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Cortright Wetherill
Cortright is a surname of Flemish origin, an English variation is Cartwright. Notable people with the surname include: * Elizabeth Monroe Kortright, First lady, wife of President James Monroe 5th President of U.S. * David Cortright, American peace activist * Edgar Cortright (b. 1923), American scientist and engineer * Ion Cortright (1889 - 1961), American football player and coach * Petra Cortright (b. 1986), American Internet artist * Richard Cortright (1929 - 2009), American cyclist * Stephen Cortright Major General Stephen Phelps Cortright USAF (retired) (born March 26, 1941), is an American military officer and attorney from Oklahoma who served as the 17th Adjutant General of Oklahoma under Governor Frank Keating from 1995 to 2003. Con ... (b. 1941), American military officer and attorney Less commonly, Cortright is used as a given name. * Cortright McMeel (1971 - 2013), American novelist {{DEFAULTSORT:Cortright English-language surnames ... [...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] |
Flemish
Flemish (''Vlaams'') is a Low Franconian dialect cluster of the Dutch language. It is sometimes referred to as Flemish Dutch (), Belgian Dutch ( ), or Southern Dutch (). Flemish is native to Flanders, a historical region in northern Belgium; it is spoken by Flemings, the dominant ethnic group of the region. Outside of Flanders, it is also spoken to some extent in French Flanders and the Dutch Zeelandic Flanders. Terminology The term ''Flemish'' itself has become ambiguous. Nowadays, it is used in at least five ways, depending on the context. These include: # An indication of Dutch written and spoken in Flanders including the Dutch standard language as well as the non-standardized dialects, including intermediate forms between vernacular dialects and the standard. Some linguists avoid the term ''Flemish'' in this context and prefer the designation ''Belgian-Dutch'' or ''South-Dutch'' # A synonym for the so-called intermediate language in Flanders region, the # An indicat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cartwright (surname)
Cartwright is an English surname that originally means a maker of carts. Notable people with the surname include: * Al Cartwright (1917–2015), American sportswriter * Alan Cartwright (1945–2021), British musician * Alexander Cartwright (1820–1892), American engineer and supposed inventor of baseball * Angela Cartwright (born 1952), British-born American actress * Ann Cartwright (born 1925), British statistician and socio-medical researcher * Anthony Cartwright (cricketer) (1940–2023), New Zealand cricketer * Anthony Cartwright (writer) (born 1973), British novelist * Arnaud Cartwright Marts (1888–1970), American academic, president of Bucknell University (1935–1945) * Bec Cartwright (born 1983), Australian actress and singer * Ben Cartwright (other), multiple people * Bill Cartwright (born 1957), American basketball player * Bill Cartwright (other), several people * Brian Cartwright (born 1948), American lawyer and astrophysicist * Bryce Cartwrigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Monroe
Elizabeth Monroe ( ''née'' Kortright; June 30, 1768 – September 23, 1830) was the first lady of the United States from 1817 to 1825, as the wife of James Monroe, fifth president of the United States. Due to the fragile condition of Elizabeth's health, many of the duties of official White House hostess were assumed by her eldest daughter, Eliza Monroe Hay. Birth, parents, and childhood Born in New York City on June 30, 1768, Elizabeth was the youngest daughterSaturday, February 18, 1786, Independent Journal (New York, N. Y.), No. 232, page 2: "On Thursday evening ebruary 16was married at her father's house in Great Queen-Street, the Hon. Colonel JAMES MONRO, Member of Congress for the State of Virginia, to Miss ELIZA KORTWRIGHT, youngest daughter of Lawrance Kortwright, Esq; of this City." of Lawrence Kortright, a wealthy merchant, and Hannah ( ''née'' Aspinwall) Kortright.COURTRIGHT (KORTRIGHT) FAMILby JOHN HOWARD printed by ABBOTT TOBIAS A. WRIGHT Printer and Publisher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
President James Monroe
James Monroe ( ; April 28, 1758July 4, 1831) was an American statesman, lawyer, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fifth president of the United States from 1817 to 1825. A member of the Democratic-Republican Party, Monroe was the last president of the Virginia dynasty and the Republican Generation; his presidency coincided with the Era of Good Feelings, concluding the First Party System era of American politics. He is perhaps best known for issuing the Monroe Doctrine, a policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas while effectively asserting U.S. dominance, empire, and hegemony in the hemisphere. He also served as governor of Virginia, a member of the United States Senate, U.S. ambassador to France and Britain, the seventh Secretary of State, and the eighth Secretary of War. Born into a slave-owning planter family in Westmoreland County, Virginia, Monroe served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. After studying law u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Cortright
David Cortright is an American scholar and peace activist. He is Director of Policy Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame and chair of the Board of the Fourth Freedom Forum. Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame Cortright has a long history of public advocacy for disarmament and the prevention of war. Biography Cortright is a 1968 graduate of the University of Notre Dame. In 1970 he received his M.A. from New York University, and completed his doctoral studies in 1975 at the Union Institute in residence at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. As a soldier during the , Cortright joined with fellow ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Cortright
Edgar Maurice Cortright (July 29, 1923 – May 4, 2014) was a scientist and engineer, and senior official at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the United States. His most prominent positions during his career were Director of NASA's Langley Research Center, and Chairman of the Apollo 13 Review Board which investigated the explosion that occurred during the Apollo 13 spaceflight in 1970. Education Cortright was born on July 29, 1923 in Hastings, Pennsylvania, a coal mining district in the west of the state. His family moved to the Philadelphia area where he attended high school.''Oral History Transcript: Edgar M. Cortright'' Interviewed by Rich Dinkel at Hampton, Virginia. 1998-08-20. He earned a |
Ion Cortright
Ion John Cortright (June 29, 1889 – June 3, 1961)"Cortright Rites Set", ''Star-News'', June 6, 1961, Pasadena, California was an American football player and coach of football and basketball. He served as the head football coach at the University of South Dakota (1914–1915), the University of Cincinnati (1916), and North Dakota Agricultural College, now North Dakota State University, (1925–1927), compiling a career college football record of 22–20–6. Cortright was also the head basketball coach at South Dakota for one season in 1914–15, Cincinnati for one season in 1916–17, and North Dakota Agricultural for one season in 1925–26, tallying a career mark of 38–14. Head coaching record Football References External links * 1889 births 1961 deaths Cincinnati Bearcats football coaches Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball coaches Michigan State Spartans baseball players Michigan State Spartans football coaches Michigan State Spartans footbal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petra Cortright
Petra Cortright (born 1986) is an American artist working in video, painting, and digital media. Biography Petra Cortright was born in 1986 in Santa Barbara, California. Cortright is the daughter of two artists; her father who died when she was four, Steven Cortright, was a sculptor/printmaker and art professor at UC Santa Barbara, and her mother is a painter. She studied at California College of the Arts in San Francisco (2004) and Parsons The New School for Design in New York (2008). She lives and works in Los Angeles, California. She first came to notice through her self-portrait videos that she uploaded to YouTube. Video works Cortright is well known for her video works presented on YouTube and in gallery environments. Her videos playfully explore formal properties of video software and the representation of physical bodies in digital spaces. In ''vvebcam'' (2007, collection, Museum of Modern Art), Cortright filmed herself while playing with the special effects features ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Cortright
Richard Cortright (October 13, 1929 – September 4, 2009) was an American cyclist. He competed at the 1952, 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad ( it, Giochi della XVII Olimpiade) and commonly known as Rome 1960 ( it, Roma 1960), were an international multi-sport event held .... References External links * 1929 births 2009 deaths American male cyclists Olympic cyclists for the United States Cyclists at the 1952 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 1956 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 1960 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Buffalo, New York Pan American Games medalists in cycling Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States American track cyclists Competitors at the 1959 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1959 Pan American Games {{US-cycling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Cortright
Major General Stephen Phelps Cortright USAF (retired) (born March 26, 1941), is an American military officer and attorney from Oklahoma who served as the 17th Adjutant General of Oklahoma under Governor Frank Keating from 1995 to 2003. Concurrent with his service as adjutant general, Cortright served in Keating's cabinet as the Oklahoma Secretary of the Military. Education Cortright received his bachelor's degree from Oklahoma State University in 1964 and earned his juris doctor from the University of Tulsa in 1973. Military career Cortright joined the United States Air Force on February 14, 1964. On May 12, 1964, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant and entered undergraduate pilot training at Webb Air Force Base in Texas. He is a command pilot with over 5000 hours of military flying time in the T-33, T-37, T-38, RF-4C, F-100, A-7, and F-16 aircraft. He flew 217 combat missions while serving in Vietnam from September 1966 through July 1967. Following the end ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cortright McMeel
Wallace Cortright Wetherill McMeel (May 19, 1971 – April 19, 2013) was an American novelist, short story writer, and small press publisher. Early life Wallace Cortright Wetherill McMeel was born May 14, 1971, in Boston, the only child of Elizabeth Wetherill and J. Wallace McMeel. He earned a bachelor's degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1993, and a master's degree from the Creative Writing Program at Columbia University in 1995. After graduating, he worked as an energy broker and trader with Cargill Inc., first in New York and then in Minnesota. He was at Constellation from 1999 to 2008, and for Rainbow Energy since 2009. Writing career Drawing from his experiences working as an energy trader, he wrote his first novel ''Short'', which was released in September 2010 (St. Martin's Press). The novel received positive reviews from numerous publications, including '' The Washington Post'', ''Denver Post'', ''Publishers Weekly'' and Bloomberg/Business Week. McMeel publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
