United States History: November 26 II

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Births

1607 John Harvard (d 1638) was an English pastor and first benefactor of the college that was named Harvard College in his honor. He directed that half his money, along with his library, be given to the recently created school. His gift assured its continued operation.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvard_(clergyman)

1609 Henry Dunster, English-American Puritan clergyman and educator and president of Harvard College, was born (d. 27 February 1659).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Dunster

1792 Sarah Moore Grimké (d 1873) American abolitionist, writer, and suffragist.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Moore_Grimk%C3%A9

1827 Ellen Gould White (born Harmon) (d 1915) prolific Christian author and one of the American Christian pioneers whose ministry was instrumental in founding the seventh-day Sabbatarian Adventist movement that led to the rise of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

1828 Robert Battey (d 1895) American Surgeon. field of study was in gynecology and was well known all over Europe because of the procedure known as "Battey's Operation". On August 27, 1872 he performed the first successful Oophorectomy in Rome, Georgia. The patient, Julie Omberg, had diseased ovaries and lived to be 80 years old. There was lynch mob waiting for Dr. Battey, if he failed the operation. In 1873, he became professor of obstetrics at the Atlanta Medical College where he stayed until 1875. Dr. Battey continued to practice medicine until his death on November 8, 1895.

1827 Ellen G. White, an American Christian leader whose prophetic ministry was instrumental in founding the Sabbatarian Adventist movement that led to the rise of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, (d. 16 Jul 1915).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_G._White

1832 Mary Edwards Walker (d 1919) American feminist, abolitionist, prohibitionist, alleged spy, prisoner of war and surgeon. She is also the only woman ever to receive the Medal of Honor.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Edwards_Walker

1853 William Barclay "Bat" Masterson (d 1921) figure of the American Old West known as a buffalo hunter, U.S. Army scout, avid fisherman, gambler, frontier lawman, U.S. Marshal, and sports editor and columnist for the New York Morning Telegraph. He was the brother of lawmen James Masterson and Ed Masterson.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_Masterson

1858 Saint Katharine Mary Drexel (d 1955) American nun, philanthropist and educator, later canonized as a Roman Catholic saint.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Mary_Drexel

1876 Willis Haviland Carrier (d 1950) American inventor who invented modern air conditioning. In 1902 (a year after graduating with an M.E.), he designed his first system to control temperature and humidity in a Brooklyn printing plant. By 2 Jan 1906, he patented an "Apparatus for Treating Air," the world's first spray type air conditioning equipment, (U.S. No. 808,897). His "Rational Psychrometric Formulae," (1911) remain essential for air conditioning engineers. In 1915, he started the Carrier Engineering Corporation, to deal with temperature and humidity conditions in the industrial environment. Eventually the technology reached public buildings and then homes. He developed the first safe, low pressure centrifugal refrigeration machine using nontoxic, nonflammable refrigerant.

1877 Joseph Getchell Binney (b. 1807), Baptist pastor, president of George Washington University and American Board (Congregationalist) missionary to the Karens in Burma, died on the S. S. Amarakoora near Ceylon while returning from a furlough.

1878 Marshall Walter "Major" Taylor (d 1932) American cyclist who won the world one-mile track cycling championship in 1899 after setting numerous world records and overcoming racial discrimination. Taylor was the first African-American athlete to achieve the level of world champion and only the second black man to win a world championship—after Canadian boxer George Dixon.

1894 Norbert Wiener (d 1964) U.S. mathematician, who established the science of cybernetics, a term he coined, which is concerned with the common factors of control and communication in living organisms, automatic machines, and organizations. He attained international renown by formulating some of the most important contributions to mathematics in the 20th century. His work on generalised harmonic analysis and Tauberian theorems won the Bôcher Prize in 1933 when he received the prize from the American Mathematical Society for his memoir Tauberian theorems published in Annals of Mathematics in the previous year. His extraordinarily wide range of interests included stochastic processes, quantum theory and during WW II he worked on gunfire control.

1895 William Griffith Wilson (d 1971), also known as Bill Wilson or Bill W., co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), a fellowship of 100,800 mutual aid groups world-wide of alcoholics helping other alcoholics achieve and maintain sobriety. In compliance with AA Twelfth Tradition of anonymity, Wilson is commonly known as "Bill W." or just "Bill."

1907 Dr. Ruth Myrtle Patrick botanist and limnologist specializing in diatoms and freshwater ecology, who developed ways to measure the health of freshwater ecosystems and established a number of research facilities.

1909 Seward Hiltner, in Tyrone, Pennsylvania, an early leader in pastoral psychology, (d 19 Nov 1984)
www.nytimes.com/1984/11/28/obituaries/rev-seward-hiltner-74-dies-taught-at-princeton-seminary.html

1912 Arnold Eric Sevareid (d 1992) CBS news journalist from 1939 to 1977. He was one of a group of elite war correspondents—dubbed "Murrow's Boys"—because they were hired by pioneering CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow.

1922 Charles Monroe Schulz, (d 2000) creator of the comic strip Peanuts, was born in Minneapolis. After serving in World War 11, Schulz became a free-lance cartoonist with the St. Paul Pioneer Press and the Saturday Evening Post. In 1950 he created a strip entitled Li'l Folks, which later was syndicated as Peanuts. This became one of the most successful American comic strips of the mid-20th century.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Monroe_Schulz




1933 Robert Gerard Goulet (d 2007) Canadian/ American entertainer. He rose to international stardom in 1960 as Lancelot in Lerner and Loewe's hit Broadway musical Camelot. His long career as a singer and actor encompassed theatre, radio, television and film.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Goulet



Deaths

399 Pope Siricius . He was an active Pope, involved in the administration of the Church and the handling of various factions and viewpoints within it. He was the first Pope to issue decretals, the first of which was the Directa Decretal sent to Himerius of Tarragona. He was the author of two decrees concerning clerical celibacy. The decree of 385 stated that priests should stop cohabiting with their wives.
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1830 Andrew Parmentier) (b 1780) Belgian-American, André Joseph Ghislain Parmentier, born in Enghien, Belgium, was a horticulturist, responsible for exhibiting many plant species in America. He was the second of four sons of a linen merchant. Little is known about his early life. In 1824 Parmentier emigrated to America where he lived for only six years until his untimely death in 1830. Soon after arriving he established a nursery in Brooklyn from which he supplied seeds and root stock he had imported or propagated himself. In 1825, he established the first botanic garden in Brooklyn, at Atlantic and Carleton Avenues. His work is also preserved at the Vanderbilt Mansion, Hyde Park, NY, the most impressive of the four known Parmentier designs.

1877 Joseph Getchell Binney (b. 1807), Baptist pastor, president of George Washington University and American Board (Congregationalist) missionary to the Karens in Burma, died on the S. S. Amarakoora near Ceylon while returning from a furlough.
encyclopedia.gwu.edu/index.php?title=Presidents_of_The_George_Washington_University

1883 Sojourner Truth (b c. 1797) self-given name, from 1843, of Isabella Baumfree, an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York. Her best-known speech, Ain't I a Woman?, was delivered in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sojourner_Truth

1896 Benjamin Apthorp Gould (b 1824) American astronomer whose star catalogs helped fix the list of constellations of the Southern Hemisphere. Gould's early work was done in Germany, observating the motion of comets and asteroids. In 1861 undertook the enormous task of preparing for publication the records of astronomical observations made at the US Naval Observatory since 1850. But Gould's greatest work was his mapping of the stars of the southern skies, begun in 1870. The four-year endeavor involved the use of the recently developed photometric method, and upon the publication of its results in 1879 it was received as a signicant contribution to science. He was highly active in securing the establishment of the National Academy of Sciences.

1901 Joseph Henry Thayer, American New Testament Greek lexicographer, died (b 7 Nov 1828).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Henry_Thayer

1915 W. Atlee Burpee (b 1858) American seedsman who founded the world's largest mail-order seed company. The Burpee company was founded in Philadelphia in 1876 by an 18 year-old with a passion for plants and animals and a mother willing to lend him $1000 dollars of “seed money” to get started in business. Within 25 years he had developed the largest, most progressive seed company in America.

1943 Lieutenant Commander Edward Henry "Butch" O'Hare (b 1914) naval aviator of the United States Navy who on February 20, 1942 became the U.S. Navy's first flying ace and Medal of Honor recipient in World War II. Butch O'Hare's final action took place on the night of November 26, 1943, while he was leading the U.S. Navy's first-ever nighttime fighter attack launched from an aircraft carrier. During this encounter with a group of Japanese torpedo bombers, O'Hare's F6F Hellcat was shot down; his aircraft was never found. In 1945, the U.S. Navy destroyer USS O'Hare (DD-889) was named in his honor.

1956 Thomas Francis "Tommy" Dorsey, Jr. (b 1905) American jazz trombonist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader of the Big Band era. He was known as "The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing", due to his smooth-toned trombone playing.[2] He was the younger brother of bandleader Jimmy Dorsey.[3] After Dorsey broke with his brother in the mid-1930s, he led an extremely popular band from the late '30s into the 1950s. Dorsey had a reputation for being a perfectionist.[4] He was volatile and also known to hire and fire (and sometimes rehire) musicians based on his mood.

1987 Joy Paul Guilford (b 1897) American psychologist and practitioner of psychophysics, the quantitative measurement of subjective psychological phenomena, exemplified by his studies of the relative affectiveness of colour, hue, brightness, and saturation for men and women. Guilford also worked in other areas of quantitative methods in sensation, personality, psychophysics, and attention. In Guilford's Structure of Intellect theory (1959), intelligence is viewed as comprising operations, contents, and products. There are 5 kinds of operations (cognition, memory, divergent production, convergent production, evaluation), 6 kinds of products (units, classes, relations, systems, transformations, and implications), and 5 kinds of contents (visual, auditory, symbolic, semantic, behavioral).

1999 Ashley Montagu (b 1905) British American anthropologist noted for his works popularizing anthropology and science.

2007 Private First Class Silvestre S. Herrera (b 1917) member of the United States Army of Hispanic heritage who received the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions during World War II in Mertzwiller, France. His one-man charge on an enemy stronghold resulted in his single-handed capture of eight enemy soldiers. At the time of his death he was the only living person authorized to wear both the Medal of Honor and Mexico's Order of Military Merit (first class). The City of Phoenix officially renamed the portion of 3rd Street that runs from Indian School Road North into the park, "S. Herrera Way". Silvestre Herrera was an Arizona "legend".

2008 Edna Ruth Parker (née Scott) (b 1893) American supercentenarian and, until her death, was recognized as the oldest person in the world following the death of Yone Minagawa of Japan on 13 August 2007. Parker was the 20th verified, undisputed supercentenarian to reach age 115. At the time of her death, Parker was listed as the 14th longest lived person ever.



Christian Feast Days:

John Berchmans
Pope Siricius
Stylianos of Paphlagonia (Eastern Orthodoxy)
Sylvester Gozzolini



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