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Leslie Richard Groves Jr. was born in Albany, New York, on 17 August 1896, [2] the third son of four children of a pastor, Leslie Richard Groves Sr., and his wife Gwen née Griffith. [3] He was half Welsh and half English, with some French Huguenot ancestors who came to the United States in the 17th century. [ 4 ]
Edwin Cheney ca. 1902. Edwin Henry Cheney (June 13, 1869 — December 18, 1942) [1] was an American electrical engineer from Oak Park, Illinois, United States.. He was the son of James Wilson Cheney and Armilla Armanda, daughter of Linus S. and Rebekah J. (Jaegger) Perkins.
Groves and his family left Iran in July 1940, shortly before the Anglo-Soviet invasion of the country. While on the ship home, he received a telegram from Centre College president Robert L. McLeod offering him a job as professor of philosophy and religion. Groves accepted and taught his first class at Centre in October 1940, the morning after ...
Comedian Perry Kurtz has died at the age of 73. On Thursday, Aug. 15, the comedian was killed in a hit-and-run in Tarzana, California. Kurtz was on Ventura Boulevard, a main road in the San ...
The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2014.. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
Else Blangsted, 99, German-born American music editor (The Goonies, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, The Color Purple). [4] Chung Hae-won, 60, South Korean football player (Daewoo Royals, national team) and manager (Jeonnam Dragons), liver cancer. [5] Gilbert Luis R. Centina III, 72, Filipino-American Roman Catholic poet, complications from COVID ...
Junius George Groves (April 12, 1859 – August 17, 1925) was an American farmer and entrepreneur remembered as one of the wealthiest black Americans of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Known as the "Potato King of the World" by 1902, Groves optimized potato growth methods, out-producing anyone else in the world to that point.
Her funeral was held at Canford Cemetery, Westbury-on-Trym, and her remains were later cremated. [102] Her estate was administered by her niece, [ 103 ] Elizabeth Mary Marrian (known as "Biddy"), née Kingsley Pillers, [ 104 ] the only child of Pillers' brother, Robert Kingsley. [ 105 ]