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EFFIE
Effie is a feminine given name, sometimes a short form (hypocorism) of Euphemia (Greek: Εὐφημία). Notable people with the name include: Women * Effie Bancroft (1840–1921), English actress and theatre manager * Effie Boggess (1927-2021), American politician * Effie Cardale (1873–1960), New Zealand community and welfare worker * Effie Cherry (1869–1944), American performer, part of the Cherry Sisters touring vaudeville act * Effie Crockett (1857–1940), American actress * Euphemia Effie Ellsler (1855–1942), American stage and film actress * Euphemia Effie Germon (1845–1914), American stage actress * Euphemia Effie Gray (1828–1897), Scottish model, married to John Ruskin and John Everett Millais * Effie Hotchkiss, American pioneering motorcyclist in 1915 * Effie Mae Martin Howard, real name of Rosie Lee Tompkins (1936–2006), African-American quiltmaker * Effie McCollum Jones (1869–1952), American Universalist minister and suffragette * Effie Neal Jon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Effie Gray
Euphemia Chalmers Millais, Lady Millais (''née'' Gray; 7 May 1828 – 23 December 1897) was a Scottish artists' model and the wife of Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. She had previously been married to the art critic John Ruskin, but she left him with the marriage never having been consummated; it was subsequently annulled. This famous Victorian "love triangle" has been dramatised in plays, films, and an opera. Early life Euphemia Chalmers Gray was born on 7 May 1828 in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland to lawyer and businessman George Gray (1798–1877) and Sophia Margaret (1808–1894), daughter of Andrew Jameson, Sheriff-substitute of Fife.Mervyn Williams (2012) ''Effie'' She grew up at Bowerswell, an Italianate-style house near the foot of Kinnoull Hill. Though she was given the pet-name "Phemy" by her parents as a child, she started to be known as "Effie" by the time she was a teenager. Her sisters Sophie and Alice often modelled for John Everett Millais. Rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Effie Hoffman Rogers
Effie Hoffman Rogers (, Hoffman; May 13, 1853/55 – February 7, 1918) was an American educator, editor and journalist. For several terms, she was elected county superintendent of the public schools of Mahaska County, Iowa, the first woman ever elected to that office in that county. She was also at the head of the board of education of the Oskaloosa schools, resigning her presidency of the board upon her removal to Colorado in later life. Rogers was also prominent in the "women's club" movement. Rogers was for a number of years the editor of the ''P.E.O. Record'', the national official organ of the supreme chapter of the P.E.O. Sisterhood. She was engaged in this work while a resident in Oskaloosa, Iowa and under her management, the magazine came into prominence. Rogers was acquainted with editorial work earlier in her life through other affiliations. She was for a considerable time the associate editor of the ''Oskaloosa Times''. The knowledge gained in newspaper work added to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypocorism
A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek: (), from (), 'to call by pet names', sometimes also ''hypocoristic'') or pet name is a name used to show affection for a person. It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as ''Izzy'' for Isabel or ''Bob (given name), Bob'' for Robert, or it may be unrelated. In linguistics, the term can be used more specifically to refer to the morphological process by which the standard form of the word is transformed into a form denoting affection, or to words resulting from this process. In English, a word is often Clipping (morphology), clipped down to a closed monosyllable and then suffixed with ''-y/-ie'' (phonologically /i/). Sometimes the suffix ''-o'' is included as well as other forms or templates. Hypocoristics are often affective in meaning and are particularly common in Australian English, but can be used for various purposes in different semantic fields, including personal names, place names and nouns. Hypocorisms are usually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Effie Louise Power
Effie Louise Power (February 12, 1873 – October 8, 1969) was a children's librarian, educator, author, and storyteller. She encouraged children's book production and evaluated children's literature.Children's Library Work Puts Her With Who's Who. "Cleveland Plain Dealer", January 3, 1927, provided by Cleveland Public Library Archives. She “directly influenced the development of services to children in three major United States cities: Cleveland, St. Louis, and Pittsburgh.”Kingsbury, Mary E. (n.d.). Power, Effie Louise. Wedgeworth, Robert, editor, (1993). ''World Encyclopedia of library and information services'', 3rd edition. American Libraries Association. Power also traveled across the U.S. lecturing students and librarians on children and youth library services. She worked to build a network of children's librarians across the country who supported each other and established high standards for all in the profession. Early life and education Power was born February 12, 187 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Bergen
Edgar John Bergen (born Edgar John Berggren; February 16, 1903 – September 30, 1978) was an American ventriloquist, actor, comedian, vaudevillian and radio performer, best known for his proficiency in ventriloquism and his characters Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd. He was the father of actress Candice Bergen. Early life Bergen was born in Chicago, Illinois, one of five children and the younger of two sons of Swedish immigrants Nilla Svensdotter (née Osberg) and Johan Henriksson Berggren. He lived on a farm near Decatur, Michigan until he was four, when his family returned to Sweden, where he learned the language. After his family had returned to Chicago, when he was eleven, he taught himself ventriloquism from a pamphlet called "The Wizard's Manual". He attended Lake View High School. After his father died, when Edgar was 16, he went out to work as an apprentice accountant, a furnace stoker, a player-piano operator, and a projectionist in a silent-movie house. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Effie Norton
Elisha Strong Norton (August 17, 1873 in Conneaut, Ohio – March 5, 1950 in Aspinwall, Pennsylvania), also nicknamed "Leiter," was a right-handed professional baseball pitcher who played from to for the Washington Senators. He is the great-grandfather in law of pitcher John Fulgham. Prior to playing professional baseball, Norton attended Ohio State University, where, in 1895, he was the "star" of the team He made his big league debut on August 8, 1896. He went 3–1 with a 3.07 ERA in eight games (five starts). In 44 innings, he had 14 walks and 13 strikeouts. The following season, he went 2–1 with a 6.88 ERA in 17 innings. He walked 11 and struck out three. Although a pitcher by trade, he also played three games in the outfield that season. On June 5, 1897, he played his final big league game. Overall, Norton went five and two with a 4.13 ERA in 61 innings (12 games, seven games started). He walked 25 batters and struck out 13. For a pitcher, he wasn't a bad hitter. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Effie Wilder
Effie Leland Wilder (August 28, 1909 – July 19, 2007) was an American homemaker and writer. The first book she wrote was published when she was 85 years old, it was titled ''Out to Pasture''. Personal life She was born on August 28, 1909, in Rockingham, North Carolina, USA, to Effie Williams Leland and Warren Allston Leland. She graduated from Converse College. She married Allison F. P. Wilder and had one daughter, Frances Townsend, and three sons, Allison F. P. Wilder, Jr., John A. L. Wilder, and W. Leland Wilder. She had seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. She died July 19, 2007, in Summerville, South Carolina at age 97. Career as author Wilder authored five books: ''Older But Wilder'', ''Out To Pasture'', ''One More Time'', ''Over What Hill?'' and ''Oh, My Goodness!''. Published when Wilder was 85 years old, her first book ''Out to Pasture'' received good reviews from '' The Christian Science Monitor''. Activities and honors Wilder served on the board ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Effie A
Effie is a feminine given name, sometimes a short form (hypocorism) of Euphemia (Greek: Εὐφημία). Notable people with the name include: Women * Effie Bancroft (1840–1921), English actress and theatre manager * Effie Boggess (1927-2021), American politician * Effie Cardale (1873–1960), New Zealand community and welfare worker * Effie Cherry (1869–1944), American performer, part of the Cherry Sisters touring vaudeville act * Effie Crockett (1857–1940), American actress * Euphemia Effie Ellsler (1855–1942), American stage and film actress * Euphemia Effie Germon (1845–1914), American stage actress * Euphemia Effie Gray (1828–1897), Scottish model, married to John Ruskin and John Everett Millais * Effie Hotchkiss, American pioneering motorcyclist in 1915 * Effie Mae Martin Howard, real name of Rosie Lee Tompkins (1936–2006), African-American quiltmaker * Effie McCollum Jones (1869–1952), American Universalist minister and suffragette * Effie Neal Jone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Effie Waller Smith
Effie Waller Smith (January 6, 1879 – January 2, 1960) was an African-American poet of the early twentieth century. Her published output consisted of three volumes of poetry: ''Songs of the Month'' (1904), ''Rhymes From the Cumberland'' (1904), and ''Rosemary and Pansies'' (1909). Her poetry appeared in the publication '' Harper's Weekly'' and various regional newspapers. Early life and education Effie Waller was born to former slaves in the rural mountain community of Chloe Creek in Pike County, Kentucky, on a farm located a few miles from Pikeville.Tonya Bolden"Biographies" Digital Schomburg African Women Writers of the 19th Century. Her father, Frank Waller, migrated to the East Kentucky mountains sometime after the Civil War, having spent most of his early life as a laborer on a Virginia plantation. Her mother, Sibbie Ratliff, was born and raised in East Kentucky and met the former Virginia slave in the early 1870s. Effie was the third of their four children. Frank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Effie Anderson Smith
Effie Anderson Smith (September 29, 1869 – April 21, 1955), also known as Mrs. A.Y. Smith, was an early Arizona impressionist painter of desert landscapes, many of Cochise County and the Grand Canyon The Grand Canyon (, yuf-x-yav, Wi:kaʼi:la, , Southern Paiute language: Paxa’uipi, ) is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in Arizona, United States. The Grand Canyon is long, up to wide and attains a depth of over a m .... Biography Smith was born in the rural countryside near Nashville, Arkansas, in 1869.Mitre Press ''Principal Women of America'', p. 112 She grew up in Arkansas and served as a school teacher in Hope, Arkansas until 1893, when she left Arkansas for New Mexico, and then Arizona. She studied with California Impressionists in Oakland (1904),Crocker Art Museum ''Artists in California, 1786–1940'', p. 1033 with May Bradford Shockley in San Francisco (1908), in Laguna Beach with Anna Althea Hills (1914) and also at the Stickney Memorial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Effie Smith
Effie Smith (born Effie Mae Blu or Bly, April 10, 1914 – February 11, 1977) was an American blues and jazz singer and comedian, best known for "Dial That Telephone", a song she first recorded in 1953 which became an R&B hit in 1965. She was born in McAlester, Oklahoma, and after an early marriage took the surname of her husband, Fred Smith. By 1940 she was living in Los Angeles, California, with her two children, and was working as a singer in a WPA project. She sang in a vocal group, the Three Shades of Rhythm, and with the Lionel Hampton and Benny Carter orchestras, and during World War II appeared on several Armed Forces Radio Service broadcasts including sessions with saxophonist Coleman Hawkins and 16-year-old pianist André Previn. Dave Penny, "Effie Smith", ''Black Cat Rockabilly'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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