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Totten (other)
Totten may refer to: Places * Totten (mountain), a mountain in Hemsedal, Norway * Fort Totten (other) * Totten Glacier, Antarctica * Totten Inlet, Puget Sound, Washington, United States * Totten Key, island in the Florida Keys, United States * Totten Prairie, Illinois, United States People * Alex Totten, Scottish football player and manager * Archibald W. O. Totten (1809–1867), Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court * Charles Adelle Lewis Totten, (1851–1908), American military officer, and influential early advocate of British Israelism * Donald L. Totten (1933–2019), an American politician and mechanical engineer * George Muirson Totten, (1809–1884), American civil engineer * George Oakley Totten Jr. (1866–1939), an American architect * Henry Totten (1824–1899), an American politician and businessman * Henry Roland Totten, (1892–1975), an American botanist * James Totten, (1818–1871), an officer in the Union Army and Missouri militia general during the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Totten (mountain)
Totten is a mountain located in the Hemsedal municipality in Norway. It is a part of Hemsedal Top 20. Some of the hike to the peak can be done by travelling with one of Hemsedal's many ski lifts. Mountains of Viken {{Viken-mountain-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Roland Totten
Henry Roland Totten (November 6, 1892 - February 9, 1974) was an American botanist. Biography Totten was born in North Carolina on November 6, 1892. He was the son of William Theophilus Totten of Rockingham County, North Carolina, minister, educator, and president of Yadkin Collegiate Institute (later Yadkin College) for twenty-six years. Totten graduated from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1913 and completed his graduate work under William Chambers Coker. His academic career was spent as a faculty member of the Botany Department for fifty years, teaching general botany, dendrology, pharmacognosy, and plant taxonomy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He assisted Coker in the establishment of the Coker Arboretum in 1903. The university completed the Totten Center, named for him, in 1976 as the first permanent building in the North Carolina Botanical Garden. Totten was a member of many scientific societies and the author of ''The Plant Life of H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Totten Trust
A Totten trust (also referred to as a "Payable on Death" account) is a form of trust in the United States in which one party (the ''settlor'' or "grantor" of the trust) places money in a bank account or security with instructions that upon the settlor's death, whatever is in that account will pass to a named beneficiary. For example, a Totten trust arises when a bank account is titled in the form " epositor in trust for eneficiary. Origin The name is derived from ''Matter of Totten'', 179 N.Y. 112 (1904), the case decided by the New York Court of Appeals which established the legality of this practice. Although this method of creating a trust did not meet the formal requirements of trust creation, or the testamentary formalities required to make a valid will, the Court noted that such an arrangement typically involved a small amount of money left by a person of modest means, who could not otherwise afford to establish a legal mechanism for passing the specified property. For thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willie Totten
Willie "Satellite" Totten (born July 4, 1962) is an American football coach and former player. He is the assistant head coach and quarterbacks coach at Mississippi Valley State University, a position he had held since 2019. Totten played college football at Mississippi Valley State and was as the starting quarterback at Delta Devils. Teamed with wide receiver Jerry Rice, Totten set more than 50 NCAA Division I-AA passing records while Rice setting many receiving records. The Delta Devils averaged 59 points a game during the 1984 season, with Totten throwing for a record 58 touchdowns and leading the Delta Devils to the NCAA Division I-AA playoffs. Archie Cooley, who was the head coach at MVSU from 1980 to 1986, was the architect of the pass-oriented offense that utilized the skills of Totten. Totten served as the head football coach at Mississippi Valley State from 2002 to 2009. Early life and college career Totten played his high school football at J. Z. George High School i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Totten
Scott Totten (born in Orange County, California) is an American musician, best known for his work as musical director, singer and guitarist in the current Beach Boys touring band, which features original Beach Boy Mike Love and later addition Bruce Johnston. Totten attended Berklee College of Music, eventually earning a Bachelor of Music degree. Later he was a Broadway and session guitarist. In the 1990s Totten played on albums and sessions by Grandmaster Flash, Angela Bofill, Sybill, Donna Summer and Exposé. He also played on Broadway shows and tours such as ''The Who's Tommy'', ''Les Misérables'', ''Rent'' and '' Mamma Mia!''. Totten began playing with the Beach Boys touring band on guitar in 2000. He moved to the position of musical director in 2008. In 2011, Totten was confirmed as performing alongside The Beach Boys on their 50th Anniversary Reunion Tour as music director and singer, also playing guitar, ukulele and bass. Totten played on the band's subsequent s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Totten
Samuel Totten is an American professor of history noted for his scholarship on genocide. Totten was a distinguished professor at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville where he taught from 1987 to 2012 and served as the chief editor of the journal ''Genocide Studies and Prevention''. He is a Member of the Council of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide, Jerusalem. Early life and education Totten was raised in Laguna Beach, California. He earned a B.A. in English from California State University, Long Beach. Following a master's degree in English from California State University, Sacramento, Totten earned another master's degree (1982) and his doctorate (1985) from Teachers College, Columbia University. Career Totten took a faculty position with the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas in 1987 and taught there until retiring from teaching in 2012. He served as an investigator on the U.S. State Department's Darfur Atrocities Doc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Totten
Robert Charles Totten (February 5, 1937 – January 27, 1995) was an American television director, writer, and actor, best known for directing many ''Gunsmoke'' episodes between 1966 and 1971. Career In addition to directing, Totten also co-starred in ''Gunsmoke'' playing the role of Corley, opposite of Nehemiah Persoff, in the 1969 episode "The Mark of Cain," among other roles. As director, writer, and actor, Totten is a member all three guilds; the Directors Guild of America, the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild. Awards Totten was nominated at the 25th Primetime Emmy Awards for ''Outstanding Writing in Drama - Adaptation'' for his work on the 1973 television film, ''The Red Pony''. Death Totten died at the age of 57 on January 27, 1995, from a heart attack at his home in Sherman Oaks, California. Filmography A partial filmography follows. Director Film * '' The Quick and the Dead'' (1963) * ''Death of a Gunfighter'' (credited as Alan Smithee) (1969) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Totten
Michael James Totten (born September 16, 1970) is an American journalist and author who has reported from the Middle East, Africa, the Balkans, Cuba, Vietnam, and the Caucasus. His work appears in various publications, websites, and on his blog. His first book, ''The Road to Fatima Gate'', was published in 2011 and was awarded the Washington Institute Silver Book Prize. In his blog posts, he also describes himself as an "independent journalist", while regularly exposing his thoughts in articles which often focus on Middle Eastern conflicts. Early life and education Totten is of English descent and was born in Salem, Oregon on September 16, 1970. His mother is Gena Layman Pegg and his father John Totten is a Republican and a military veteran. Totten's grandfather was a World War II veteran. Totten attended McKinley Elementary School in Salem, Oregon. Totten studied English literature at the University of Oregon in the early 1990s, after attending South Salem High School in the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Gilbert Totten
Joseph Gilbert Totten (August 23, 1788 – April 22, 1864) fought in the War of 1812, served as Chief of Engineers and was regent of the Smithsonian Institution and cofounder of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1836, he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society. Early life and education Joseph G. Totten was born in New Haven, Connecticut, to Peter Gilbert Totten and Grace Mansfield. He was the tenth person to graduate from the United States Military Academy, being one of three graduating members of the class of 1805. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers on July 1, 1805. He resigned in March 1806 to assist his uncle, Major Jared Mansfield, who was then serving as Surveyor General of the Northwest Territory. He was a cousin of Joseph K. Mansfield, who rose to the rank of major general and died at the Battle of Antietam. Military career Totten re-entered the Corps of Engineers in February 1808 and helped build Castle Willia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states that had seceded. The central cause of the war was the dispute over whether slavery would be permitted to expand into the western territories, leading to more slave states, or be prevented from doing so, which was widely believed would place slavery on a course of ultimate extinction. Decades of political controversy over slavery were brought to a head by the victory in the 1860 U.S. presidential election of Abraham Lincoln, who opposed slavery's expansion into the west. An initial seven southern slave states responded to Lincoln's victory by seceding from the United States and, in 1861, forming the Confederacy. The Confederacy seized U.S. forts and other federal assets within their borders. Led by Confederate President Jefferson Davis, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Army
During the American Civil War, the Union Army, also known as the Federal Army and the Northern Army, referring to the United States Army, was the land force that fought to preserve the Union (American Civil War), Union of the collective U.S. state, states. It proved essential to the preservation of the United States as a working, viable republic. The Union Army was made up of the permanent Regular Army (United States), regular army of the United States, but further fortified, augmented, and strengthened by the many temporary units of dedicated United States Volunteers, volunteers, as well as including those who were drafted in to service as Conscription in the United States, conscripts. To this end, the Union Army fought and ultimately triumphed over the efforts of the Confederate States Army in the American Civil War. Over the course of the war, 2,128,948 men enlisted in the Union Army, including 178,895 United States Colored Troops, colored troops; 25% of the white men who s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Totten
James Totten (September 11, 1818 – October 1, 1871) was a career American soldier who served in the United States Army and retired from active service in 1870 as the Assistant Inspector General. He served as an officer in the Union Army and Missouri militia general during the American Civil War. He may be related to Chief Engineer of the U.S. Army Brigadier General Joseph Totten. Early life and career Totten was born in 1818 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1841 and subsequently became a first lieutenant in 1847 before fighting Seminole Indians in Florida during 1849-50. After attaining the rank of captain in 1855, he went to Bleeding Kansas to try to suppress the disturbances there. Civil War service In February 1861, shortly before the American Civil War began, Totten was in command of the Little Rock Arsenal with just 65 men. He was forced to evacuate his forces to St. Louis when about 5,000 pro-secession volunteers led by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
