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McTyeire
McTyeire may refer to: People *Holland Nimmons McTyeire (1824–1889), American Methodist bishop, Vanderbilt University co-founder, and slavery advocate *Rex H. McTyeire, co-founder of the far-right militia Oath Keepers in the U.S. * Holland McTyeire Smith (1882–1967), American marine general * Holland Thompson (Holland McTyeire Thompson; 1873–1940), American historian Places *McTyeire, Georgia, a town now known as Young Harris, Georgia, U.S. Schools * McTyeire College, a defunct Methodist college in McKenzie, Tennessee, U.S. *McTyeire Hall, a residential building at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. * McTyeire Institute, now known as Young Harris College, in Georgia, U.S. *McTyeire School McTyeire School () was a private girls' school in Shanghai. It was established by Young John Allen and Laura Askew Haygood in 1882. Its namesake was Holland Nimmons McTyeire. History The school had seven students in 1855 and more than 100 studen ..., in Shanghai, China ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holland Nimmons McTyeire
Holland Nimmons McTyeire (July 28, 1824 – February 15, 1889) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1866. He was a co-founder of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He was a supporter of slavery in the United States. Early life Holland McTyeire was born on July 28, 1824, in Barnwell County, South Carolina"McTyeire, Holland Nimmons", in ''The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge''. Samuel Macauley Jackson, ed. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1954, p. 12/ref> His parents; Capt. John McTyeire (1792–1859) and Elizabeth Nimmons (1803–1861), were both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. His father was "a cotton planter and a slaveholder." McTyeire attended the higher schools available at the time: first at Cokesbury, South Carolina, then Collinsworth Institute in Georgia. He graduated from Randolph-Macon College in Virginia (A.B. degree, 1844). Career Already licensed to preach, McTye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1-million endowment in the hopes that his gift and the greater work of the university would help to heal the sectional wounds inflicted by the Civil War. Vanderbilt enrolls approximately 13,800 students from the US and over 100 foreign countries. Vanderbilt is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". Several research centers and institutes are affiliated with the university, including the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center, and Dyer Observatory. Vanderbilt University Medical Center, formerly part of the university, became a separate institution in 2016. With the exception of the off-campus observatory, all of the university's facilities are situated on it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McTyeire School
McTyeire School () was a private girls' school in Shanghai. It was established by Young John Allen and Laura Askew Haygood in 1882. Its namesake was Holland Nimmons McTyeire. History The school had seven students in 1855 and more than 100 students in 1900. Multiple missionaries of the school lived in a building across from it. In 1952 it merged with St. Mary's Hall into Shanghai No. 3 Girls' High School. Demographics Most of the students originated from Shanghai. The school for its entire history catered to high socioeconomic status families and accordingly drew most its students from them. Citing ''Qianshi jinsheng'' (前世今生, "The previous generation and life today") by Su Su (素素), Wang Zheng, author of ''Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories'', wrote that "parents spent fortunes to make social connections that would help their daughters enroll" at McTyeire due to its prestige. The ''Christian Advocate'' in 1908 stated that, according to Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holland McTyeire Smith
Holland McTyeire "Howlin' Mad" Smith, KCB (April 20, 1882 – January 12, 1967) was a general in the United States Marine Corps during World War II. He is sometimes called the "father" of modern U.S. amphibious warfare. His nickname, "Howlin' Mad" Smith, had been given to him by his troops in the Dominican Republic in 1916. On the eve of World War II, General Smith directed extensive Army, Navy, and Marine amphibious training, which was a major factor in successful U.S. landings in both the Atlantic and Pacific. He subsequently helped prepare U.S. Army and Canadian troops for the Kiska and Attu landings, then led the V Amphibious Corps in the assaults on the Gilbert Islands, the Marshall Islands, the island of Saipan, and Tinian in the Marianas. During the Marianas operation, besides the V Amphibious Corps, he commanded all Expeditionary Troops, including those that recaptured Guam. He then served as the first commanding general of Fleet Marine Force, Pacific, and headed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Harris, Georgia
Young Harris is a city in Towns County, Georgia, United States. The population was 899 at the 2010 census. Young Harris is home to Young Harris College, after which it was named. Geography Young Harris is located at (34.934233, -83.847681). The city is located at the junction of U.S. Route 76/Georgia State Route 515 (Zell Miller Mountain Parkway) and Georgia State Route 66. U.S. 76/GA-515 run through the center of town from west to east, with GA-515 splitting off to the north in the eastern part of the city from U.S. 76. U.S. 76 leads east to Hiawassee, the Towns County seat, and southwest (with GA-515) to Blairsville. GA-66 leads northwest from Young Harris to its end at the Georgia-North Carolina state line. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.0 square mile (2.6 km), all land. Adjacent cities These are cities within an approximate 15 mile radius of Young Harris. Demographics As of the 2010 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holland Thompson
Holland McTyeire Thompson (July 30, 1873 – October 21, 1940), was an American historian who wrote about the New South. Early life Thompson was born in Randolph County, North Carolina. He graduated from the University of North Carolina. Career Thompson served as a high school principal at Concord High School in Concord, North Carolina from 1895–99, where he wrote an essay about the transformation of southern culture from a rural agricultural to textile/manufacturing way of life that he witnessed while an educator in Concord. This essay, in part, gained Thompson admittance to Columbia University where he received his Ph.D. in 1901, and became a full professor of history at City College of New York. Thompson, while professor at CCNY, was among the leading scholar/historians of the social and industrial transformation of the New South in the early decades of the 20th century. Personal life and death Thompson married Isobel Graham Aitken of New York in 1905. They had one son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McTyeire College
McTyeire College was a Methodist college in McKenzie, Tennessee founded in 1858 and chartered in 1860. History The college originally opened in the community of Caledonia in Henry County, Tennessee as Caledonia College. Caledonia closed when students left to fight in the American Civil War, and the school building burned down during the war. The college reopened in McKenzie, Tennessee McKenzie is a city at the tripoint of Carroll, Henry, and Weakley counties in Tennessee, United States. The population was 5,310 at the 2010 census. It is home to Bethel University and the Tennessee College of Applied Technology at McKenzie. ... and was rechartered in 1871 as McKenzie College. The school was renamed McTyeire Institute in 1882 under the direction of the Methodist Church. The school closed in 1931. References Defunct private universities and colleges in Tennessee Methodist universities and colleges in the United States Universities and colleges established in 1860 1860 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McTyeire Institute
Young Harris College is a private Methodist-affiliated liberal arts college in Young Harris, Georgia, United States. History Origins The school was founded in 1886 by Artemas Lester, a circuit-riding Methodist minister who wanted to provide the residents of the Appalachian Mountains with an education. The college was funded in part by production from an agricultural program, or college farm. Students who could not afford education were allowed to work on the farm to earn tuition. Originally known as McTyeire Institute for the small village where the school was located, the college struggled for the first year until an Athens judge, Young L.G. Harris, donated enough money to keep the school open. The school was later renamed Young Harris Institute and became Young Harris College in honor of its benefactor, as was the surrounding town in 1895. A fire destroyed the college's main classroom building in 1911, but it was rebuilt by local townspeople and named Sharp Hall in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oath Keepers
Oath Keepers is an American far-right anti-government militia whose leaders have been convicted of violently opposing the government of the United States, including the transfer of Presidential power as prescribed by the US Constitution. It was incorporated in 2009 by founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes, a lawyer and former paratrooper. In November 2022, Rhodes and another leader of the organization were convicted of seditious conspiracy for their actions around the January 6 United States Capitol attack. Along with three other leaders, they were also convicted of obstruction and other felonies. The group encourages its members to disobey orders which they believe would violate the U.S. Constitution. Research on their membership determined that two-thirds of the Oath Keepers are former military or law enforcement, and one tenth are active duty military or law enforcement. Most research determined the Oath Keeper membership to be approximately 5,000 members, while leaked data sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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