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Maybelle And Ezra Carter House
Maybelle is a feminine given name that may refer to * Maybelle Blair (born 1927), American baseball player *Maybelle Carter (1909–1978), American country musician * Maybelle Gilliland (1906–1971), American track athlete * Maybelle Goodlander (1882–1959), American photographer * Maybelle Marston (1895–1983), American contralto *Maybelle Stephens Mitchell (1872–1919), American suffragist * Maybelle Maud Park (1871–1946), American physician * Maybelle Reichardt (1907–1999), American discus thrower * Maybelle Stamper (1907–1995), American printmaker *Big Maybelle Mabel Louise Smith (May 1, 1924 – January 23, 1972), known professionally as Big Maybelle, was an American R&B singer. Her 1956 hit single "Candy" received the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999. Childhood and musical background Born in J ... (1924–1972), American R&B singer See also * Maybelle and Ezra Carter House in Scott County, Virginia, U.S. {{given name English-language feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maybelle Blair
Maybelle Blair (born January 16, 1927) is a former All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player. Listed at and , she batted and threw right-handed.W. C. Madden, Madden, W. C. (2005) ''The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: A Biographical Dictionary'' (2005). Born in Inglewood, California, Blair was an efficient pitcher when she joined the league with the Peoria Redwings in its 1948 season, even though she appeared in only one game for the team, and then moved the next year to a professional softball league in Chicago to play for the Chicago Cardinals. Later, she played for the Jax Girls softball club of New Orleans.Heaphy, Leslie A.; May, Mel Anthony 2006). McFarland & Company. Afterwards, Blair attended El Camino College Compton Center, Compton Junior College in California and then List of physical therapy schools in the United States, Los Angeles School of Physiotherapy. Following her graduation, she worked at a treatment center in Los A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maybelle Carter
"Mother" Maybelle Carter (born Maybelle Addington; May 10, 1909 – October 23, 1978) was an American country musician and "among the first" to use the Carter scratch, with which she "helped to turn the guitar into a lead instrument." It was named after her. She was a member of the original Carter Family act from the late 1920s until the early 1940s and a member of the Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle group. Biography She was born Maybelle Addington on May 10, 1909, in Nickelsville, Virginia, the daughter of Margaret Elizabeth (née Kilgore; 1879–1960) and Hugh Jackson Addington (1877–1929). On March 13, 1926, Maybelle married Ezra Carter. They had three daughters, Helen, June, and Anita. She was a member of the Carter Family, formed in 1927 by her brother-in-law, A. P. Carter, who was married to her cousin Sara, also a part of the trio. The Carter Family was one of the first commercial rural country music groups. Maybelle helped create the group's unique so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maybelle Gilliland
Maybelle Montgomery Gilliland (January 23, 1906 – February 1, 1971) was a Canadian-born American athlete in track events in the 1920s and early 1930s. She was one of the thirteen members of the United States team at the 1922 Women's World Games in Paris. Early life and education Gilliland was born in Sussex, New Brunswick, Canada, and raised in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the daughter of William John Gilliland and Elizabeth J. Miller Gilliland. Her father, an Episcopal minister, was born in England, and her mother was born in the United States. She attended Leonia High School in New Jersey. Career Gilliland was a teenager when she set the American record for the 100-yard dash, and qualified in the trials held at Mamaroneck, New York, for the United States team for the 1922 Women's World Games, together with her high school teammate Elizabeth Stine. She also won the 50-yard dash, and ran on a record-breaking 440-yard relay team at Mamaroneck. Gilliland continued running in c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maybelle Goodlander
Maybelle D. Goodlander (May 25, 1882 – October 25, 1959) was an American commercial and portrait photographer based in Muncie, Indiana, in partnership with her older sister Maude Goodlander. Early life Maude and Maybelle Goodlander were born in Muncie, Indiana, the daughters of Marquis D. Goodlander and Harriett Chapel Goodlander. Their father was a photographer, and taught his daughters the skills of the profession.Goodlander Sisters Minnetrista Gathering Place, Heritage Collection. Career By 1906 the Goodlander sisters were working together as professional photographers, and they took over their father's studio when he retired. They made photographic portraits and painted portraits on canvas. They also took class pictures for schools. They also held an exhibit of G ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maybelle Marston
Maybelle Zenobia Berretta Marston (May 14, 1895 – February 22, 1983) was an American contralto singer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Early life Mabel Zenobia Berretta was from Philadelphia. She won a "cutest baby" contest at the New Jersey shore in 1896. Career Maybelle Beretta Marston sang with the Philadelphia Civic Opera Company, at the Philadelphia Academy of Music and other large venues. In 1925 Marston sang Gilbert and Sullivan roles in ''H.M.S. Pinafore'' (1925) ''The Mikado'' (1926 and 1941), and ''Iolanthe'' (1927). She also sang parts in ''Feuersnot'' (1927, its U.S. premiere), ''Die Walküre'' (1928 and 1929), '' I gioielli della Madonna'' (1928), ''Ariadne auf Naxos'' (1928, its U.S. premiere), ''Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg'' (1928 and 1930), ''Cavalleria rusticana'' (1928), ' (1929), ''Carmen'' (1929), ''Prince Igor'' (1929), ''Roméo et Juliette'' (1929), ''Das Rheingold'' (1929), ''Götterdämmerung'' (1930), ''Die Zauberflöte'' (1930), ''Le nozze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maybelle Stephens Mitchell
Mary Isabel "Maybelle" Stephens Mitchell (January 13, 1872 – January 25, 1919) was an American suffragist, clubwoman, and activist. Born into a prestigious planting family of Irish Catholic background, she was educated at the Villa Maria Convent in Quebec and the Atlanta Female Seminary in Georgia. A social and political activist, Mitchell was a leader in the women's suffrage movement in Georgia, protesting against state laws and meeting with local politicians to advocate for the rights of women, and was a member of the Atlanta Woman's Club. In 1915, she served as the president of the Atlanta Women's Suffrage League and, later, co-founded the League of Women Voters in Georgia. Mitchell helped establish the Catholic Layman's Association of Georgia, fighting against anti-Catholicism in the United States. She was the mother of author and journalist Margaret Mitchell, whose character Ellen Robillard O'Hara from ''Gone With the Wind'' may have been based on Mitchell. Personal lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maybelle Maud Park
Maybelle Maud Park (January 7, 1871 – 1946) was an American medical doctor based in Wisconsin. She served as director of the child welfare department of the State Board of Control when it was founded in 1922. Early life Maybelle Maud Park was born in Dodges Corners, Wisconsin, youngest of the eight children of John Wait Park and Sarah Luella Thomas Park. Her older sister Meriel graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1884, and two of their brothers earned law degrees there. Another sister, Dora Park Putnam, was an artist based in Milwaukee. Maybelle Park attended Carroll College in Waukesha, then the University of Wisconsin, where she earned a bachelor of science degree in 1891. She earned her medical degree at the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1894, and did further studies in Philadelphia for a Master of Homeopathics, granted in 1895. Career Park presented a paper on the homeopathic treatment of smallpox at the Organon and Materia Medica Society of P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maybelle Reichardt
Maybelle Reichardt (later ''Hopkins'', May 27, 1907 – November 4, 1999) was an American discus thrower who won the AAU Championship in 1925 and 1928. In 1928 she also set a national record and placed seventh at the Olympics The modern Olympic Games (Olympics; ) are the world's preeminent international sporting events. They feature summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competit ... in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Besides athletics, Reichardt won a national basketball title with the Los Angeles Athletic Club in 1926. She later worked as a registered nurse, got married, and had two sons; both sons became college professors. References 1907 births 1999 deaths American female discus throwers Olympic track and field athletes for the United States Athletes (track and field) at the 1928 Summer Olympics Track and field athletes from Los Angeles 20th-century American sportswomen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maybelle Stamper
Maybelle Stamper (1907–1995) was an American printmaker. Stamper studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Art Students League of New York. In 1947 she moved to Captiva Island, Florida, where she became a friend of her neighbor Robert Rauschenberg. Around 1990, she deeded her property to Rauschenburg in exchange for being able to live there and for financial support until her death. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Block Museum of Art, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Currier Museum of Art The Currier Museum of Art is an art museum in Manchester, New Hampshire, in the United States. It features European and American paintings, decorative arts, photographs and sculpture. The permanent collection includes works by Picasso, Matisse, Mo .... References 1907 births 1995 deaths 20th-century American women artists American women printmakers Artists from New Hampshire Artists in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Maybelle
Mabel Louise Smith (May 1, 1924 – January 23, 1972), known professionally as Big Maybelle, was an American R&B singer. Her 1956 hit single "Candy" received the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999. Childhood and musical background Born in Jackson, Tennessee, on May 1, 1924, Big Maybelle sang gospel as a child; by her teens, she had switched to rhythm and blues. She began her professional career with Dave Clark's Memphis Band in 1936, and also toured with the all-female International Sweethearts of Rhythm. She then joined Christine Chatman's Orchestra, and made her first recordings with Chatman in 1944, before recording with the Tiny Bradshaw's Orchestra from 1947 to 1950. Her debut solo recordings, recorded as Mabel Smith, were for King Records in 1947. Okeh Records In 1952, she was signed by Okeh Records, whose record producer Fred Mendelsohn gave her the stage name 'Big Maybelle' because of her loud yet well-toned voice. Her first recording for Okeh, "Gabbin' Blues ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maybelle And Ezra Carter House
Maybelle is a feminine given name that may refer to * Maybelle Blair (born 1927), American baseball player *Maybelle Carter (1909–1978), American country musician * Maybelle Gilliland (1906–1971), American track athlete * Maybelle Goodlander (1882–1959), American photographer * Maybelle Marston (1895–1983), American contralto *Maybelle Stephens Mitchell (1872–1919), American suffragist * Maybelle Maud Park (1871–1946), American physician * Maybelle Reichardt (1907–1999), American discus thrower * Maybelle Stamper (1907–1995), American printmaker *Big Maybelle Mabel Louise Smith (May 1, 1924 – January 23, 1972), known professionally as Big Maybelle, was an American R&B singer. Her 1956 hit single "Candy" received the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999. Childhood and musical background Born in J ... (1924–1972), American R&B singer See also * Maybelle and Ezra Carter House in Scott County, Virginia, U.S. {{given name English-language feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English-language Feminine Given Names
English is a West Germanic language that developed in early medieval England and has since become a global lingua franca. The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the Germanic peoples that migrated to Britain after its Roman occupiers left. English is the most spoken language in the world, primarily due to the global influences of the former British Empire (succeeded by the Commonwealth of Nations) and the United States. English is the third-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish; it is also the most widely learned second language in the world, with more second-language speakers than native speakers. English is either the official language or one of the official languages in 57 sovereign states and 30 dependent territories, making it the most geographically widespread language in the world. In the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, it is the dominant language for historical reasons without being explicitly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
