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Talcott is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname: *Allen Butler Talcott (1867–1908), American landscape painter *Andrew Talcott (1797–1883), American civil engineer *Burt Talcott (1920-2016), American politician and lawyer *Enoch B. Talcott (1811–1868), New York politician *George Talcott (1786–1862), American soldier *James Talcott (1835–1916), American factor *Joseph Talcott, Governor of Connecticut (1724–41) *Lucy Talcott (1899–1970), American archaeologist *Samuel A. Talcott (1789–1836), Attorney General of New York * Thad M. Talcott (1875–1957), American politician and lawyer Given name: *Talcott Parsons, American sociologist *Talcott Williams Seelye (1922–2006), American diplomat and writer Place name: *Talcott, West Virginia Talcott (also Rolinsburgh or Rollinsburg) is an unincorporated community in Summers County, West Virginia, United States. It lies along West Virginia Route 3 and the Greenbrier River to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allen Butler Talcott
Allen Butler Talcott (April 8, 1867 – June 1, 1908) was an American landscape painter. After studying art in Paris for three years at Académie Julian, he returned to the United States, becoming one of the first members of the Old Lyme Art Colony in Connecticut. His paintings, usually landscapes depicting the local scenery and often executed ''en plein air'', were generally Barbizon and Tonalist, sometimes incorporating elements of Impressionism. He was especially known and respected for his paintings of trees. After eight summers at Old Lyme, he died there at the age of 41. Early life and education Allen Butler Talcott was born on April 8, 1867, in Hartford, Connecticut, into an established and prominent New England family. His artistic inclinations were apparent at an early age, as he created sketches of teachers and fellow students in the margins of his grade school books. He attended Trinity College in Hartford, receiving a diploma in 1890. While there, he was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Talcott
Andrew Talcott (1797–1883) was an American civil engineer and close friend of Civil War General Robert E. Lee. He did not serve during the Civil War, as he could not fight against the Union, nor fight against his brothers in the South. He traveled to Veracruz, Mexico to work on the Railroad. Coming back with the President to New York for supplies he was arrested and placed at Fort Lafayette accused of being a spy for the Confederate States of America. He was moved to Fort Warren in Boston harbor under orders of General John E. Wool. General John A. Dix was placed in the command of the Eastern Military Department. Knowing Captain Andrew well and believing his loyalty to the Union he was released. Early life Talcott was born on April 20, 1797, in Glastonbury, Connecticut.Wilson, James Grand and John Fiske, ed. (1889"Andrew Talcott"''Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography'' vol. vi, D. Appleton and Company, New York. p.24. He attended West Point, 1818, graduating second i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burt Talcott
Burt Lacklen Talcott (February 22, 1920 – July 29, 2016) was an American World War II veteran and politician who served seven terms as a member of the United States Congress from the State of California from 1963 to 1977. Military career Born in Billings, Montana, Talcott received his degree from Stanford University in 1942, after which he enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps where he became a bomber pilot. On a mission in a B-24 over Austria, Talcott was shot down and captured, spending 14 months in a German Prisoner-of-war camp. Upon his discharge from the military in 1945 he received the Air Medal and Purple Heart with clusters. Political career Talcott served on the Monterey County, California Board of Supervisors and was president of the county board. Talcott was elected to the 88th United States Congress as a Republican and served an additional seven terms (January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1977) before losing his seat in 1976 to Leon Panetta in a close race, as Pane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Enoch () ''Henṓkh''; ar, أَخْنُوخ ', Qur'ān.html"_;"title="ommonly_in_Qur'ān">ommonly_in_Qur'ānic_literature__'_is_a_biblical_figure_and_Patriarchs_(Bible).html" "title="Qur'ānic_literature.html" ;"title="Qur'ān.html" ;"title="ommonly in Qur'ān">ommonly in Qur'ānic literature">Qur'ān.html" ;"title="ommonly in Qur'ān">ommonly in Qur'ānic literature ' is a biblical figure and Patriarchs (Bible)">patriarch prior to Noah's flood, and the son of Jared (biblical figure), Jared and father of Methuselah. He was of the Antediluvian period in the Hebrew Bible. The text of the Book of Genesis says Enoch lived 365 years before he was taken by God. The text reads that Enoch "walked with God: and he was no more; for God took him" (), which is interpreted as Enoch's entering heaven alive in some Jewish and Christian traditions, and interpreted differently in others. Enoch is the subject of many Jewish and Christian traditions. He was considered the author of the Book of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Talcott
Brevet Brigadier General George Talcott (December 6, 1786 – April 25, 1862) was a career officer in the United States Army and served as the 3rd Chief of Ordnance of the U.S. Army. Biography Talcott was born in Glastonbury, Connecticut on December 6, 1786. In 1813, he entered the Army as a Third Lieutenant of Infantry, and then within a matter of weeks, was promoted to the rank of Second Lieutenant. Initially, he was stationed on the islands in New York Harbor. By August of the same year, he was transferred to Ordnance duty and promoted to First Lieutenant. After declining an opportunity to be a Captain in the 41st Infantry Regiment, he accepted a Captaincy in the Ordnance Corps. He was placed in command of the Arsenal in New York City, and then spent some time in a similar capacity at the Arsenal in Albany, New York. He reverted to the rank of First Lieutenant in May 1814 and was retained on Ordnance duty after the War of 1812 had concluded. His next assignment took him to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Talcott
James Talcott (1835–1916) was an American factor, based in New York City, New York.''James Talcott and Factoring'', Ralph M. Hower, ''Bulletin of the Business Historical Society'', Vol. 11, No. 2 (April 1937), pp. 21–23 He established James Talcott, Inc., one of the oldest and largest 19th-century factoring houses in the United States. Career Talcott began his business career in 1854 in New York as a selling agent for a knitting mill in New Britain, Connecticut. The mill was managed by his brother, John Butler Talcott. In 1859, he became a dry goods merchant, surviving the Panic of 1873, just as he had done in 1857. Towards the end of the 19th century, Talcott became a textile factor, later branching into coal. Talcott's son was Harvard University, Harvard graduate James Frederick (1866–1944), who joined his father's business full time in 1879. Two years after his son's birth, Talcott moved his dry goods business into what is now known as the James Talcott Company Bui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Talcott
Joseph Talcott (November 16, 1669 – October 11, 1741) was the 26th governor of the Connecticut Colony from 1724 until his death in 1741. Biography Talcott was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel John and Helena Wakeman Talcott. He married Abigail Clark in 1693 and the couple had three sons. Abigail died in 1704. His second wife was Eunice Howell with whom he had five more children. Career Descended from one of Connecticut's founding settlers, Talcott was appointed an assistant (member of the governor's council) in 1711. He held a number of city and state offices; justice of the peace in 1705, and beginning in 1710, he was a major in the First Regiment of the Colony of Connecticut. His position of major continued to 1723. He was a member of the committee to lay out the town of Coventry in 1711. He owned property in several Connecticut towns. In May 1714, he was appointed as a judge of the Hartford County Court and he became Judge of the Superior Court of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Talcott
Lucy Talcott (April 10, 1899 – April 6, 1970) was an American archaeologist who worked on the excavations at the Ancient Agora of Athens for over twenty years. An expert on ancient Greek painted pottery, she coauthored the definitive study of Archaic and Classical household pottery. Biography Lucy Talcott was born in 1899 in Connecticut and educated at Radcliffe College, getting her B.A. in 1921. She did her graduate work at Columbia University, from which she received an M.A. She went on to study at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece. Talcott began her field work in archaeology in 1930 when she took part in excavations at the ancient Greek city of Corinth. She found that curatorial work was more to her taste than field work, however, and the following year she was made recording secretary of excavations in the Athenian Agora, a position she held for the remainder of the decade. In this capacity, she designed a system for organizing, recording, storing, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the biblical judges to the United Kingdom of Israel under Saul, and again in the monarchy's transition from Saul to David. He is venerated as a prophet in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In addition to his role in the Hebrew scriptures, Samuel is mentioned in Jewish rabbinical literature, in the Christian New Testament, and in the second chapter of the Quran (although Islamic texts do not mention him by name). He is also treated in the fifth through seventh books of ''Antiquities of the Jews'', written by the Jewish scholar Josephus in the first century. He is first called "the Seer" in 1 Samuel 9:9. Biblical account Family Samuel's mother was Hannah and his father was Elkanah. Elkanah lived at Ramathaim in the district of Zuph. His genealog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Thad is a masculine given name, often a short form (hypocorism) of Thaddeus. It may refer to: *Thad Allen (born 1949), United States Coast Guard admiral * Thad Altman (born 1955), American politician * Thad Balkman (born 1971), American politician, lawyer, and judge * Thaddeus Thad Bingel, American educator and political consultant * Thaddis Thad Bosley (born 1956), American baseball player * Thaddeus Thad F. Brown (1902–1970), American police chief * Thad Busby (born 1974), American football player * Thaddeus Thad Carhart (born 1950), American writer * Thad Castle, character in the TV series '' Blue Mountain State'' * William Thad Cochran (1937–2019), United States Senator from Mississippi * Thad Cockrell, American singer-songwriter * Thaddeus Thad A. Eure (1899–1993), American politician * Thad McIntosh Guyer (born 1950), American lawyer * Thad Heartfield (born 1940), American lawyer and federal judge * Thaddeus Thad Hutcheson (1915–1986), American attorney and politicia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Talcott Parsons
Talcott Parsons (December 13, 1902 – May 8, 1979) was an American sociologist of the classical tradition, best known for his social action theory and structural functionalism. Parsons is considered one of the most influential figures in sociology in the 20th century. After earning a PhD in economics, he served on the faculty at Harvard University from 1927 to 1929. In 1930, he was among the first professors in its new sociology department. Later, he was instrumental in the establishment of the Department of Social Relations at Harvard. Based on empirical data, Parsons' social action theory was the first broad, systematic, and generalizable theory of social systems developed in the United States and Europe. Some of Parsons' largest contributions to sociology in the English-speaking world were his translations of Max Weber's work and his analyses of works by Max Weber, Émile Durkheim, and Vilfredo Pareto. Their work heavily influenced Parsons' view and was the foundation for hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Talcott Williams Seelye
Talcott Williams Seelye (March 6, 1922 – June 8, 2006) was a United States Foreign Service Officer, Ambassadors from the United States, United States Ambassador, author, and commentator. Early life Seelye was born in Beirut, Lebanon, the son of American parents, Kate Ethel (Chambers) and Laurens Hickok Seelye, a professor at the American University of Beirut. He was a great-grandson of Julius Hawley Seelye (famed preacher, writer and fifth president of Amherst College). His older sisters were writer Dorothea Seelye Franck, and dancer and performance artist Mary-Averett Seelye. He attended Deerfield Academy and then graduated from Amherst College in 1944 and enlisted in the U.S. Army for a three-year term during World War II. His time training at Camp Ritchie in the Military Intelligence Training Center classifies him among 20,000 other Ritchie Boys. Diplomatic career Seelye joined the Foreign Service in 1949, and was posted in Stuttgart, Ulm, Amman, Beirut, and Kuwait. Fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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