Paul Laurence Dunbar was born at 311 Howard Street in Dayton, Ohio, on June 27, 1872, to parents who were enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War. After being emancipated, his mother Matilda moved to Dayton with other family members, including her two sons Robert and William from her first marriage. Dunbar's father Joshua escaped from slavery in Kentucky before the war ended. He traveled to Massachusetts and volunteered for the 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, one of the first two black units to serve in the war. The senior Dunbar also served in the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment. Paul Dunbar was born six months after Joshua and Matilda's wedding on Christmas Eve, 1871.
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Paul Laurence Dunbar | Early life
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when was i know why the caged bird sings poem written
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1969
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who was the author?
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Maya Angelou
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is it a part of a book?
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An autobiography describing the early years of the poet.
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what inspired the name of this text?
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The title of the book comes from the third stanza of Dunbar's poem "Sympathy".
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when was this poem published?
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Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context.
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what's the full name of the author you just mentioned?
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
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where was he born?
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Dayton, Ohio.
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who were his parents?
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Paul Laurence Dunbar was born at 311 Howard Street in Dayton, Ohio, on June 27, 1872, to parents who were enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War. After being emancipated, his mother Matilda moved to Dayton with other family members, including her two sons Robert and William from her first marriage. Dunbar's father Joshua escaped from slavery in Kentucky before the war ended. He traveled to Massachusetts and volunteered for the 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, one of the first two black units to serve in the war. The senior Dunbar also served in the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment. Paul Dunbar was born six months after Joshua and Matilda's wedding on Christmas Eve, 1871.
Paul Laurence Dunbar | Early life
Paul Robert Lehman was born on April 20, 1931, in Athens, Ohio. His father, Harvey Christian Lehman, was a Professor of Psychology at Ohio University in Athens. His mother, Vera Marjorie Simmons Lehman, died of breast cancer as Paul was about to enter grade three. On June 28, 1953, he married Virginia Ruth Wickline, whom he had known since their days together in high school band. They have two children, David Alan (1963—) and Laura Ann (1965—).
Paul R. Lehman | Early life
Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906) was an American poet, novelist, and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio to parents who were enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War, Dunbar began writing stories and verse when he was a child. He published his first poems at the age of 16 in a Dayton newspaper, and served as president of his high school's literary society. Much of Dunbar's more popular work in his lifetime was written in the "Negro dialect" associated with the antebellum South, though he also used the Midwestern regional dialect of James Whitcomb Riley.
Paul Laurence Dunbar | Introduction
Born to parents Revd. Arthur Grafftey-Smith and Mabel Grafftey-Smith (née Barton), he was educated Clifton College, Repton and Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Laurence Grafftey-Smith | Early life
The marriage of Dunbar's parents was troubled, and Dunbar's mother left Joshua soon after having their second child, a daughter. Joshua died on August 16, 1885, when Paul was 13 years old. Dunbar wrote his first poem at the age of six and gave his first public recital at the age of nine. His mother assisted him in his schooling, having learned to read expressly for that purpose. She often read the Bible with him, and thought he might become a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. It was the first independent black denomination in America, founded in Philadelphia in the early 19th century.
Paul Laurence Dunbar | Early life
Graff was born in Stepney in 1938 into a Jewish family, the son of a Romanian mother, Rebecca Segal, and a Russian father, Harry Graff. His brother Raymond was born in 1947.
Laurence Graff | Early life
Dunbar-Dunbar was born on 8 October 1849 at Seapark, Forres, Morayshire, Scotland, the son of Edward Dunbar-Dunbar, a Captain in the 21st Fusiliers, and Phoebe Dunbar (died 1899 leaving £109,808). He received his university education at Oxford, graduating with a B.A. degree in 1873.
J. A. Dunbar-Dunbar | Early life
Dunbar is originally from Hartford, Connecticut, and moved to Greencastle, Pennsylvania when he was a child with his grandparents, Elmer Dunbar and the late Ellen Dunbar.
Koran Dunbar | Early life
De Laurence was born on 31 October 1868 in Cleveland, Ohio, the eldest child of William and Mary (née Walker) Lawrence. He was married twice: the first time was in 1897 to Orrie Eckert in Ohio and the second time in about 1905 to Pauline McAdoo in Illinois.
L. W. de Laurence | Life
Roland's father was a writer of short stories and TV comedy scripts and his mother an actress.
Paul Roland | Early life
Dunbar was born and brought up in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, in Northern Ireland, the eldest of seven siblings. He was educated by the Irish Christian Brothers before attending the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
Adrian Dunbar | Early life
Saidie Orr was born in Granger, Missouri, on June 23, 1880, the daughter of Robert Perry Orr and Catherine Lindsay.
Saidie Orr Dunbar | Early life
Towards the end of her mother's life, Maureen would sometimes trade houses with Lewis, helping him take care of her mother. Dame Maureen had a son, Richard Francis Dunbar of Hempriggs (born Richard Francis Blake on 8 January 1945), so the baronetcy returned on her death in 1997 to the male line.
Maureen Dunbar | Early life
Lawrence DeVol was born in Belpre, Ohio on 17 November 1903 to parents Helem and Emma (Shanks) DeVol. He moved with his parents and brother Albert to Oklahoma as a child, being raised in the Tulsa area. Lawrence's mother would later marry a second time, to William Keener, but it is unclear whether it was a circumstance of divorce or being widowed.
Lawrence DeVol | Early life
Duran attended Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in Lexington, Kentucky, and DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. He was profiled in "Esquire" magazine speaking about his mother.
Gil Duran | Personal life
Born in Kensington in London on 10 December 1957, he is the son of Joyce ("née" Everett, 1930–1991) and Louis Hardcastle (1915–2000).
Paul Hardcastle | Early life
Ulric Stonewall Jackson Dunbar was born on January 31, 1862 in London, Ontario, the son of Alexander Dunbar and Susannah Jackson. He attended the Art School of Toronto with his brother Frederick and in around 1880, Ulric Dunbar emigrated from Canada to the United States to pursue a career in sculpting.
Ulric Dunbar | Early life
Leo Felton's father, Calvin Felton (b. 1930), was a black architect, while his mother, Corinne Vincelette (b. 1931), was a white voice and diction professor who became involved in the civil rights movement. His parents divorced when he was two, and he was raised in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
Leo Felton | Early life
He was born in Paris, and abandoned by his mother soon after birth. His father, Firmin Léautaud, who begrudgingly brought him up, was a prompter at the Comédie-Française, and because of him Paul first became familiar with the world of the theater.
Paul Léautaud | Early life
When Barton was a boy, his father instructed him to guess the distance between his mother's bedroom window and the window at the home next door, to which he guessed 20 ft. "Well, my boy," his father told him, "You are a Protestant; but always remember that if you had been born 20 ft. to the east you would have been a Catholic."
Dunbar Barton | Introduction
Father Lucas was born at Harlem Hospital in 1933 and raised in Harlem . His early education was in Harlem at P.S. 39, All Saints School at All Saints Church (Manhattan), and St. Marks. He is quoted as saying that his activism comes from his mother. His mother fought against greedy landlords in their Harlem tenement.
Lawrence E. Lucas | Early life
Born Maureen Daisy Helen Moore in Ireland, she lived with her mother and C.S. Lewis (who had a 33-year cohabitation with Maureen's mother, Janie King Moore (née Askins)) for 22 years, until 1940, when she married Leonard James Blake (died 1989). She and her mother had started living with Lewis in late 1918 or early 1919, when she was a 13-year-old schoolgirl and Lewis was a 19 or 20-year-old university student. Lewis’s brother, Warren Lewis, joined the household in 1930. Janie Moore was married, though separated from her husband Courtenay, and remained in that state until her death in 1951, the same year her husband died.
Maureen Dunbar | Early life
Grigsby's parents were James Lewis Grigsby (1835-1892) and Louisa C Cravens (1836).
Lewis Grigsby | Early life
Dunbar had a long association with Dayton. He was born there in 1872, the son of former slaves, and his first poems were printed in the "Dayton Herald" in 1888. His first book, "Oak and Ivy" (1892) was published in Dayton by the United Brethren Publishing House as well. After serving as an elevator operator in Dayton and meeting some success for his writings, Dunbar took a job in Washington, D.C., at the Library of Congress. Dunbar purchased the home for his mother, Matilda Dunbar, in June 1904. The house is an eight-room brick structure on a quiet street. When Dunbar separated from his wife Alice Ruth Moore in 1902, he moved in as well.
Paul Laurence Dunbar House | History
Laurence Hope was raised in an artistic environment, his parents, Norman and Gertrude Hope, were practicing artists who met at Brisbane Technical College in the 1920s. His father ran a successful illustration and printing business and from early age Hope would undertake commercial artistic assignments for the family business. He had a stable early family life with his parents and older brother Norman, living first in Dee Why and then moving to Seaforth during the depression years. His local primary school in Seaforth brought him into contact with a young Charles Blackman, with whom he was to form a close friendship many years later.
Laurence Hope (artist) | Early years
Paul Draper was born to Muriel Sanders and Paul Draper, a lieder singer, in Florence, Italy on October 25, 1909. His parents married in the US in 1909, then proceeded to Italy. His mother was very active in artistic circles in New York and London. His parents divorced shortly after moving to the United States when Paul was four years old; his father died in 1925 at age 35. Paul was passed around from one relative's household to the next upon their return to the US. His mother entertained renowned guests like Henry James, Pablo Picasso, Arthur Rubinstein, and Norman Douglas in the family salon in their London home.
Paul Draper (dancer) | Family and personal life
Dunbar was born in Carnbee, Scotland. His birth is recorded as December 13, 1812. His father was William Dunbar, a mechanical engineer, came from a family line of engineers. Dunbar immigrated with his family to Pickering, Ontario, while a boy of 12. He went to high school and college in Canada. He took up an interest in mechanics and learned mechanical engineering.
Robert Dunbar | Early life
Dunbar and his wife separated in 1902, but they never divorced. Depression and declining health drove him to a dependence on alcohol, which further damaged his health.
Paul Laurence Dunbar | Marriage and declining health
Born in Akron, Ohio, Packard's mother, actress Frances Pollock, was the daughter of long-time trade union leader Sam Pollock.
Damon Packard | Early life
Laurence Housman was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, one of seven children including an older brother and sister, the classical scholar and poet A. E. Housman and the writer Clemence Housman. In 1871 his mother died, and his father remarried, to a cousin. After education at Bromsgrove School, he went with his sister Clemence to study art at the Lambeth School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London.
Laurence Housman | Early life
Dunbar was born in Mexico City in 1943, the son of the British filmmaker, Robert Dunbar. He has three sisters, Marina Adams, an architect, and twins Margaret and Jennifer Dunbar. He spent his first four years in Moscow, where his father was a cultural attache, before the family returned to England. Dunbar attended the University of Cambridge, where he met the singer Marianne Faithfull. They were married on 6 May 1965, with Peter Asher as the best man, and spent their honeymoon in Paris, with the Beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso. The couple lived in a flat at 29 Lennox Gardens, Knightsbridge, London.
John Dunbar (artist) | Personal life and career
Supreme Court. His maternal grandparents were James Hankinson Hart and Catherine Louise (née Badger) Hart.
J. Horace Harding | Early life
Paul Louis Hoefler was born in September 6, 1893 in Spokane, Washington. His parents were Caroline Louise and Otto Louis Hoefler and his brothers were Lucien, Dudley, George, Phillip, and Howard.
Paul L. Hoefler | Early life
Paul Laurence Dunbar achieved national and international acclaim in a literary world that was almost exclusively reserved for whites, producing a body of work that included novels, plays, short stories, lyrics, and over 400 published poems. His work, which reflected much of the African American experience in the United States, contributed to a growing social consciousness and cultural identity for African Americans. Although he died in 1906, his writings contributed to later developments in African American history, such as the Harlem Renaissance and the early Civil Rights Movement. He was a neighbor and lifelong friend of Wilbur and Orville Wright.
Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park | Paul Laurence Dunbar
Dunbar was born in Berkeley, California. He attended Oakland Technical High School and graduated from Morehouse College before moving on to study at the College of Santa Fe and the University of New Mexico.
Rockmond Dunbar | Early life and education
He was born in Wellsburg, West Virginia on May 3, 1901, one of two children of James Paull and Mariana Jacob Paull of Wellsburg. His father was an important and successful business man, and his grandfather, Judge James Paull (1818-1875), had been a respected lawyer and politician in the Ohio River valley who served as a West Virginia Supreme Court justice. Paull graduated from Washington & Jefferson College, then Yale Law School. On September 5, 1934 he married Helen Catherine Prugh of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and they had four children: James III, Laura, Helen and Robert.
James Paull | Early and family life
Murray was born to a New Zealand-born scientist father and grew up in Minnesota with three siblings, including Megan B. Murray. As his father was an internist and mother was a microbiologist, the family moved to Niger for various charitable medical missions.
Christopher J. L. Murray | Early life
He was born in Coffeeville, Mississippi on 29 February 1944 to James Forrest Pittman and his wife Antoinette as James Forrest Pittman Jr. His father was serving as a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division at the time of his birth. In 1952 Forrest Pittman abandoned his wife and their 4 children who subsequently moved to Gulfport, Mississippi. His mother remarried George Lewis in 1959 and James was adopted by his stepfather as James Foley Lewis.
James Lewis (CIA) | Early life
Leonard-Morgan's mother was a music teacher and as a child, he learned to play the piano, violin, and recorder. He studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, graduating in 1995 with a Bachelor of Arts in musical studies.
Paul Leonard-Morgan | Early life
Roberta Johnson Dunbar was born at Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island, the daughter of Daniel Dunbar and Louisa Cartwright Dunbar.
Roberta Dunbar | Early life
He was born in Paradise, Nova Scotia, the son of Robie Stewart Leonard and Ruby E. Darling. Leonard was educated at Acadia University and Dalhousie University.
Malcolm Stewart Leonard | Early life and education
Laurence was born in Marylebone, London, the younger son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerard Laurence, later of Letchworth, Hertfordshire.
Frederic Laurence | Early life and background
Atkinson's parents, Paul and Laura, met in Stamford, Connecticut in high school. They moved to Georgia, where Paul Jr. was born, before returning to Stamford and finally moving to West Palm Beach.
Paul Atkinson (basketball) | Personal life
He was raised in the American Midwest and studied for an MFA at University of Arizona.
Donald Dunbar | Early life and education
Dullea was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Margaret (née Ruttan) and Robert Dullea. His mother was of Scottish descent, and his father was a second-generation Irish-American. He was raised in the Greenwich Village section of New York City, where his parents ran a bookstore. He graduated from George School in Pennsylvania, attended Rutgers University and San Francisco State University, then pursued an acting career.
Keir Dullea | Early life
Marcus was born in London in 1954, the son of playwright Frank Marcus, a German-born Jew who fled to Britain in 1939 and the actress Jacqueline Sylvester. He was educated at Latymer Upper School and Lincoln College, Oxford.
Paul Marcus | Early life
Clayton was born Paul Clayton Worthington in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1931, during the early years of the Great Depression. His parents, Clayton Worthington and Adah (Hardy), were married four years before, and Paul was to be their only child. Despite the hard economic times, his father was comfortably employed as a salesman with a national company, where he eventually would become an executive. The Worthingtons lived with Adah's parents in the West End of New Bedford, a prosperous New England seaport. Paul's parents, however, were both highly charged, Adah especially, and they fought whenever her husband returned home after days on the road.
Paul Clayton (folksinger) | Early years
Born Dec. 23, 1959, in Salisbury, North Carolina, Laurence is the son of Burnet Mclean and Jane Bishop Hobgood. His father was the director of the small but thriving Theater Department at Catawba College. Soon the family moved to Ithaca, New York, where his father earned his Ph.D., then again to Dallas, Texas, in 1964 where Burnet served as Chairman of the Southern Methodist University (SMU) Department of Theater for eleven years. In Dallas Hobgood attended Lakewood Elementary School and J.L. Long Junior High School. He also began piano study, beginning in SMU's piano prep program, but moving quickly to private lessons with Kenneth Newsome, and then Dorothy Brin Crocker, a celebrated children's piano teacher in the Southwest.
Laurence Hobgood | Early life
Pringle was born in Dover on 21 July 1928, the only child of Sir Norman Hamilton Pringle of Stichill, 9th Baronet (1903–1961), and his first wife, Winifred Olive Curran (died 1975). He was educated at Sherborne School.
Steuart Pringle | Early life and education
Helen Flanders Dunbar, the eldest child of a well-to-do family, born in Chicago, Illinois on May 14, 1902. Her father, Francis William Dunbar (1868-1939), was an electrical engineer, mathematician, and patent attorney. Her mother, Edith Vaughn Flanders (1871-1963), was a professional genealogist and translator. Her brother, Francis, was born in 1906. As a child she suffered from malnutrition; and despite Dunbar's later misleading claims that she had suffered poliomyelitis, and a childhood pediatrician's diagnosis of a muscular form of rickets ("rachitic pseudo-paralysis"). Due to her illness, Dunbar was described as an intense and nervous child. It is possible that the suffered a form of melancholia at age 15.
Helen Flanders Dunbar | Life
Pate was born in 1958 to parents Paul Sr. and Velma Pate. He received an Associate of Arts degree from Kirkwood Community College. He married his wife Jane in 1978. They have three children, Jennifer, Amber and Paul III, and five grandchildren.
Paul Pate | Early and personal life
Stebbins’ parents were Rev. Roderick Stebbins and Edith Endicott (Marean) Stebbins. He graduated from Milton Academy and then Harvard in 1927.
Henry E. Stebbins | Early life
Galen moved to Los Angeles at age 6 with his mother, Faye Roberts, from Youngstown, Ohio, after his father committed suicide. He grew up in West Los Angeles, graduating from Fairfax High School.
Louis Galen | Early life
In 1920 he married Beatrix Justina Dunbar-Dunbar-Rivers; they had two sons (Rear-Admiral David Dunbar-Nasmith and the architect Professor Sir James Dunbar-Nasmith) and a daughter.
Martin Dunbar-Nasmith | Family
Paul Lynde was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio, the son of Sylvia Bell (Doup) and Hoy Corydon Lynde, who owned and operated a meat market. Fifth-born among six siblings, Lynde had older sisters Grace and Helen, older brothers Richard Hoy and Coradon ("Cordy") George, and younger brother John ("Johnny"). His favorite brother Coradon died in 1944 at the age of 21, at the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. Five years later in 1949, his parents died within three months of one another. Lynde graduated from Mount Vernon High School in 1944, where he played the bass drum in its high school band.
Paul Lynde | Early life
Pierre Sylvain Désiré Gérard David-Weill was born on 8 March 1900 in Paris, France, into a Jewish family. His father, David David-Weill (1871-1952), was the chairman of Lazard Frères; his mother was Flora Raphaël.
Pierre David-Weill | Early life
Lewis was born in South Boston, Virginia on August 5, 1918, the son of Reverend David Henry Lewis and Louise Thornton Owen. He studied at the University of Virginia from where he graduated in 1939 and proceeded for further studies at the Virginia Theological Seminary from where he graduated in 1942.
David H. Lewis Jr. | Early life and Education
Dunbar was raised on Brafferton Arbor on the Buttershaw council estate in Bradford with seven brothers and sisters. Both her parents had worked in the textile industry. Dunbar attended Buttershaw Comprehensive School.
Andrea Dunbar | Early life
Hayes was born in San Francisco, the son of entertainer Grace Hayes (1895–1989). He spent his early childhood in Cairo, Illinois, and then attended school in the New York City suburb of New Rochelle.
Peter Lind Hayes | Early life
His paternal grandparents were General John Armstrong and Rebecca (née Lyon) Armstrong. Among his Armstrong family, who were of "distinguished Scottish descent," was uncle James Armstrong, a physician who became a U.S. Congressman. His paternal grandparents were Judge Robert Livingston and Margaret (née Beekman) Livingston. Among his Livingston family members were uncles Chancellor Robert R. Livingston and Edward Livingston.
Horatio Gates Armstrong | Early life and career
His paternal grandparents were Mary Augusta (née Wright) and Adolf Augustus Berle. Berle graduated from Harvard University and Harvard Law School. After his father's death in 1971, his mother married Dr. André Frédéric Cournand], a physician who was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1956.
Peter A. A. Berle | Early life
McManus was born in Lynn to Robert A. McManus and Kathryn "Kay" (Gainey) McManus.
Patrick J. McManus | Early life
Kilpatrick was born on October 4, 1961 in North Hollywood, California. He was born the eldest of five children born to parents Lincoln Kilpatrick, a deceased actor, and former performer Helena Ferguson.
Lincoln Kilpatrick Jr. | Early life
Luke was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, the son of Marjorie Dixon, a pianist, and Maurice Luke, a former actor. His father is from Georgetown, Guyana. He attended Henry Snyder High School and graduated from Linden High School.
Derek Luke | Early life
Dalzell was born in Gravesend, Kent, in 1910. He was educated at the Grammar School, Gravesend, and then Gravesend School of Art and the Royal College of Art, London (ARCA). He married Mary Wells and had two sons, Roger, born 21 June 1938, and Julian, born 30 March 1948.
William Ronald Dalzell | Early life and family
F. Roxburgh. His maternal grandfather was Maxwell Dennison Cooper. He was educated at Ampleforth College and University College, Oxford, where he graduated with a B.A. degree.
Neil Balfour | Early life
Keith Burch was born 31 May 1931, the son of Christopher Burch and Gwendoline Ada (née James). He was educated at Bedford Modern School and Sandhurst.
Keith Burch | Early life
Paul was born to Austin Darragh and Terry Roddy on . His father is known for finding the Irish Cancer Society, which was formerly known as the Conquer Cancer Campaign.
Paul Darragh | Early life
Roland Laudenbach was born on 20 October 1921 in Paris. His family was Protestant. His parents were Henri Laudenbach (8 July 1895 – 7 February 1960) and Lucette Mirman (1 March 1893 – 31 December 1987). His paternal grandfather, Léon Mirman, was a friend of Charles Maurras of the Action Française. The actor Pierre Fresnay was his uncle.
Roland Laudenbach | Early years (1921–39)
Mary J. Wilson was born in West Baltimore, Maryland. She had two siblings, one older and one younger. Her parents were Willie Wilson and Mary Henry. She graduated from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School.
Mary J. Wilson | Early life
Born into a family of four boys, with three brothers, Kinlan is the son of Larry and Mary Kinlan. They lived in inner city Dublin. His father died after suffering a long heroin addiction. Laurence was just 10 when his father died. Laurence reportedly left school at 16 to pursue an acting career. He has 2 sons, Oren and Ollie.
Laurence Kinlan | Personal life
His mother was also the niece of Chancellor Robert Livingston and the granddaughter of Judge Robert R. Livingston.
Maturin Livingston Jr. | Early life
Hall's parents were Fairfax and Eleanor Raeburn (Remy) Hall. He married Bernice Dobkin on June 8, 1940. Their children are Marion Hall Hunt, Jonathan Hall, Peter Dobkin Hall, and Susannah Hall. After graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy, Hall received a B.A. from Yale University in 1939. He was a postgraduate student at Columbia University from 1940-41.
David Hall (sound archivist) | Early life and education
The son of John Humphrey CBE and his wife, Agnes Florence Humphrey (née Beatson-Bell), Humphrey was born on 10 January 1921 in the Scottish capital, Edinburgh. He was educated at Belhaven Hill School in Dunbar and Bradfield College.
Andrew Humphrey | Early life
Hugh Dearborn Copp was born in Loda, Illinois, the only surviving son of William H. Copp and Ellen Rankin Copp. His mother was a sculptor. His great-grandparents Jean Lowry Rankin and John Rankin were noted abolitionists and hosts on the Underground Railroad in Ohio. When his parents separated, Ellen and Hugh went to live in Munich and study art. He began using his mother's surname as a young adult, after his parents' separation. He served in the United States Army during World War I.
Hugh Doak Rankin | Early life
Lloyd's parents were Edward Franklin Lloyd and Hessy Jane McCappin. She was born in Liverpool, and she had a grandfather who was an amateur actor. Her father was born in 1855, in Holywell, Flintshire. Her mother was born in 1860.
Doris Lloyd | Early life
Leonard was born in Broadford, County Clare, Ireland to John and Mary Leonard.
Patrick Thomas Leonard | Early life and education
Robert Hammond Patrick Jr. was born in Marietta, Georgia, on November 5, 1958, the oldest of five children born to Nadine and Robert Patrick Sr. He is of Irish and Scottish descent. He has two sisters named Cheri and Karen, and two brothers named Lewis and Richard, the latter of whom is best known as the lead singer for the rock band Filter. Patrick spent his early life in Bay Village, Ohio. He did not start to pursue an acting career until his mid-twenties. During his childhood, he did not like to act; in third grade, he refused to wear a pair of green tights required for "Peter Pan".
Robert Patrick | Early life
Paul David Wilson was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was third son to father, Herbert, a classical tenor vocalist and choir director who taught elementary school and retired after becoming a vice-principal of the school. Wilson's mother, Odessa, was a child prodigy who grew to become a concert pianist and choir director. She was accomplished in a variety of music genres, but due to her commitment to God, only performed certain styles of music. Wilson's early lessons on piano came from his mother, and he grew up absorbing the classical and gospel music of the choirs and vocal ensembles his parents directed.
Paul David Wilson | Early life
On March 8, 1920, Wallop was born as John Douglass Wallop III in Washington, DC. Wallop's parents were John Douglass Wallop Jr., an insurance agent, and Marjorie Ellis Wallop.
Douglass Wallop | Early life
The home was purchased by the state of Ohio in 1936; that same year it was dedicated as the first state memorial to an African-American. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1962 and became part of Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park in 1992. It is a component of the National Aviation Heritage Area. A visitors center includes displays memorabilia relating to Dunbar's life and work. The visitors center is housed in a neighboring building. The property includes an old barn.
Paul Laurence Dunbar House | Modern history
He was born in Oklahoma and grew up in Gladewater, Texas. His father, Muncey Luther Lawrence (November 15, 1888 – March 12, 1954) was a school teacher and a Christian church minister in Perkins, Oklahoma and Gladewater. His mother, Helen Beatrice Langley Lawrence (December 6, 1897 – November 23, 1968) managed the Gladwater Hotel. Lawrence was very close to both of his parents and looked after them throughout their lives. Even with Lawrence's great success it was beyond his ability to get his mother to retire and move into a new luxurious home he had built for her in Dallas.
Harding Lawrence | Early years
He was born on February 20, 1870 in Fairview, West Virginia. He was of Scots-Irish descent. He was the brother of U.S. Senator and Diplomat Dwight Morrow and uncle of Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
Jay Johnson Morrow | Early life and family
Palao was born in Algiers, New Orleans, Louisiana, on February 19, 1879. His parents were Felix Palao and Clotile Rebecca Spriggs. Jimmy had violin lessons as a child.
Jimmy Palao | Early life
Dowd was born in West Orange, New Jersey on February 7, 1921. He was the son of Thomas A. Dowd and Margaret J. Dowd. His father owned a real estate brokerage firm. Dowd attended Livingston High School, Villanova University and received his law degree from Rutgers University. He was married to Connie Sansone Dowd and had seven children.
David W. Dowd | Early life
Laurence William Fraser Stark was born on 16 November 1920 in Bolton, Lancashire.
Laurence Stark | Early life
Eddington was born in St John's Wood in London to Albert Clark Eddington and Frances Mary (née Roberts). The family were Quakers, and Eddington was brought up by his parents with strict family values. He attended Sibford School, Sibford Ferris, Oxfordshire. In 1952, he married Patricia (née Scott).
Paul Eddington | Early life
Drury was born in New York City, the son of James Child Drury and Beatrice Crawford Drury. His father was a New York University professor of marketing. He grew up between New York City and Salem, Oregon, where his mother owned a farm. Drury contracted polio at the age of ten. He studied drama at New York University and took additional classes at UCLA to complete his degree after he began acting in films at MGM.
James Drury | Early years
Henry Harrison Culver was born near London, Ohio on August 9, 1840. His father was John Milton and his mother, Lydia Howard Culver. He had five siblings.
Henry Harrison Culver | Early life
Pringle was born in Madras, the son of a Scottish father, General George Pringle, and English mother, Octavia Catherine Cother.
John Wallace Pringle | Early life
De Lisle was born in Exeter, Ontario, the son of an Air Force pilot.
Paul De Lisle | Early life and education
Dunbar has a daughter and stepson from his 1986 marriage to the Australian actress Anna Nygh. He lives in Crouch End, North London. Dunbar received an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Ulster in June 2009 in recognition of his services to acting.
Adrian Dunbar | Personal life
Pyant's parents are Leonard Vincent Pyant, a business executive, and Jean Phoebe née Frampton, a medical secretary. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London in 1973 and is an associate of the Academy.
Paul Pyant | Life and career
Dayton was born at Catskill, New York, the son of John Harvey Dayton and Charlotte Tompkins.
Oscar Veniah Dayton | Early life
Speakes was born in Cleveland in northwestern Mississippi, which had the nearest hospital to his parent's middle-class home in Merigold in Bolivar County. His father, Harry Earl Speakes, was a banker. His mother was the former Ethlyn Frances Fincher.
Larry Speakes | Early life
Douglas was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Margaret (Douglas) and William Paul Fleischer. He attended Yale University and participated in dramatics as a student there.
Paul Douglas (actor) | Early years
Born in New York in 1915, Dawbarn and his brother W. Lennox Dawbarn were sons of Alice Carroll Dawborn, who in 1920 remarried, to Baltimore, Maryland lawyer and USF&G director Robert Dixon Bartlett. Dawbarn graduated from his stepfather's alma mater, Princeton University in 1937, the year following his mother's death. He married Mary Lawton Dawbarn (1915 – 1967), with whom he had a son, Henry Dunlop Dawbarn (1942 – 2008). He later married Mary Cameron Buford Dawbarn (1917 – 2006), who survived him.
H. Dunlop Dawbarn | Early and family life
Ruth Lawrence was born in Brighton, England. Her parents, Harry Lawrence and Sylvia Greybourne, were both computer consultants. When Lawrence was five, her father gave up his job so that he could educate her at home.
Ruth Lawrence | Early life
Born at "Monteith Plantation," 12 miles from Savannah, Georgia, George Paul Harrison, attended Effingham Academy and the Georgia Military Institute at Marietta, Georgia. His father, George Paul Harrison, was a wealthy planter, state legislator and brigadier general of Georgia militia during the American Civil War. His mother was Thurza Adelaide (Guinn) Harrison.
George Paul Harrison Jr. | Early life and education
Born in London in 1943, he is the eldest son of the late John William Frederick Keen, an engineer, and Dorothy Ethel Keen, "née" French. He was educated at Kilburn Grammar School, St John's College York (CertEd, Music), the Institute of Archaeology (PGDip, European Archaeology, Gordon Childe Memorial Prize), and University College London (MPhil, Archaeology).
Laurence Keen | Early life