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Burroughs (surname)
Burroughs is a surname of French origin. At the time of the British Census of 1881, Retrieved 25 January 2014 its relative frequency was highest in Suffolk (8.9 times the British average), followed by Norfolk, Gloucestershire, Shropshire, Huntingdonshire, Somerset, Hampshire, Surrey, Lincolnshire, and Orkney. Notable people sharing the surname "Burroughs" *Alvin Burroughs (1911–1950), American musician *Augusten Burroughs (b. 1965), American writer *Bryson Burroughs (1869–1934), American artist * Charles Burroughs (1876–1902), American track and field athlete and Olympian * Derrick Burroughs (b. 1962), American football player and coach * Diane Burroughs (b. 1960), American television writer *Dillon Burroughs (b. 1976), American writer * Don Burroughs (1931–2006), American football player *Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950), American author, creator of the John Carter of Mars series and the Tarzan series * Edith Burroughs (b. 1939), American professional bowler *Edith Woo ... [...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] |
Diane Burroughs
Diane Burroughs is a writer and producer of sitcoms for American television. Her writing credits include '' Married... with Children'', ''Murphy Brown'', ''Martin'', ''The Drew Carey Show'', ''Yes, Dear'' and '' Still Standing''. She was a co-executive producer of ''Yes, Dear'', and then became executive producer of '' Still Standing'', along with co-creator Joey Gutierrez. Prior to writing, Burroughs had a short stint doing stand-up comedy. She is represented by the United Talent Agency. Recent activity In spring of 2005, heavy rainfall in Southern California recharged a local aquifer, reviving a dormant spring beneath Burroughs' house. With no support from officials in her district (Los Angeles 4th) and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, her only recourse was to install a pump and divert the thousands of gallons of water issuing from the spring to the nearest storm drain. Burroughs recently served as a panelist for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' "Women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Burroughs
Henry S. Burroughs (February 3, 1845 – March 31, 1878) was an American professional baseball player, for the Washington Olympics The Olympic Club of Washington, D.C., or Washington Olympics in modern nomenclature, was an early professional baseball team. When the National Association of Base Ball Players permitted openly professional clubs for the 1869 season, the Olympic ... in 1871 and 1872. He died at age 33 in Newark New Jersey of undisclosed causes External links Major League Baseball outfielders Washington Olympics (NABBP) players Washington Olympics players Baseball players from Newark, New Jersey 19th-century baseball players 1845 births 1878 deaths {{US-baseball-outfielder-1840s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harmon P
__NOTOC__ Harmon may refer to: Places Canada * Ernest Harmon Air Force Base, also known as Harmon, a former United States military installation * Harmon Links, a golf course in Stephenville, Newfoundland United States * Harmon, Illinois * Harmon, Louisiana * Harmon, Oklahoma * Harmon, Wisconsin, a ghost town * Harmon Air Force Base, former United States Air Forces base in Guam * Harmon County, Oklahoma * Harmon Industrial Park, an area of Tamuning, Guam * Croton-Harmon (Metro-North station), in New York People * Harmon (name), people named Harmon Arts, entertainment, and media * ''HarmonQuest'', an animated series by Dan Harmon * ''Harmontown'', a weekly comedy show and podcast by Dan Harmon * Harmon, a brand of trumpet mute * Harmon, a fictional town in the film ''Accepted'' * Beth Harmon, protagonist of novel, and Netflix miniseries adaptation '' The Queen's Gambit'' Aviation * Harmon Der Donnerschlag, an American homebuilt aircraft design * Harmon Engineering Company, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Burroughs
George Burroughs ( 1650August 19, 1692) was an American religious leader who was the only minister executed for witchcraft during the course of the Salem witch trials. He is best known for reciting the Lord's Prayer during his execution, something it was believed a witch could never do. Early life George Burroughs may have been born in Suffolk, England, although some sources claim he was born in Scituate sometime in 1650. Another source gives his birth date and place as Virginia, 1652. He was raised by his mother in the town of Roxbury, Massachusetts. As an American Congregational pastor, he graduated from Harvard College in 1670 with distinguished honors, where he was also considered an outstanding athlete. He became the minister of Salem Village (now Danvers) in 1680 (where he would eventually be convicted of witchcraft and hanged). Burroughs became disillusioned with the community when they failed to pay his wages, and when his wife died suddenly in 1681, he resorted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franklin Burroughs (author)
Franklin Burroughs is an American author of nonfiction. Biography Burroughs holds a B.A. in English from Sewanee: The University of the South and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is the Harrison King McCann Research Professor of the English Language Emeritus at Bowdoin College. He retired from teaching in 2002. He writes primarily about the people and natural environments in and around Conway, South Carolina where he was raised, and Bowdoinham, Maine, where he has lived his adult life. Awards *National Endowment for the Arts fellowship *"Compression Wood" was anthologized in the 1999 Best American Essays, edited by Edward Hoagland and Robert Atwan. *''Confluence: Merrymeeting Bay'' received the 2009 John Burroughs Medal The John Burroughs Medal, named for nature writer John Burroughs (1837–1921), is awarded each year in April by the John Burroughs Association to the author of a book that the association has judged to be distinguished in the field of natural hist ... for n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franklin Burroughs (businessman)
Franklin G. Burroughs (Dec 28 1834 Martin County, North Carolina – 1897) was an American turpentine and naval entrepreneur who, along with Benjamin Grier Collins, founded the Burroughs and Collins company, later known as Burroughs and Chapin. The company was a major catalyst in growing the Grand Strand area in South Carolina and continues to play a major role in its economics. H.H. Woodward wrote in his obituary of Benjamin Collins that Burroughs moved to Conway, South Carolina and "established on the hill beyond the deep gully a country store with turpentine stills.” Collins moved to Conway after the Civil War and drove a turpentine wagon for Burroughs. They became business partners and opened stores around Horry County, South Carolina, with the Gully Store in Conway the largest. In the mid-1890s the men incorporated Burroughs and Collins Company which had an office on Main Street in Conway. In 1874, Burroughs and Collins built a sawmill in Conway. According to Charles Joyner, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elzy Burroughs
Elzy Burroughs (1771/77–1825) was an American stonemason, engineer, lighthouse builder and keeper. Elzy Burroughs was born and raised in Stafford County, Virginia. Elzy Burroughs' family leased and operated a sandstone quarry in the Aquia Creek area of Stafford County. Known as Aquia sandstone, material from quarries in this area was utilized in the construction of Mount Vernon, the United States Capitol building, the White House, and the first lighthouse constructed at Cape Henry in Princess Anne County, Virginia, at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. As a child, Elzy would have grown up playing near sandstone quarries. He would have been surrounded by expert stonemasons and by all of the tools, equipment and skills that are necessary to that profession. So it was no surprise when he, too, grew up to join in the mason's craft. As a young man, Burroughs worked as a mason and builder across the Tidewater Virginia region. He had a young wife, the former Miss Lightburn, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Jewett
Sophie Jewett (June 3, 1861 – October 11, 1909), also known under the pseudonym Ellen Burroughs, was an American lyric poet, translator, and professor at Wellesley College. Family Jewett was born in Moravia, New York, one of four children of Charles Carroll Jewett, a doctor, and Ellen Ransom (Burroughs) Jewett. Her mother died when she was 7 and her father when she was 9, after which she was raised by an uncle, Daniel Burroughs, and her grandmother in Buffalo. Her sister Louise became a noted art historian. In Buffalo, she developed a friendship with Mary Whiton Calkins, the daughter of her minister, who also went on to teach at Wellesley College. Career Writing When she was 20, Jewett traveled in Europe, and reflections of these experiences appear in her early poetry and in sketches that she published in '' The Outlook'' and ''Scribner's Magazine''. Jewett initially published poetry under the pseudonym Ellen Burroughs (borrowed from her mother's name). Her first book under h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Burroughs (bishop)
Edward Arthur Burroughs (1 October 1882 – 23 August 1934) was an English writer and Anglican bishop. Born into an ecclesiastical family — his father was William Edward Burroughs (1845–1931), rector of the Mariners' Church, Dún Laoghaire and later prebendary of Exeter Cathedral — and educated at Harrow School and Balliol College, Oxford, he was ordained in 1908. He was Fellow, Lecturer and Tutor at Hertford College, Oxford and an Honorary Chaplain to the King before being appointed Dean of Bristol in 1922. Four year later he was ordained to the episcopate as Bishop of Ripon. At the opening ceremony of the Hostel of the Resurrection The Hostel of the Resurrection also known as the Priory of St Wilfred and later as the Adult Education Centre at the University of Leeds is a former Dormitory#United Kingdom, student hostel in Leeds. A designated Listed building#Categories of li ... in Leeds in 1928 Burroughs caused controversy when he described modern universities such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Woodman Burroughs
Edith Woodman Burroughs (1871 in Riverdale-on-Hudson, New York – 1916 in Flushing, Queens) was an American sculptor. Her work was included in the 1913 Armory Show. Biography Born in Riverdale, New York, Woodman began studying with master artists art at the early age of 15, working with Kenyon Cox and Augustus Saint Gaudens at the Art Students League. By the age of 18 she was supporting herself by designing objects for churches as well as for the Tiffany and Company. In 1893 she married artist Bryson Burroughs, the future curator of paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. She spent the next two years in Paris where she studied with Jean-Antoine Injalbert and Luc-Olivier Merson. In 1907 she won the Shaw Memorial Prize front the National Academy of Design for a work ''Circe'' that was subsequently shown at a major exhibit in Baltimore. In 1909 she returned to Paris where she "''came under the influence of Maillol''", after which her work reflected h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Burroughs
Edith Burroughs (born 1939) was a pro-bowler who was born in Union Springs, Alabama Union Springs is a city in and county seat of Bullock County, Alabama, United States. The population was 3,980 at the 2010 census. History The area that became Union Springs was first settled by white men after the Creek Indian removal of the .... She was the seventh child of fourteen born in her family. In 1979, she became the first black person to win a pro bowling tournament in the United States. References External links * https://web.archive.org/web/20110708085818/http://bowlportage.com/Hall%20of%20Fame.htm * https://web.archive.org/web/20100401115342/http://www.summitcountyusbc.com/triCounty.html * http://www.ohiowba.com/HOF/Superior%20Performance%20Award%20Recipients.pdf * https://web.archive.org/web/20091012101709/http://www.summitcountyhof.com/Inductees/1986.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Burroughs, Edith 1939 births African-American sportswomen American ten-pin bowling players Living peop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
