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Greeley (surname)
Greeley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Andrew Greeley (1928–2013), American priest, sociologist, and author * Arthur White Greeley (1875–1904), American physiologist and ichthyologist * Elam Greeley, (1818–1882), American politician *George Greeley (1917–2007), Italian-American pianist and conductor * Horace Greeley (1811–1872), American newspaper editor, reformer and politician * Isabel Greeley (1843–1928), American educator * Jimmy Greeley (born 1945), Irish radio presenter * Julia Greeley (birth year uncertain, died 1918), African-American ex-slave and philanthropist * Jonathan Greeley (1741–1781), American sea captain * Martin Greeley (1814–1899), American politician *Ronald Greeley Ronald Greeley (August 25, 1939 – October 27, 2011) was a Regents’ Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) at Arizona State University (ASU), the Director of the NASA-ASU Regional Planetary Image Facility (RPIF), an ... (193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Greeley
Andrew M. Greeley (February 5, 1928 – May 29, 2013) was an American Catholic priest, sociologist, journalist and popular novelist. Greeley was a professor of sociology at the University of Arizona and the University of Chicago, and a research associate with the National Opinion Research Center (NORC). For many years, he wrote a weekly column for the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' and contributed regularly to ''The New York Times'', the ''National Catholic Reporter'', '' America'', and '' Commonweal''. Life and career Greeley was born into a large Irish Catholic family in Oak Park, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago) in 1928. He grew up during the Great Depression in Chicago's Austin neighborhood, where he attended St. Angela Elementary School, and by the second grade, he knew that he wanted to be a priest. After studying at Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary in Chicago, Greeley received an AB degree from St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Chicago in 1950, a Bachelor of Sacred Theolog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur White Greeley
Arthur White Greeley (June 13 1875 – March 15, 1904) was an American physiologist and ichthyologist. Greeley was born in Oswego, New York, the eldest of two sons of Frank Norton Greeley, a Congregational clergyman, and Anna Cheney (Buckhout) Greeley. His brother William would go on to become chief forester of the U.S. Forest Service. He graduated from Stanford University in 1898, and spent one year as a graduate student in zoology, during which he went to Alaska with the fur-seal expedition and to Brazil with the Banner-Agassiz expedition, where he made most of the biological collections. The following year he was an instructor at San Diego Normal School (now San Diego State University), leaving there to enter the University of Chicago as fellow in physiology. Two years later he took his doctorate of philosophy under Jacques Loeb with a thesis on the action of low temperatures on micro-organisms, and was then appointed Assistant Professor of Zoology at the Washington University i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elam Greeley
Elam Andrew Jackson Greeley (August 13, 1818 – September 13, 1882) was an American businessman and legislator. Born in Salisbury, New Hampshire, he moved to St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin Territory in 1840. Greeley was in the lumber business. He was the first postmaster of Stillwater, Minnesota and one of the city's founders. He served in the Minnesota Territorial Council 1852 and 1853 and in the Minnesota Territorial House of Representatives in 1857. Notes 1818 births 1882 deaths People from Stillwater, Minnesota People from Salisbury, New Hampshire American city founders Businesspeople from Minnesota Members of the Minnesota Territorial Legislature 19th-century American politicians 19th-century American businesspeople {{Minnesota-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Greeley
George Greeley (born Georgio Guariglia; July 23, 1917 – May 26, 2007) was an Italian-American pianist, conductor, composer, arranger, recording artist and record producer who is known for his extensive work across the spectrum of the entertainment industry. Starting as an arranger and pianist with several notable big bands in the 1940s, he segued into the Hollywood radio scene, working on several nationally broadcast variety programs. After conducting an Army Air Force Band during World War II, he was hired by Columbia Pictures as a staff pianist and orchestrator. He worked as pianist on several hundred motion pictures, worked with many famous composers orchestrating their soundtrack compositions, and created original compositions of his own in several dozen movies. It was Greeley's hands that performed the piano parts that Tyrone Power mimed in ''The Eddy Duchin Story.'' Concurrent with his work at Columbia Pictures, George Greeley also worked at Capitol Records as music directo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and newspaper editor, editor of the ''New-York Tribune''. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York, and was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican Party (United States), Liberal Republican Party in the 1872 United States presidential election, 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant, who won by a landslide. Greeley was born to a poor family in Amherst, New Hampshire. He was apprenticed to a printer in Vermont and went to New York City in 1831 to seek his fortune. He wrote for or edited several publications and involved himself in Whig Party (United States), Whig Party politics, taking a significant part in William Henry Harrison's successful 1840 presidential campaign. The following year, he founded the ''Tribune'', which became the highest-circulating newspaper in the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabel Greeley
Mary Isabel Greeley (February 9, 1843 – May 10, 1928) was an American educator. From 1887 to 1899 she was first matron at the Perkins School for the Blind's kindergarten program, based in Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood, and later a founder and president of the Boston Nursery for Blind Babies. Early life Greeley was born in Manchester, New Hampshire, the daughter of Samuel Plummer Greeley and Mary Jane Wheeler Greeley. Her father was a harness maker. She graduated from Concord High School (New Hampshire), Concord High School in 1860. Career In 1884, Greeley was appointed to represent New Hampshire women at the World Cotton Centennial, World Cotton Centennial Exposition in New Orleans, as part of the women's department headed by Julia Ward Howe. Howe's son-in-law Michael Anagnos hired Greeley as the first matron of the Perkins School's kindergarten program for blind children, opened in Jamaica Plain in 1887. After she retired from the Perkins kindergarten in 1899, Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Greeley
James Greeley (born 12 September 1945) is an Irish radio voiceover. He worked for 4fm until early 2012. Greeley is a veteran of Irish radio having worked for many stations such as Millennium 88FM, RTÉ 2fm RTÉ News and RTÉ Radio 1. In May 1994 he joined Dublin's local station 98FM, presenting the weekday ''Morning News'', alongside the Head Teena Gates. Greeley spent 14 years in that post. In 2006 he began a new show on the City Channel called ''On The Menu'' programme. In February 2009, after spending 14 years as a newsreader, Greeley left 98FM to join Ireland's new station 4fm, where he started off working Monday to Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., then moved to the 11:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. time slot. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Greeley
Julia Greeley, OFS (c. 1833-48 – 7 June 1918), was an African-American philanthropist and Catholic convert. An enslaved woman later freed by the US government, she is known as Denver's "Angel of Charity" because of her aid to countless families in poverty. Her cause for beatification was opened by Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila in 2016. Biography Slavery Greeley was born into slavery in Hannibal, Missouri. At the age of five, her right eye was injured by a slave master as he was whipping her mother. This disfigurement remained with Greeley the rest of her life. She became referred to as "one-eyed Julia". In 1865, Greeley was freed during the American Civil War, though not by the Emancipation Proclamation (as Missouri was a border state and had to enact its own emancipation laws after the fact). Greeley moved to Denver and in 1879 became a cook and nanny to Julia Pratte Dickerson of St. Louis, a widow who would later marry William Gilpin – who had been appointed by President ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Greeley
Jonathan Greeley (or Greely) (December 9, 1741 – 1781) was an American sea captain. He was captain and co-owner of the schooner ''Speedwell'', which was sunk by a British frigate off the coast of Marblehead, Massachusetts, in 1781, during the American Revolutionary War. Life and career Greeley was born on December 9, 1741, in North Yarmouth, Massachusetts (now in Maine), to Philip and Hannah.''Genealogy of the Greely-Greeley Family'', George Hiram Greeley (1905), p. 103 His father was killed by Native Americans in North Yarmouth in 1746, when Jonathan was five years old. Greeley married Mary Hitchborn (1742–1819) on December 15, 1768. They had six daughters, all born in Boston: Anna (born 1769), Mary (1771), Hannah (1773), Isannah (1775–1800), Frances (1777) and Elizabeth (1778). Death Greeley was killed in 1781, when his privateer, ''Speedwell'', was sunk by a British frigate off the coast of Marblehead, Massachusetts, during the Revolutionary War. The ship was carrying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Greeley
Martin Greeley (March 16, 1814 – September 4, 1899) was an American farmer and politician. Born in Palermo, Maine, he came to Minnesota Territory in 1856. He was a farmer and merchant and lived in Maine Prairie, Minnesota. He went to St. Cloud Normal School (St. Cloud State University St. Cloud State University (SCSU) is a public university in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Founded in 1869, the university is one of the largest institutions in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system. Its enrollment in 2020 was approximately ...). Greeley served in the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1872 and in 1889 and 1890. Notes 1814 births 1899 deaths People from Palermo, Maine People from Stearns County, Minnesota St. Cloud State University alumni Businesspeople from Minnesota Members of the Minnesota House of Representatives Farmers from Minnesota 19th-century American legislators 19th-century Minnesota politicians {{Minnesota-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Greeley
Ronald Greeley (August 25, 1939 – October 27, 2011) was a Regents’ Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) at Arizona State University (ASU), the Director of the NASA-ASU Regional Planetary Image Facility (RPIF), and Principal Investigator of the Planetary Aeolian Laboratory at NASA-Ames Research Center. He was involved with lunar and planetary studies since 1967 and most recently focused his research on understanding planetary surface processes and geologic histories. Education Greeley earned his B.S. degree in Geology in 1962 and his M.S. degree in Geology in 1963 from Mississippi State University and earned his Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Missouri at Rolla in 1966. Career After receiving his Ph.D. in Geology in 1966, Greeley worked for Standard Oil Company of California. Through his military service, he was assigned to NASA's Ames Research Center in 1967 where he worked in a civilian capacity in preparation for the Apollo missions to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Arnold Greeley
Samuel Arnold Greeley (August 8, 1882, Chicago – February 3, 1968, Phoenix, Arizona) was an American civil engineer. He was largely responsible for the North Shore Sanitary District works from 1913 until 1963, and founded the engineering firm of ''Greeley & Hansen'' (originally Pearse & Greeley) Consulting Engineers in 1914. ''Hydraulicians in the USA 1800-2000: A biographical dictionary of leaders in hydraulic engineering and fluid mechanics'' by Willi H. Hager; CRC Press, 2015; page 2096 He received the ASCE [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
