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Luella Meaburn
Luella may refer to: *Luella, Georgia, U.S. * Luella, Texas, U.S. * Luella Garvey House a designer house in Reno, Nevada, U.S. *Luella High School Locust Grove, Georgia, U.S. *Luella Island, an uninhabited Canadian arctic island * Luella, a fashion label started by Luella Bartley *''Luella'', a 1983 album by jazz flautist James Newton People with the given name *Luella Bartley (born 1974), English fashion designer, magazine editor and former journalist *Luella Bates (1897–1985), the first woman truck driver (American) *Luella Buros (1901–1995), American painter * Luella Clay Carson (1866–1933), former university president in Oregon and California * Luella J. B. Case (1807–1857), American author, hymn writer * Luella Costales, American politician and member of the Hawaiʻi House of Representatives * Luella Creighton (1901–1996), Canadian novelist and non-fiction writer * Luella Kirkbride Drumm (1872–1962), American politician *Luella Johnston (1861–1958), American busi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luella, Georgia
Luella is an Unincorporated area#United States, unincorporated community in Henry County, Georgia, Henry County, in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. History A post office called Luella was established in 1887, and remained in operation until 1955. The community was named after the daughter of a railroad official. The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Luella as a town in 1912. The town's municipal charter was repealed in 1995. References Former municipalities in Georgia (U.S. state) Unincorporated communities in Henry County, Georgia Populated places disestablished in 1995 {{HenryCountyGA-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luella Johnston
Luella Johnston (née Buckminster, 1861 – March 11, 1958), was an early 20th-century American businesswoman, civic reformer, and suffragist who was also the first woman elected to the Sacramento City Council The Sacramento City Council is the governing body of the city of Sacramento, California. The council holds regular meetings at Sacramento City Hall on Tuesdays at 6:00 pm, with exceptions for holidays and other special cases. Sacramento's city co ... (then called the City Commission), where she served from 1912 to 1913. Her election was the first time a woman was elected to a city council in California or of any major American city. Biography In 1912, one year after women won the right to vote in California, Johnston ran for a position on the new City Commission. She was elected as part of a slate of Progressive candidates, defeating the railroad-aligned incumbents. Her campaign had the backing of the Woman's Council, an association of women's clubs she helped found. W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luella Totten
Luella Totten (c. 1870 – November 5, 1950) was an American pianist, composer, and music educator. She was also known as Louis von Heinrich. Early life Luella G. Totten was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter of William Henry Denny Totten and Ann Elizabeth Covert Totten. Her father was in the iron business. "Pittsburgh, that wonderful city of steel, iron, coal, smoke, art and progress, with its unnumbered millions and millionaires, has produced nothing more remarkable than this woman composer," declared a music magazine in 1908. She studied piano in Chicago, and in Vienna with Theodor Leschetizky. She also worked with Edvard Grieg. Later in life, she studied composition at Yale University School of Music. In 1900 she won the Steinert Scholarship, a competitive award for piano study at Yale. In 1902 she became the third woman to earn a Bachelor of Music degree at Yale. She pursued further studies in composition at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, and with Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luella Dowd Smith
Luella Dowd Smith (, Dowd; June 16, 1847 – July 4, 1941) was an American educator and author of prose and verse. She was active in social reform movements of the day. Smith taught school for ten years and was the principal of three high schools and one academy. She was also active in the areas of temperance, Sunday school, prohibition, and equal suffrage. Smith wrote for the National Temperance Society. She was the author of ''Wayside Leaves'', 1879; ''Wind Flowers'', 1887; ''Flowers from Foreign Fields'', 1895; ''The Value of the Church'', 1898; ''Thirteen Temperance Theses and Two Trilogies'', 1901; as well as ''Ways to win'', 1904; ''Daily ideas and ideals'', 1930; and ''Along the way; poems'', 1938. Early life and education Jane Luella Dowd was born in Sheffield, Massachusetts, June 16, 1847. The eldest of the four children, her parents were Almeron and Emily (Curtiss) Dowd. At the age of two, the family removed to West Virginia, where they remained nine years. Her parents we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luella A
Luella may refer to: *Luella, Georgia, U.S. * Luella, Texas, U.S. * Luella Garvey House a designer house in Reno, Nevada, U.S. *Luella High School Locust Grove, Georgia, U.S. *Luella Island, an uninhabited Canadian arctic island * Luella, a fashion label started by Luella Bartley *''Luella'', a 1983 album by jazz flautist James Newton People with the given name *Luella Bartley (born 1974), English fashion designer, magazine editor and former journalist * Luella Bates (1897–1985), the first woman truck driver (American) *Luella Buros (1901–1995), American painter * Luella Clay Carson (1866–1933), former university president in Oregon and California * Luella J. B. Case (1807–1857), American author, hymn writer * Luella Costales, American politician and member of the Hawaiʻi House of Representatives * Luella Creighton (1901–1996), Canadian novelist and non-fiction writer * Luella Kirkbride Drumm (1872–1962), American politician *Luella Johnston (1861–1958), American bus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luella Agnes Owen
Luella Agnes Owen (8 September 1852 – 31 May 1932) was a speleologist and geologist, noted for her early studies on caves in Missouri. Early life and education Luella Agnes Owen was born in St. Joseph, Missouri on 8 September 1852. Her father, James Alfred Owen, was a lawyer. Her mother, Agnes Jeanette Owen (née Cargill), was the child of a wealthy businessman. She was the second of five children (Mary, Luella, Florence, Herbert, and Juliette) who survived to adulthood. Her older sister, Mary Alicia Owen, was a folklorist; her younger sister, Juliette Amelia Owen, was an ornithologist and botanist. Luella attended a local private school before the Civil War. The Owen family were known Southern sympathizers. The Owen daughters were educated at home during the war years. Their mother was described as possessing "an eager mind and a retentive memory which gave her a solid base for the reading that throughout her life kept her well informed." After the war, Luella attended St. Jos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luella Mundel
Luella Raab Mundel (April 26, 1913 – March 22, 2004)"Luella Mundel", ''The Lompoc Record'' (April 2, 2004), p. 3."Art Galleries", ''Santa Maria Times'' (June 30, 2006), p. 21. was a former head of the art department of Fairmont State College in Fairmont, West Virginia who was known for her job termination and blacklisting due to questions about her beliefs during the McCarthy era. Biography Born in Waterloo, Iowa, her father, Wilhelm Raab, was a potter from Austria, and her mother was from Germany. Mundel graduated from Waterloo High School in her hometown in 1932, and received a B.A. from the University of Northern Iowa. In 1938, she married Marvin Mundel, and the following year received a Ph.D. in art history and psychology from the University of Iowa. Her marriage ended in 1946. Documentary Mundel was the subject of ''American Inquisition'', a documentary by Helen Whitney. The documentary examines how McCarthyism had affected the small town of Fairmont, West Virginia. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luella Miner
Sarah Luella Miner (October 30, 1861 – December 2, 1935) was an American educator and a Christian missionary in China from 1887 until her death in 1935. She founded and led the North China Union College for Women, China's first women's college. Early life Miner was born in Oberlin, Ohio, the daughter of Daniel Irenaeus Miner and Lydia Jane Cooley Miner. Her father was a missionary and teacher; after the American Civil War he taught freedmen at Tougaloo College in Mississippi, and Miner trained as a teacher there. She completed a bachelor's degree at Oberlin College in 1884. She received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Oberlin College in 1914. Career Teaching After a stint at Fisk University, Miner became a teaching missionary in China, commissioned by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in 1887. She studied Chinese, including literary Chinese, at Paotingfu. From 1888 to 1902, she taught at Luho School for Boys and the North China ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luella St
Luella may refer to: *Luella, Georgia, U.S. * Luella, Texas, U.S. * Luella Garvey House a designer house in Reno, Nevada, U.S. *Luella High School Locust Grove, Georgia, U.S. *Luella Island, an uninhabited Canadian arctic island * Luella, a fashion label started by Luella Bartley *''Luella'', a 1983 album by jazz flautist James Newton People with the given name *Luella Bartley (born 1974), English fashion designer, magazine editor and former journalist * Luella Bates (1897–1985), the first woman truck driver (American) *Luella Buros (1901–1995), American painter * Luella Clay Carson (1866–1933), former university president in Oregon and California * Luella J. B. Case (1807–1857), American author, hymn writer * Luella Costales, American politician and member of the Hawaiʻi House of Representatives * Luella Creighton (1901–1996), Canadian novelist and non-fiction writer * Luella Kirkbride Drumm (1872–1962), American politician *Luella Johnston (1861–1958), American bus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luella Marciano
Luella Ichihara Marciano is a Northern Mariana Islander politician and educator serving as the resident executive of the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI) Indigenous Affairs Office since 2024. She has served as the interim vice chair of the Democratic Party of the Northern Mariana Islands, NMI Democratic Party since 2022. Life Marciano is Refaluwasch. She earned an A.A. in education from Northern Marianas College. She completed a B.A. in education at the University of Guam. Marciano received a M.Ed. from Farmington State College. Marciano is a retired teacher from the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Public School System (PSS). In 2020, as a member of the Democratic Party of the Northern Mariana Islands, Marciano ran for the precinct 2 seat in the Northern Mariana Islands House of Representatives, NMI House of Representatives. She lost in the general election. Marciano is a member of the Refaluwasch for Good Governance and Friends of San Isidro. In 2020, she became the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luella Law
Luella May Law (born 17 March 1934) is a Canadian sprinter. She competed in the women's 100 metres at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Law was eliminated in the heats of the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games The 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games were held in Vancouver, British Columbia, from 30 July to 7 August 1954. This was the fifth edition of the event that would eventually become known as the Commonwealth Games, the second post-war G ... 80 metres hurdles. References 1934 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics Canadian female sprinters Canadian female hurdlers Olympic track and field athletes for Canada Athletes (track and field) at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games athletes for Canada Track and field athletes from Vancouver 20th-century Canadian sportswomen John Oliver Secondary School alumni {{Canada-hurdles-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
