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Margaret Hamilton (other)
Margaret Hamilton may refer to: * Margaret Hamilton (nurse) (1840–1922), American nurse in the Civil War * Maggie Hamilton (1867–1952), Scottish artist * Margaret Hamilton (educator) (1871–1969), American educator * Margaret Hamilton (actress) (1902–1985), American film character actress * Margaret Hamilton (software engineer) Margaret Heafield Hamilton (born August 17, 1936) is an American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner. She was director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board fl ... (born 1936), American software engineer * Margaret Hamilton (publisher) (1941–2022), Australian publisher of children's literature {{hndis, Hamilton, Margaret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Hamilton (nurse)
Margaret Hamilton (October 19, 1840–January 11, 1922) was a Union nurse during the American Civil War. Early life Hamilton was born October 19, 1840 in Rochester, New York. She was the only child of Cornelius and Mary (née Sheehan) Mahoney. Cornelius was the son of Dennis Mahoney and his wife, MargaretHowe et al. 1904, p301-303 Hamilton was quite close to both of her parents until her mother's death in 1857. She was educated at the public schools and St. Joseph's Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland. At the seminary, she joined Sisters of Charity, even though her father did not approve. Religious life In 1860, Hamilton entered an orphan asylum in Albany, New York, aspiring to be a sister. She experienced a three-month probation period, after which she was sent to the Mother House in Emmitsburg, Maryland for instruction. After six months, Hamilton was given the habit of the Order, and sent her to an orphanage in Albany to teach. Civil War service In spring of 1862, Hamilton and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maggie Hamilton
Margaret Hamilton (1 September 1867 – 31 January 1952) was a Scottish artist known for her paintings and embroidery work. Biography Hamilton was born in Glasgow and grew up in Helensburgh after her family moved there. Although she had no formal artistic training, Hamilton became associated with the Glasgow Boys through her elder brother, James Whitelaw Hamilton. In 1883, while staying with her brother at Cockburnspath, where the Glasgow Boys were spending their summers, Hamilton was asked to help James Guthrie's mother with domestic work. Guthrie subsequently painted several portraits of Hamilton, most notably his 1892 diploma group portrait, ''Midsummer''. In 1897 Hamilton married the architect Alexander Nisbet Paterson, the younger brother of the artist James Paterson. The family home, ''The Long Croft'' was designed by Paterson and decorated by Hamilton in the Arts and Crafts style with figure and floral designs and embroideries. For some time Hamilton had been creating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Hamilton (educator)
Margaret Hamilton (June 13, 1871 – July 6, 1969) was an educator and headmistress at Bryn Mawr School, Maryland, United States. Early life Hamilton was born on June 13, 1871, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the daughter of Gertrude Pond (1840–1917) and Montgomery Hamilton (1843–1909). Her older sister Edith Hamilton (1867–1963) was an internationally-known author who was one of the most renowned classicists of her era; Alice Hamilton (1869–1970) was one of the founders of industrial medicine; Norah Hamilton (1873–1945) was an artist; Arthur Hamilton (1886–1967) was a writer, professor of Spanish, and assistant dean for foreign students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Alice says of Margaret "Margaret is two and half years younger than I, but because she was the only one of us who had ill health as a child, she did not seem really younger." She grew up in Fort Wayne, and worked in its first library, the Women's Reading Room. Hamilton attended Miss Porter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Hamilton (actress)
Margaret Brainard Hamilton (December 9, 1902 – May 16, 1985) was an American actress. She was best known for her portrayal of the Wicked Witch of the West, and her Kansas counterpart Almira Gulch, in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's film '' The Wizard of Oz'' (1939). A former schoolteacher, she worked as a character actress in films for seven years before she was offered the role that defined her public image. In later years, Hamilton appeared in films and made frequent cameo appearances on television sitcoms and commercials. She also gained recognition for her work as an advocate of causes designed to benefit children and animals and retained a lifelong commitment to public education. Early life Hamilton was born in Cleveland, Ohio and practiced her craft doing children's theater while she was a Junior League of Cleveland member. Hamilton made her debut as a "professional entertainer" on December 9, 1929, in a "program of 'heart rending songs'" in the Charles S. Brooks Theater at the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Hamilton (software Engineer)
Margaret Heafield Hamilton (born August 17, 1936) is an American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner. She was director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo program. She later founded two software companies—Higher Order Software in 1976 and Hamilton Technologies in 1986, both in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Hamilton has published more than 130 papers, proceedings, and reports, about sixty projects, and six major programs. She is one of the people credited with coining the term "software engineering". On November 22, 2016, Hamilton received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from president Barack Obama for her work leading to the development of on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Moon missions. Early life and education Margaret Elaine Heafield was born August 17, 1936, in Paoli, Indiana, to Kenneth Heafield and Ruth Esther Heafield (). The family later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
