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Yerkes (surname)
Yerkes is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bob Yerkes (born Brayton Walter Yerkes; born 1932), American stuntman *Carroll Yerkes (1903–1950), American baseball pitcher *Charles Yerkes (1837–1905), American financier and art collector involved with developing mass-transit systems *Harry Yerkes (1872–1954), American marimba player, inventor, and recording manager *Mary Agnes Yerkes (1886–1989), American Impressionist painter, photographer, and artisan *Robert Yerkes (1876–1956), American psychologist, ethologist, and primatologist *Royden Yerkes (1881–1964), American Episcopal priest and theologian *Stan Yerkes (1874–1940), American baseball pitcher *Steve Yerkes (1888–1971), American baseball player See also * Yerkes (other) *Merritt Yerkes Hughes (1893–1971), American professor and expert in French, English, and Italian literature *Tracy Yerkes Thomas Tracy Yerkes Thomas (1899–1983) was an American mathematician. Biography Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Yerkes
Bob Yerkes (born Brayton Walter Yerkes on February 11, 1932) is an American stuntman. Beginning a life of acrobatics in the circus at the age of 15, Yerkes went on to work as a stuntman in such films as '' Back to the Future'', '' Return of the Jedi'', and '' Hook''. Yerkes currently hosts stunt training days, on an invitation-only basis at his home in Los Angeles. Filmography References {{DEFAULTSORT:Yerkes, Bob 1932 births Living people American stunt performers Place of birth missing (living people) People from North Carolina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carroll Yerkes
Charles Carroll Yerkes (June 13, 1903 – December 20, 1950) was a professional baseball pitcher. Over the course of five seasons in Major League Baseball Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization and the oldest major professional sports league in the world. MLB is composed of 30 total teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), ..., he played for the Philadelphia Athletics (1927–29) and Chicago Cubs (1932–33). External links Major League Baseball pitchers Philadelphia Athletics players Chicago Cubs players Dover Senators players Portland Beavers players Los Angeles Angels (minor league) players Reading Keystones players Albany Senators players Baltimore Orioles (IL) players Seattle Indians players Baseball players from Pennsylvania 1903 births 1950 deaths {{US-baseball-pitcher-1900s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Yerkes
Charles Tyson Yerkes Jr. ( ; June 25, 1837 – December 29, 1905) was an American financier. He played a part in developing mass-transit systems in Chicago and London. Philadelphia Yerkes was born into a Quaker family in the Northern Liberties, a district adjacent to Philadelphia, on June 25, 1837. His mother Elizabeth Link Yerkes died of puerperal fever when he was five years old and shortly thereafter his father Charles Tyson Yerkes Sr. was expelled from the Society of Friends for marrying a non-Quaker. After finishing a two-year course at Philadelphia's Central High School, Yerkes began his business career at the age of 17 as a clerk in a local grain brokerage. In 1859, aged 22, he opened his own brokerage firm and joined the Philadelphia stock exchange. By 1865 he had moved into banking and specialized in selling municipal, state, and government bonds. Relying on his bank president father's connections, his political contacts, and his own acumen, Yerkes gained a name for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Yerkes
Harry A. Yerkes was a marimba player, inventor, and recording manager who assembled many recording sessions in the early years of jazz. Many of the sessions organized by Yerkes used his name for the artist credit, including Yerkes' Jazarimba Orchestra and Yerkes' Marimbaphone Band on Columbia Records, which are estimated to have some of the best selling records of 1919 and 1921. Biography Yerkes began his recording career in 1906, performing on the xylophone. He founded the Yerkes Sound-Effects Company, which developed and marketed a Pneumatics, pneumatic system to play chimes, featured in the Woolworth Building at time of construction. Yerkes joined the Betts & Betts company in 1915, and manufacture of his chime and bells mechanisms was transferred to that company. From 1917 until 1924 he was active as a recording contractor and manager for various dance bands. These groups often included his name, though he was not often an active contributor, musically. He was in charge o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Agnes Yerkes
Mary Agnes Yerkes, ( ; August 9, 1886 – November 8, 1989), was an American Impressionist painter, photographer and artisan. She was skilled in the media of oil, pastel and watercolor. Her professional career was cut short by the Great Depression, but she still continued to paint well into her nineties with a passion for her craft and nature. She is noted for her ''plein-air'' painting while camping the American West and its National Parks. Early life in Chicago Mary Agnes Yerkes was born on August 9, 1886, in Oak Park, Illinois. Her parents, Charles Sherman Yerkes and Mary Greenlees Yerkes, had moved to their North Grove Avenue home a few years earlier from Ohio. She was the third child of four siblings; Reuben Archibald, Alice Agnew, and Charles Greenlees. Mary Agnes graduated from Oak Park and River Forest High School in 1906, and became an accomplished local artist. Her father died in 1908. In 1913, her mother commissioned a house, the Mary Greenlees Yerkes Residence f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Yerkes
Robert Mearns Yerkes (; May 26, 1876 – February 3, 1956) was an American psychologist, ethologist, eugenicist and primatologist best known for his work in intelligence testing and in the field of comparative psychology. Yerkes was a pioneer in the study both of human and primate intelligence and of the social behavior of gorillas and chimpanzees. Along with John D. Dodson, Yerkes developed the Yerkes–Dodson law relating arousal to performance. As time went on, Yerkes began to propagate his support for eugenics in the 1910s and 1920s. His works are largely considered biased toward outmoded racialist theories by modern academics. He also served on the board of trustees of Science Service, now known as Society for Science & the Public, from 1921-1925. Education and early career Robert Yerkes was born in Breadysville, Pennsylvania (near Ivyland, Pennsylvania). Growing up on a farm in rural Pennsylvania, Robert Yerkes wanted to leave the hard life of the rural farmer and b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royden Yerkes
Royden Keith Yerkes (June 22, 1881 — June 21, 1964) was an Episcopal priest and theologian. Yerkes was born in Philadelphia. Yerkes was ordained in 1906. He received his B.A. (1903) M.A. (1911) and Ph.D. (1918) from the University of Pennsylvania. He served as head of the graduate department of religious history at Philadelphia Divinity School from 1918 to 1935, and was a professor of theology at the University of the South. He was also an instructor at Nashotah House Theological Seminary. He was examining chaplain of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania from 1911 to 1931. Yerkes died in Evanston, Illinois, where he had been director of religious education for the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago from 1947 until his 1952 retirement. He wrote ''Sacrifice in Greek and Roman Religions and Early Judaism'', a monograph on the origins of religious sacrifice translated into French in 1955.Reviews of ''Sacrifice in Greek and Roman Religions and Early Judaism'': * * * * * * * * Works *Wha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan Yerkes
Stanley Lewis Yerkes (November 28, 1874 – July 28, 1940) nicknamed "Yank", was a professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball from 1901-03 for the Baltimore Orioles and St. Louis Cardinals. Yerkes set many career highs during the 1903 season while pitching for the Cardinals. He appeared in 39 games (starting 37) during that season, and had a 12-21 record with a 3.66 ERA. See also * List of St. Louis Cardinals team records The St. Louis Cardinals, a professional baseball franchise based in St. Louis, Missouri, compete in the National League (NL) of Major League Baseball (MLB) since 1892. Before joining the NL, they were also a charter member of the American Associat ... External links * Major League Baseball pitchers Baltimore Orioles (1901–02) players St. Louis Cardinals players Philadelphia Colts players Scranton Indians players Shenandoah Huns players Carbondale Anthracites players Lancaster Chicks players Philadelphia Athletics (minor l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Yerkes
Stephen Douglas Yerkes (May 15, 1888 – January 31, 1971) was a professional baseball player. History Yerkes played all or part of seven seasons in Major League Baseball between 1909 and 1916, primarily as a second baseman. He played for the Boston Red Sox (1909, 1911–14), of the American League, Pittsburgh Rebels (1914–15) of the Federal League, and Chicago Cubs (1916) of the National League. Yerkes batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Hatboro, Pennsylvania. In his major league career, Yerkes posted a .268 batting average with six home runs and 254 RBI in 711 games played. He played in the first game at Boston's Fenway Park, on April 20, 1912, in which he had five hits, including two doubles. In the 1912 World Series, he drove in the winning run for the Red Sox in Game One, and scored the Series-winning run in the tenth inning of Game Eight. After his major league career ended, Yerkes continued to play on and off in minor league baseball until 1923, mostly w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yerkes (other) , on the moon
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Yerkes may refer to: *Yerkes (surname), notable people with this surname *Yerkes, Kentucky *Yerkes, Pennsylvania * Yerkes Observatory, an astronomical observatory of the University of Chicago ** Yerkes luminosity classification of stars ** Yerkes scheme of galaxy morphological classification * Yerkes National Primate Research Center, one of eight national primate research centers funded by the National Institutes of Health, located in Atlanta, Georgia at Emory University * Yerkes–Dodson law, an empirical relationship between arousal and performance first noted by Robert M. Yerkes and John Dillingham Dodson * 990 Yerkes, main belt asteroid * Yerkes (crater) Yerkes is a lunar impact crater near the western edge of Mare Crisium. It was named after American financier Charles Yerkes. To the east of Yerkes is the crater Picard, and farther to the north is Peirce. In the past the interior of this crat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merritt Yerkes Hughes
Merritt Yerkes Hughes (May 24, 1893 – May 12, 1971) Hughes was an expert in the literature of France, England and Italy. He was a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1925, the first year they were given. Life Hughes was born May 24, 1893, in Philadelphia; he received a bachelor's degree from Boston University in 1915, a master's degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1918, a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1921 and a D.Litt. from the University of Edinburgh in 1950. Starting in 1922 he was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He subsequently served on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin from 1936 until his retirement in 1963. At the University of Wisconsin, he was the chairman of the English department for a tenure of ten years. In 1922, Hughes' "Study of Dante in France since 1870" divided the annual prize of the Dante Society of America. In 1929 Hughes had published a volume entitled ''Virgil and Spenser''. Amongst other works, he edit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
