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Frances Geneva Handy Southall (December 5, 1925 – January 2, 2004) was an American musicologist, pianist, and college professor. Early life and education.
This is a list of people associated with the modern Switzerland and the Old Swiss Confederacy.Regardless of ethnicity or emigration, the list includes notable natives of Switzerland and its predecessor states as well as people who were born elsewhere but spent most of their active life in Switzerland.
Gene Stratton-Porter Cabin, (Geneva, Indiana), known as the Limberlost Cabin and the Limberlost State Historic Site, was the former home of Gene Stratton Porter, a noted Indiana author who lived in the home from 1895 to 1913. The two-story, fourteen-room log cabin is located near the Limberlost Swamp on the outskirts of Geneva in Adams County ...
Frank later became a merchant and proprietor of the Hi-De-Ho Pool Room. Gramma never worked outside the home or learned to drive a car, staying at home to raise two daughters, Marie Fumich (1930–2014) and Sheila Harris (1938–1997). At the time of her death, Gramma had five grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren and 8 great-great-grandchildren.
The North Geneva Historic District reflects the northern portion of the original settlement, which was home to many prominent early Geneva businessmen as well as the working class. It consists of the area known as the First Ward, roughly bounded by Stevens Street, the (modern day) Union Pacific Railroad on the west, W. State Street to the south ...
The University of Geneva. Geneva is home to the University of Geneva where approximately 16,500 students are regularly enrolled. [80] In 1559 John Calvin founded the Geneva Academy, a theological and humanist seminary. In the 19th century the academy lost its ecclesiastic links and in 1873, with the addition of a medical faculty, it became the ...
The United Nations changed the nomenclature from "European Office" to "UN Office at Geneva (UNOG)" in 1966. [5] Further, Geneva is the home of many UN-affiliated international organizations which are not technically part of the United Nations, as well as many important international organizations entirely independent of the UN, such as the ...
Otto Young (December 20, 1844 – November 30, 1906) was a German American merchant and real estate mogul from Elberfeld, Prussia.After his father died in his youth, Young struggled to earn enough money to follow his mother to the United States.