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Magoffin may refer to: People * Andy Magoffin, Canadian musician and record producer * Beriah Magoffin (1815–1885), American politician, Governor of Kentucky, and brother of Ebenezer Magoffin *Ebenezer Magoffin (1817-1865), Confederate officer and brother of Beriah Magoffin *Paul Magoffin (1883–1956), American football player *Ralph Van Deman Magoffin (1874–1942), American academic *Steve Magoffin (born 1979), Australian cricketer *Susan Shelby Magoffin (1827–1855), American diarist Places * Magoffin County, Kentucky * Magoffin Homestead, El Paso, Texas Other uses * USS ''Magoffin'' (APA-199), a US Navy attack transport See also * MacGuffin *Maguffin Maguffin is a Soho-based London production company. Maguffin currently represents the following directors, among others: * Simon Hilton – music videos and documentaries, live concerts, concert projections, art films, website design, internet mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Magoffin
Joel Andrew Magoffin, best known as Andy Magoffin, is a Canadians, Canadian musician and record producer. He is the songwriter, vocalist and guitarist for the indie rock band Two-Minute Miracles and the touring bass guitarist for Raised by Swans. His extensive record-producing credits have led ''Now (newspaper), Now'' magazine to dub him "the Timbaland of southern Ontario alt-country"; he has produced albums for artists including Great Lake Swimmers, The Hidden Cameras, The Constantines,Love, Noah. "Band together; It's not a life for everyone, but there's simply no other life quite like one spent making music", ''Toronto Star'', 13 January 2004, p. E1. By Divine Right,Ben Rayner, Rayner, Ben. "Music makes troubled town more livable", ''Toronto Star'', 9 March 2003, p. D11. Royal City (band), Royal City, The Priddle Concern, Detective Kalita, The Weekend (Canadian band), The Weekend, The Burning Hell (band), The Burning Hell, The Patients, The Parkas, Panic Coast, The Randals [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beriah Magoffin
Beriah Magoffin (April 18, 1815 – February 28, 1885) was the 21st Governor of Kentucky, serving during the early part of the Civil War. Personally, Magoffin adhered to a states' rights position, including the right of a state to secede from the Union, and he sympathized with the Confederate cause. Nevertheless, when the Kentucky General Assembly adopted a position of neutrality in the war, Magoffin ardently held to it, refusing calls for aid from both the Union and Confederate governments. In special elections held in June 1861, Unionists captured nine of Kentucky's ten congressional seats and obtained two-thirds majorities in both houses of the state legislature. Despite Magoffin's strict adherence to the policy of neutrality, the Unionist legislature did not trust him and routinely overrode his vetoes. Unable to provide effective leadership due to a hostile legislature, Magoffin agreed to resign as governor in 1862, provided he could choose his successor. Lieutenant g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ebenezer Magoffin
Ebenezer "Ben" Magoffin (1817-1865) was a Confederate officer in the American Civil War who carried a Missouri State Guard's colonel's commission and became a prominent figure in the early phase of the war in Missouri. He was sentenced to death by a Union Army military commission in 1862, but was spared execution after Kentucky Governor Beriah Magoffin pleaded for the life of his brother with Abraham Lincoln. Early life Ebenezer Magoffin was born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky to Beriah Magoffin, Sr., and Jane (McAfee) Magoffin. Among his siblings were a Kentucky governor Beriah Magoffin and James Wiley Magoffin (1799–1868), a U.S. consul in Mexico. On July 12 1836, he married Margaret Ann Hutchison (1820-1861) and they had nine children. Around 1856, he relocated his family to Boone County, Missouri and then purchased 2,160 acres in Pettis County, Missouri for $16,000 naming the new farm, ''Prairie Lea''.Claycomb, William BPresident Lincoln and the Magoffin Brothers Dayton, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Magoffin
Paul Parker "Maggie" Magoffin (March 30, 1883 – February 1, 1956) was an American football player. He played left halfback for Fielding H. Yost's University of Michigan Wolverines football teams of 1904, 1905, 1906 and 1907, and was captain of the 1907 team. He later served as a football coach at North Dakota State University and George Washington University. Early years Magoffin first played football on a Kansas high school team. He later ran track and played two years of football for Central High School in Washington, D.C. He later attended the Academy at Marietta and played one year for of football for Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio. At Marietta, Magoffin played for William C. "King" Cole, who had previously been a star player for Fielding H. Yost at the University of Michigan. University of Michigan In 1904, Magoffin transferred to the University of Michigan, began playing on the freshman team, but played in several games for the varsity team, though he was not a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Van Deman Magoffin
Ralph Van Deman Magoffin (1874 – 1942) was an American Classical scholar and archaeologist. He received his B.A. from the University of Michigan and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. In 1907 Magoffin was a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, during which time he studied the topography of ancient Praeneste. Magoffin taught Ancient history and Archaeology at Johns Hopkins University. He was from 1920 to 1921 affiliated with the American Academy in Rome and from 1923 to 1930 served as chair of the Department of Classics at New York University. From 1921 to 1931 he served as president of the Archaeological Institute of America. Magoffin was the nephew of Esther Boise Van Deman Esther Boise Van Deman (October 1, 1862 – 3 May 1937) was a leading archaeologist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She developed techniques that allowed her to estimate the building dates of ancient buildings in Rome. Life Esther .... Publications * 1908. ''A study of the topog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Magoffin
Steven James Magoffin (born 17 December 1979) is a former Australian cricketer, who most recently played for Worcestershire in English county cricket, and having previously played for Western Australia and Queensland in Australian domestic matches. He has also played county cricket as an overseas player for Surrey and Sussex. A former Queensland Academy of Sport The Queensland Academy of Sport (QAS) is an elite sports institute set up in 1991 by the Queensland Government to support athletes in the state of Queensland. Its headquarters are currently located at the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre in ... player, Magoffin made his debut for WA in 2004-05 where he played every Pura Cup in the season, finishing with 28 wickets at 35.10. He has a career-best haul of 8 for 20, playing for Sussex against Somerset in 2013. He played a few matches for Surrey in April and May, 2007 as a substitute for Matthew Nicholson. In 2015, Magoffin applied for a UK passport, thus making ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Shelby Magoffin
Susan Shelby Magoffin (30 July 1827 – 26 October 1855) was the wife of a trader from the United States who traveled on the Santa Fe Trail in the late 1840s. The diary in which she recorded her experiences has been used extensively as a source for histories of the time. Biography Susan Shelby was born into a wealthy family on 30 July 1827 on their plantation near Danville, Kentucky. Her grandfather was Isaac Shelby, a hero of the American Revolutionary War and the first governor of Kentucky. On 25 November 1845, when aged eighteen, she married Samuel Magoffin. Samuel was the son of an Irish immigrant who had prospered in Kentucky. Samuel and his brother James Wiley Magoffin had been active in the Santa Fe trade since the 1820s, travelling widely in the United States and Mexico and gaining considerable wealth. James became U.S. consul at Saltillo in 1828 and married the daughter of a prominent Chihuahua merchant in 1830. Samuel Magoffin took his bride with him, travelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magoffin County, Kentucky
Magoffin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2010 census, the population was 13,333. Its county seat is Salyersville. The county was formed in 1860 from adjacent portions of Floyd, Johnson, and Morgan Counties. It was named for Beriah Magoffin who was Governor of Kentucky (1859–62). History The area now encompassed by Kentucky's Magoffin County was first bounded in 1772, when all of what is now the state of Kentucky was in the frontier county of Fincastle County, Virginia. Fincastle was divided in 1776, with the western portion named Kentucky County, Virginia. In 1780, the Virginia legislature set aside all land in Kentucky County for soldiers who had served in the Revolutionary War. In 1780, Kentucky County was divided into 3 counties, Jefferson, Fayette, and Lincoln. Fayette County was divided in 1785, with part becoming Bourbon County. In 1792, the lower part of Bourbon County was partitioned off to form Clark County. The area was furthe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magoffin Homestead
Magoffin Home is located in El Paso, Texas. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. The surrounding area was declared the Magoffin Historic District on February 19, 1985. The home is now known as the Magoffin Home State Historic Site under the authority of the Texas Historical Commission. The Magoffin Home, built in 1875, is a combination of the local adobe style combined with Greek revival details and is an example of the Territorial style. The thick adobe walls keep the house cool in the summer heat and warm in the winter. The house consists of three wings, each built at a different time, the last being built in the 1880s as the center that connected the two previous wings. There are 19 rooms, 8 fireplaces, and ceilings. Members of the family lived in it for 109 years, and many of the original furnishings are still displayed, including a half-tester bed. Built by pioneer Joseph Magoffin, who lived there with his wife, Octavia (MacGreal) until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Magoffin (APA-199)
USS ''Magoffin'' (APA/LPA-199) was a ''Haskell''-class attack transport in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946 and from 1950 to 1968. She was scrapped in 1980. History ''Magoffin'' (''APA 199''), built under Maritime Commission contract, launched 4 October 1944 by Kaiser Shipbuilding Co., Vancouver, Washington; sponsored by Mrs. Fred Schlotfeldt; and commissioned 25 October 1944. World War II Attached to Transport Division 54 during post commissioning amphibious training off the coast of southern California, ''Magoffin'' conveyed troops and cargo in the South Pacific until 1 March 1945. On that date she commenced rehearsals at Guadalcanal for the invasion of the Ryukyus. Underway on the 27th, she steamed with the invasion force for Okinawa, where she participated in the landings 1 April. During the battle for Okinawa, ''Magoffin'', the first ship in Transport Division 54 to be unloaded, assisted in downing two enemy planes. After this campaign ''Magoffin' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MacGuffin
In fiction, a MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin) is an object, device, or event that is necessary to the plot and the motivation of the characters, but insignificant, unimportant, or irrelevant in itself. The term was originated by Angus MacPhail for film, adopted by Alfred Hitchcock, and later extended to a similar device in other fiction. The MacGuffin technique is common in films, especially thrillers. Usually, the MacGuffin is revealed in the first act, and thereafter declines in importance. It can reappear at the climax of the story but may actually be forgotten by the end of the story. Multiple MacGuffins are sometimes derisively identified as plot coupons. History and use The use of a MacGuffin as a plot device predates the name MacGuffin. The Holy Grail of Arthurian legend has been cited as an early example of a MacGuffin. The Holy Grail is the desired object that is essential to initiate and advance the plot. The final disposition of the Grail is never revealed, suggesting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
