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Starrett
Starrett is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Charles Starrett (1903–1986), American actor * Helen Ekin Starrett (1840–1920), American educator, author, suffragette * Jack Starrett (1936–1989), American actor and film director *Keith Starrett (born 1951), United States federal judge *Laroy S. Starrett (1836–1922), businessman and inventor * Paul Starrett (1866–1957), American builder *Priscilla Hollister Starrett (1929–1997), American herpetologist * Vincent Starrett (1886–1974), American writer and newspaperman *William A. Starrett (1877–1932), America builder of skyscrapers, built the Empire State Building See also * L. S. Starrett Company, American manufacturer of tools and instruments *Starrett & van Vleck specialized in the design of early 20th century department stores primarily in New York City * Starrett City, Brooklyn, housing development in Brooklyn, New York City * Starrett City Associates, group of investors that built and owned the Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Starrett
Charles Robert Starrett (March 28, 1903 – March 22, 1986) was an American actor, best known for his starring role in the ''Durango Kid'' westerns. Starrett still holds the record for starring in the longest series of theatrical features: 131 westerns, all produced by Columbia Pictures. Early years Starrett was born in Athol, Massachusetts, where his grandfather had built a prosperous tool works. He attended Worcester Academy, then graduated from Dartmouth College. Career A graduate of Worcester Academy in 1922, Starrett went on to study at Dartmouth College. While on the Dartmouth football team he was hired to play a football extra in the film ''The Quarterback'' (1926). Bitten by the acting bug, Starrett played minor roles in films and leading roles in stage plays. In 1928, he was a member of the Walker Company, a repertory theatre troupe headed by Stuart Walker. He played the romantic lead in his first movie, '' Fast and Loose'' (1930), which starred Frank Morgan, M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Ekin Starrett
Helen Ekin Starrett (, Ekin; September 19, 1840 – December 16, 1920) was an American educator, author, suffragist, and magazine founder. Long engaged in educational work in Chicago, she founded the Kenwood Institute (1884), and Mrs. Starrett's Classical School for Girls (1893), of which she was principal. Starrett also founded ''Western Magazine'' (1880–83, Chicago). She served as president of the Illinois Woman's Press Association (1893–1894), and was the author of several works. Early life and education Helen Martha Ekin was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 19, 1840. She was the daughter of Rev. John and Esther Fell (Lee) Ekin. She was educated at Pittsburg High School. Career Educator Starrett was the founder of Kenwood Institute, Chicago. Starrett's chief public work was done as principal of the Starrett School for Girls. Upon being widowed, she went to Chicago and there opened a school for girls, at first a very small institution, but it enabled her to ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Starrett
Claude Ennis "Jack" Starrett Jr. (November 2, 1936 – March 27, 1989) was an American actor and film director.Staff report (March 29, 1989). Jack Starrett, 52; Adventure Film Actor, Director. ''Los Angeles Times'' Starrett is perhaps best known for his role as ''Gabby Johnson'', a parody of George "Gabby" Hayes, in the 1974 film '' Blazing Saddles'' and is also known for his role as the brutal deputy Art Galt in the 1982 action film ''First Blood''. He also played the cruel foreman Swick in '' The River''. Starrett acted in the biker films ''The Born Losers'', ''Hells Angels on Wheels'' (both from 1967), '' Angels from Hell'' (1968) and ''Hell's Bloody Devils'' (1970), and directed two more: ''Run, Angel, Run'' in 1969 and ''Nam's Angels'' (1970) as well as the horror film ''Race with the Devil'' (1975) - that was filmed in his home state of Texas - in which he also played a gas station attendant. Life and career Starrett was raised in Refugio, Texas and worked in the oil f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Starrett
Keith Starrett (born 1951) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. Education and career Born in McComb, Mississippi, Starrett received a Bachelor of Science degree from Mississippi State University in 1972 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1974. He was in private practice in Mississippi from 1975 to 1992. He was an assistant district attorney (part-time) of the 14th Circuit Court District of Mississippi in 1981. He was a Circuit Court judge of the 14th Circuit Court District of Mississippi from 1992 to 2004. Federal judicial service On July 6, 2004, Starrett was nominated by President George W. Bush to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi vacated by Charles W. Pickering. Starrett was confirmed by the United States Senate on November 20, 2004, and received his commission on December 13, 2004. He assumed senior status ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Starrett
Paul Starrett (1866–1957) was an American builder. In 1883, he graduated from Lake Forest Academy, an elite boarding school for boys which was part of the Lake Forest, Illinois, educational experiment. His brothers also graduated from this institution. As head of Starrett Brothers, Inc., in New York City, he was responsible for the construction of the Empire State Building, the Flatiron Building, and Penn Station, as well as the Plaza and Biltmore hotels. The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. was one of his many other projects. Further reading *''Changing the Skyline'' - Paul Starrett's 1938 autobiography. External linksPaul Starrettat the Columbia Encyclopedia The ''Columbia Encyclopedia'' is a one-volume encyclopedia produced by Columbia University Press and, in the last edition, sold by the Gale Group. First published in 1935, and continuing its relationship with Columbia University, the encyclopedi ... Lake Forest Academy alumni 1866 births 1957 deaths American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priscilla Hollister Starrett
Priscilla Latham Hollister Starrett (November 13, 1929 – October 8, 1997) was an American herpetologist who researched anuran (frog) morphology, systematics and behavior.Emerson, Sharon B. “Priscilla Starrett, 1929-1997.” ''Copeia'', vol. 1999, no. 3, 1999, pp. 853–854. ''JSTOR'', www.jstor.org/stable/1447632. Accessed 23 Sept. 2020. Biography Born in East Hartford, Connecticut, to George Hollister and Imogene Wadsworth, she was known to friends as "Holly Starrett." She gained her B.A. and M.S. degrees from the University of Connecticut, earning the latter in 1951. She married Andrew Starrett in 1951 and moved to Los Angeles in 1964. She enrolled in the Ph.D. program at the University of Michigan in 1954 and, after time devoted to field work in Central America, was finally awarded the degree in 1969 with her dissertation titled "''The phylogenetic significance of the jaw musculature in anuran amphibians''. Research Starrett studied Central American frogs extensively, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Starrett
Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett (; October 26, 1886 – January 5, 1974), known as Vincent Starrett, was a Canadian-born American writer, newspaperman, and bibliophile. Biography Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett was born above his grandfather's bookshop in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His father moved the family to Chicago in 1889 where Starrett attended John Marshall High School. Starrett landed a job as a cub reporter with the Chicago ''Inter-Ocean'' in 1905. When that paper folded two years later he began working for the ''Chicago Daily News'' as a crime reporter, a feature writer, and finally a war correspondent in Mexico from 1914 to 1915. Starrett turned to writing mystery and supernatural fiction for pulp magazines during the 1920s and 1930s. In 1920, he wrote a Sherlock Holmes pastiche entitled ''The Adventure of the Unique "Hamlet"''. Starrett on at least one occasion said that the press-run was 100 copies, but on others claimed 200; a study of surviving copies by R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William A
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic ᚹᛁᛚᛃᚨᚺᛖᛚᛗᚨᛉ, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German ''Wilhelm'' and Old Norse ᚢᛁᛚᛋᛅᚼᛅᛚᛘᛅᛋ, ''Vilhjálmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of the name shoul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Starrett & Van Vleck
Starrett & van Vleck (often spelled Starrett & Van Vleck) was an American architectural firm based in New York City which specialized in the design of department stores, primarily in the early 20th century. It was active from 1908 until at least the late 1950s. History The senior partner, Goldwin Starrett, was born September 29, 1874 in Lawrence, Kansas to William Aiken Starrett and Helen Martha (Ekin) Starrett, a noted educator and activist. Starrett was educated in his mother's school before enrolling in the University of Michigan, graduating with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1894. For the following four years he worked for D. H. Burnham & Company, architects of Chicago. Two of his elder brothers, Theodore Starrett and Paul Starrett, had also worked for Burnham. In 1898 he left Chicago for New York, where he joined the office of George A. Fuller & Company as a superintendent and assistant manager. In 1900 he joined Thompson–Starrett, the family contracting firm. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Starrett City, Brooklyn
Starrett City (formally known as the Spring Creek Towers) is a housing development in the Spring Creek section of East New York, in Brooklyn, New York City. It is located on a peninsula on the north shore of Jamaica Bay, bounded by Fresh Creek to the west and Hendrix Creek to the east. Starrett City contains both residential and commercial buildings. The residential portion of the property contains eight "sections" in a towers in the park layout. The complex also contains a community and recreation center, as well as two schools. Plans for developing the site of Starrett City date to 1962, when an investment group bought the property with the intention of developing a residential complex called Park Shore Village. The group ultimately withdrew from the project, and another cooperative housing project named Twin Pines Village was proposed by the United Housing Foundation in 1967. Control of the complex was handed to Starrett City Associates in 1971, and Starrett City opened in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Starrett City Associates
Starrett City Associates is a group of investors, led by Disque Deane, that owned the Starrett City housing complex in Brooklyn, New York City until 2008. The firm is best known for unsuccessfully defending a landmark civil rights lawsuit that concerned "reverse discrimination" and racial quotas in the housing complex, and for controversy during the sale of the development in the mid-2000s. History Starrett City was constructed from 1972 to 1975, as part of the Fresh Creek Urban Renewal Act to develop the area now known as Spring Creek, Brooklyn. At the time it was built, Starrett City was the largest housing development in the nation, and remains the largest federally subsidized apartment complex. Discrimination charges In 1980, the NAACP initiated a class-action suit against Starrett City Associates and charged that the owner of the housing complex attempted to maintain racial quotas by selective approval of tenants based on racial and ethnic profiles. The quotas caused minorit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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