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Lippincott
Lippincott may refer to: Arts and media * ''Lippincott's Monthly Magazine'' a 19th-century literary magazine published in Philadelphia, U.S. * Andy Lippincott, a fictional character in the comic strip ''Doonesbury'' * "Lippincott", a song by Animals as Leaders from the album ''The Joy of Motion'', 2014 Businesses * J. B. Lippincott & Co., an American publishing company founded in 1836 ** Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, successor company, formed in 1998 * Lippincott (brand consultancy), an American brand strategy and design company People * Charles E. Lippincott (1825–1887), American physician and politician * David McCord Lippincott (1924–1984), American composer and lyricist * Donald Lippincott (1893–1963), American athlete * Esther J. Trimble Lippincott (1838—1888), American educator, reformer, author * Janet Lippincott (1918–2007), American artist * Joan Lippincott (born 1935), American concert organist and organ professor * Job H. Lippincott (1842–1900), Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Ballinger Lippincott
J. B. Lippincott & Co. was an American publishing house founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1836 by Joshua Ballinger Lippincott. It was incorporated in 1885 as J. B. Lippincott Company. History 1836–1977 Joshua Ballinger Lippincott (March 18, 1813 – January 5, 1886) founded the publishing company in Philadelphia when he was 23 years old. J. B. Lippincott & Co. began business publishing Bibles and prayer books before expanding into history, biography, fiction, poetry, and gift books. The company later added almanacs, medicine and law, school textbooks, and dictionaries. In 1849, Lippincott acquired Grigg, Elliot & Co., a significant publisher and wholesaler whose origins dated back to printer and bookseller Benjamin and Jacob Johnson in 1792. In 1850 J. B. Lippincott & Co. became Lippincott, Grambo & Co. but reverted to its former name in 1855. The company was incorporated in 1878 as J. B. Lippincott Company. Lippincott published the first textbook of nursing in the US i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Lippincott
Donald Fithian Lippincott (November 16, 1893 – January 9, 1963) was an American athlete who competed in the sprint events. He competed for the United States in the 1912 Summer Olympics held in Stockholm, Sweden where he finished third in the 100 m and second in the 200 m. Lippincott was the first record holder over 100 meters as recognised by the IAAF (then the International Amateur Athletics Federation, now known as the International Association of Athletics Federations). He set the world record in a heat of 100 m at the 1912 Olympics.Franks, Tim (12 June 2012How Donald Lippincott blazed trail as first 100m record holder BBC Sport. Early life Lippincott was a scion of a wealthy Philadelphia family., , Penn Biographies, Penn University Archives & record Center. Retrieved 12 July 2012. the son of Alfonse Fithian L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara Jane Lippincott
Sara Jane Lippincott (pseudonym Grace Greenwood) (née Clarke; September 23, 1823 – April 20, 1904) was an American author, poet, correspondent, lecturer, and newspaper founder. One of the first women to gain access into the Congressional press galleries, she used her questions to advocate for social reform and women's rights. Her best known books for children are entitled, ''History of My Pets'' (1850); ''Recollections of My Childhood'' (1851); ''Stories of Many Lands'' (1866); ''Merrie England'' (1854); ''Bonnie Scotland'' (1861); ''Stories and Legends of Travel and History''; ''Stories and Sights of France and Italy'' (1867). The volumes for older readers are two series of collected prose writings, ''Greenwood Leaves'' (1849, 1851); ''Poems'' (1850); ''Haps and Mishaps of a Tour in Europe'' (1852); ''A Forest Tragedy'' (1856); ''A Record of Five Years'' (1867); ''New Life in New Lands'' (1873); ''Victoria, Queen of England''. This last was published, in 1883, by Anderson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lippincott (brand Consultancy)
Lippincott is an American brand strategy and design company. Based in New York, it is part of the Oliver Wyman Group, a business unit of Marsh & McLennan Companies. History Lippincott was founded in 1943 as Dohner & Lippincott by Donald R. Dohner and J. Gordon Lippincott, who taught together at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. After Dohner's sudden death in December of that year, the name was changed to J. Gordon Lippincott & Associates. In the late 1940s, Lippincott joined forces with Walter P. Margulies, and the firm was renamed Lippincott & Margulies. Works The company's early design work included the Campbell Soup Company's red-and-white can, the FTD Mercury logo, the Betty Crocker spoon, the ''G'' on General Mills products, and adaptations of the Coca-Cola logo. In 1947, automobile designer Preston Tucker hired J. Gordon Lippincott & Associates to replace automotive designer Alex Tremulis in the body development of the 1948 Tucker Sedan. The Lippincott team designed a new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Lippincott
Janet Lippincott (16 May 1918 – May 2, 2007) was an American artist born in New York City, who lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, from 1946 until her death. She was a part of an artistic movement called the New Mexico Modernists. Her work was abstract, and she worked in a variety of painting media and also made prints. Biography Lippincott was the sister of W.J. Lippincott, who headed Lord & Taylor in New York, and of David McCord Lippincott who wrote the songs ''Daddy Was A Yale Man'' and ''Saving Ourselves For Yale''. She spent part of her childhood in Paris, where she was exposed to modernist painters. She attended the Art Students League of New York, and subsequently enrolled in the Women's Army Corps during World War II, working on Dwight D. Eisenhower, Eisenhower's staff. In 1941-42, during the The Blitz, London Blitz, a building collapsed around her and she broke her back. In 1949, Lippincott attended the Emil Bisttram School for Transcendentalism in Taos, New Mexico. After s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Lee Lippincott
Sarah Lee Lippincott (October 26, 1920 – February 28, 2019), also known as Sarah Lee Lippincott Zimmerman, was an American astronomer. She was professor emerita of astronomy at Swarthmore College and director emerita of the college's Sproul Observatory. She was a pioneer in the use of astrometry to determine the character of binary stars and search for extrasolar planets. Education Lippincott received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1941 and an Master of Arts from Swarthmore College in 1942. Life Lippincott was born in 1920 and attended college at the University of Pennsylvania College for Women in the 1940s, where she played on the women's basketball team. After graduation from the University of Pennsylvania, Lippincott attended Swarthmore College, where she worked closely with Peter van de Kamp on many astrometry projects between 1945 and his retirement in 1972, when she became observatory director. She wrote his obituary when he died in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Lippincott
Joan Lippincott (born December 25, 1935) is an American concert organist and former head of the organ department at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. She was born Joan Edna Hult on December 25, 1935, the daughter of Edna and Frank Hult, in Kearny, New Jersey. Her early keyboard studies were with William Jancovius of Nutley, New Jersey. After attending Kearny High School, she entered Westminster Choir College, where she studied with the renowned Alexander McCurdy. Upon graduation from Westminster Choir College, she gained entrance to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she was again the student of Alexander McCurdy as well as Vladimir Sokoloff. Following her Diploma from the Curtis Institute, she returned to Westminster Choir College to earn her master's degree. At the same time, she was hired by McCurdy to join the keyboard faculty at Westminster, starting what would become her 37-year tenure. On June 18, 1960, she married Curtis Lippincott i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Wharton Lippincott
Joseph Wharton Lippincott (February 28, 1887 – October 22, 1976) was a noted publisher, author, naturalist, and sportsman. He was the grandson of Joshua Ballinger Lippincott, founder of Philadelphia publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, and of industrialist Joseph Wharton, founder of the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania. Biography Lippincott was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of J. Bertram Lippincott, one of the three children of Joshua Bertram Lippincott, and Joanna Wharton Lippincott, one of the three daughters of Joseph Wharton. He was educated at the Episcopal Academy and the Wharton School, from which he graduated in 1908. Following college, he joined J. B. Lippincott & Co., the family publishing firm he would serve for fifty years, including as president from 1927 until 1948, and then as chairman of the board until his retirement in 1958. Books Lippincott wrote seventeen books about animals and nature, including ''Wilderness Champ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) is an American imprint of the American Dutch publishing conglomerate Wolters Kluwer. It was established by the acquisition of Williams & Wilkins and its merger with J.B. Lippincott Company in 1998. Under the LWW brand, Wolters Kluwer, through its Health Division, publishes scientific, technical, and medical content such as textbooks, reference works, and over 275 scientific journals (most of which are medical or other public health journals). Publications are aimed at physicians, nurses, clinicians, and students. Overview LWW grew out of the gradual consolidation of various earlier independent publishers by Wolters Kluwer. Predecessor Wolters Samson acquired Raven Press of New York in 1986. Wolters Samson merged with Kluwer in 1987. The merged company bought J. B. Lippincott & Co. of Philadelphia in 1990; it merged Lippincott with the Raven Press to form Lippincott-Raven in 1995. In 1997 and 1998, Wolters Kluwer acquired Thomson Science (owner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Lippincott (Quaker)
Richard Lippincott (1615–1683) was an early settler of Shrewsbury, New Jersey.Clement, John (1877). "The Lipponcotts". ''Sketches of the first emigrant settlers in Newton Township, Old Gloucester County, West New Jersey''. Camden: Sinnickson Chew. pp. 377-385 Lippincott was a devout English people, English Quaker who emigrated to Colonial America to escape persecution for his religious beliefs. Life Born in Devon, England, Richard Lippincott settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony and became a member of the church, consequently being made a Freeman by the General Court of Boston on 13 May 1640. His first child, a son was born there and he was named Remembrance in the traditional Puritan manner. However Lippincott soon removed to Boston where his second son John and his eldest daughter Abigail were born. He was becoming disillusioned with New England Puritanism and was formally excommunicated on 6 July 1651 for being tenacious about his religi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Lippincott (Loyalist)
Captain Richard Lippincott, U.E. (January 2, 1745 – May 14, 1826) was an American-born Loyalist (American Revolution), Loyalist who served in the British Army during the American War of Independence. He is best known for his part in the Asgill Affair in which he hanged an enemy officer, Joshua Huddy, in revenge for similar murders of Loyalists, provoking an international incident. Lippincott was born in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, a member of an old colonial family. He married on March 4, 1770, Esther Borden, daughter of Jeremiah and Esther Borden, of Bordentown, New Jersey. On the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, he sided with the Crown. Captured early in the war and confined in the jail at Burlington, New Jersey, he escaped in 1776 and made his way to the British Army at Staten Island. He fought with the New Jersey Volunteers, which David Gagan described as an irregular group that fought guerilla warfare behind American lines. In 1782, Lippincott's brother-in-law, Phili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lippincott's Monthly Magazine
''Lippincott's Monthly Magazine'' was a 19th-century literary magazine published in Philadelphia from 1868 to 1915, when it relocated to New York to become ''Robert M. McBride, McBride's Magazine''. It merged with ''Scribner's Magazine'' in 1916. ''Lippincott's'' published original works, general articles, and literary criticism. It is indexed in the Reader's Guide Retrospective database, and the full-text of many issues is available online from Project Gutenberg, and in various commercial databases such as the American Periodicals Series from ProQuest. ''Lippincott's'' was published by J. B. Lippincott of Philadelphia until 1914, then by McBride, Nast & Co. There were 96 semi-annual volumes. From 1881 to 1885 they were issued as vols. 1 to 10 "New Series" or "N.S." (see image) and bound such as "Old Series, Vol. XXVII – New Series, Vol. I" (January to June 1881) but the old series was resumed with January 1887 issued as volume 37, number 1. Joseph Berg Esenwein was editor from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
