|
Seaver National Endowment For The Arts Conductors Award
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 * Hideo Seaver (contemporary), American voice actor * Jay Webber Seaver (1855–1915), American physician and pioneer of anthropometry * 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 George Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surname
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name, as the forename, or at the end; the number of surnames given to an individual also varies. As the surname indicates genetic inheritance, all members of a family unit may have identical surnames or there may be variations; for example, a woman might marry and have a child, but later remarry and have another child by a different father, and as such both children could have different surnames. It is common to see two or more words in a surname, such as in compound surnames. Compound surnames can be composed of separate names, such as in traditional Spanish culture, they can be hyphenated together, or may contain prefixes. Using names has been documented in even the oldest historical records. Examples of surnames are documented in the 11th ... [...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 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 President of the Common Council and he h ... [...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 The Music Center (officially named the Performing Arts Cen ... [...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 an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1812 to the Thirteenth Congress. He served as member of the State constitutional convention in 1820. He was again a member of the State house of representatives in 1822, 1823, and 1826. He died in Roxbury, Massachusetts Roxbury () is a neighborhood within the City of Boston, Massachusetts. Roxbury is a dissolved municipality and one of 23 official neighborhoods of Boston used by the city for neighborhood services coordination. The city states that Roxbury ser ..., March 1, 1844. External ... [...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": Sinc ... [...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. He grew up in Claremont, California, graduating from Pomona College in 1905, where he managed the Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens football, football team and served as the first president of the Associated Students of Pomona College. He then 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. He 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. He later founded the Hydril Company, a producer of oil drilling equipment. He and his wife, Blanche Seaver, Blanche, were ... [...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). 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)''. He was honoured in 1945 when botanist Herbert Hice Whetzel published '' Seaverinia'', which is a genus of fungi in the family Sclerotiniaceae The Sclerotiniaceae are a family of fungi in the order Helotiales. Many species in this family are plant pathogens. Genera * '' Asterocalyx'' * ''Botryotinia'' * ''Botrytis'' * ''Ciboria'' * '' Ciborinia'' * ''Coprotinia'' * '' Cudoniopsis'' * .... References American mycologists 1877 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hideo Seaver
Hideo (ひでお) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: * Hideo Den (田 英夫, 1923–2009), Japanese politician and news presenter * Hideo Fujimoto (藤本 英雄, 1918–1997), Japanese baseball player * Hideo Fukui (福井 英郎, born 1977), Japanese athlete who competes in triathlon * Hideo Fukuyama (福山 英朗, born 1955), Japanese NASCAR driver * Hideo Gosha (五社 英雄, 1929–1992), Japanese film director * Hideo Hagiwara (萩原 英雄, 1913–2007), Japanese artist *, Japanese marathon runner * Hideo Hashimoto (橋本 英郎, born 1979), Japanese footballer * Hideo Higashikokubaru (東国原 英夫, born 1957), Japanese comedian, best known for his role in ''Takeshi's Castle'' and the current governor of Miyazaki Prefecture * Hideo Hiraoka (平岡 秀夫, born 1954), Japanese politician *, Japanese sprinter and baseball player * Hideo Ishikawa (石川 英郎, born 1969), Japanese voice actor * Hideo Itokawa (糸川 英夫, 1 ... [...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] |
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] |
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 fellowship for his dance writing and was scholar-in-residence at the 2005 Bates Dance Festival. Former vice-president of Dance Research Forum Ireland Dance is a performing art form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. This movement has aesthetic and often symbolic value. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoire ..., he has also served on the editorial b ... [...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 The Cincinnati Masters or Cincinnati Open (branded as the Western & Southern Open for sponsorship reasons) is an annual outdoor hardcourt tennis event held in Mason, Ohio near Cincinnati. The event started on September 18, 1899, and is the olde ..., 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. He married Edith S. Willard on February 19, 1912, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
