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- 1171: Herman Melville
- ... and amiable disposition." ("Concerning Herman Melville" http://www.melville.org/others.html) In that same year, scarlet fever left the boy with permanently weakened eyesight, but he attended Male High School. When the family import business collapsed in 1830, the family returned to Albany, where Herman enrolled briefly in Albany Academy. Allan Melvill died in 1832, leaving his family in a very poor financial situation. The eldest son, Gansevoort, assumed responsibility for the family and took over his father's felt and fur business. Herman joined him after two years as a bank clerk and some months working on the farm of his uncle, Thomas Melvill, in Pittsfield, Mass. About this time, Herman's branch of the family altered ...
- 1172: Grace Murray Hopper
- ... into machine language." Later on she produced the A-1 and the A-2, which were basically upgrades of the previous compiler. Her 1957 FLOW-MATIC compiler (or B-0) which was used mainly for business programs, was the first to translate English into the machine language. A later program in 1959-61 (COBOL) was based on her FLOW-MATIC and was used in the UNIVAC -- the first commercial electronic computer. Grace Hopper was a hard working woman who "worked to attract industry and business interests to computers and to bridge the gulf between management and programmers." After serving in the Navy from 1943 - 1986, during which she received the rank of rear admiral, she retired to take her final ...
- 1173: Charles W. Chesnutt
- ... characters like John and Rena Walden, Chesnutt advocates the right of mixed races to be accepted on equal terms with whites. In order to support his family, Chesnutt was forced to reopen his court reporting business which he closed in 1899. Chesnutt shifted his literary concentration towards essays and short articles regarding racial issues. He also experimented in writing entertaining, non-controversial novels about the high society of the North. The ... make it a financial success. During his own lifetime, Charles Waddell Chesnutt was recognized as a pioneer in treating racial themes. Throughout the years he was writing and publishing, he continued to operate a successful business and to participate in programs dedicated to social justice. In 1928, he was awarded the Spingarn Medal for pioneer work as a literary artist depicting the life and struggles of Americans of Negro descent, and ...
- 1174: Cesar E. Chavez
- ... to gain recognition and respect from the Migrant farm laborers. Cesar Chavez knew he needed recognition in order to negotiate in collective bargaining for the labor rights of the migrant worker. Agricultural growers and agricultural business corporations where rich and powerful and had never allowed any recognition of any union. Farm workers had been excluded from the right to collective bargaining that had been guaranteed to other workers by the 1935 ... whole enterprise and that the workers were merely expendables obtained at the lowest price with the least personal protection and job benefits. Cesar Chavez had realized the workers were too weak to fight the agricultural business that controlled public, political enforcing and policing agencies. The powerful growers and corporations lacked the consciousness of putting into practice the fair integration of workers as partners in the agricultural enterprise. The situation of the ...
- 1175: Christopher Marlowe
- ... was an experienced government agent who carried the Queens most secret letters to and from the courts in Europe. He had arrived from Debtford, straight from The Hague, where he had been on the Queens business. Igram Frizer was the personal servant and business agent of Marlowe s patron, Thomas Walsingham. Nicholas Skeres often assisted Poley. Poley, Skeres and Frizer were all experienced con men and liars. Also present that day was Christopher Marlowe. Some believe that the cause ...
- 1176: Booker T. Washington 2
- ... Teddy Roosevelt. Perhaps the most important event in Washington s life came on September 18, 1895 in Atlanta. Political leaders had invited Washington to speak at a convention that celebrated the South s resurgence in business. Never before had a black spoken at such a prestigious exposition. In his address, Washington spoke of a compromise between whites and blacks. Washington urged blacks to accept their inferior social position and raise their ... strongly opposed his statements. The NAACP and American writer W. E. B. Du Bois were the strongest opposers. Washington continued his idea of incorporating blacks into society by finding several organizations, including the National Negro Business League, which was to further black advancement. Washington also remained principal of Tuskegee Institute till his death on November 14, 1915. Booker T. Washington is one of the most important people to the African-American ...
- 1177: Benjamin Franklin 4
- ... on to math and arithmetic school. He failed out of that school by the time he was 10. He then quit school completely in order to assist his father in the soap and candle making business. At age 12 he moved on to be an apprentice to his older brother James, who was a printer. Soon Franklin had ambitions to write and by age 16 he had written a series of ... by an imaginary author. The letters were printed in the New England Courant, which was published by his brother. Still pursuing his writing career, he ran away to Philadelphia and continued working in the printing business. He arrived in 1725 with one Dutch dollar and one copper shilling. By 1729, he had bought and published The Pennsylvania Gazette. He then married his landlady s daughter, Deborah Reed. In the next seventeen ...
- 1178: Ben Franklin
- ... importance. Order: Here is a step, which must be the reason in which I am doing my homework right now and concentrating on just this. Franklin believes that everything must have it s place, and business must have it s own time. This being my business it is receiving it s own time. Resolution: Decide what you need to do, and do what you say you are going to do. Ben says that you must figure out what it is that ...
- 1179: Alexander Graham Bell
- ... a patent for the telephone just hours after Alexander Graham Bell. As part of the deal, in 1879, Western Union sold its 55-city telephone system to Bell Telephone Company and gave up the telephone business. In return Bell Telephone agreed to leave the telegraph business. Why I choose this person I chose Alexander Graham Bell because I believe that with out his contribution, the telephone, we could not communicate so easily and effectively with each other as we do know ...
- 1180: Abraham Lincoln 3
- ... debating society, studied grammar with the aid of a local schoolmaster, and acquired a lasting fondness for the writings of Shakespeare and Robert Burns from the village philosopher and fisherman. Offutt paid little attention to business, and his store was about to fail, when an Indian disturbance, known as the Black Hawk War, broke out in April 1832, in Illinois. Lincoln enlisted and was elected captain of his volunteer company. When ... the Whig ranks. Twice Lincoln was his party's candidate for speaker, and when defeated, he served as its floor leader. His greatest achievement in the legislature, where he was a consistent supporter of conservative business interests, was to bring about the removal of the state capital from Vandalia to Springfield, by means of adroit logrolling. When certain resolutions denouncing antislavery agitation were passed by the house, Lincoln and a colleague ...
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