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Leigh Richmond
Leigh Tucker Richmond (April 21, 1911 – July 14, 1995), also known as Leigh Richmond-Donahue, was an American writer. Early life and education Tucker was born in Pennsylvania and raised in Montana, Louisiana, Kentucky, and Georgia, one of the five daughters of Royal Kenneth Tucker and Juliet Luttrell Tucker. Her father was an Episcopalian clergyman. She attended Sophia Newcomb College in New Orleans. Her sister Lael Tucker Wertenbaker was a writer and journalist. Career Richmond worked as a reporter, photographer, and editor at smaller newspapers, including at the ''Brevard Sentinel'' and the ''Englewood Herald''. She and her third husband Walt Richmond ran the Centric Foundation and the Richmond-Rohde Press, focused on unconventional ideas in science and education. Their co-authored stories and novels reflect some of the same interests. Richmond taught at the Florida Institute of Technology. The Richmonds spoke at a 1976 Star Trek fan convention in Florida. She served on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Richmond
John Lee Richmond (May 5, 1857 – October 1, 1929) was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played for the Boston Red Stockings, Worcester Worcesters, Providence Grays, and Cincinnati Red Stockings, and is best known for pitching the first perfect game in Major League history. After retiring from baseball, he became a teacher. Early life Richmond was born in Sheffield, Ohio, in 1857. He was the son and grandson of Baptist ministers and he had eight siblings, all of them older. He went to the college preparatory academy affiliated with Oberlin College. He started attending Brown University in 1876 and was an outfielder and pitcher on the school's baseball team.Husman, John R"Lee Richmond" sabr.org. Retrieved January 28, 2014. He was also class president and he played on the football team. Professional baseball career On June 2, 1879, Richmond was paid $10 to pitch for Worcester of the National Baseball Association in an exhibition game against the Chicago White Sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leigh Richmond Roose
Leigh Richmond "Dick" Roose, Military Medal, MM, (27 November 1877 – 7 October 1916) was a Welsh international association football, footballer who kept goal for a number of professional clubs in the English Football League, Football League between 1901 and 1912. A celebrated amateur at a time when the game was played largely by professionals, Roose was renowned as one of the best players in his position in the Edwardian period. He was also well known as a footballing eccentricity (behavior), eccentric, and many stories about him are still told today. Early life Roose was born in Holt, Wrexham, Holt, near Wrexham in Wales, at a time when association football was principally confined to the north of the country. Roose was raised by his father, a Presbyterianism, Presbyterian minister named Richmond Leigh Roose, following the death of his mother from cancer when he was two years old. He was educated at Holt Academy – where in the course of one violent football match, Roose's b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leigh Richmond Miner
Leigh Richmond Miner (1864–1935) was a photographer in the United States. He was the principal photographer at Hampton Institute and his work appeared throughout the school's extensive publications and publicity materials during the first three decades of the twentieth century. He was photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston as a part of her celebrated series of early publicity images for the school, appearing in several images teaching art in school classrooms. As a member of the Hampton Institute Camera Club, his photographs illustrated five of Paul Laurence Dunbar's six books of poetry illustrated with photographs. Miner illustrated the last three books in the series individually while running a photography studio in Yonkers, NY during an leave from the school in 1904-07. Based upon these images alone, he ranks among the most published photographers of images of African Americans. Miner was born in 1864 in Cornwall, Connecticut, to a family of schoolteachers. After s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
