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Tilghman (surname)
Tilghman is a surname of English origin, and has its origins in Middle Ages England. The Tilghman family name according to evidence by historical findings is one of the oldest and most well researched surnames. The family motto is: ''Spes Alit Agricolam'' (Latin) "Hope Nourishes the Farmer" The first identified Tilghman was Johannes Tilghman, recorded in 1225 in Kent England and can be found in Stephen Fredrick Tillman's book "Spes Alit Agricolam." There in Kent the Tilghmans held a family at the Snodland Parish called Holloway Court. However the origins of the Tilghman family go back beyond that. The Venerable Bede mentioned in Volume 1 of his writings that the Tilghman family settled in Kent England in 692. The oldest finding of the name Tilghman was in 692 and was that of a Monk Tilmon (Tilghman) his was not however a surname nor likely to be handed on to heirswho was with the Two Ewalds when they met their fate . Some who have researched the family believe the Tilghman fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Tilghman may refer to: People * Tilghman (surname), a surname and a list of people with the surname * Tilghman Howard (1797–1844), American politician * Tilghman Tucker (1802–1859), American politician, governor of Mississippi from 1842 to 1844 Other uses *Tilghman Island, Maryland, United States, an island *Paducah Tilghman High School, Paducah, Kentucky, United States See also * {{disambiguation, given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Tilghman
William Tilghman (August 12, 1756 – April 29, 1827) was the Chief United States circuit judge of the United States Circuit Court for the Third Circuit and chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Education and career Born on August 12, 1756, in Talbot County, Province of Maryland, British America, Tilghman received an Artium Baccalaureus degree in 1772 from the College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania), received a Master of Arts degree from the same institution and read law in 1783. He entered private practice in Talbot County, Maryland from 1783 to 1788. He was a delegate to the Maryland State Convention of 1788, to vote whether Maryland should ratify the proposed Constitution of the United States. He was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1788 to 1790. He was a member of the Maryland Senate from 1791 to 1793. He resumed private practice in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1794 to 1801. Federal judicial service Tilghman was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirley M
Shirley may refer to: Arts and entertainment *Shirley (novel), ''Shirley'' (novel), an 1849 novel by Charlotte Brontë *Shirley (1922 film), ''Shirley'' (1922 film), a British silent film *Shirley (2020 film), ''Shirley'' (2020 film), an American film *Shirley (album), ''Shirley'' (album), a 1961 album by Shirley Bassey *Shirley (song), "Shirley" (song), a 1958 song by John Fred and the Playboys *Shirley (TV series), ''Shirley'' (TV series), a 1979 TV series People *Shirley (name), a given name and a surname *Shirley (Danish singer) (born 1976) *Shirley (Dutch singer) (born 1946), Dutch singer and pianist Places United Kingdom *Shirley, Derbyshire, England *Shirley, New Forest, a List of United Kingdom locations: Sg-Sh#Shi, location near Bransgore in Hampshire *Shirley, Southampton, a district of Southampton, Hampshire, England *Shirley, London, in Croydon *Shirley, West Midlands, England United States *Shirley, Arkansas *Shirley, Illinois *Shirley, Indiana *Shirley, Maine *Shir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Tilghman
Richard Albert Tilghman (March 8, 1920 – February 23, 2017) was a politician who served as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 17th district from 1969 to 2001. He also served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the Montgomery County district from 1967 to 1968. He died on February 23, 2017, at the age of 96. Early life Tilghman was born in Manchester, England, to Benjamin Chew and Eliza Middleton Fox Tilghman. He graduated from the Fountain Valley School in Colorado, Princeton University in 1943 and the Berlitz School of Languages. He served as a First lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II and received the Silver Star for action during the battle of Iwo Jima. Business career He worked at Smith & Barney, at the General Coal Company and as a plastics manufacturing executive at Contour Manufacturing Company. Political career He served as Chairman of the Appropriations Committee from 1974 to 2001. As State Senator, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hettie B
Hetty or Hettie is a female first name, often a diminutive form (hypocorism) of Henrietta. Hetty may refer to: People * Hetty Balkenende (born 1939), Dutch former freestyle and synchronized swimmer *Hettie Vyrine Barnhill, (born 1984), American dancer and choreographer *Henrietta Hetty Baynes (born 1956), English actress * Hetty Burlingame Beatty (1907–1971), American sculptor, children's author, and illustrator *Hetty Cary (1836–1892), a noted beauty of the Confederacy and one of the makers of the Confederate battle flag *Henrietta Hetty Green (1834–1916), American businesswoman and notorious miser *Hetty Goldman (1881–1972), American archaeologist, the first woman faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study *Hetty Johnston (born 1958), Australian child protection activist and founder of the Bravehearts children's charity *Hettie Jones (born 1934), American poet and writer *Hetty King (1883–1972), stage name of English music hall entertainer Winifred Emms * (b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah T
Sarah (born Sarai) is a biblical matriarch and prophetess, a major figure in Abrahamic religions. While different Abrahamic faiths portray her differently, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all depict her character similarly, as that of a pious woman, renowned for her hospitality and beauty, the wife and half-sister of Abraham, and the mother of Isaac. Sarah has her feast day on 1 September in the Catholic Church, 19 August in the Coptic Orthodox Church, 20 January in the LCMS, and 12 and 20 December in the Eastern Orthodox Church. In the Hebrew Bible Family According to Book of Genesis 20:12, in conversation with the Philistine king Abimelech of Gerar, Abraham reveals Sarah to be both his wife and his half-sister, stating that the two share a father but not a mother. Such unions were later explicitly banned in the Book of Leviticus (). This would make Sarah the daughter of Terah and the half-sister of not only Abraham but Haran and Nahor. She would also have been th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Tilghman
George Hammond Tilghman (September 14, 1896 – 1943) was a teacher who served as the headmaster at the Morristown School (now Morristown-Beard School), a private preparatory school in Morristown, New Jersey, for 13 years (1926-1939). Tilghman succeeded Arthur Pierce Butler, one of the school's three founders. During his tenure as headmaster, Tilghman guided Morristown School through a lengthy period of financial turbulence for the school marked by the Stock Market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression. He also served as head coach of the ice hockey team. Morristown-Beard School awarded Tilghman its Distinguished Alumni Award posthumously in 2010. Early life, education, and first military service Tilghman was born in Johannesburg, South Africa on September 14, 1896 to parents Henry Ashe Tilghman and Alice Tennyson Merry. His father, Henry, worked as a mining engineer for Cecil Rhodes. After attending the Sillig School in Vevey, Switzerland for five years, Tilghman completed his h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amelia Tilghman
Amelia Louise Tilghman (surname also spelled Tiligman; September 6, 1856 – December 12, 1931) (pronounced "TILL man") was an American pianist, teacher, journalist, and activist, She founded the first African-American journal devoted to music, ''The Musical Messenger,'' published from 1886 to 1891. Early life Amelia Tilghman was born on September 6, 1856, in District of Columbia. She was the eldest daughter of Margaret Ann Reynolds (1819–1903) and Henry Hyland Tilgman (1811–1900), who grew up in a free black community class along with her younger sister. As a result, from her parents' social class, Amelia Tilghman was awarded the chance to grow up in the comforts amongst those who qualified as the black middle class in the Washington, District of Columbia. Tilghman's family was involved in the church, which nurtured Amelia's musical talents in signing and piano. The beauty of Amelia Tilghman's voice reportedly moved many figures including Bishop Daniel Alexander Payne o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Tilghman
William Matthew Tilghman Jr. (July 4, 1854 – November 1, 1924) was a career lawman, gunfighter, and politician in Kansas and Oklahoma during the late 19th century. Tilghman was a Dodge City city marshal in the early 1880s and played a role in the Kansas County Seat Wars. In 1889 he moved to Oklahoma where he acquired several properties during a series of land rushes. While serving as a Deputy U.S. Marshal in Oklahoma, he gained recognition for capturing the notorious outlaw Bill Doolin and helping to track and kill the other members of Doolin's gang, which made him famous as one of Oklahoma's " Three Guardsmen". Tilghman never achieved the household-word status of his close friends Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson but nevertheless remains a well-known figure of the American Old West. His memoirs were made into a 1915 film that he directed and starred in as himself. Tilghman died in 1924 at the age of 70 after being shot and killed by a corrupt prohibition agent on the streets of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Chew Tilghman
Benjamin Chew Tilghman (18211901) was an American soldier and inventor. He is best known as the inventor of the process of sandblasting. Early life He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on October 26, 1821, the third child of Benjamin and Anne Marie (McMurtie). His father was descended from Richard Tilghman, a surgeon in the British Navy; he was related to William Tilghman, Chief Justice of Philadelphia. Tilghman was educated at Bristol College and later at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was graduated with a degree in law in 1839, though he never practiced this profession. With his brother, Richard, he spent much time before the war journeying through Europe, visiting laboratories, chemical works and mills. He was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society in 1871. Civil War career At the outbreak of the American Civil War, he volunteered as a Captain in the 26th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, rising to Colonel and commander of the 29th Pennsylva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lloyd Tilghman
Lloyd Tilghman (January 26, 1816 – May 16, 1863) was a Confederate general in the American Civil War. A railroad construction engineer by background, he was selected by the Confederate government to build two forts to defend the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers. The location of Fort Henry on the Tennessee was vulnerable to flooding, but Tilghman was slow to spot this, and his surrender of the fort to U.S. Grant in February 1862 was regarded as a disgrace. Taken prisoner and exchanged, he commanded a brigade in the Vicksburg campaign, and was killed by a shell at the Battle of Champion Hill, where he was widely praised for gallantry. Early life Tilghman was born in "Rich Neck Manor", Claiborne, Maryland to James Tilghman who was the great-grandson of Matthew Tilghman, and Ann C. Shoemaker Tilghman. He attended the United States Military Academy and graduated near the bottom of his class in 1836. He was commissioned a brevet second lieutenant in the 1st U.S. Dragoons, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tench Tilghman
Tench Tilghman (, December 25, 1744April 18, 1786) was an officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He served as an aide-de-camp to General George Washington, achieving the rank of lieutenant colonel. Tilghman rose to become a trusted member of Washington's staff. The historic events of the time sparked his transformation from a privileged family member of Loyalists to a dedicated Patriot. He paid a high price, facing tragedies including a split with Loyalist members of his family, and illness and an early death from disease contracted during the American Revolutionary War. Early life, education, and career Tilghman was born on December 25, 1744, at Fausley, a plantation owned by his father, James Tilghman, located on Fausley Creek, a branch of the Miles River, in Talbot County, Maryland, a few miles from the town of Easton. His mother was Anne Francis Tilghman; his father was a lawyer and noted Loyalist. Like many prominent planter families of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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