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Pinckney (given Name)
Pinckney is a masculine given name borne by: *Pinckney Benedict (born 1964), American short story writer *Pinckney Downie Bowles (1835–1910), American Confederate general * Pinckney R. Tully (1824–1903), American businessman and politician * Pinckney Wilkinson (c. 1693–1784), British merchant and politician See also * Green Pinckney Russell Green Pinckney Russell (1861/1863–1939), was an American teacher, principal, school district supervisor, and college president. He was the first licensed African-American teacher in Lexington, Kentucky. Russell was the first "Supervisor of Negr ... (1861–1939), American school administrator and teacher {{given name English-language masculine given names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinckney Benedict
Pinckney Benedict (born 1964) is an American short-story writer and novelist whose work often reflects his Appalachian background. Biography Benedict was raised in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, where his family had a dairy farm. He attended The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Princeton University, where he studied primarily with Joyce Carol Oates, in 1986, and from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1988. He has published three collections of short fiction (''Town Smokes'', ''The Wrecking Yard'', and ''Miracle Boy'') and a novel (''Dogs of God''). His stories have appeared in publications including ''Esquire'', '' Zoetrope: All-Story'', '' StoryQuarterly'', ''Ontario Review'', ''Appalachian Heritage'', the O. Henry Award series, the '' New Stories from the South'' series and the Pushcart Prize series. Along with his wife, the novelist Laura Benedict (''Isabella Moon'', and ''Calling Mr. Lonelyhearts''), he edits the biennial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinckney Downie Bowles
Pinckney Downie Bowles (July 17, 1835 – July 25, 1910) was a lawyer, county prosecutor, probate judge, and a Confederate military officer during the American Civil War. Early years Pinckney D. Bowles was born in Edgefield County, South Carolina, to a wealthy plantation family. He was educated at the South Carolina Military Academy, now known as The Citadel, in Charleston, South Carolina and at the University of Virginia. He studied law under Samuel McGowan at Abbeville, South Carolina. In 1859, Bowles moved to Alabama to practice law in Conecuh County. Military service In 1860, Bowles entered state militia service as the colonel of the 28th Alabama Militia. He also served as first lieutenant in the local Conecuh Guards, and was later promoted to its captain after the Civil War began. He and his men were sent to Florida, and then on to Virginia, there to join what became the Army of Northern Virginia. On May 2, 1861, while stationed in Yorktown, Virginia, Bowles was re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinckney R
Pinckney may refer to: Places in the United States * Pinckney, Michigan * Pinckney, Missouri * Pinckney, New York * Pinckney State Recreation Area, a protected area in Michigan Ships * USS ''Pinckney'', a US Navy destroyer People * Pinckney (surname) Given name *Pinckney Benedict (born 1964), American short-story writer *Pinckney Downie Bowles (1835–1910), American Confederate general * Pinckney R. Tully (1824–1903), American businessman and politician * Pinckney Wilkinson (c. 1693–1784), British merchant and politician See also * Castle Pinckney, a US fortification in South Carolina * The Community Learning Center at Pinckney, an alternative Middle and High School in Carthage, North Carolina * Pinckney's Treaty Pinckney's Treaty, also known as the Treaty of San Lorenzo or the Treaty of Madrid, was signed on October 27, 1795 by the United States and Spain. It defined the border between the United States and Spanish Florida, and guaranteed the United S ... (1795– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinckney Wilkinson
Pinckney Wilkinson (c. 1693–1784) was a British merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1784. Wilkinson was a wealthy London merchant. He married Mary Thurloe (or Thurlow) at Lincoln's Inn chapel on 16 December 1735. She was an heiress and he received about £10,000 out of her fortune. In 1752, he purchased the estate Polestead or Westgate, Norfolk and built Burnham Westgate Hall in the 1750s using Matthew Brettingham, the Holkham estate architect. He and Mary had two daughters and a son and he retired from business when this son died in 1760. In the 1760s he held about £50,000 of Government stock, and about £6,000 of Bank stock and when his wife died in 1771 he held her property in trust. His daughter Anne married Thomas Pitt on 29 July 1771. It was said he gave her £30,000 down, and at least as much more in expectation, and Pitt referred to "the great inheritance’ his wife brought". Wilkinson's second daughter Mary married John Smith witho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Pinckney Russell
Green Pinckney Russell (1861/1863–1939), was an American teacher, principal, school district supervisor, and college president. He was the first licensed African-American teacher in Lexington, Kentucky. Russell was the first "Supervisor of Negro Schools" in Lexington, and he served two-terms as president of Kentucky State Industrial College for Colored Persons (now Kentucky State University). Biography Green Pinckney Russell was born on December 25 in either 1861 or 1863 in Logan County, Kentucky, Logan County, Kentucky. He attended public schools in Russellville, Kentucky, Russellville, Kentucky, and went on to graduate from Berea College (1885), and Wilberforce University (1913). He was the principal of "Colored School No. 1." (later known as Russell School (Lexington, Kentucky), Russell School) in Lexington, Kentucky. In 1895, Colored School No. 1, was renamed the Russell School by the mayor H. C. Duncan of Lexington. With Russell was the first "Supervisor of Negro Sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English-language Masculine Given Names
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
