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Seaver
Seaver is a surname, and may refer to: *Benjamin Seaver (1795–1856), American politician from Massachusetts; mayor of Boston 1852–53 *Blanche Seaver (1891–1994), American philanthropist and musician *Ebenezer Seaver (1763–1844), American politician from Massachusetts; U.S. representative 1803–1 *Edwin Seaver (1900–1987), American publisher, writer, editor, critic *Frank Seaver (1883–1964), American lawyer, Navy officer, oil executive, philanthropist *Fred Jay Seaver (1877–1970), American mycologist *Jay Webber Seaver (1855–1915), American physician and pioneer of anthropometry *Kirsten Seaver (1934-) Norwegian-American historian *Kristjan Seaver (1898–1941), Estonian Communist politician *Michael Seaver (born 1967), Irish musician and dance critic *Robert Chauncey Seaver (fl. 1907), American amateur tennis player *Thomas O. Seaver (1833–1912), American army officer during the American Civil War; recipient of the Medal of Honor *Tom Seaver (1944–2020), American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Seaver
George Thomas Seaver (November 17, 1944 – August 31, 2020), nicknamed "Tom Terrific" and "the Franchise", was an American professional baseball pitcher who played 20 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the New York Mets, Cincinnati Reds, Chicago White Sox, and Boston Red Sox from to . Commonly described as the most iconic player in Mets history, Seaver played a significant role in their victory in the 1969 World Series over the 1969 Baltimore Orioles season, Baltimore Orioles. With the Mets, Seaver won the National League (baseball), National League's (NL) Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award, Rookie of the Year Award in 1967, and won three NL Cy Young Awards as the league's best pitcher. He was a 12-time Major League Baseball All-Star Game, All-Star and ranks as the Mets' all-time leader in Win–loss record (pitching), wins. During his MLB career, he compiled 311 wins, 3,640 strikeouts, 61 shutouts in baseball, shutouts, a 2.86 earned run average ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Seaver
Frank Roger Seaver (April 12, 1883–30 October 1964) was an American lawyer, Naval officer, oil executive, and philanthropist. Early life Frank Seaver grew up in Claremont, California, graduating from Pomona College in 1905, where he managed the football team and served as the first president of the Associated Students of Pomona College. He later attended Harvard Law School and practiced law in Los Angeles, and helped draft the first charter of Los Angeles County. He served in the Navy during World War I and helped establish the California Naval Militia. Career Seaver met Edward L. Doheny on a weekend yachting trip in 1919, who hired him to work for his oil enterprise. He became General Counsel and Managing General Agent for Doheny's operations in Mexico from 1921 to 1927, and convinced the Mexican government to hire him for an ambitious road paving project. Seaver later founded the Hydril Company, a producer of oil drilling equipment. The company's hydraulic blowout prevente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Seaver
Edwin Seaver (1900-1987) was a 20th-century American publisher, writer, editor, and critic, best known for his work with left-wing magazines (including the ''Call'', ''Leader'', ''New Masses'') and newspapers (''Daily Worker''), as well as book publishing houses including Book-of-the-Month Club, Little, Brown and Company, and George Braziller, . Background Edwin Seaver was born in 1900 in Washington, DC, to a Jewish family and raised in Philadelphia. He attended a New England prep school and then Harvard College. Career Inclined to Communism, he worked for publications including the ''Menorah Journal'', the ''New Masses'', and ''Partisan Review''. He also co-wrote a book with actress Carole Landis called ''Four Jills in a Jeep'' (1944), made to accompany movie of the same name that year. In 1948, Max Lerner reviewed in ''Fortune (magazine)'', "The Businessman in Fiction," by John Chamberlain, whom he criticized for lumping left-leaning writers together as "heretics": Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Jay Seaver
Fred Jay Seaver (14 March 1877 – 21 December 1970) was an American mycologist. He worked at the New York Botanical Garden for 40 years, initially as the Director of Laboratories (1908–1911), then as the Curator (1912–1943), and finally as Head Curator (1943–1948). Between 1907 and 1909 he issued two exsiccatae, ''North Dakota Fungi'' and ''Ascomycetes and lower fungi'', the later with G. W. Wilson.Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2024 ''IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae''. Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany. He was also an editor of the journal ''Mycologia'' between 1909 and 1947. In 1928, Seaver published ''North American Cup-fungi (Operculates)'', which was expanded with a supplement in 1942 and a second volume in 1951, titled ''North American Cup-fungi (Inoperculates)''. Botanist Herbert Hice Whetzel published '' Seaverinia'' in 1945, named after Seaver, which is a genus of fungi in the family Sclerotiniacea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Seaver
Benjamin Seaver (April 12, 1795 – February 14, 1856) was an American politician, serving as the thirteenth mayor of Boston, Massachusetts from January 5, 1852 to January 2, 1854.CCC Boston, 1822-1908, pp. 241-244. Early life Seaver was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts In 1812 Seaver became an apprentice at the auction and commission store of Whitwell & Bond. In 1816 Seaver became a partner in the firm which was renamed Whitwell, Bond & Co. In 1818, Seaver purchased 5 shares of the Suffolk Bank, a clearinghouse bank on State Street in Boston. Seaver married Sarah Johnson. Political career City of Boston Common Council Seaver was first elected to represent Boston's Ward 5 as a member of the Boston Common Council in 1845. He was reelected to the Common Council from Ward 5 in 1846 and 1847. In 1848 Seaver moved to Ward 4 and was subsequently elected as a councilor from the new ward in 1848 and 1849. In July 1847 Seaver was elected as the president of the Common Coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Webber Seaver
Jay Webber Seaver (March 9, 1855 – May 5, 1915 ) was an American physician and a pioneer of anthropometry. Life Seaver was born in Craftsbury, Vermont as son of William Seaver and Betsy Urie, and had four siblings.Randall J. Seaver''Descendants of Caleb Seaver'', May 18, 2005. He studied at the Yale School of Medicine, where he became professor in his later life. Seaver measured the bodies of thousands of people attending the summer school resort at Chautauqua, New York., William Sims Bainbridge''Strategies for Personality Transfer - Basic Tendencies''. and published the results of his studies in his work ''Anthropometry and physical examination. A book for practical use in connection with gymnastic work and physical education.''. On July 1, 1886, he married Leona Nancy Sheldon Sullivan. Seaver died in Berkeley, California Berkeley ( ) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States. It is named after the 18th-cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blanche Seaver
Blanche Ebert Seaver (September 15, 1891–April 9, 1994) was an American philanthropist and musician. Early life and marriage Born Blanche Ebert on September 15, 1891, she was the tenth child of Norwegian immigrants to Chicago. Her musical talent was evident from a young age, and she graduated from the Chicago Music School in 1911. She would go on to write and arrange music for Irish tenor John McCormack and for the Philadelphia Orchestra under the direction of Leopold Stokowski. In 1916, she married Frank Seaver, a lawyer who had helped draft the first charter for Los Angeles County. He went on to make a fortune manufacturing oil drilling equipment first for Edward L. Doheny and later for his own Hydril Company. Philanthropy The Seavers were generous philanthropists, founding an orphanage in Mexico City in the 1920s, and donating to the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Music Center, in addition to other musical organizations. Blanche served on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ebenezer Seaver
Ebenezer Seaver (July 5, 1763 – March 1, 1844) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. Born in Roxbury in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, Seaver graduated from Harvard University in 1784. He engaged in agricultural pursuits. He served as member of the State house of representatives 1794–1802. Seaver was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1803 – March 3, 1813). He was one of six Democratic-Republican representatives to oppose the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Seaver was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1812 to the Thirteenth Congress. He served as member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1820–1821. He was again a member of the State house of representatives in 1822, 1823, and 1826. He died in Roxbury, Massachusetts Roxbury () is a Neighborhoods in Boston, neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Roxbury is a Municipal annexation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristjan Seaver
Kristjan Seaver (1898 – 28 August 1941) was an Estonian Communist politician who was the chairman of the executive committee of Tallinn from 17 January to 24 August 1941. He initially was a member of the Ravila branch of the Bolsheviks. He later was involved in the October Revolution in Estonia, and was a planner of the failed 1924 uprising in Estonia. For his part, he was arrested in September 1925 and was sentenced to life in prison. He was later granted amnesty in 1940 and later participated in the Soviet takeover of Estonia. Seaver later became the chairman of the executive committee of Tallinn from 17 January to 24 August 1941. He disbanded all representational authority. After he resigned on 24 August, on 28 August, he evacuated Tallinn with a number of representatives of other Soviet authorities due to the Nazi German invasion of Tallinn. He was killed when the Baltic Fleet ship he was in, the destroyer ''Yakov Sverdlov'', hit a naval mine in the Gulf of Finland and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirsten Seaver
Kirsten A. Seaver (born 1934) is a Norwegian-American historian and author known for her writing about the exploration of North America. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and previously taught at Stanford University. Life and works In the United States, Seaver worked for Harvard University as secretary at the university library and consultant on their Scandinavian collections, from 1956 to 1960. She later taught Norwegian at Stanford, from 1975 to 1982. In 1994 she joined the Meta Incognita Project, studying Martin Frobisher Sir Martin Frobisher (; – 22 November 1594) was an English sailor and privateer who made three voyages to the New World looking for the North-west Passage. He probably sighted Resolution Island near Labrador in north-eastern Canada, before ...'s Arctic expeditions and attempt to start a colony in Canada. Seaver is best known for her 2004 book on the history of the Vínland Map, a map whose authenticity has been debated since its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Chauncey Seaver
Robert Chauncey Seaver (1877-1944) was an American amateur tennis player of the early 20th Century. In 1903 he reached the quarterfinal of the singles event at the U.S. National Championships. In 1905 he won the singles title at the Massachusetts Championship after a win over H.J. Holt in the final and a default by defending champion Beals Wright in the challenge round. At the Cincinnati Masters, Seaver reached the singles final in 1907 before falling to Robert LeRoy, 8–6, 6–8, 6–2, 6–0. In 1913 he won the singles title at the Great Lakes Championship, defeating T.W. Hendrick in the final. The following year, 1914, he lost his title in the final against Clarence Griffin Clarence James "Peck" Griffin (January 19, 1888 – March 28, 1973) was an American tennis player. His best major performance in singles was reaching the semi-finals of the 1916 U.S. National Championships (where he beat Wallace F. Johns .... He married Edith S. Willard on February 19, 1912, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Seaver
Michael Seaver (born 1967) is a writer and musician in Ireland. He is the dance critic at ''The Irish Times'' and Irish correspondent with the ''Christian Science Monitor'', as well as principal clarinetist with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. He also writes for ''Ballet Tanz'', ''Dance Theatre Journal'', ''Dance Magazine'' and ''Dance Europe''. Publications include ''Stepping into Footprints: The Globalization of Irish Dance'' from ''Dance in a World of Change'' (2008). In 2004 he received a ''New York Times'' / National Endowment for the Arts The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created in 1965 as an independent agency of the feder ... fellowship for his dance writing and was scholar-in-residence at the 2005 Bates Dance Festival. Former vice-president of Dance Research Forum Ireland, he has also served on the editorial board ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
