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Chalmers Presbyterian Church
Chalmers may refer to: ;People * Chalmers (surname), people with the surname ''Chalmers'' * Chalmers Tschappat, American football player ;Places * Chalmers, Indiana, a US town * Port Chalmers, Dunedin, New Zealand * Port Chalmers (New Zealand electorate), a former New Zealand parliamentary electorate * Chalmers Institute, a historic building in Holly Springs, Mississippi, USA. ;Organizations * Allis-Chalmers, a manufacturing company * Chalmers Automobile, a former U.S. car company * Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden {{disambig, geo, given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chalmers (surname)
Chalmers is a Scottish surname. Notable people with this surname include: *Alan Chalmers (born 1939), British philosopher of science *Alexander Chalmers (1759–1834), Scottish writer * Alexander Chalmers (mayor) (1745–1703), Scottish-Polish merchant, jurist, and city clerk *Andrew Chalmers (actor) (born 1992), Canadian actor * Andrew Chalmers (footballer) (1899-?), Scottish professional footballer * Andrew Chalmers (rugby league) New Zealand businessman and rugby league player *Angela Chalmers (born 1963), Canadian middle-distance athlete * Anna Maria Mead Chalmers (1809–1891), American journalist *Brett Chalmers (born 1973), Australian rules footballer * Bruce Chalmers (1907–1990), American metallurgist *Christopher Chalmers (born 1967), Canadian freestyle swimmer *Craig Chalmers (born 1968), Scottish rugby union player *David Chalmers (born 1966), Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist *Floyd Chalmers (1898–1993), Canadian editor, publisher and philanthropist *Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chalmers Tschappat
John Chalmers Tschappat, Jr. (June 22, 1896 – February 6, 1958), sometimes listed as John Franklin Tschappat, was an American football player. He played at the tackle position for the Dayton Triangles of the American Professional Football Association (later renamed the National Football League) during the 1921 APFA season, the second regular season of the National Football League. Tschappat was born in Bellaire, Ohio in 1896 and later attended Bellaire High School. His father, John Tschappat, Sr., was an Ohio native who was employed as a boiler maker. Tschappat played college football at West Virginia Wesleyan College in 1916. In 1918, Walter Camp's ''Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide'' named Tschappat to its All-West Virginia eleven. Tschappat also studied chemistry as a special student at Ohio State University in 1917. During the World War I era, he served in the United States Army Medical Department from June 1918 to March 1919 and was stationed at the Medical Detachm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chalmers, Indiana
Chalmers is a town in Big Creek Township, White County in the U.S. state of Indiana. Its population was 508 at the 2010 census. History Chalmers dates back to the early 1850s. Land was donated by Gardner Mudge to the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway in 1854 after the company constructed a rail line through Big Creek in 1853. Mudge and his brother-in-law operated a general store. On April 21, 1854, a Post Office was established with Mudge serving as postmaster. Chalmers was platted on July 24, 1873; it included 103 lots on six streets. Several homes and stores were erected, and a school was constructed in the early 1870s. The first church was organized in 1878, and a tile factory was erected in the same year. The Bank of Chalmers was established by Jacob Raub in the early 1890s with a capital of $10,000. Chalmers became an incorporated town in 1892. "The Ledger" served as the first community newspaper, published initially in 1893. In 1895, a train station which la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Chalmers
Port Chalmers is a town serving as the main port of the city of Dunedin, New Zealand. Port Chalmers lies ten kilometres inside Otago Harbour, some 15 kilometres northeast of Dunedin's city centre. History Early Māori settlement The original Māori name for Port Chalmers was or , which may have indicated the hill where the , or altar, was sited. is a later name meaning ‘full tide’ and refers to an incident in which a group of warriors decided to spend the night in a cave that once existed at what was later known as Boiler Point and pulled their canoes well above the high tide mark. Overnight the tide rose and beached canoes were set adrift. As some of them swam out to reclaim the canoes those onshore cried out “Koputai!, Koputai!”Bowman, pp. 1, 4, 8–10, 19, 20, 28, 70–71, 98–109, 156–166, 168, 169, 173–175, 177. When a peace was made between Kāti Māmoe and Kāi Tahu, about 1780, Koputai was one of two southern terminuses of Kāi Tahu territory. The ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Chalmers (New Zealand Electorate)
Chalmers, originally Port Chalmers, was a parliamentary electorate in the Otago Region of New Zealand, from 1866 to 1938 with a break from 1896 to 1902. It was named after the town of Port Chalmers, the main port of Dunedin and Otago. Population centres In the 1865 electoral redistribution, the House of Representatives focussed its review of electorates to South Island electorates only, as the Central Otago Gold Rush had caused significant population growth, and a redistribution of the existing population. Fifteen additional South Island electorates were created, including Port Chalmers, and the number of Members of Parliament was increased by 13 to 70. History Port Chalmers was first established in 1866 for the term of the 4th New Zealand Parliament. For the , it was renamed as Chalmers. In 1896, the electorate was abolished, but it was re-created (again as Chalmers) for the . The electorate was abolished again for the last time in 1938. Due to World War II, the 1941 census w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chalmers Institute
The Chalmers Institute is a historic building in Holly Springs, Mississippi, USA. Built in 1837, it was home to the University of Holly Springs, the oldest university in Mississippi, from 1838 to 1839. It was home to a short-lived Methodist medical and law school from 1839 to 1843. It reopened as the Chalmers Institute, a Presbyterian boys' school, from 1850 to 1878, when a yellow fever epidemic closed down the school. It became home to the Holly Springs Normal Institute in 1879, but closed down a few years later. In the twentieth century, it became a private residence. It has been listed by the National Register of Historic Places for its historic significance since 1982. Location The building is located on West Chulahoma Avenue in Holly Springs, a small town in Marshall County, Mississippi, in the American South. History The building was erected in 1837. It was designed as a hip-roofed two-storey building in the Federal architectural style. It was known as the Holly Springs Lite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allis-Chalmers
Allis-Chalmers was a U.S. manufacturer of machinery for various industries. Its business lines included agricultural equipment, construction equipment, power generation and power transmission equipment, and machinery for use in industrial settings such as factories, flour mills, sawmills, textile mills, steel mills, refineries, mines, and ore mills. The first Allis-Chalmers Company was formed in 1901 as an amalgamation of the Edward P. Allis Company (steam engines and mill equipment), Fraser & Chalmers (mining and ore milling equipment), the Gates Iron Works (rock and cement milling equipment), and the industrial business line of the Dickson Manufacturing Company (engines and compressors). It was reorganized in 1912 as the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company. During the next 70 years its industrial machinery filled countless mills, mines, and factories around the world, and its brand gained fame among consumers mostly from its farm equipment business's orange tractors and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
