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List Of People From Mansfield, Ohio
The following is a list of people from Mansfield, Ohio. These people were born, lived, or worked in and around the city. Architecture *Paul Gilger, architect, set designer and playwright * F.F. Schnitzer, architect with many structures on the National Register of Historic Places. Principal architect and superintendent of construction for the Old Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield. His name is contained in documents found within the cornerstone of the structure. (https://sites.rootsweb.com/~ohrichla/POP/Bus2/FFS.htm) Astronauts *Michael L. Gernhardt, astronaut Athletics *Ernie Beam, former baseball player * Hugh Douglas, Philadelphia Eagles defensive end * Pete Henry, professional football player * Mary Holda, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player * Dick Logan, professional football player * Terry McDaniel, professional football player for the Oakland Raiders and the Seattle Seahawks *Ricky Minard, professional basketball player * Don Nehlen, former head foot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mansfield, Ohio
Mansfield is a city in and the county seat of Richland County, Ohio, United States. Located midway between Columbus and Cleveland via Interstate 71, it is part of Northeast Ohio region in the western foothills of the Allegheny Plateau. The city lies approximately southwest of Cleveland, southwest of Akron and northeast of Columbus. The city was founded in 1808 on a fork of the Mohican River in a hilly region surrounded by fertile farmlands, and became a manufacturing center owing to its location with numerous railroad lines. After the decline of heavy manufacturing, the city's economy has since diversified into a service economy, including retailing, education, and healthcare sectors. The 2020 Census showed that the city had a total population of 47,534, making it the 21st-largest city in Ohio. The city anchors the Mansfield Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), which had a population of 124,936 residents in 2020,Table of United States Metropolitan Statistical Areas while t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Peterson
William E. Peterson (May 15, 1920 – August 5, 1993) was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. His career included head coaching stops at Florida State University, Rice University and with the Houston Oilers of the National Football League (NFL). Considered one of the unique characters in college sports, Peterson is credited with bringing the pro passing game to college football. He is also known as the "Coach of Coaches", having tutored such coaches as Joe Gibbs, Bill Parcells, Bobby Bowden, Don James, Dan Henning, Ken Meyer and many others. Coach "Pete", as he was known, is also remembered for his reshaping of the English language. One of his more novel expressions was to have his team "pair off in groups of threes, then line up in a circle." Beyond his trials with syntax, Peterson is best remembered for bringing the Seminoles to the forefront of college football, using pro-style offenses and a much feared passing game. Youth and family l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Hertzler
Terry Hertzler (born in Mansfield, Ohio, in 1949) is an American poet and writer. Hertzler is the owner of Caernarvon Press, a small literary press based in San Diego, California, that publishes both well-known and emerging writers. Hertzler's own work includes several chapbooks of poetry and fiction as well as ''The Way of the Snake'', a book of poetry based on his experiences as a soldier in the war in Vietnam, and ''Second Skin'' (), of which Dorianne Laux said, "''Second Skin'' provides ample evidence that poetry can be both accessible and powerful, that writing doesn't have to be obscure or difficult to make us think, to move us. Hertzler paints word pictures whose images stay with the reader long after the book is closed." His work has been nominated three times for The Pushcart Prize and has been widely published in literary journals and anthologies, including ''The Iowa Review,'' ''The Writer'', ''Literal Latte'', '' North American Review'', '' Margie'', '' Nimrod'', ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stacy Dittrich
Stacy Dittrich (born March 2, 1973), a former police detective from Ohio, is an American mystery novelist and true crime author. Career Dittrich, a graduate of Lexington High School, retired from the Richland County Sheriff's Department in Mansfield, Ohio, in 2008. She began her police career as a dispatcher in 1992 and became a deputy in 1996, after being exposed to law enforcement by her father and three uncles, who were police officers. In 1997, ''The Mansfield News Journal'' printed a two-page feature article about Dittrich and her retired father titled "Like Father, Like Daughter: The Beat Goes On." In 2002, Dittrich received the Victims of Crime Award from the Ohio attorney general. In 2009, she received a commendation from Ohio State Rep. Margaret Ann Ruhlfor her writing achievements. Dittrich is a regular contributor to Women in Crime Ink, She co-hosted a weekly radio show, "Justice Interrupted," with former Los Angeles County prosecutor Robin Sax. Her book, ''Murder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher, and is administered by Columbia University. Prizes are awarded annually in twenty-one categories. In twenty of the categories, each winner receives a certificate and a US$15,000 cash award (raised from $10,000 in 2017). The winner in the public service category is awarded a gold medal. Entry and prize consideration The Pulitzer Prize does not automatically consider all applicable works in the media, but only those that have specifically been entered. (There is a $75 entry fee, for each desired entry category.) Entries must fit in at least one of the specific prize categories, and cannot simply gain entrance for being literary or musical. Works can also be entered only in a maximum of two categories, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roeliff Brinkerhoff
Roeliff Brinkerhoff (June 28, 1828 – June 4, 1911) was a lawyer, editor and owner of the ''Mansfield Herald'', and later a bank president. He was a quartermaster and supply officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, rising to the rank of colonel. In recognition of his service, he was nominated in 1866 and confirmed in 1867 for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general of volunteers. His work, "The Volunteer Quartermaster" was considered the definitive text on military logistics and transportation from the Civil War until World War I. He also founded the Ohio Historical Society and succeeded former President Rutherford B. Hayes as president of the American National Prison Congress. Early life and career Roeliff (often mistakenly known as 'Ruloff') was born in Owasco, Cayuga County, New York. His parents were Joris R. “George” (1785-1849) and Jacomyntje Bevier Brinkerhoff (1794-1830), of Dutch descent. He was also of French Huguenot descent and wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Brinkerhoff
Jacob Brinkerhoff (August 31, 1810 – July 19, 1880) was an American jurist, Congressman, and author of the Wilmot Proviso. Life and career Brinkerhoff was born in Niles, Cayuga County, New York. He was schooled at the academy at Prattsburgh, New York, and studied law in the office of Howell and Bro. Two years later he moved to Mansfield, Ohio, where in 1837 he was admitted to the bar and began to practice in partnership with Thomas W. Bartley. In October of that year he married Carolina Campbell, who died in 1839. He then married Marian Titus, of Detroit, Michigan, by whom he had two sons and two daughters. He was prosecuting attorney for Richland County, Ohio, from 1839 to 1843, and was then elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1847), where he was chairman of the Committee on Invalid Pensions (Twenty-eighth Congress). He became affiliated with the Free Soil party and drew up the famous resolution known as the Wilm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Bromfield
Louis Bromfield (December 27, 1896 – March 18, 1956) was an American writer and conservationist. A bestselling novelist in the 1920s, he reinvented himself as a farmer in the late 1930s and became one of the earliest proponents of sustainable and organic agriculture in the United States. He won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1927 for Early Autumn, founded the experimental Malabar Farm near Mansfield, Ohio, and played an important role in the early environmental movement. Life Early life Lewis Brumfield was born in Mansfield, Ohio, in 1896 to Charles Brumfield, a bank cashier and real estate speculator, and Annette Marie Coulter Brumfield, the daughter of an Ohio farmer. (Brumfield later changed the spelling of his name to "Louis Bromfield" because he thought it looked more distinguished.) As a boy, Bromfield loved working on his grandfather's farm. In 1914, he enrolled in Cornell University to study agriculture. Yet his family's deteriorating financial situa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Feick
Jamie Feick (born July 3, 1974) is an American former professional basketball player. He was selected by the Philadelphia 76ers in the 2nd round (48th overall) of the 1996 NBA draft. A center from Michigan State University, Feick played in the NBA from 1996 to 2001. He played for the Charlotte Hornets The Charlotte Hornets are an American professional basketball team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Hornets compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Southeast Division, and pla ..., San Antonio Spurs, Milwaukee Bucks and New Jersey Nets. Playing career He won a high school state championship with Lexington High School in 1989 and 1991. In his NBA career, Feick played in 201 games and scored a total of 911 points. In the lockout-shortened 1999 season, Feick averaged 11 rebounds per game in 26 games for the New Jersey Nets, and on January 20, 2000 recorded 12 points and 25 rebounds in one game. His last gam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
