people from pennsylvania
Frank W. Preston
1886 births | 1989 deaths | american environmentalists | english immigrants to the united states | people from pennsylvania Frank W. Preston (1886-1989) an English-American engineer, ecologist, and conservationist. He helped found the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy and worked to reclaim the land that is now Moraine State Park in Butler County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Preston was a leading expert in glass technology. He studied birds throughout his life and published papers on the shapes and pigmentation of birds eggs, the distribution of the heights of their nests and their migration patterns. Preston also wrote three major papers on the mathematical characteristics of ecologlical rarity and commonness.
Biography
Early life
Frank W. Preston was born on June 14, 1896 in Leicester, England. He received three degrees from the University of London upon graduation in 1916. Following his college years, Preston worked as a civil engineer in Loughborough, England. He was drafted into the Royal Army during World War I but received a maximum exemption through the efforts of his employer. Preston was personally against the exemption and wrote the the draft board in 1917 stating a desire to serve "in anything useful and suggested a brief exemption."Benjamin D. Wright
1799 births | 1874 deaths | florida supreme court justices | journalists | lawyers | people from florida | people from pennsylvaniaBenjamin D. Wright was a Florida Lawyer, journalist, and Whig politician who served in Territorial Legislature, the State Senate, and as a Florida Supreme Court justice in 1853, succeeding Walker Anderson. He was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on January 23, 1799, the son of William and Sarah Ann Wright. He married Josephine De La Rua on February 23, 1826. He owned the Pensacola Gazette from 1834 to 1839 and edited the paper till 1846. He died on April 28, 1874.
Wright was admitted to the Luzerne County, Pennsylvania bar on April 7, 1820. When he was twenty-four, he moved to the Pensacola area. He became friends with and went to work for Richard K. Call, a protégé of Andrew Jackson. In April of 1824 he was appointed to the territorial council. In May, the president appointed him United States Attorney for Middle Florida, and then for West Florida in February of 1826.
David Sanford (composer)
1963 births | african american musicians | american jazz bandleaders | american jazz composers | american jazz musicians | people from pennsylvania | people from pittsburgh | progressive big band bandleadersDavid Sanford was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1963.
Biography
Sanford was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1963, into a musical family. His parents and one of his grandfathers were choir leaders, his other grandfather was a jazz trumpeter, and his great-grandmother Mozie Bass had composed songs and music for church pageants; he also has a brother who is a music teacher and singer in Colorado, where the family moved. The young David Sanford acquired an enthusiasm for big band music early on, playing trombone from around the age of ten. He went on to major in music at the University of Northern Colorado, and earned master's degrees in theory and composition at the New England Conservatory of Music. Supported partly by a Guggenheim Fellowship and partly by a job in the financial services industry, he undertook doctoral studies at Princeton, where he completed his dissertation on Miles Davis in 1998. That same year he joined the faculty at Mount Holyoke, where he teaches theory, composition, and various history courses, including one on music of the 1970's.Larry Pennell
1928 births | american film actors | people from pennsylvania | western film actorsLarry Pennell (b. February 21, 1928) is an American television and film actor. Larry Pennell @ IMDb.com
Born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, he is mainly a supporting actor, best known for his role as "Dash Riprock," the conceited, image-conscious, and macho Hollywood movie star courting "Elly May Clampett" (played by Donna Douglas) in the hit television series "The Beverly Hillbillies."
Billy Rhines
1869 births | 1922 deaths | cincinnati reds players | louisville colonels players | major league pitchers | major league players from pennsylvania | people from pennsylvania | pittsburgh pirates playersDan Casey (March 14, 1869-January 30, 1922) was a former professional baseball player. He was a pitcher over parts of 9 seasons (1890-1899) with the Cincinnati Reds, Louisville Colonels and Pittsburgh Pirates. He led the National League in ERA twice (1890 and 1896) while playing for Cincinnati. For his career, he compiled a 114-103 record in 249 appearances, with a 3.47 ERA and 743 strikeouts.
He was born and later died in Ridgway, Pennsylvania at the age of 52.
Robert Baird (clergyman)
1798 births | 1863 deaths | american historians | people from pennsylvania | religious leadersRobert Baird (1798&45;1863) was an American clergyman and author. He was born in Fayette Co., Pa., graduated at Jefferson College in 1818 and at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1822. He passed several years in Europe, where he labored especially for temperance and the revival and consolidation of evangelical Protestantism. He was agent and secretary of the American and Foreign Christian Union. His works include:
- A History of Temperance Societies in the United States (1836)
- A View of Religion in America (1842)
- Protestantism in Italy (1845)
- History of the Albigenses, Waldenses, and Vaudois
Publication
- H. M. Baird, Life
