E.W. Grove Edwin Wiley Grove is a very interesting person to know more about. Especially since the name of our school for all freshman is E.W. Grove High School. Dr. Edwin Wiley Grove was born at Whiteville,Hardeman County,Tennessee on December 27,1850. He was the son of James Henry Grove. According to research his aunt, Peggy Traylor Grove raised James’ children including Edwin. Dr. Grove later moved to Paris, Tennessee in 1874 becoming a druggist and establishing the Paris Medicine Company. Also, in 1877 Grove formulated Ferrine, a bitter crystalline compound used as a tonic, a precursor to his famous chill tonic. Later, in 1880 Grove bought Dr. Caldwell’s drug store and established Grove’s Pharmacy. The company was moved to St. Louis,MO
Elijah J. McCoy was a 19th century African-american inventor best known for inventing lubrication devices used to make travel more efficient. He had quite a large family, while handling all of his inventions at once. Later on, he continued to invent, while living on with his life.
Henry Blair was born in 1807 in Glenn Ross, Maryland. Blair was the second African American to receive a United States patent. Blair was thought to have been the first black American to receive a patent for many years. Research later revealed Thomas Jennings received a patent in 1821 for the invention of the dry cleaning process. In both of his patents he was listed as a “colored man”, one of the the only examples of an inventor’s race being listed or acknowledged on a patent. Blair was a farmer who invented new inventions to assist in the planting and harvesting of crops. Although he came of age before the Emancipation Proclamation, Blair was apparently not enslaved and operated an independent business. He was a forerunner of a long line of future
Eadward Muybridge and Cornelius Jabez Hughes, two photographers of the 19th century, introduced revolutionary ideas impacting the way photographs could be taken, categorized, and used. Muybridge, better known as the ‘father of the motion picture,’ studied landscape photos and invented a device that drastically improved their quality. In addition, he helped to pioneer work in the studies of motion and motion-picture projection. Hughes developed new technology related to photography and helped to guide many other amateur photographers into producing better forms of photography. The two had lasting impacts on the growth and importance of photography in the art, science, and everyday realms.
Edward E. Davis, also known as Earl Davis, was born in early 1916. He is currently 97 years old, and is at least the oldest living World War II veteran in Smyth County, Virginia. At age twenty five, on September 8, 1941, Davis was drafted into the United States Army and was sent for basic training in South Carolina. He was one of five children, all boys, and they all served in the United States military. His official title in the United States Army was to be a carrier, a mortar gunner and ammunition carrier. Davis was married to Mary Irene Tolliver Davis, who unfortunately passed away on March 29, 2005 at 82 years old.
Rutherford B. Hayes was born on October 4,1822 in Delaware,Ohio. His mom’s name was Sophia Birchard Hayes. Since, Rutherford B. Hayes was the youngest one out of his four siblings, he was the most precious to his mother. His father’s name was Rutherford Hayes Jr. He was a storekeeper and died ten weeks before Rutherford B. Hayes was born. Hayes attended Kenyon College in 1842. Later on, he set off to go to Harvard Law School and eventually graduated in 1845. He had five years of law practice which made him a successful criminal defense lawyer in Cincinnati. He gained a reputation for his criminal cases.
Millford plantation is a historic place located on SC 261, west of Pinewood, SC. Built in 1839-1841, Millford Plantation is considered by many to be the finest example of Greek revival residential architecture in America. The house is located in such a remote section of rural SC that it comes to a surprise to first time visitors, who must drive over miles of dirt roads and through thick forests to reach the house. The house has massive columns, sixteen foot windows, a domed rotunda enclosing a spectacular staircase. All these impressive features are inherent in Greek Rival architecture (Classical American Homes).
Willie Hobbs, Moore was born in 1934, she was the very first African American woman to earn a PH.D in Physics from the University of Michigan in 1972, under the direction of Samuel Krimm. After she received her doctorate she continued research on specral proteins, while in Michigan Moore worked with Datamax Corp. Moore has also held positions in engineering in which she was responsible for theoretical
Dr. Edwin Wiley Grove was born at Bolivar, Hardin County, Tennessee in 1850. His dad’s name was James Henry Grove and was raised with the help of Peggy Traylor Grove. After he aged a couple years, he moved to Paris, Tennessee and became a druggist and established the Paris Medicine Company in 1886. In the text it states, “The Paris Medicine company marketed Febrile, Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic, cold tablets and other products.” This shows that Grove was successful with this business. Before E.W. Grove died, he endowed he Grove High School, which is where kids for their freshman year of high school attend.
Hiram Ulysses Grant was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio on April 27,1822 to Jesse Root Grant and Hannah Simpson Grant (Williams). His first name was decided upon by his maternal grandmother while his middle name was an alternate form of his father’s favorite literary character, whose name was Odysseus (Schlesinger Jr.). His parents had three daughters and two sons after Ulysses. During his childhood, he was shy but had a large passion for horses (Grant, 8). He worked on his family’s farm and attended local schools where he was not a very good student. In 1839, his father decided to send him to West Point, an idea that Grant was not to fond of (Lincoln, 422).
In Barbara Anderson’s book, First Fieldwork: The Misadventures of an Anthropologist, she discusses how as a graduate student she went to a small Danish town called Taarnby to do an ethnographic study of the community. When she went to Denmark, she took her family with her: Thor her husband and Katie her daughter. This book talks about the many difficulties and problems that an untried and inexperienced anthropologist can face, even though some of it is “improved upon”.
John Mack Faragher was born in Phoenix, Arizona 1948 but was raised in Southern California all the way up into college where he attended University of California, Riverside to earn a bachelor’s degree in social work. He soon later attended Yale to finish his college earning a Ph.D. degree. Exiting out of college Faragher became a professor in Mount Holyoke College teaching for 15 years. His interest was in U.S. frontier and western history, Native American borderlands, and the Native American history. Faragher has written many books, including: Women and Men on the Overland Trail, Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie, Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer, The American West: A new interpretive History, A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland, Frontiers: A Short History of the American West, and his newest Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in the Frontier Los Angeles. Throughout those books Faragher had many different publications for their publishing. W.W. Norton and Company was one of his biggest publishers; however, he had more than just one. Additionally, there was Henry Holt and Company, Prentice Hall, and Yale University Press. Faragher only won two awards consisting of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and A Great and Noble Scheme both presented in the book Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer.
In America, there has always been a long-standing history of hostility and opposition to immigrants. In a sense, immigrants are viewed under the same light and manner as an enemy threatening the constitution and safety of American citizens. During, the introduction the author states that “the antagonism was based on fear of what the wretched refuse was doing to America” (Elliott 25). This mindset and attitude towards immigrants eventually lead to the immigrant restriction of 1920. Although the terminology has changed, the fear of the unknown and what we cannot control still remains. History has a tendency to repeat itself and if anything, the recent executive order signed by our president is proof of this.
This is Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison is a famous inventor who invented lots of things that we use today. He was born a very long time ago in the United States of America.
For, seemingly, my entire life I have been undeniably different. My appearance always leaves people guessing, “What is she,” or, “Where did she come from?” As a person of a multicultural background, those two questions are the never ending soundtrack to my life. However, growing up in a small city, where everything is written in black and white, allows myself and others just like me to add some color. Being that I am surrounded by people with an intolerance of diversity, I made it my duty to always be accepting of other despite their differences. By possessing the character trait of acceptance I can easily enjoy interacting with people of different backgrounds through the High School Diplomats Program (HSD).
The 21st century has marked the importance of bringing up urgent, but complex problems involving significant threats to all humanity, such as global warming, pollution, and ozone depletion. Never before had it been so critical to analyse the environmental degradation and to join all the nations’ forces in order to build a sustainable global society which is meant to be based on “respect for nature, universal human rights, economic justice, and a culture of peace” (The Earth Charter Commission, 1992, p. 1).