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Jessie Smith (other)
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Jessie Smith may refer to: * Jessie Payne Margoliouth (1856–1933), née Smith, Syriac scholar * Jessie Willcox Smith (1863–1935), American illustrator * Jessie Evans Smith (born Jessie Ella Evans; 1902–1971), wife of Joseph Fielding Smith * Jessie Maye Smith (1907–2005), American ornithologist *J. L. Smith (born Jessie L. Smith), American baseball pitcher *Jessie Carney Smith (born 1930), American librarian and educator *Jessie Smith (singer) (1941–2021), American R&B vocalist See also *Jessica Smith (other) *Jesse Smith (other) Jesse Smith may refer to: Sports * Jesse Smith (water polo) (born 1983), water polo player for the United States at the 2004 Summer Olympics * Jesse D. Smith (born 1986), Australian rules footballer with the Carlton Football Club * Jesse W. Smith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessie Payne Margoliouth
Jessie Payne Margoliouth ( Smith; 23 February 1856 – 18 August 1933) was a British Syriac scholar and campaigner for women's suffrage. Biography Margoliouth was born Jessie Payne Smith on 23 February 1856 in Kensington, London, England. Her father was Robert Payne Smith (1818–1895), a theologian and Anglican priest. She was brought up in Oxford and Canterbury. Her father taught her Syriac and lexicography. She assisted her father with the ''Thesaurus Syriacus'' (a Syriac to Latin dictionary), and, following his death, she saw it through to completion in 1901. She also abridged and translated the ''Thesaurus Syriacus'' into English in 1903 as ''A compendious Syriac Dictionary'' (Syriac to English). She also published a ''Supplement to the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith'' in 1927, adding 345 pages of new entries. On 25 April 1896, she married David Samuel Margoliouth, Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford. They had a happy marriage but did not have any ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessie Willcox Smith
Jessie Willcox Smith (September 6, 1863 – May 3, 1935) was an American illustrator during the Golden Age of American illustration. She was considered "one of the greatest pure illustrators". A contributor to books and magazines during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Smith illustrated stories and articles for clients such as '' Century'', '' Collier's'', ''Leslie's Weekly'', '' Harper's'', ''McClure's'', ''Scribners'', and the '' Ladies' Home Journal''. She had an ongoing relationship with ''Good Housekeeping'', which included a long-running Mother Goose series of illustrations and also the creation of all of the ''Good Housekeeping'' covers from December 1917 to 1933. Among the more than 60 books that Smith illustrated were Louisa May Alcott's '' Little Women'' and ''An Old-Fashioned Girl'', Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's ''Evangeline'', and Robert Louis Stevenson's ''A Child's Garden of Verses''. Early life Jessie Willcox Smith was born on September 6, 1863, in the Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessie Evans Smith
Joseph Fielding Smith Jr. (July 19, 1876 – July 2, 1972) was an American religious leader and writer who served as the tenth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1970 until his death in 1972. He was the son of former church president Joseph F. Smith and the great-nephew of Church founder Joseph Smith. Smith was named to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1910, when his father was the church's president. When Smith became president of the Church, he was 93 years and 6 months old; he began his presidential term at an older age than any other president in church history. Smith's tenure as President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles from 1951 to 1970 is the third-longest in church history; he served in that capacity during the entire presidency of David O. McKay. Smith spent some of his years among the Twelve Apostles as the Church Historian and Recorder. He was a religious scholar and a prolific writer. Many of his works are u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessie Maye Smith
Jessie Maye Smith, also known as "The Bird Lady of Tarrant County", was a self-taught ornithologist, made famous by a series of newspaper articles entitled "Birds and Watchers" which she published in the '' Fort Worth Star-Telegram'' from 1953 to 1975. Early years Jessie Maye Smith was born in Wilbarger County, Texas on April 8, 1907. She grew up in Chillicothe, Texas and attended West Texas State College, studying English. In the 1920s, her family moved to Fort Worth where she met her future husband, Wade Austin Smith. The couple married in May 1928. It was around this time that an incident occurred which would inspire Jessie Maye Smith to take up birdwatching. She had accompanied her husband on a fishing trip and saw a red bird fly by. Knowing it wasn't a cardinal, she became intrigued and began conducting research at the local library to identify the species. It was during her study of these books, that she became fascinated with bird watching - a passion that would last th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessie Carney Smith
Jessie Carney Smith (born September 24, 1930) is an American librarian and educator, formerly Dean of the Fisk University Library and Camille Cosby Distinguished Chair in the Humanities. She was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. degree in library science from the University of Illinois. She is also a scholar and author of research guides and reference books focusing on notable African-American people. Early years Jessie Carney Smith was born on September 24, 1930, in Greensboro, North Carolina, to James Ampler and Vesona Bigelow Carney. Smith attended James B. Dudley High School in Greensboro. She graduated from North Carolina A&T State University with her B.S. degree in home economics in 1950. Smith received her M.A. degree in child development from Michigan State University in 1956, and her M.A.L.S. degree from the George Peabody College of Vanderbilt University in 1957. Career Smith began working as an instructor and library cataloger at Tennessee State Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessie Smith (singer)
Jessie Smith (November 28, 1941 – February 4, 2021) was an American R&B vocalist. She began her career singing with musician Benny Sharp, recording as Little Miss Jessie, and became best known as one of the original Ikettes in the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. She later sang backing vocals for various artists, including Dr. John, Paul Williams, Al Kooper, José Feliciano, and Leon Ware. Life and career Jessie Smith was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, the daughter of Georgia and Israel Smith, and was raised in Alton, Illinois.Obituary, Jessie Smith Lucas, ''Cathy M. Williams Funeral Home'', February 10, 2021 Retrieved 31 July 2021 She was a member of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Smith (other)
Jessica Smith may refer to: *Jessica Smith (editor) (1895–1983), American activist and editor *Jessica Smith (speed skater) (born 1983), Olympic short track speed skater from the United States *Jessica Smith (athlete) (born 1989), Canadian track and field athlete *Jessica Smith (swimmer), Australian Paralympic swimmer *Jessica Smith (actress), portrayed the "Sun Baby" in ''Teletubbies'' * Jessica Smith (curler) (born 1997), New Zealand curler * Jessica Grace Smith (born 1988), New Zealand actress See also *Jessie Smith (other) *Jesse Smith (other) Jesse Smith may refer to: Sports * Jesse Smith (water polo) (born 1983), water polo player for the United States at the 2004 Summer Olympics * Jesse D. Smith (born 1986), Australian rules footballer with the Carlton Football Club * Jesse W. Smith ... * Jessica Smyth (other) {{hndis, Smith, Jessica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
