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Kemper
Kemper may refer to: Buildings * Kemper Arena, in Kansas City, Missouri * Kemper Building (Chicago), a skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois * Kemper Hall, a 1911 mansion in Kenosha, Wisconsin * Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, in Kansas City, Missouri Companies * Thomas Kemper, an American soda brewing company * Kemper Corporation, an American insurance group Places * Quimper ( br, Kemper, link=no), France * Kemper County, Mississippi * Kemper, Illinois * Kemper, South Carolina People Surname * Andreas Kemper (born 1963), German sociologist * Charles Kemper (1900–1950), American film actor * Christine de Bosch Kemper (1840–1924), Dutch feminist * David Kemper (born 1947), American rock drummer * David Kemper (writer), American television writer and producer * Dieter Kemper (1937–2018), German cyclist * Edmund Kemper (born 1948), American serial killer and necrophile * Ellie Kemper (born 1980), American actress and comedian * Franz-Josef Kemper (born 1945), German mid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Kemper
Edmund Emil Kemper III (born December 18, 1948) is an American serial killer who murdered a total of 10 people, including a 15-year-old girl, as well as his own mother and her best friend, from May 1972 to April 1973, following his parole for murdering his paternal grandparents. Kemper was nicknamed the Co-ed Killer, as most of his victims were female college students hitchhiking in the vicinity of Santa Cruz County, California. He stands at a height of . Most of his murders included necrophilia, with some incidents of rape. Born in Burbank, California, Kemper had a troubled upbringing. His parents divorced in early life; as a child, he moved to Montana with his mother Clarnell, who kept Kemper locked in their basement which had been frequented by rats. He ran away to reunite with his father, but he had remarried and around Christmas of 1963 sent Edmund to his paternal grandparents in North Fork, California. It was there, in August 1964 at the age of 15, that he murdered the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellie Kemper
Elizabeth Claire Kemper (born May 2, 1980) is an American actress and comedian. She has been nominated for a Critics' Choice Movie Award, two Critics' Choice Television Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, three Satellite Awards, and seven Screen Actors Guild Awards. Kemper is best known for playing the roles of Erin Hannon in the sitcom ''The Office'' (2009–2013) and Kimmy Schmidt in the sitcom ''Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt'' (2015–2019), the latter of which earned her two consecutive nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. She has also appeared in films, notably ''Bridesmaids'' (2011), ''21 Jump Street'' (2012), ''Sex Tape'' (2014), and most recently in ''Home Sweet Home Alone'' (2021). In 2018, she released her debut book, ''My Squirrel Days''. Early life Kemper was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the second of four children of Dorothy Ann "Dotty" (née Jannarone) and David Woods Kemper, a son of one of the wealthiest fami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kemper Corporation
Kemper is an American insurance provider with corporate headquarters located in Chicago, Illinois. With nearly $15 billion in assets, the Kemper family of companies provide insurance to individuals, families, and businesses. History Kemper Corporation was originally founded as Unitrin, Inc. in April 1990, when it spun off from Henry Singleton's conglomerate Teledyne. Singleton expected the new venture to duplicate the successful spin off of the Argo Group, originally a workers’ compensation insurance provider, created in 1986. Argonaut's original $20 per share stock appreciated 240 percent by 1990. Singleton remained Chairman of Unitrin after it was spun off to shareholders at $31.25 per share, trading on NASDAQ. Unitrin divided its business into three major categories: life and health insurance, property and casualty insurance, and consumer finance, which covered a variety of services including automobile and industrial loans. In 2002, Unitrin purchased the renewal rights for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Kemper
Thomas Kemper was a brewer of root beer, ginger ale, and other craft sodas under the Thomas Kemper Soda Co. label. Formerly owned by Pyramid Breweries, Inc., it was sold in 2007 to Adventure Funds of Portland, Oregon, which is running the company under the Kemper Co. name. Thomas Kemper Brewing of Poulsbo was sold to Hart Brewing (later known as Pyramid) in 1992. (Thomas Kemper had been founded in 1985 on Bainbridge Island, and began making soft drinks in 1990.) Thomas Kemper Soda was first brewed by Andy Thomas and Will Kemper (now brewing at Bellingham's Chuckanut) as alternative to beer at an Octoberfest celebration on Bainbridge Island, WA in 1990. The first Thomas Kemper Soda was handcrafted Root Beer. Thomas Kemper Sodas are still handcrafted and made with honey (although cane sugar is the primary sweetener), Madagascar vanilla, and other flavors available. The soda comes in eight flavors: Root Beer, Vanilla Cream, Orange Cream, Ginger Ale, Grape, Black Cherry, Ginger Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kemper County, Mississippi
Kemper County is a county located on the central eastern border of the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, the population was 10,456. Its county seat is De Kalb. The county is named in honor of Reuben Kemper. The county is part of the Meridian, MS Micropolitan Statistical Area. In 2010 the Mississippi Public Service Commission approved construction of the Kemper Project, designed to use "clean coal" to produce electricity for 23 counties in the eastern part of the state. , it was not completed and had cost overruns. It is designed as a model project to use gasification and carbon-capture technologies at this scale. East Mississippi Community College is located in Kemper County in the town of Scooba, at the junction of US 45 and Mississippi Highway 16. History In the wake of the county's founding, Abel Mastin Key served as the first circuit clerk. Land in the area was developed in the 19th century by white planters for cotton cultivation using enslaved African ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackson Kemper
Jackson Kemper (December 24, 1789 – May 24, 1870) in 1835 became the first missionary bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Especially known for his work with Native American peoples, he also founded parishes in what in his youth was considered the Northwest Territory and later became known as the "Old Northwest" (Indiana, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Nebraska), hence one appellation as bishop of the "Whole Northwest". Bishop Kemper founded Nashotah House and Racine College in Wisconsin, and from 1859 until his death served as the first bishop of the Diocese of Wisconsin. Early life Baptized David Jackson Kemper by Dr. Benjamin Moore, the Assistant Rector of his parents' congregation at New York City's Trinity Church, he would eventually drop the given name "David." He had been born in the Hudson River Valley of New York, where his parents had taken temporary refuge during a smallpox outbreak in New York City. His father Daniel Kemper had be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathy Kemper
Kathy "Coach" Kemper (born July 17, 1953) is an American executive, tennis coach, writer, and philanthropist. Kemper rose to prominence in the tennis scene, eventually heading the women's tennis team at Georgetown University, where she earned the nickname "Coach". Kemper has spent more than 30 years coaching movie stars, professional athletes, monarchs, Supreme Court Justices, Ambassadors, members of Congress, intelligence agency directors, and individuals from seven White House administrations. In 1992, Kemper founded the Institute For Education (IFE), a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. that recognizes and promotes leadership, civility, and the search for common ground locally, nationally, and in the world community. The Institute has come to host many famous guests, including Hillary Rodham Clinton, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Arianna Huffington. Kemper is also an op-ed writer and columnist, and has a regular Huffington Post blog. Her work has been featured in ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kemper Arena
The Hy-Vee Arena, previously known as Kemper Arena, is an indoor arena located in Kansas City, Missouri. Prior to conversion to a youth sports and community gymnasium facility, Kemper Arena was previously a 19,500-seat professional sports arena. It has hosted NCAA Final Four basketball games, professional basketball and hockey teams, professional wrestling events, the 1976 Republican National Convention, concerts, and is the ongoing host of the American Royal livestock show. It was originally named for R. Crosby Kemper Sr., a member of the powerful Kemper financial clan and who donated $3.2 million from his estate for the arena. In 2016, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in recognition of its revolutionary design by Helmut Jahn. History Construction Kemper Arena was built in 18 months in 1973–74 on the site of the former Kansas City Stockyards just west of downtown in the West Bottoms to replace the 8,000-seat Municipal Auditorium to play host to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kemper Hall
Kemper Hall is placed on a Kenosha County park with 17.5 acres in Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States. Kemper Hall overlooks Lake Michigan with a historic chapel, observatory, the Anderson Arts Center, and the Durkee Mansion. Kemper Hall began with an Italianate mansion and was expanded with various wings and buildings in Gothic Revival style. It previously housed a complex Episcopal all girls’ boarding school after the expansion. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. With . History Kemper Hall was originally known as Durkee Mansion, the estate of early Kenosha, Wisconsin settler Charles Durkee. The mansion was built in 1861 as Durkee was completing his one term in the United States Senate. In 1865, Senator Durkee's home was donated to the St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, who aimed to convert the house into an all girls' boarding school. The all girls' school was opened in 1871 and renamed Kemper Hall in honor of Jackson Kemper, the first missionary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reuben Kemper
Reuben Kemper (February 21, 1771 – January 29, 1827) was an American pioneer and filibuster. Kemper and West Florida Born in Fauquier County, Virginia, Kemper and his brothers Nathan and Samuel settled in Feliciana Parish, near Baton Rouge, Spanish West Florida, shortly after 1800. Expelled from the province by the Spanish authorities in a dispute over land titles, the Kemper brothers organized a small force in the Mississippi Territory and returned, declaring West Florida to be independent. They attempted to capture Baton Rouge in 1804, but were defeated, having failed to gain the support of local Anglo-American settlers. Most of the latter were satisfied with Spanish rule on account of Spain's liberal land grants and its protection of slavery. The following year Spanish forces captured all three brothers while they were on U.S. soil, but American forces rescued them as they were being taken down the Mississippi River. In 1810, during the rebellion against Spanish rule by Britis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeltje De Bosch Kemper
Jkvr. Jeltje de Bosch Kemper (1836 – 1916) was a Dutch feminist. Life Bosch Kemper was born in Amsterdam on 28 April 1836. She was a member of the Kemper noble family, daughter of (1808-1876) and Maria Aletta Hulshoff (1810-1844) and educated in a girls' school. She became interested in women's issues by ''The Subjection of Women'' by John Stuart Mill. In 1871, she became a member of Betsy Perk's ''Algemeene Nederlandsche Vrouwenvereeniging Arbeid Adelt'', an association with the goal to improve women's right to be educated and work to support themselves; in 1872, she founded her own association with the same purpose, ''Algemeene Nederlandsche Vrouwenvereeniging Tesselschade'', which she chaired 1886-1911. In 1878 she founded ''Vereeniging voor Ziekenverpleging'', the first courses to educate professional nurses in the Netherlands. In 1894, she became chairperson of the ''Maatschappelijken en den Rechtstoestand der Vrouw in Nederland'', and association to improve the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Kemper
) , birth_date = c. 1670 , birth_place = Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth , death_date = 3 May 1716 ( O.S.)14 May 1716 ( N.S.) , death_place = Uppsala, Swedish Empire , spouse = SiphraAnna Strömer (m. 1701) , other_names = Moses AaronJohann Christian Jacob , occupation = Schoolmaster (Melamed)Hebrew teacherAuthor , notable_works = Likutei ha-ZoharMe’irat EinayimEyn Sheyn Purim Shpil Johan Kemper (1670–1716), formerly Moshe ben Aharon Ha-Kohen of Kraków or Moses Aaron, baptized Johann Christian Jacob; was a Polish Sabbatean Jew who converted from Judaism to Lutheran Christianity.Wolfson, Elliot R.Messianism in the Christian Kabbala of Johann Kemper", ''The Journal of Scriptural Reasoning'', Volume 1, No. 1, August 2001 (also appears in Goldish et al. (2001)) His conversion was motivated by his studies in Kabbalah and his disappointment following the failure of a prophecy spread by the Polish Sabbatean prophet Zadok of Grodno, which pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
