Friday, July 31, 2015

Charles Caldwell


Charles Caldwell
A balding man with a long, white beard

 
DATE OF BIRTH: May 14, 1772
DATE OF DEATH: July 9, 1853

PLACE OF BIRTH: Caswell County
PLACE OF DEATH: Nashville, Tennessee

FIELD OF ACTIVITY: Medicine

ASSOCIATED GROUPS: Graduated University of Pennsylvania with M.D. (1796), Taught at Medical School at Transylvania Lexington, Kentucky (1819), Taught at University of Louisville and created the Louisville Medical Institute

OCCUPATION: Physician, Medical Educator
                       
RACE: Caucasian                                
GENDER: MALE                           
LANGUAGE: English
LABELS: 18th century
                                                        
TITLES:
An Attempt to establish the original sameness of three phenomena of fever (1796)
A semi-annual oration, on the origin of pestilential diseases (1799)
An eulogium to the memory of Dr. Samuel Cooper (1799)
An oration on the causes of the difference, in point of frequency and force, between the endemic diseases of the United States of American, and those of the countries of Europe (1802)
An eulogium to the memory of Mr. George Lee (1802)
An essay on the pestilential or yellow fever: as it prevailed in Philadelphia in the year eighteen hundred and five (1807)
An Anniversary oration on the subject of quarantines (1807)
An Eulogium on Caspar Wistar, M.D., professor of anatomy (1818)
Outlines of a course of lectures on the institutes of medicine (1823)
Elements of phrenology (1824)
Introductory address on independence of intellect (1825)
Thoughts on the spirit of improvement, the slection of its objects, and its proper direction (1835)
Autobiography of Charles Caldwell, M.D. (1855)

Thursday, July 30, 2015

Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb

Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb

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DATE OF BIRTH:June 23,1876
DATE OF DEATH: March 11, 1944

PLACE OF BIRTH: Paducah, Kentucky
PLACE OF DEATH: New York City, New York

RESIDENCE: New York City, New York

FIELD OF ACTIVITY: Journalism

ASSOCIATED GROUPS: Journalism with the Paducah Daily News (Age 17); Louisville Evening Post (Worked here for a year and a half); Evening Sun Company (1904); Sunday Evening Post (1911)

OCCUPATION: American Author, humorist, editor and columnist  
                        
RACE: Caucasian                                    
GENDER: MALE      
                          
TITLES:
Cobb's Anatomy (1912)
Cobb's Bill of Fare (1913)
Roughing It Deluxe (1914)
Europe Revised (1914)
Paths of Glory: Impression of War Written at and Near the Front (expanded as The Red Glutton) (1915)
Speaking of Operations (1915)
Speaking of Prussians (1917)
The Thunders of Silence (1918)
The Glory of the Coming: What Mine Eyes Have Seen of Americans in Action in This Year of Grace and Allied Endeavor (1919)
Eating in Two or Three Languages (1919)
The Life of the Party (1919)
A Plea for Old Cap Collier (1921)
One Third Off (1921)
J. Poindexter, Colored (1922)
Goin' to Fourteen: Being Cross-sections Out of a Year in the Life of an Average Boy (1924)
Indiana: Cobb's America Guyed Books (1924)
Kansas: Cobb's America Guyed Books (1924)
Kentucky: Cobb's American Guyed Books (1924)
Maine: Cobb's American Guyed Books (1924)
New York: Cobb's America Guyed Books (1924)
North Carolina: Cobb's America Guyed books (1924)
Alias Ben Alibi (1925)
Here Comes the Bride- and So Forth (1925)
On an island That cost $24.00 (1926)
Prose and Cons (1926)
Some United States: A Series of Stops in Various Part of This Nation with One Excursion Across the Line (1926)
All Aboard: A Saga of stops in Various Part of This Nation with One Excursion Across the Line (1926)
Ladies and Gentlemen (1927)
Chivalry Peak (1927)
Red Likker (1929)
To Be Taken Before Sailing (1930)
Murder Day by Day (1933)
One Way to Stop a Panic (1933)
Who's who plus Here's How! (1934)
Irvin S. Cobb's Own Recipe Book (1936)
Judge Priest Turns Detective (1936)
Azam: The Story of An Arabian Colt and His Friends (1937 children's book)
Four Useful Pups (1940 children's book)
Exit Laughing (1941)
The Governors of Kentucky (1947)
Piano Jim and the Impotent Pumpkin Vine (1950)
 
 

 

Thursday, July 23, 2015

Charles Melvin Hudson

Charles Melvin Hudson



DATE OF BIRTH: December 24, 1932
DATE OF DEATH: June 8, 2013

PLACE OF BIRTH: Farm on the Kentucky River near Monterey, Kentucky

PLACE OF DEATH: Frankfort, Kentucky

RESIDENCE: Georgia

FIELD OF ACTIVITY: Education

ASSOCIATED GROUPS: U.S. Air Force during the Korean War; Bachelor's degree in Anthropology (1958); Graduate studies in Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill earning an M.A. (1962) and a Ph.D. (1965); Became faculty member in the Anthropology Department at the University of Georgia (1965-2000)

OCCUPATION: Professor of Anthropology  
                            
RACE: Caucasian                                     
GENDER: MALE                                                                                                              

TITLES:
A history of interscholastic athletics at Washington High School, Germantown, Wisconsin (1969)
The Catawba Nation (1970)
Symposium on Indians in the Old South, Athens, Ga. 1970 (1971)
Red, White, and Black: symposium on Indians in the old south (1971)
Four centuries of Southern Indians (1975)
The Southeastern Indians (1976)
Black drink: a native American Tea (1979)
Elements of southeastern Indian religion (1984)
Ethnology of the southeastern Indians: a source book (1985)
The uses of evidence in reconstructing the route of the Hernando de Soto expedition (1987) and many other titles.