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Marie Smith (other)
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Marie Smith may refer to: * Marie Smith Jones (1918–2008), last surviving speaker of the Eyak language of Southcentral Alaska *Marie Selika Williams, née Marie Smith, American coloratura soprano *Marie Smith (bowls), lawn bowler from Guernsey *Marie Smith (activist), activist in Portland, Oregon *Marie Lindberg Smith, better known as Marie Louise Lindberg, mineralogist * Marie Rose (Delorme) Smith (1861–1960), Métis rancher, homesteader, medicine woman, midwife, and author. See also * *Maria Smith (other) *Mary Smith (other) Mary Smith may refer to: Public officials *Mary Ellen Smith (1861/63–1933), Canadian legislator *Mary Louise Smith (politician) (1914–1997), American political organizer * Mary Ann Smith (born 1948), American local-level legislator *Mary L. Sm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Smith Jones
Marie Smith Jones (May 14, 1918January 21, 2008) was an American national who the last surviving speaker of the Eyak language of Southcentral Alaska. She was born in Cordova, Alaska, was an honorary chief of the Eyak Nation and the last remaining full-blooded Eyak. In a 2005 interview, Smith Jones explained that her name in Eyak is which, she said, translates as ''"a sound that calls people from afar"''. Biography Jones married a fisherman, William F. Smith, on May 5, 1948. Although she had nine children with Smith, they did not learn to speak Eyak due to the social stigma associated with it at the time. She moved to Anchorage in the 1970s. So that a record of the Eyak language would survive, she worked with linguist Michael E. Krauss, who compiled a dictionary and grammar of it. Her last older sibling died in the 1990s. Afterwards, Jones became politically active, and on two occasions she spoke at the United Nations on the issues of peace and indigenous languages. She was also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Selika Williams
Marie Selika Williams (c. 1849 – May 19, 1937) was an American coloratura soprano. She was the first black artist to perform in the White House. Biography She was born Marie Smith in Natchez, Mississippi, around 1849. After she was born her family moved to Cincinnati, where a wealthy family funded voice lessons for her. She moved to San Francisco in the 1870s and studied with Signora G. Bianchi. She then studied in Chicago with Antonio Farini, who taught the Italian method. There she met a fellow student, operatic baritone Sampson Williams, whom she would later marry. Williams became the first Black artist to perform in the White House in 1878. On November 13, she sang for President Rutherford B. Hayes and First Lady Lucy Webb Hayes in the Green Room and was introduced by Marshall Fred Douglass. She performed at Philadelphia's Academy of Music in 1878 and at New York's Steinway Hall in 1879. From 1882 to 1885 she performed across Europe with her husband, giving a concert in St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Smith (bowls)
Marie Smith is a former international lawn bowler from Guernsey. Bowls career Smith won a silver medal in the Women's pairs at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh Edinburgh ( ; gd, Dùn Èideann ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian ... with Jenny Nicolle. References English female bowls players Living people Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Guernsey Bowls players at the 1986 Commonwealth Games Year of birth missing (living people) Medallists at the 1986 Commonwealth Games {{UK-bowls-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Smith (activist)
Marie Smith (1898–1991) was an activist in Portland, Oregon. She was one of the founders of the Oregon Association of Colored Women's Clubs, and was the first female president of the Portland Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Biography Smith was born in Paris, Texas, in 1898, and moved to Toppenish, Washington, in 1910 to live with her father. Her grandfathers were both slaves and her father was a railway depot janitor, baggageman, and mailman in Toppenish. She married Elwood Smith on July 5, 1917 in Spokane, Washington, and they moved to Portland a few weeks later. When Marie Smith and her husband moved from their southeast Woodstock home to a white neighborhood in northeast Portland, they faced housing discrimination from their neighbors who signed a petition requesting them to leave. Activism Smith and her husband moved to Portland in 1917. Elwood Smith was a Pullman porter, earning $60 a month, which allowed Marie to be political ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Louise Lindberg
Marie Louise Lindberg (also published as Marie Lindberg Smith; 1918–2005) was a mineralogist. She was affiliated with the U.S. Geological Survey and noted for her studies of mineralogy in Brazil. Multiple species of mineral were first described by her, including frondelite, faheyite, moraesite, barbosalite, and tavorite. These 5 minerals were all described by her and various collaborators in the 1940s and 1950s, and sourced from a quarry in Galileia, Minas Gerais. As of March 1950, Lindberg held both Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts A Master of Arts ( la, Magister Artium or ''Artium Magister''; abbreviated MA, M.A., AM, or A.M.) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is usually contrasted with that of Master of Science. Tho ... degrees. Lindberg joined the Geological Survey in 1943, and received training from Joe Fahey. In 1953, she and Kiguma Jack Murata, K. J. Murata described a new mineral; they named it '' fah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Rose (Delorme) Smith
Marie Rose (Delorme) Smith (18 October 1861 – 4 April 1960) was a Métis rancher/homesteader, medicine woman, midwife, and author who was noted for her work chronicling the daily life of Métis women. She was declared a Person of National Historic Significance by Parks Canada in 2022. Life Early life Smith was born Marie Rose Delorme on October 18, 1861, in Saint François-Xavier in the Red River Colony, British North America (present day Manitoba, Canada) . Her father was Urbain Delorme II and her mother was Marie Desmarais. Her father died while she was young, leaving money for her and her sister to attend the Grey Nuns boarding school in Saint Boniface, Manitoba. She attended from the ages of 12 to 16, where she learned to speak and write both English and French. She also remained fluent in Cree, and likely Michif, while attending the school. She spoke about missing the annual routine of traversing the western plains with her family in order to hunt and trade with Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Smith (other)
Maria Smith may refer to: * Maria Smith (actress), eighteenth century British actress *Maria Ann Smith (1799–1870), British-Australian fruit grower known as "Granny Smith" *Maria Geraldine Smith (born 1961), British politician See also *Maria Smith-Falkner (1878–1968), Soviet economist and statistician * Maria Smith Abdy * * Marie Smith (other) *Maria Smythe Maria Anne Fitzherbert (''née'' Smythe, previously Weld; 26 July 1756 – 27 March 1837) was a longtime companion of George, Prince of Wales (later King George IV of the United Kingdom). In 1785, they secretly contracted a marriage that was i ... * Mary Smith (other) {{human name disambiguation, Smith, Maria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
