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ANSON, Cap (1851-1922), American professional baseball
player. He was born Adrian Constantine Anson in Marshalltown, Iowa. From 1876 to
1878 he played various infield and outfield positions for the Chicago club of the National
League. From 1879 to 1897 Anson managed the team, and under his guidance the
Chicago club won five pennants. Known especially as a hitter, he was the National League
batting champion four times. He had a lifetime batting average of .339. He was
posthumously elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939. "Anson, Cap," Microsoft (R) Encarta. Copyright (c) 1993 Microsoft Corporation. Copyright (c) 1993 Funk & Wagnall's Corporation |
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CARTER,
Anson -- Hockey player Plays center for the Boston Bruins. |
JASPERS, Anson -- Hockey player.
i'ANSON, Robert -- Photographer
MADDOCKS, Anson -- Artist
ANSON, Alice -- Author of The Dormitory Mystery (1937).
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ANSON, Anne -- Author of How to Decorate a Cake and How to Ice a Cake. |
ANSON, Chris M. -- Co-author (with Richard Beach) of Journals in the Classroom: Writing to Learn (1995) and (with Robert A. Schwegler) The Longman Handbook for Writers & Readers (1999) among others.
ANSON, Jay -- Author of The Amityville Horror and 666.
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ANSON, Peter (1889-1975), artist and author born and lived in Scotland. He devoted his life to his interest in the sea, fishing, and the Church. An on-line exhibition of his work is sponsored by the Moray Council. |
ANSON, Robert Sam -- Journalist who has written books (mostly out of print) about the JFK assassination, George McGovern, Nixon, Vietnam and, most recently, Best Intentions: The Education and Killing of Edmund Perry.
HANCOCK, Anson Uriel -- Author of John Auburntop, Novelist (1891), set at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, and History of Chile (1893). Hancock was raised in Nebraska and was a student at the University.
HARD, Anson -- Possibly a pseudonym. Wrote for pulp magazines of the 1930s such as Street & Smith's Wild West Weekly.
HEINLEIN, Robert Anson (1907-88). The American author Robert A. Heinlein helped raise the level of science fiction to a respected form of literary expression. His writing reflected his training in science and technology along with an interest in language, economics, history, and sociology. He won an unprecedented four Hugo science-fiction awards.
Robert Anson Heinlein was born on July 7, 1907, in Butler, Mo. After graduating from the United States Naval Academy in 1929, he served as an officer in the Navy for five years. He spent some time at the University of California at Los Angeles studying mathematics and physics. His first magazine story was published in 1939 and his first novel, Rocket Ship Galileo, in 1947. The novel was the basis for his screenplay for the motion picture Destination Moon (1950). His fiction often anticipated scientific and technical advances, such as the atomic bomb and the waterbed. His most popular book was Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), which became a hippie handbook and introduced the verb grok (to know intuitively, totally).
Heinlein's books include Beyond This Horizon
(1948), Red
Planet (1949), Sixth Column
(1949), The
Puppet Masters (1951), Revolt in 2100
(1953), Starman
Jones (1953), Tunnel in the Sky
(1955), The
Menace from Earth (1959), The Moon Is a Harsh
Mistress (1966), The Number of the
Beast (1980), Expanded Universe
(1980), and Friday
(1982). Green
Hills of Earth (1951) is a short-story collection. He died in Carmel, Calif., on
May 8, 1988.
Excerpted from Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia Copyright © 1993, 1994
Compton's NewMedia, Inc.
HUNTER, Anson -- Author of King of the Free Lovers (1962). Anson Hunter was born in Albany, New York, and attended both the University of Michigan and Cornell University. He has been a department store floor walker, worked as a barker at an amusement park and served as an editor with several book publishers. One of his hobbies was the study of cultists in American religious history and visiting the sites of their vanished colonies. He wrote and published more than 75 magazine stories and articles as well as five books.
MOUNT, Anson -- Sports writer
MOUNT, Anson -- Writer/performer
RUSSO, David Anson -- Puzzle and maze master.
WILLIS, Anson -- Author of Our Rulers and Our Rights; or, Outlines of the United States Government; Its Origin, Branches, Departments, Institutions, Officers, and Modes of Operation (1868).
ANSON, David -- Member of the soft rock group Bucacre from the late 70s and early 80s. Other members were Dick Hally, Dick Verucchi, Alan Thacker and Darrell Data. Songs include "Star That Shines", "No Lover's Fool" and "Fire Wind & Water".
FUNDERBURGH, Anson -- Blues musician
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WEEKS, Anson -- Band leader |
ANSON, George, Baron Anson (1697-1762), British naval officer,
born in Shugborough, Staffordshire. He joined the British navy in 1712. In 1740, during
the war with Spain known as the War of Jenkins's Ear, he sailed to the Pacific Ocean with
seven vessels and preyed on Spanish colonies and commerce. He returned with only one ship
in 1744, but brought back a fortune in Spanish
treasure, having circumnavigated the globe in three years and nine months. Anson
was made rear admiral in 1744. In 1747, after he had defeated the French off Cape
Finisterre during the War of the Austrian Succession, he was created a peer. In 1761 Anson
was made admiral of the fleet.
"Anson, George, Baron Anson," Microsoft (R) Encarta.
Copyright (c) 1993 Microsoft Corporation. Copyright (c) 1993 Funk & Wagnall's
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ANSON, Louisa, Lady Anson -- 19th century British noblewoman
 Above: Vintage carte de visite with I.D. "Hon. Ansom[sic] Burlingame." in purple print on mount recto and no maker mark.
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BURLINGAME Anson (b. Nov. 14, 1820, New Berlin, NY, US -- d. Feb 23,
1870, St. Petersburg, Russia), US minister to China (1861-67) who helped assure that
country's territorial integrity; he later represented China itself in international
negotiations. Burlingame entered public life as a Massachusetts state senator (1853-54) and member of the US House of Representatives (1855-61). At first a member of the Know-Nothing Party, he helped found the Republican Party in the mid-1850s. When sent to China by Pres. Abraham Lincoln, he found that country in a critical situation, with a weak central government, strong anti-foreign feeling, and alien business interests vying for trade privileges. Burlingame fostered a policy of cooperation between the Western powers and China, intended to secure settlement of disputes by diplomacy rather than force and to further modernize China. He also persuaded the Western powers to relinquish claims for special privileges and further territorial cessions in China. Burlingame so impressed the Chinese government that in November, 1867, upon his resignation from his US post, he was named Imperial envoy charged with the conduct of China's international relations. The following February, with two Chinese colleagues and an entourage of 30, he began a tour of Western capitals. The mission made a triumphal progress across the United States, in the course of which Burlingame -- a brilliant orator -- conveyed an optimistic impression of China's receptivity to Western influence. In Washington, DC, he negotiated with Secretary of State William H. Seward the Burlingame Treaty, guaranteeing most-favored-nation treatment to each country's residents or visitors in the other nation, and putting on record the traditional US policy of respect for China's territorial integrity. Burlingame's mission was successful in London but less so on the Continent; he became
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CALL, Anson (1810-1890), early Mormon and associate of Joseph Smith. An early polygamist, had six wives.
CALL, Anson Bowen (1863-1958), son of Anson Call. Referred to as "Anson B." in the family. A post 1890 manifesto polygamist (?). There appears to be some controversy over whether he was a typical Mormon or a religious zealot.
DARNELL, Anson -- Along with Starrett Smith and Jacob Gross, founded Fort Fisher near Waco, Texas, in 1837. This was the beginning of the Texas Rangers.
DECKER, Anson B. -- From Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey. Decker made highly sought-after fishing lures (one was offered on eBay for $500.00).
HUGHES, Anson K. -- Entered the Navy as a Midshipman in 1838 and rose to the rank of Rear Admiral by 1882. He made a voyage to Puget Sound in th sloop-of-war Decatur in 1855 and had a fight on shore at the town of Seattle with 500 indians. He served in the Gulf and South Atlantic squadron during the American Civil War and retired in 1884.
JONES, Anson (1798-1858), last president of
Republic of Texas, born in Great Barrington, Mass.; practiced medicine, Brazoria,
Tex., from 1833; in Texan army 1836; appointed Texas secretary of state 1841; president of
Texas 1844-46.
Excerpted from Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia Copyright © 1993, 1994
Compton's NewMedia, Inc.
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McCOOK, Anson -- (1835-1917), One of the "Fighting McCooks of Ohio" - he was a lawyer, legislator, and editor of the "Daily Register" (Later the "New York Law Journal"). At the start of the Civil War, on the first call for troops, he was made a Captain in the 2nd Ohio Infantry, and served in the Battle of Bull Run. He rose through the ranks, ultimately becoming Colonel of the 2nd Ohio Inf., serving in the Army of the Cumberland under Buell, Rosecrans, and Thomas. He was also with General W. T. Sherman in the Atlanta Campaign, commanding a brigade at the Battle of Peach Tree Creek near Atlanta. He was then made Colonel of the 194th Ohio, ordered to the Valley of Virginia, commanding a brigade. At the close of the war he was made a brevet Brigadier General of Volunteers for gallant and meritorious services. From 1865 to 1873, he resided in Steubenville, Ohio as U. S. Assessor of Internal Revenue, and then moved to New York City. He was elected to Congress from New York as a Republican, holding his seat from 1877 until 1883, and serving on the House Military Committee. General Anson McCook was the brother of Brigadier General Edward M. McCook and first cousin of Bvt. Brigadier General Edwin S. McCook. |
MARSTON, Anson -- Civil engineer in the 1930s. Co-wrote (with Thomas R. Agg) Engineering Valuation (a textbook of business applications for engineering) in 1936.
MELLION, Anson J. -- The doctor who delivered me. My parents named me after him, and that's as far down that road as I am willing to go.
MORRILL, Anson P. -- First Republican governor of Maine (1855-1856).
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PHELPS, Anson Greene -- Co-founder of the Phelps Dodge Corporation. From their web site:In 1834, Anson Greene Phelps founded our company on the principles of strong leadership, superior quality, a keen competitive sense and the highest ethical standards in dealing with our business partners, customers, neighbors and employees. Throughout the long and diverse history of Phelps Dodge Corporation, those fundamental ideas have continued to guide us. Today, we are building on the traditions of Anson Phelps to ensure our modern company can continue to rise above the competition. |
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RICE, Anson T. -- Proprietor of the Excelsior Shoe Store (Providence, RI). |
STAGER, Anson -- Cofounder of Western Electric and its first president. [April 2, 1872]
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BUNKER, Anson -- Serial killer "The Bloody Hand," the perpetrator of no less than fifteen cold-blooded murders, amongst which were the great Nathan murder of New York City, the murders of his three wives and several others in various parts of the country. |
STOWERS, Anson -- Murderer
"Here is the wrenching story of a father and a son: Carleton [Stowers], a single
father who raised his boys while making a reputation for himself as a Dallas journalist,
doing his best to protect his sons from the emotional pain of divorce, and trying to
ingrain in them his own powerful sense of right and wrong; and Anson, a boy who
seemed to always take the wrong path. From his teenage years on, Anson's life was a
string of anger, violence, and criminal activity: drugs, forgery, auto theft, and,
finally, murder."
From the dustjacket notes for Sins of the Son:
A True Story, by Carleton Stowers. Hyperion, 1995.
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WILLIAMS, Anson -- Actor Anson Williams played "Potsy" on Happy Days. 'Nuff sed. |
WOODS, Anson -- Child actor, has performed in recent movies such as Mission to Mars.
Anson -- The mock musician (keyboardist) on Showtime's Chris Isaak Show. Played by Jed Rees.
ANSON, Margaret -- Fictional author of The Merry Order of St. Bridget (republished as The Order of the Rod), a classic of Victorian erotica (so I've been told).
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ANSON, Eli -- Cabbage Patch doll. |
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ANSON, Reginald -- Main character (played by Hugh Grant) in the movie The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Cam Down a Mountain. |
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BARON, Anson -- Character from the Barons of Texas book series by Jory Sherman. |
BROOKS, Dr. Anson -- Character from the TV series Doctors' Hospital.
KENNEDY, Anson -- Webmaster of the Notable Ansons site. Your host.
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