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Crandall
Crandall is an English surname. It is likely a geographic feature name deriving from the Anglo-Saxon, "crundel," meaning hollow, ravine, or water-course. Notable people with the surname *Bradley Crandall (1927–1991), radio personality, US * Bruce Perry Crandall (born 1933), soldier and Medal of Honor recipient, US * Charles Henry Crandall (1858–1923), author and poet, US * Charles M. Crandall (1826–1867), physician and politician, US *Charles Martin Crandall (1833–1905), inventor and toymaker, US *Del Crandall (1930–2021), baseball player and manager, US * Duane Crandall (born 1946), politician, Canada * Elizabeth Walbert Crandall (1914–2005), academic, US *Harrison R. Crandall (1887–1970), photographer and painter, US *Harry Crandall (1879–1937), businessman, US * J'aime Crandall (born 1982), ballet dancer, US * James Otis Crandall (1887–1951), baseball player, US *Jesse Armour Crandall (1834–1920), inventor and toymaker, US *John Crandall (1609–1676), earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prudence Crandall
Prudence Crandall (September 3, 1803 – January 27, 1890) was an American schoolteacher and activist. She ran the first school for black girls ("young Ladies and little Misses of color") in the United States, located in Canterbury, Connecticut. When Crandall admitted Sarah Harris, a 20-year-old African-American female student in 1832 to her school,Wormley, G. Smith. ''The Journal of Negro History'', "Prudence Crandall", Vol. 8, No. 1, January 1923, pp. 72–80. Tisler, C.C. "Prudence Crandall, Abolitionist", ''Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1908–1984)'', Vol. 33, No. 2, June 1940, pp. 203–206. she had what is considered the first integrated classroom in the United States. Parents of the white children began to withdraw them. Prudence was a "very obstinate girl", according to her brother Reuben. Rather than ask the African-American student to leave, she decided that if white girls would not attend with the black students, she would educate black girls. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Perry Crandall
Bruce Perry Crandall (born February 17, 1933) is a retired United States Army officer who received the Medal of Honor for his actions as a pilot during the Battle of Ia Drang on November 14, 1965, in South Vietnam. During the battle, he flew 22 missions in a Bell Huey helicopter into enemy fire to evacuate more than 70 wounded and bring ammunition and supplies to United States forces. By the end of the Vietnam War, he had flown more than 900 combat missions. He retired from the army as a lieutenant colonel and worked several jobs in different states before settling down with his wife in his home state of Washington. Personal life Crandall was born in 1933 and raised in Olympia, Washington, the capital of the state. He attended public schools and became an All-American baseball player in high school. He attended the University of Washington in Seattle until being drafted into the United States Army in 1953 during the Korean War. Crandall married Arlene Shaffer on March 31, 1956, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Del Crandall
Delmar Wesley Crandall (March 5, 1930May 5, 2021) was an American professional baseball player and manager. He was born in Ontario, California. Crandall played as a catcher in Major League Baseball and spent most of his career with the Boston / Milwaukee Braves. He led the league in assists a record-tying six times, in fielding percentage four times and in putouts three times. Crandall was the last living player to have played for the Boston Braves. Early life Crandall was born in Ontario, California, on March 5, 1930. He was the second of three children of Richard and Nancy Crandall, who were both employed in the citrus-packaging industry. He was raised in Fullerton and attended Fullerton Union High School. Crandall played catcher for the school team and for the local American Legion Baseball team. He was signed as an amateur free agent by the Boston Braves before the 1948 season. Professional career Playing career (1949–1966) Crandall played less than two seasons in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reed Leonard Crandall
Reed Leonard Crandall (February 22, 1917 – September 13, 1982) Reed Crandall at the , via GenealogyBank.com; and vi FamilySearch.org citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing. Retrieved on 22 February 2013. Neither gives specific day of death. First cit [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Crandall
Elder John Crandall (15 February 1618 – 29 November 1676) was a Baptist minister, born in Westerleigh, Gloucestershire, England and was one of the founding settlers of Westerly, Rhode Island. Biography English roots Crandall was born in 1618 (baptized February 15, 1617/8) in Westerleigh, Gloucestershire, England to James Crandall, a yeoman of Kendleshire in that parish, and his first wife Eleanor. The name was probably taken from Crundelend in Abberley, Worcestershire, where people bearing the name were concentrated in the 16th century. Crandall's great-grandfather Nicholas Crundall (died 1589) of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire came to south Gloucestershire in 1572 as the vicar of the parish of Winterbourne. Nothing else is known of John Crandall's life in England prior to his emigration to America, except that his relatives started spelling the name "Crandall" around 1610. In America The first documentation for Crandall in America is in 1643 when he appears as a grand jury m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucien Stephen Crandall
Lucien Stephen Crandall (May 4, 1844 – February 4, 1919) was an American inventor of typewriters, adding machines and electrical devices. Crandall gave his name to several typewriters, and he was also involved in the development of various machines, such as the project to produce the Hammond design at the Remington factory, or later the International typewriter. Early life Born in Portlerane, Broome County, New York, Crandall was a descendant on his mother's side of Joseph Warren. He served as a private for three years during the American Civil War, surviving twelve major battles without injury. Career In 1873, Crandall was employed as a salesman by James Densmore and George W. Yost of New York. Densmore and Yost had licensed Christopher Sholes and Carlos Glidden's patents and had established a contract with E. Remington and Sons to manufacture them. They gave Crandall the necessary tools and set him to work to perfect the typewriter. Crandall soon worked out an oscillating typ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Lloyd Crandall
Robert Lloyd "Bob" Crandall (born December 6, 1935 in Westerly, Rhode Island) is an American businessman who is the former president and chairman of American Airlines. Called an industry legend by airline industry observers, Crandall has been the subject of several books and is a member of the Hall of Honor of the Conrad Hilton college. Early life The Great Depression forced Robert Crandall's father to leave Rhode Island to work selling life insurance, which resulted in multiple relocations. Crandall ended attending 13 schools before his high school graduation. He graduated from the University of Rhode Island, and from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, with an MBA. Airline career In 1966, he joined TWA, where he worked for six years. In 1972, he left to become a senior financial officer at Bloomingdale's Department Stores, but he returned to the airline industry in 1973, as senior financial vice president of American. In 1982, he had a famous conversati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesse Armour Crandall
Jesse Armour Crandall (October 20, 1834 – August 3, 1920) was an American inventor and toy-maker. He had taken out over 150 patents on toys in his 75 years of inventing.''Popular Science'', Volume 47, July 1920, p. 45. Crandall's father, Benjamin Potter Crandall, was also a toy-maker as well as three of Jesse's brothers (Benjamin, Charles Thompson and William Edwin). Unlike his brothers who remained primarily associated with their father's toy business in New York City, Jesse started his own company in Brooklyn. It was a friend, perhaps Henry Ward Beecher, who named him "The Child's Benefactor". This became his trademark and slogan. Baby and Doll Carriages Crandall's father had begun selling baby carriages in the 1830s which were billed as "the first baby carriages manufactured in America." Jesse designed a tool to drill the ten evenly spaced holes in carriage wheels at the same time when he was only eleven years old. Crandall was issued a number of patents for improvements and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Martin Crandall
Charles Martin Crandall (May 30, 1833 – Jun 25, 1905) was an American inventor and toy-maker. He was best known for various toy blocks, "Crandall's Acrobats", "Noah's Dominoes", "Illuminated Pictorial Alphabet", "District School", "Menagerie", "Pigs in Clover" game and numerous other games and wooden toys such as wooden trains with interconnecting cars. Crandall began working in his father's woodworking and furniture factory in Covington, Pennsylvania and at the age of twelve began inventing toys. When his father died in 1849, Crandall took over the factory at age sixteen. Crandall's blocks By 1866, Crandall moved the company to Montrose, Pennsylvania and was into the manufacturing of croquet sets. He experimented with fastening the corners of boxes by using grooves and tongues instead of nailing. As his sons were convalescing from scarlet fever, he took some pieces home and his children built various structures such as a house, bridge and fence from them. His children's physicia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauren Crandall
Lauren Crandall (born March 17, 1985 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American field hockey player. At the 2008, 2012, and 2016 Summer Olympics, she competed for the United States women's national field hockey team in the women's event, serving as team captain in 2012 and 2016. She played for the national team from 2005 through 2016. Before joining the national team she played field hockey for Wake Forest University, winning the NCAA field hockey championship twice. Early life Crandall was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in Doylestown, Pennsylvania with 3 siblings. She attended Holicong middle school from 1997 to 2000. She began playing field hockey in 1998. She began attending Central Bucks East High School in 1999, playing both field hockey and soccer for the school. Crandall was named team captain of the field hockey and soccer team two times for each sport. As a high school senior, her team won the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association field hockey State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Saunders Crandall
Lee Saunders Crandall (January 26, 1887 – June 25, 1969) was an American ornithologist and General Curator of Bronx Zoo. He worked at the Bronx Zoo from 1908 until his death in 1969. Biography Born in Sherburne, New York, before moving to Utica aged four, Crandall began breeding and exhibiting Sebright and Cochin Bantams aged fifteen. His father and grandfather being doctors, it was assumed Crandall would follow in their footsteps, and he attended Cornell Medical School in 1907; however, he only stayed for one year before realizing he wanted a career with animals. A chance conversation with his class president, the nephew of the Treasurer of the New York Zoological Society (now the Wildlife Conservation Society), led to an interview with Director of the New York Zoological Park (now the Bronx Zoo), William T. Hornaday.Conway, William (1972). In Memoriam: Lee Saunders Crandall The Auk, Vol. 89, No. 2, p. 421 After this interview, Crandall became a student at the Park in June ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Crandall
Harry Milton Crandall (1879–1937) was an American businessman who owned a chain of 18 theaters in Washington D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. Among the theaters he owned was the Savoy, in Washington, D.C., his fourth acquisition. Theater ownership At the height of his career, Crandall owned eighteen theaters in Washington D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. His theaters were well regarded in their communities, and many of them featured elegant and opulent designs which were formerly reserved for opera houses. His chain included first-rate movie houses such as the Apollo Theater (WV) theatre in Martinsburg, West Virginia, the Metropolitan, the Apollo Theater (DC), the Tivoli Theatre, the Savoy,Kent BoeseLost Washington: The Savoy Theater June 9, 2009 The Stanley Theatre Baltimore, and the Knickerbocker Theatre in Washington, D.C. Crandall opened the Casino Theater at Fourth and East Capitol streets in 1907, though he soon sold it. In 1910, Crandall open ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
