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Dashiell
Dashiell is both a male given name and a surname. People Notable people with the name include: ;First name * Dashiell Eaves (born 1974), American actor *Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961), American author * Dashiell Mihok (born 1974), American actor ;Middle name *George Dashiell Bayard (1835–1862), United States Army general * Robert Laurenson Dashiell Davidson (1909–1998), American philatelist *Isaac Dashiell Jones (1806–1893), American politician in Maryland ;Last name *Aaron Dashiell (21st century), American football safety *Doug Dashiell (1905–1975), American football coach *John Dashiell (1888–1975), American psychologist * Margaret May Dashiell (1867–1958), American artist and writer *Paul Dashiell (1867–1937), American football coach, brother of Robert * Robert B. Dashiell (1860–1899), American naval officer and ordnance expert, brother of Paul *Russell DaShiell (born 1947), American guitarist *Wally Dashiell (1902–1972), American baseball shortstop *Willia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dashiell Hammett
Samuel Dashiell Hammett (; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade ('' The Maltese Falcon''), Nick and Nora Charles (''The Thin Man''), the Continental Op (''Red Harvest'' and '' The Dain Curse'') and the comic strip character Secret Agent X-9. Hammett "is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time". In his obituary in ''The New York Times'', he was described as "the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction." ''Time'' included Hammett's 1929 novel ''Red Harvest'' on its list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. In 1990, the Crime Writers' Association picked three of his five novels for their list of '' The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time''. Five years later, four out of five of his novels made '' The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret May Dashiell
Margaret May Dashiell (January 7, 1867 – ) was an American artist and writer whose works depicted contemporary life in Richmond, Virginia, New Orleans, Louisiana, and Charleston, South Carolina. Margaret May Dashiell was born to Thomas P. May and Mary Taylor May in Louisiana on January 7, 1867, where her family owned a plantation in Saint John the Baptist Parish. Thomas P. May was a planter, novelist, and editor of the ''New Orleans Times''. She grew up in New Orleans and was educated at St. Simeon's Select School for Girls and Young Ladies, run by the Catholic Daughters of Charity. After a downturn in family fortunes, they moved to England in the 1880s, where Thomas May died. In 1886, Dashiell's mother moved the family to Richmond. In 1889, Dashiell married merchant John Parker Dashiell. They had one child, a son named Searing T. Dashiell. In Richmond, Dashiell studied art with Edward Virginius Valentine. Dashiell began publicly exhibiting her work in 1896 at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Robert Dashiell
Brigadier General William Robert Dashiell (3 April 1863 – 16 March 1939) was a United States Army officer. He notably participated in the Philippine–American War and World War I. Early life and education Dashiell was born Mecklenburg County, Virginia on 3 April 1863. He graduated from the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, New York, in 1888, where he was a classmate of several future general officers, such as Peyton C. March, William M. Morrow, James W. McAndrew, Robert Lee Howze, Peter Charles Harris, Eli Alva Helmick, Henry Jervey Jr., William Voorhees Judson, John Louis Hayden, Edward Anderson, William H. Hart, Charles Aloysius Hedekin and William S. Peirce. Dashiell later graduated from the Army School of the Line (1909) and the Army War College (1915). Military career After graduation, Dashiell was commissioned second lieutenant with the 8th Infantry Regiment at Fort D. A. Russell in Wyoming. He took part in conflicts with American I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Dashiell
Douglas Dashiell (July 14, 1905 – April 21, 1975) was an American college football coach and United States Army Air Forces and Air Force officer. He served as the head coach at the University of Nevada, Reno from 1936 to 1938. He amassed an 8–13–1 record during his tenure. Coaching career Dashiell was born on July 14, 1905, and attended Las Vegas High School. He attended college at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, where he played on the football team.Nevada Coach Quits On Eve Of C.O.P. Game ''Lodi News-Sentinel'', October 27, 1938. In December 1935, the hired ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremiah Dashiell House
The Jeremiah Dashiell House is located in the Bexar County city of San Antonio in the U.S. state of Texas. Also known as Casa Villita, it was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark under that name in 1962. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bexar County, Texas as a contributing structure of the La Villita Historic District. House details This two-story limestone house fronts the San Antonio River Walk and was built c1850 by contractor J.H. Kampmann. The San Antonio Conservation Society (SACS) acquired the property in 1942 and did a restoration. Between 1953 and 1974, SACS used it as their headquarters. Eventually, SACS moved their headquarters to the Anton Wulff House, and used the Dashiell house as the operational office for A Night in Old San Antonio. When the National Park Service designated La Villita as a national historic district in 1972, the Dashiell house was listed as a contributing property. Jeremiah Yellot Dashiell Jer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Dashiell
Paul Joseph "Skinny" Dashiell (July 16, 1867 – July 6, 1937) was an American football player, coach, and university professor. He served as the head football coach at the United States Naval Academy from 1904 to 1906, compiling a record of 25–5–4. Dashiell played college football at Johns Hopkins University and at Lehigh University, and, in 1893, assisted Josh Hartwell John Augustus "Josh" Hartwell (September 27, 1869 – November 30, 1940) was an American football player and coach, military officer, and physician. Hartwell attended Yale University, where he played end for Walter Camp's Bulldogs footbal ... in coaching football at Navy. Dashiell taught chemistry and mathematics at the Naval Academy. A brother, Robert B. Dashiell, was a naval officer and ordnance expert. Dashiell died on July 7, 1937, at the Navy Hospital in Annapolis, Maryland. Head coaching record References External links * 1867 births 1937 deaths 19th-century players of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wally Dashiell
John Wallace Dashiell (May 9, 1902 – May 20, 1972) was an American professional baseball shortstop. He played one game in Major League Baseball, for the 1924 Chicago White Sox. Dashiell's professional career spanned 1923 to 1938, plus a single game in 1941. He played over 1300 games in Minor League Baseball, initially in the farm system of the Philadelphia Athletics. On April 20, 1924, Dashiell appeared in his lone major-league game. With the Chicago White Sox hosting the Cleveland Indians, Dashiell entered the game in the third inning, replacing starting shortstop Hervey McClellan. In three plate appearances, Dashiell recorded a ground out, a pop out, and a sacrifice bunt. Defensively, he had one putout, one assist, and one error. The White Sox won the game, 5–4. Dashiell later was a minor-league manager from 1934 to 1948 in the West Dixie League, East Texas League, Southeastern League and Texas League The Texas League is a Minor League Baseball league which has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Dashiell
Aaron Dashiell is a former American football defensive back. Dashiell attended the University of Maine, where he played with the Maine Black Bears football team. He was named to the Division I-AA All American twice (1998–99), becoming at the time just Maine's second multiple time All American after John Huard. Stephen Cooper and Jovan Belcher have done it since. During his junior season, Dashiell had 100 tackles and 6 interceptions. He is from Plainfield, New Jersey. Dashiell got inducted into the University of Maine Sports Hall of Fame in 2021. Personal life He lives in Worcester, Massachusetts Worcester ( , ) is a city and county seat of Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. Named after Worcester, England, the city's population was 206,518 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the second-List of cities i ... with his wife, Joanne, and their sons Theo and Myles. References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dashiell Eaves
Dashiell Eaves is an American actor. He lives in New York City. Theater Eaves began his professional career in 1993 at age nineteen when he joined the original American cast of the Off-Broadway percussion show ''Stomp''. Three years later he left that show after being cast as the Courier in Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of ''1776''. Since then he has appeared in other Broadway productions, ''The Sound of Music'' (Rolf), ''James Joyce's The Dead'' (Michael), ''The Lieutenant of Inishmore'' (Joey), Martin McDonagh's ''A Behanding in Spokane'' as Thomas Ledbury in the 2007 production of Helen Edmundson's ''Coram Boy'' at the Imperial Theatre, “A Time to Kill”, as Bob Cratchit in “ A Christmas Carol“ directed by Matthew Warchus, and in “Sing Street“, a rock musical based on the Irish film by the same name. Eaves has appeared Off-Broadway in Lynn Nottage’s “Fabulation” at Signature Theater, ''Luck of the Irish'' at LCT3 (Lincoln Center), ''The Lieuten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dashiell
John Frederick Dashiell (April 30, 1888 – May 3, 1975) was an American psychologist and a past president of the American Psychological Association. Biography Dashiell was born in 1888 in Southport, Indiana. Early in his career, Dashiell taught at Waynesburg College, Princeton University, University of Minnesota and Oberlin College. Dashiell became a department head at the University of North Carolina The University of North Carolina is the multi-campus Public university, public university system for the state of North Carolina. Overseeing the state's 16 public universities and the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, NC School o .... He was an APA president in 1938. In his presidential address that year, he called for psychology to reconnect with philosophy for its methodology and logic. He was president of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology in 1953–1954. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dashiell, John 1888 births 1975 deaths Pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Dashiell Jones
Isaac Dashiell Jones (November 1, 1806 – July 5, 1893) was a U.S. Congressman from Maryland, serving from 1841 to 1843. Early life Isaac Dashiell Jones was born on the family homestead ''Wetipquin'' in Somerset County, Maryland to Priscilla and Benjamin Jones. Jones completed preparatory studies and graduated from Washington Academy, where he became assistant tutor before his studies were completed. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in Princess Anne. Career Jones served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates in 1832, 1834, 1840–1841, and 1867. Jones was elected as a Whig from Maryland's 1st congressional district to the Twenty-seventh Congress, serving from March 4, 1841, to March 3, 1843. He took an active part in the Maryland constitutional conventions of 1864 and 1867, and was elected Attorney General of Maryland in 1867. He was later elected judge of the court of arbitration of Baltimore, Maryland, in 1877, and served as director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Dashiell Bayard
George Dashiell Bayard (December 18, 1835 – December 14, 1862) was a career soldier in the United States Army and a general in the Union Army in the American Civil War. He was wounded in the Battle of Fredericksburg and died the next day. Early life He was born in Seneca Falls, New York, on December 18, 1835, to Jane Ann Dashiell and Samuel John Bayard, the son of Samuel Bayard (1766–1840) and the grandson of John Bayard (1738–1807). His family moved as homesteaders to the Iowa Territory. He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, graduating in 1856 as a second lieutenant in the U.S. cavalry. He graduated 11th in a class of 49. Bayard fought in the Indian Wars in Kansas and Colorado from 1856 to 1861. Bayard was shot in the face with a Kiowa arrow on July 11, 1860, and suffered considerable pain for months. Civil War On August 27, 1861, Bayard was promoted to colonel in the 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry, based in Tenallytown (now Tenleytown, Washington ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
