontierswoman * Mike Jemison (born 1983), American football player * Robert Jemison Jr. (1802–1871), American politician and entrepreneur * Steffani Jemison (born 1981), American artist * T. J. Jemison (1918–2013), American clergyman * Trey Jemison (born 1999), American basketball player See also * Jamison (surname) * N. K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Lee Jemison
Alice Mae Lee Jemison (October 9, 1901 – March 6, 1964) was a Seneca political activist and journalist. She was a major critic of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the New Deal policies of its commissioner John Collier. She lobbied in support of California, Cherokee, and Sioux peoples during her career, supported by the Seneca Tribal Council. The Franklin D. Roosevelt administration condemned her work, and critics described her harshly in press conferences and before Congressional committees. For a time, she was put under FBI surveillance. Personal life Jemison was born on October 9, 1901, in Silver Creek, New York, near the Cattaraugus Reservation. Her mother, Elnora E. Seneca, was from a prominent Seneca family, and her father, Daniel A. Lee, was "a cabinetmaker of Cherokee descent." In 1919, she graduated from Silver Lake High School and married LeVerne Leonard Jamison, a steelworker from the reservation. Jemison had two children: LeVerne L. Jemison, born in 1920, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Jemison
Charles Heard Jemison (born 1903) was an American Negro league pitcher in the 1930s. A native of Walker County, Alabama, Jemison made his Negro leagues debut in 1932 with the Homestead Grays The Homestead Grays (also known as Washington Grays or Washington Homestead Grays) were a professional baseball team that played in the Negro league baseball, Negro leagues in the United States. The team was formed in 1912 in sports, 1912 by Cum .... He played for the Homestead club again in 1934, and went on to play for the Newark Dodgers in 1935. References External links anSeamheads 1903 births Date of birth missing Year of death missing Place of death missing Homestead Grays players Newark Dodgers players {{negro-league-baseball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Jemison
Richard Stubbs Jemison (September 19, 1886 – January 9, 1965) was an early 20th-century American sportswriter in the South who was for 11 years the sporting editor of the ''Atlanta Constitution''. He wrote extensively on baseball and football, picking many an All-Southern team. Supposedly, he was the first sports editor to include batting stats in his newspaper column. For two years he was president of the Georgia–Alabama League. Jemison himself was an avid golfer, basketball player, and bowler. Early years Jemison was born on September 19, 1886, in Macon, Georgia, to Robert W. Jemison and Kate Boifeuillet. His uncle was Edwin Francis Jemison, a Confederate veteran who died at the Battle of Malvern Hill at just 17 years old. Dick's brother J. B. Jemison was later club president of the Thomasville Hornets in 1913. Atlanta On watching the flight of Charles K. Hamilton in 1910 he wrote, "The time is not far off when the automobile will be put in the discard for the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Jemison
Edward Francis Jemison, Jr. (born November 25, 1963) is an American film and television actor. He is known for his roles as Livingston Dell in the ''Ocean's'' film trilogy and Mickey Duka in ''The Punisher'', as well as the television series '' Hung'', '' iZombie'' and ''Chicago Med''. Early life Jemison was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of Rosalie (''née'' Centanni) and Edward Francis Jemison, Sr. and is of Irish and Italian descent. He was raised in Kenner, Louisiana, and attended a Catholic secondary school, Archbishop Rummel High School. He graduated from Louisiana State University where he was a member of the Delta Chi fraternity. Career As an actor in films, Jemison's major breakthrough was the ''Ocean's'' franchise, a series of movies in which he played Livingston Dell. He made his directorial debut in 2013 with an independent film called ''King of Herrings'', starring himself and longtime friends Joe Chrest and John Mese, who both also came out of LSU's theat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Francis Jemison
Edwin Francis Jemison (December 1, 1844 – July 1, 1862) was a Confederate soldier who served in the 2nd Louisiana Infantry Regiment from May 1861 until he was killed in action at the Battle of Malvern Hill. Jemison's photograph has become one of the iconic portraits of the young soldiers of both the Confederate and Union armies. It was featured particularly on the cover of the American Russian-language magazine '' Amerika'' in 1991. Early life Edwin Francis Jemison was born on December 1, 1844, in Milledgeville, Georgia as the second-oldest of five sons of Robert Jemison and Sarah Caroline Jemison (née Stubb), who had married in 1841. Robert Jemison was a landowner, lawyer and newspaper editor. The family later moved to Jackson, Louisiana where they lived at the outbreak of the American Civil War. On January 26, 1861, Louisiana seceded from the United States to join the Confederate States. American Civil War Jemison enlisted on May 11, 1861, in Company B (Moore's Gua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julio Jemison
Julio Jemison (born 24 February 1994) is a Bahamian footballer who plays for University of the Bahamas FC and the Bahamas national football team. Jemison has also represented his national team in T20I cricket matches. Football career Jemison made his senior international debut on 12 October 2018 in a 6–0 defeat to Antigua and Barbuda in CONCACAF Nations League qualifying. Cricket career In April 2022, he was named in the Bahamas' Twenty20 International (T20I) squad for their series against the Cayman Islands. He made his T20I debut on 13 April 2022, for the Bahamas against the Cayman Islands The Cayman Islands () is a self-governing British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory, and the largest by population. The territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman, which are located so .... References External links * 1994 births Living people Bahamian men's footballers 21st-century Bahamian sportsmen Bahamas me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelly Jemison
Kelly Jemison is an American academic geologist specializing in Antarctic diatoms. She studied at Florida State University, participated in the ANDRILL (Antarctic Geological Drilling) Project, and in 2011 was awarded the Antarctica Service Medal. She currently works as a Geologist for Bureau of Ocean Energy Management in Anchorage, Alaska. Education She attended Florida State University from 2003-2012 acquiring a Bachelors of Science Degree in Geology in April 2007. She then acquired a Masters of Science Degree in Geology studying microfossils in August 2012. Career Jemison worked as a Laboratory assistant in from May 2005 to December 2007 for the Florida State University National Antarctic Marine Geology Research Facility. She worked on core descriptions and sampling, data entry, core imaging and scanning. From October 2006 to January 2007 Jemison took part in the ANDRILL (ANtarctic geologic DRILLing) project. A project meant to drill into Antarctic ice on the McMurdo Ice Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mae Jemison
Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first African-American woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, Space Shuttle ''Endeavour'' in 1992. Jemison joined NASA's NASA Astronaut Group 12, astronaut corps in 1987 and was selected to serve for the STS-47 mission, during which the ''Endeavour'' orbited the Earth for nearly eight days on September 12–20, 1992. Born in Alabama and raised in Chicago, Jemison graduated from Stanford University with degrees in chemical engineering as well as African studies, African and African-American studies. She then earned her medical degree from Cornell University Medical School, Cornell University. Jemison was a doctor for the Peace Corps in Liberia and Sierra Leone from 1983 until 1985 and worked as a general practitioner. In pursuit of becoming an astronaut, she applied to NASA. Jemison left NASA in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marty Jemison
Marty Jemison (born May 18, 1965) is a former American cyclist. Since retiring from Professional Cycling, Marty has been leading tours for his own companJemison Cycling ToursAn extended list of results can bHis most successful day in the Tour de France was when he earned a top 5 placing during stage 13 of the 1998 Tour de France, 1998 Tour. He got into successful breakaway that stayed away all day and finished nearly three minutes ahead of the Peloton. Career Professional from 1994 to 2000, he was most known for being the United States National Road Race Championships, US National Road Race Champion in 1999. He began his racing career with the amateur team Mi Duole Cycling in Salt Lake City. When he was a member of the U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team, he participated in two Tour de France, Tours de France and was a teammate of Lance Armstrong. Marty started his Professional career with the Dutch-based WordPerfect team in 1994. He was selected by U.S. National Team at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Jemison
Mary Jemison (''Deh-he-wä-nis'') (1743 – September 19, 1833) was a Scots-Irish colonial frontierswoman in Pennsylvania and New York, who became known as the "White Woman of the Genesee." As a young girl, she was captured and adopted into a Seneca family, assimilating to their culture, marrying two Native American men in succession, and having children with them. In 1824, she published a memoir of her life, a form of captivity narrative. During the French and Indian War, in spring 1755, Jemison at age 12 was captured with most of her family in a Shawnee raid in what is now Adams County, Pennsylvania. The others of her family were killed. She and an unrelated young boy were adopted by Seneca families. She became fully assimilated, marrying a Delaware (Lenape), and, after his death, a Seneca man. She chose to remain a Seneca rather than return to American colonial culture. Jemison told her story late in life to an American minister, who wrote it for her. He published it as ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Jemison
Mike Jemison (born June 3, 1983, in Greencastle, Pennsylvania) is an American football player who last played running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League and running back for the Hamburg Sea Devils of NFL Europe . College career Mike Jemison began his college career at the University of Pittsburgh, where he played in nine games as a reserve halfback and fullback in 2001. Jemison gained 78 yards on 26 carries and caught 4 passes for 39 yards that year and he then shifted to outside linebacker for the Panthers in 2002, recording 14 tackles in 12 games. Soon after that Jemison transferred to Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where he started nine games for the Crimson Hawks in 2003 where he totaled 1,311 yards and 12 touchdowns on 220 carries, the sixth-best season total in school history. Jemison started the first four games of the 2004 season, gaining 456 yards with a pair of touchdowns on 103 rushing attempts. He totaled 1,845 yards on 359 carr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Jemison Jr
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown, godlike" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin.Reaney & Wilson, 1997. ''Dictionary of English Surnames''. Oxford University Press. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe, the name entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
