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Edward James Gay (1816-1889)
Edward Gay may refer to: *Edward Gay (artist) Edward Gay (1837–1928) was an Irish-American artist who specialized in landscape paintings. He was active in Mt. Vernon, New York and Cragsmoor, New York. Biography and career The Great Famine of Ireland forced his family to move to Ameri ..., (1837–1928), Irish-born landscape painter * Edward James Gay (1816–1889), U.S. Representative from Louisiana * Edward James Gay (1878–1952), U.S. Senator from Louisiana; grandson of the elder E. J. Gay *Edward Gay, prisoner on the ship '' St. Michael of Scarborough'' {{hndis, Gay, Edward ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Gay (artist)
Edward Gay (1837–1928) was an Irish-American artist who specialized in landscape paintings. He was active in Mt. Vernon, New York and Cragsmoor, New York. Biography and career The Great Famine of Ireland forced his family to move to America, when he was 11 years old. Gay trained in Albany on the advice of James Hart, his brother William Hart, and George Henry Boughton, artists who recognized Gay's talent while he was still a child. In 1862, Gay went to Karlsruhe in Germany to continue his studies under the artists Johann Wilhelm Schirmer and Karl Friedrich Lessing. In 1864 he returned to the United States and dedicated himself to landscape painting. Gay and his wife, Martha Freary, moved to Mt. Vernon, New York. The couple had a son, Duncan–also an artist–and a daughter, Ingovar. Gay was a member of the New York Artists Fund Society, National Academy of Design, and the Lotos Club The Lotos Club was founded in 1870 as a gentlemen's club in New York C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward James Gay (1816–1889)
Edward James Gay (February 3, 1816 – May 30, 1889) was a financier and member of United States Congress. He was born at Liberty, Bedford County, Virginia, in the United States. Gay and his wife Lavinia Hynes were the grandparents of U.S. Senator Edward James Gay. Early history His family moved to Illinois in 1820, then four years later to St. Louis, Missouri. For several years he studied under a private teacher in Belleville, Illinois; he attended Augusta College in Kentucky from 1833–34 and returned to St. Louis, where he was engaged in commercial affairs from 1839 to 1860. Although he had no formal business education, Gay was a dedicated student of industrial and political economy from early adulthood. From St. Louis he moved to Louisiana, where he became interested in manufacturing and planting. He was prominently connected with the erection of the Merchants Exchange Building in St. Louis, and he was the first president of the Louisiana Sugar Exchange of New O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward James Gay (1878–1952)
Edward James Gay III (May 5, 1878December 1, 1952) was a United States senator from Louisiana. He was a grandson of U.S. Representative Edward James Gay. Born on Union Plantation in Iberville Parish, he attended Pantops Academy ( Charlottesville, Virginia), the Lawrenceville School ( in New Jersey), and Princeton University, from which he did not graduate. He engaged in the business of sugar production and the cultivation of various agricultural products. He was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1904 to 1918. Gay was elected on November 5, 1918, as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Robert F. Broussard and served from November 6, 1918, to March 4, 1921; he declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1920. He had lost his political power base, due to the advent of John M. Parker. While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Coast and Insular Survey (Sixty-fifth Congress). Gay was president of a manufac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
