Edwin Wiley Grove (Portrait of him above), also known as E.W. Grove was born on December 27, 1850. He was born in Whiteville, TN which is in Hardeman County. Grove was the son of James Henry and Mary Jane Harris Grove who were both natives of Virginia. Grove had 3 kids with a woman, Alice Gertrude, who were named Hallett, Edwin, and Helen. Sources say it is still a mystery to why he and his family moved here to Paris, TN in 1824. When Grove moved to Paris in 1824 he received a job opportunity at as a clerk at a drugstore owned by Dr. Samuel Houston Caldwell. In 1830 Grove went to Memphis, TN to study pharmacy. He never knew that later on he was going to become a billionaire due to medicine. He just had to wait and come up with something that
Victor Davis Hanson is a former classics professor, an American military historian, a scholar of ancient warfare and a columnist. He graduated from Selma High School, he also received a BA from the University of California in 1975 and later got his Ph.D. in Classics from Stanford University. His rich education background and experience, therefore, qualifies him for his work, especially his book: Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power. In the book, Victor Hanson intends to shed light on the predominance of the western military as attributed to the western Hellenic culture as well as its legacies. John Lynn is a history professor at the University of Illinois; he is also an adjunct professor at Ohio State
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
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.
EE Cummings lived during a very eventful and historic era. He was born on October 14, 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. When he was a kid,
Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, February 11, 1847. The Edisons came from Holland in 1730 first settling in Elizabethport, New Jersey. The Edisons’ had a long proclaimed history of long lived males, with his great grandfather living until 104 and his grandfather until the matured age of 102. Back in the early 1800s, the Edison family fled to Canada among many others interested in the loyalist movement that offered a 600 acre grant to those who moved to the province of Nova Scotia. Thomas Edison’s grandfather was born on Canadian soil, thus hindering the detailed reports of Edison family. Many years later, Samuel Edison was born and without much money in the family. Not much is known about Samuel’s life besides wedding Miss Nancy
Jefferson Davis was born June 3rd, 1808 on a small farm in southwestern Kentucky from his parents Samuel Davis and Jane Cook Davis. After spending most of his childhood life in the southern frontier of Mississippi, he decided to receive a quality education, mainly because of his brilliance and strong intelligence. He attended many schools before he went on to complete a four year term at West Point Military Academy which later appointed him a Second Lieutenant in 1828. Davis was then commissioned to
Wendell Phillips was born on November 29th, 1811. This marvelous young boy was born in Boston, Massachusetts (“The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica”). He was raised by a wealthy, aristocratic family. His father, John Phillips, was an American politician and the mayor of Boston from 1822 to 1823. As a result of his father being in politics, his family had high hopes for Wendell to follow in his footsteps.
William Daniel Ehrhart was born on September 30, 1948. He was the third of four kids, his father John H. Ehrhart was a reverend in Roaring spring, Pennsylvania. After Ehrhart was born him and his family moved to Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. A couple of years later they packed their bags and moved to Perkasie, PA, where Ehrhart’s parents spent the rest of their lives.
Thomas Jonathan Jackson was one of the best confederate generals and one of the best officers to serve under the more famous General Robert E. Lee. Jackson was born January 21, 1824, in Clarksburg, Virginia which is now West Virginia. His father died of typhoid fever when his mom was only twenty-eight. His sister also died of typhoid fever when she was six. His mother died during childbirth. She gave birth to Laura the day after her husband died. After his mother remarried Thomas and his sister Laura were sent to live with his uncle Cummins Jackson, in
The early life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton starts with her being the fourth child of six children. Her mother was from a wealthy family and a big part of the political elite of New York. Stanton’s grandfather was an officer during the American Revolution under George Washington, and was a part of New York state legislature. Her father was a member of the New York state legislature, U.S. House of Representatives and after 1847 became a member of the Supreme Court of New York State.
Isaac H. is a well-developed African American that experienced the Great Migration in his lifetime. Growing up poor, Isaac had nine siblings and family throughout the United States. Isaac’s Aunt specifically lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and invited Isaac to experience the north at an early age by working there during his summers.The Great Migration was a movement that changed Isaac H.’s life because his family moved to the north and created a foundation for him.This foundation, along with Isaac’s experience, was established by the Blacks who took a risk and moved to the North without a guarantee that there was anything for them .This risk was in the minds of almost 6 million African Americans and they all made a choice that resulted in
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”.
Thomas Alva Edison was an unconventional genius that played a vital role in shaping the modern world with his inventions, but didn’t accomplish this role easily. Edison led an inquisitive life encompassing his disruptive adolescence, unconventional methods of success, and exceptional ability to endure failure. Although his inventions and ideologies exemplified him, Thomas Edison overcame tremendous obstacles throughout his lifetime before achieving his anticipated goals.
E.E. Cummings named the most popular voice of the twentieth century. His death struck the world and saddened many. Cumming, who wrote nearly 2900 poems, had a rather hard life. He inspired many to write poems.