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Mary Harris
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Mary Harris may refer to: * Mary Styles Harris (born 1949), geneticist *Mary Harris Jones (1837–1930), community organiser * Mary Harris Memorial Chapel of the Holy Trinity *Mel Harris (Mary Ellen Harris, born 1956), actress * Mary Lee Cagle (1864–1955), married name Mary Harris, pastor * Mary Harris (musician), member of the music group Ambrosia * Mary Packer Harris (1891–1978), Scottish artist and art teacher * Mary Harris (cricketer), New Zealand cricketer * Mary Johnson Harris (born 1963), member of the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education * Mary Harris (public servant), clerk of the New Zealand House of Representatives * Mary Harris (murderer), American murderer See also *Harris (surname) Harris is a surname predominantly originating in England and Wales. Etymology ''Harris'' is a patronymic surname from the Middle English name ''Harry'', a pet form of ''Henry''. In addition, the British surname can represent Old Norse ''Harri' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Styles Harris
Mary Styles Harris (born June 26, 1949) is an American biologist and geneticist, president of Harris & Associates in Atlanta, Georgia, and owner of BioTechnical Communications, which produced the television documentary "To My Sister...A Gift for Life." Harris's media productions spotlight health issues of African Americans. These include campaigning for the need for the early detection of breast cancer, the genetics of sickle-cell anemia and greater understanding of diabetes-related concerns. Other topics explored include AIDS, cervical cancer, colon cancer, hypertension and prostate cancer. Harris has been an advocate for bridging the gap in transparency in public health education between government officials and scientists so that important health information is made available to the public. Early life Harris was born in Nashville, Tennessee to George and Margaret Styles, while her father was earning his medical degree from the city's Meharry Medical College. Harris mot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Harris Jones
Mary G. Harris Jones (1837 (baptized) – November 30, 1930), known as Mother Jones from 1897 onwards, was an Irish-born American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist. She helped coordinate major strikes and co-founded the Industrial Workers of the World. After Jones's husband and four children all died of yellow fever in 1867 and her dress shop was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, she became an organizer for the Knights of Labor and the United Mine Workers union. In 1902, she was called "the most dangerous woman in America" for her success in organizing mine workers and their families against the mine owners. In 1903, to protest the lax enforcement of the child labor laws in the Pennsylvania mines and silk mills, she organized a children's march from Philadelphia to the home of President Theodore Roosevelt in New York. Early life Mary G. Harris was born on the north side of Cork, the daughter o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Harris Memorial Chapel Of The Holy Trinity
The Mary Harris Memorial Chapel of the Holy Trinity is the Anglican Chaplaincy's chapel on the Streatham Campus of the University of Exeter. It is located at the heart of the campus, beneath Queen's Building and adjacent to the Old Library and the Roborough Building. The chapel is served by the Lazenby Chaplain who is assisted in the chapel's worship life by a team of servers and the University Chapel Choir. History The Mary Harris Memorial Chapel of the Holy Trinity within the University of Exeter which was designed and presented to the university by Dr E. Vincent Harris, OBE, in memory of his mother, was consecrated by the Lord Bishop of Exeter on 26 June 1958. It was declared a Grade II Listed Building on 29 March 1988. The mural on the ceiling was painted by Sir Walter Thomas Monnington. Organ The pipe organ in the gallery was built in 1958, with modifications in the 1970s by Eustace and Alldridge and, later, by Percy Daniel & Co; it ceased being used in 2010 and an ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mel Harris
Mary Ellen "Mel" Harris is an American actress best known for her role as Hope Murdoch Steadman in the ABC drama series ''Thirtysomething'' (1987–1991), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination in 1990. Early life and education Harris was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the daughter to Mary Michael "Mike", a high-school science teacher, and Warren Harris, football coach at Bethlehem High School and Princeton University. Harris grew up in North Brunswick, New Jersey and graduated from New Brunswick High School in 1974. Career In 1985, shortly before her 1986 acting debut, Harris appeared as a regular contestant on the Dick Clark-hosted syndicated game show ''The $100,000 Pyramid'', credited as Mel Kennedyher third husband's surname. She returned to the game show in 1991, as a celebrity on the John Davidson-hosted show, with a clip of her win in 1985 shown in a flashback. Television Harris made her television debut in 1986, with a small role as a character's girl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Lee Cagle
Mary Lee (Harris) Cagle (12 September 1864 – 1955), sometimes called the Mother of Holiness in West Texas, was one of the first influential women and pastors in the early Church of the Nazarene. She was first married to the Rev. Robert Lee Harris, a revivalist. In 1894 Rev. Harris and his wife organized a fourteen-member church in Milan, Tennessee called New Testament Church of Christ. The church placed special emphasis on holiness. The influence of this movement that the Harris church started in Milan quickly spread into Arkansas and Texas. Upon Harris' death from tuberculosis, his wife took over his work with the assistance of a couple of other women in the church. In November 1904 the Milan New Testament Church of Christ met in Rising Star, Texas to agree to a church union with the Independent Holiness Church. Over the following year, a joint committee adopted the merger and took on the name "Holiness Church of Christ" Manual 1952 Historical Statement page 19 Mary Lee Cagle w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Harris (musician)
Mary Harris is an American keyboardist, singer, songwriter, arranger, and producer. She is currently appearing on stage as a member of the five-time Grammy Award nominated band Ambrosia. Harris, as a member of Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer Band arranged vocals and sang on recordings and live performances, and has worked with Stewart Copeland and Stanley Clarke, and recorded for Pink Floyd. She is also a founding member of the group Tin Drum along with her husband and musical partner Burleigh Drummond who also performs with her in Ambrosia. Childhood Harris began playing piano at age four, starting formal lessons at age five. She grew up from early childhood in the town of Three Rivers, California where she performed from age ten on with family members locally. Early music career Harris' first paying music performances were with bands including Oak Grove and Fair Game in Three Rivers in the seventies and early eighties. She moved to Los Angeles, California in 1982. Prof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Packer Harris
Mary Packer Harris D.A. (Edin.) (30 July 1891 – 26 August 1978) was a Scottish artist and art teacher with a considerable career in South Australia. History Mary was born in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire the only daughter of musician and beekeeper Clement Antrobus Harris (c. 1862 – 12 February 1942) and his wife Mary Elizabeth Harris ( – 14 February 1937). Educated in Scotland she attended Morrison's Academy and Perth Academy before graduating with a diploma from the Edinburgh College of Art. In 1913 she did a post-graduate course in woodblock printing with F. Morley Fletcher, director of the College. She trained as a teacher with the Scottish Education Department and taught at Buckie, Banffshire, Scotland, then from 1918 at the Ayr Academy. An elder brother, Antrobus, was killed in the Flanders trenches in 1916.*Ruth Tuck, 'Harris, Mary Packer (1891–1978)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Harris (cricketer)
Mary Winifred Harris was the thirteenth Clerk of the New Zealand House of Representatives ("Clerk of the House"). She was appointed Clerk of the House on 10 December 2007, following the resignation of David Graham McGee. She served as Clerk of the House for 7 years and 7 months before retiring on 5 July 2015. Mary Harris began her state sector career in 1979 when she was appointed to the Department of Statistics as an Assistant Investigating Officer. After promotion to the position of Senior Survey Officer, she was involved in the development and running of the Household Labour Force Survey. On 22 June 1987 she joined the Parliamentary Service (which from 1985 to 1988 had oversight of the Office of the Clerk of the House) as a Senior Committee Secretary and in 1990 was promoted to the senior management role of Clerk-Assistant, initially with responsibility for providing services to Select Committees and, from July 2000, managing Reporting Services (including ''Hansard'', br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Johnson Harris
Mary may refer to: People * Mary (name), a feminine given name (includes a list of people with the name) Religious contexts * New Testament people named Mary, overview article linking to many of those below * Mary, mother of Jesus, also called the Blessed Virgin Mary * Mary Magdalene, devoted follower of Jesus * Mary of Bethany, follower of Jesus, considered by Western medieval tradition to be the same person as Mary Magdalene * Mary, mother of James * Mary of Clopas, follower of Jesus * Mary, mother of John Mark * Mary of Egypt, patron saint of penitents * Mary of Rome, a New Testament woman * Mary, mother of Zechariah and sister of Moses and Aaron; mostly known by the Hebrew name: Miriam * Mary the Jewess one of the reputed founders of alchemy, referred to by Zosimus. * Mary 2.0, Roman Catholic women's movement * Maryam (surah) "Mary", 19th surah (chapter) of the Qur'an Royalty * Mary, Countess of Blois (1200–1241), daughter of Walter of Avesnes and Margaret of Bloi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Harris (public Servant)
Mary Winifred Harris was the thirteenth Clerk of the New Zealand House of Representatives ("Clerk of the House"). She was appointed Clerk of the House on 10 December 2007, following the resignation of David Graham McGee. She served as Clerk of the House for 7 years and 7 months before retiring on 5 July 2015. Mary Harris began her state sector career in 1979 when she was appointed to the Department of Statistics as an Assistant Investigating Officer. After promotion to the position of Senior Survey Officer, she was involved in the development and running of the Household Labour Force Survey. On 22 June 1987 she joined the Parliamentary Service (which from 1985 to 1988 had oversight of the Office of the Clerk of the House) as a Senior Committee Secretary and in 1990 was promoted to the senior management role of Clerk-Assistant, initially with responsibility for providing services to Select Committees and, from July 2000, managing Reporting Services (including ''Hansard'', br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Harris (murderer)
Mary Harris was an American woman who murdered Adoniram Burroughs. Her trial marked the "first time in a U.S. court-room that expert medical testimony supported a plea of paroxysmal emporary insanity in a murder defense." Biography Mary Harris was born in a poor, family in Burlington, Iowa. She received very little education, and worked at a hatmaking shop for much of her early life. While working at the shop, Adoniram Judson Burroughs fell in love with her. He courted her for much of the next three years, providing money and a basic education to Harris. Burroughs soon moved to Chicago, in search of better business prospects. When Harris turned eighteen, Burroughs asked her to travel to Chicago to be with him. Burroughs soon found work in Washington D. C., and moved yet again. Burroughs continued to write, and on September 8, 1863 Harris received an unsigned letter that she assumed was that of Burroughs. Harris, unsure sent a reply to the letter, and asked the postal clerk to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
