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Effie (other)
Effie is a feminine given name, sometimes a short form (hypocorism) of Efthymia (Greek: Ευθυμία), Eftychia (Greek: Ευτυχία), or Euphemia (Greek: Ευφημία). Notable people with the name include: Women * Effie Bancroft (1840–1921), English actress and theatre manager * Effie Boggess (1927-2021), American politician * Effie Cardale (1873–1960), New Zealand community and welfare worker * Effie Cherry (1869–1944), American performer, part of the Cherry Sisters touring vaudeville act * Effie Crockett (1857–1940), American actress * Euphemia Effie Ellsler (1855–1942), American stage and film actress * Euphemia Effie Germon (1845–1914), American stage actress * Euphemia Effie Gray (1828–1897), Scottish model, married to John Ruskin and John Everett Millais * Effie Hotchkiss, American pioneering motorcyclist in 1915 * Effie Mae Martin Howard, real name of Rosie Lee Tompkins (1936–2006), African-American quiltmaker * Effie McCollum Jones (1869–1952), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypocorism
A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek: (), from (), 'to call by pet names', sometimes also ''hypocoristic'') or pet name is a name used to show affection for a person. It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as ''Izzy'' for Isabel or ''Bob (given name), Bob'' for Robert, or it may be unrelated. In linguistics, the term can be used more specifically to refer to the morphological process by which the standard form of the word is transformed into a form denoting affection, or to words resulting from this process. In English, a word is often Clipping (morphology), clipped down to a closed monosyllable and then suffixed with ''-y/-ie'' (phonologically /i/). Sometimes the suffix ''-o'' is included as well as other forms or templates. Hypocoristics are often affective in meaning and are particularly common in Australian English, but can be used for various purposes in different semantic fields, including personal names, place names and nouns. Hypocorisms are usually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Effie Mona Mack
Effie Mona Mack (1888–1969) was an American historian, educator, and textbook co-author. She is said to be the only person to receive a Doctorate degree in History of Nevada. The Mack Social Science building at the University of Nevada, Reno is named in her honor. She received a bachelor's degree from Smith College, a Master's at the University of Nevada (1916; thesis, ''The recall in the making and adoption of the federal constitution of 1787-1789''), and a Ph.D. from the University of California (1930; dissertation, ''Life and letters of William Morris Stewart, 1827-1909. A history of his influence on state and national legislation''). She taught at the University of Nevada, Reno, and at Nevada Southern, which became the University of Nevada, Las Vegas The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) is a public land-grant research university in Paradise, Nevada. The campus is about east of the Las Vegas Strip. It was formerly part of the University of Nevada from 1957 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Effie Norton
Elisha Strong Norton (August 17, 1873 in Conneaut, Ohio – March 5, 1950 in Aspinwall, Pennsylvania), also nicknamed "Leiter," was a right-handed professional baseball pitcher who played from to for the Washington Senators. He is the great-grandfather in law of pitcher John Fulgham. Prior to playing professional baseball, Norton attended Ohio State University, where, in 1895, he was the "star" of the team He made his big league debut on August 8, 1896. He went 3–1 with a 3.07 ERA in eight games (five starts). In 44 innings, he had 14 walks and 13 strikeouts. The following season, he went 2–1 with a 6.88 ERA in 17 innings. He walked 11 and struck out three. Although a pitcher by trade, he also played three games in the outfield that season. On June 5, 1897, he played his final big league game. Overall, Norton went five and two with a 4.13 ERA in 61 innings (12 games, seven games started In baseball statistics, games started (denoted by GS) indicates the number of games t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Effie Wilder
Effie Leland Wilder (August 28, 1909 – July 19, 2007) was an American homemaker and writer. The first book she wrote was published when she was 85 years old, it was titled ''Out to Pasture''. Personal life She was born on August 28, 1909, in Rockingham, North Carolina, USA, to Effie Williams Leland and Warren Allston Leland. She graduated from Converse College. She married Allison F. P. Wilder and had one daughter, Frances Townsend, and three sons, Allison F. P. Wilder, Jr., John A. L. Wilder, and W. Leland Wilder. She had seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. She died July 19, 2007, in Summerville, South Carolina at age 97. Career as author Wilder authored five books: ''Older But Wilder'', ''Out To Pasture'', ''One More Time'', ''Over What Hill?'' and ''Oh, My Goodness!''. Published when Wilder was 85 years old, her first book ''Out to Pasture'' received good reviews from ''The Christian Science Monitor''. Activities and honors Wilder served on the board of di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Effie A
Effie is a feminine given name, sometimes a short form (hypocorism) of Euphemia (Greek: Εὐφημία). Notable people with the name include: Women * Effie Bancroft (1840–1921), English actress and theatre manager * Effie Boggess (1927-2021), American politician * Effie Cardale (1873–1960), New Zealand community and welfare worker * Effie Cherry (1869–1944), American performer, part of the Cherry Sisters touring vaudeville act * Effie Crockett (1857–1940), American actress * Euphemia Effie Ellsler (1855–1942), American stage and film actress * Euphemia Effie Germon (1845–1914), American stage actress * Euphemia Effie Gray (1828–1897), Scottish model, married to John Ruskin and John Everett Millais * Effie Hotchkiss, American pioneering motorcyclist in 1915 * Effie Mae Martin Howard, real name of Rosie Lee Tompkins (1936–2006), African-American quiltmaker * Effie McCollum Jones (1869–1952), American Universalist minister and suffragette * Effie Neal Jones (191 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Effie Waller Smith
Effie Waller Smith (January 6, 1879 – January 2, 1960) was an African-American poet of the early twentieth century. Her published output consisted of three volumes of poetry: ''Songs of the Month'' (1904), ''Rhymes From the Cumberland'' (1904), and ''Rosemary and Pansies'' (1909). Her poetry appeared in the publication ''Harper's Weekly'' and various regional newspapers. Early life and education Effie Waller was born to former slaves in the rural mountain community of Chloe Creek in Pike County, Kentucky, on a farm located a few miles from Pikeville.Tonya Bolden"Biographies" Digital Schomburg African Women Writers of the 19th Century. Her father, Frank Waller, migrated to the East Kentucky mountains sometime after the Civil War, having spent most of his early life as a laborer on a Virginia plantation. Her mother, Sibbie Ratliff, was born and raised in East Kentucky and met the former Virginia slave in the early 1870s. Effie was the third of their four children. Frank Walle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Effie Anderson Smith
Effie Anderson Smith (September 29, 1869 – April 21, 1955), also known as Mrs. A.Y. Smith, was an early Arizona impressionist painter of desert landscapes, many of Cochise County and the Grand Canyon. Biography Smith was born in the rural countryside near Nashville, Arkansas, in 1869.Mitre Press ''Principal Women of America'', p. 112 She grew up in Arkansas and served as a school teacher in Hope, Arkansas until 1893, when she left Arkansas for New Mexico, and then Arizona. She studied with California Impressionists in Oakland (1904),Crocker Art Museum ''Artists in California, 1786–1940'', p. 1033 with May Bradford Shockley in San Francisco (1908), in Laguna Beach with Anna Althea Hills (1914) and also at the Stickney Memorial Art School in Pasadena with Jean MannheimProgressive Arizona and the Great Southwest ''Mrs. A.Y. Smith, Arizona Artist'' November 1929, pp. 13, 33, 34 and Richard E. Miller (1915-16).University of Texas Press ''An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Effie Smith
Effie Smith (born Effie Mae Blu or Bly, April 10, 1914 – February 11, 1977) was an American blues and jazz singer and comedian, best known for "Dial That Telephone", a song she first recorded in 1953 which became an R&B hit in 1965. She was born in McAlester, Oklahoma, and after an early marriage took the surname of her husband, Fred Smith. By 1940 she was living in Los Angeles, California, with her two children, and was working as a singer in a WPA project. She sang in a vocal group, the Three Shades of Rhythm, and with the Lionel Hampton and Benny Carter orchestras, and during World War II appeared on several Armed Forces Radio Service broadcasts including sessions with saxophonist Coleman Hawkins and 16-year-old pianist André Previn. Dave Penny, "Effie Smith", ''Black Cat Rockabilly'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Effie Shannon ).
Her partner and/or husband was Herbert Kelcey who died in 1917. They appeared in numerous plays as a team predating by a generation the famous Effie Shannon (May 13, 1867 – July 24, 1954) was an American stage and silent screen actress. Biography Shannon had a 60-year career as starring performer and later character actress. She began as a child actor appearing with John McCullough and later in 1886 with Robert B. Mantell. She was one of the founding members of the Twelfth Night Club for female actresses in 1891 (along with Alice Fisher, Lelena Fisher and Maida Craigen Maida Craigen (1861 — April 5, 1942) was an American actress and clubwoman. Early life Maida Craigen was educated in Boston, Massachusetts. Her mother was a "once noted literary woman". [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Effie Adelaide Rowlands
Effie Adelaide Maria Henderson (later Rowlands and Albanesi; c.1859 – 16 October 1936) was a British novelist, better known under the pen names Effie Adelaide Rowlands, E. Maria Albanesi and Madame Albanesi. She was the author of more than 250 romance novels and short-stories for magazines and newspapers. Personal life and family Effie Adelaide Maria Henderson was born about 1858 or 1859 in New South Wales, Australia. She was the illegitimate daughter of the English Alexander Henderson (1828–1886) and Maria Nelson (her parents' marriage wasn't legal, because her father was already married). Her sister Caroline Sidney Henderson (alias Carrie Hope) and her niece Maria Effie Hallatt (alias May Hallatt), were actresses. In 1882 she married Cecil Rowlands, a playwright who used the stage name Cecil Raleigh, and she started to write before they divorced in 1893. In 1896, she married Carlo Albanesi (1859-1926), an Italian concert pianist, teacher and composer who from 1893 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Effie Hoffman Rogers
Effie Hoffman Rogers (, Hoffman; May 13, 1853/55 – February 7, 1918) was an American educator, editor and journalist. For several terms, she was elected county superintendent of the public schools of Mahaska County, Iowa, the first woman ever elected to that office in that county. She was also at the head of the board of education of the Oskaloosa schools, resigning her presidency of the board upon her removal to Colorado in later life. Rogers was also prominent in the "women's club" movement. Rogers was for a number of years the editor of the ''P.E.O. Record'', the national official organ of the supreme chapter of the P.E.O. Sisterhood. She was engaged in this work while a resident in Oskaloosa, Iowa and under her management, the magazine came into prominence. Rogers was acquainted with editorial work earlier in her life through other affiliations. She was for a considerable time the associate editor of the ''Oskaloosa Times''. The knowledge gained in newspaper work added to h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Effie Robinson
Effie Robinson (January 7, 1920 – May 23, 2003) was a social worker and public housing director. She was the first African American graduate from the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare. Biography Effie Robinson was born in Healdsburg, California, January 7, 1920. A 1943 magna cum laude graduate of San Francisco State University, Robinson was the first African American graduate from the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare. She was a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha. Art Agnos worked as her assistant when she was appointed, in 1964 by !ayor John F. Shelley to be the San Francisco Housing Authority Director of Human Relations and Tenant Services. In 1945, Robinson went to work for the Family Service Agency of San Francisco. Her first job was as a casework supervisor and by 1956, Robinson was appointed Executive Director. Robinson died when she was 83 at her time in the Cow Hollow neighborhood of San Francisco. Awards and honors Robinson was awarded the Daniel Koshland Jr. Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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