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Michael in later years claimed that his father was a Baltimore banker of French birth, but he may have been a peripatetic jeweler and dry-goods merchant named De Jong or De Jongh. [2] Michael was the son of Cornelia "Amelia" [ 3 ] (née Morange; 1809–1881) and, supposedly, Miechel de Young (died 1854), who married in 1837. [ 4 ]
Michael de Young responded by planning the building that would serve as the core of the de Young facility through the 20th century. Louis Christian Mullgardt, the coordinator for architecture for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, designed the Spanish-Plateresque-style building. The new structure was completed in 1919 and ...
The de Young originated from the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894 and was established as the Memorial Museum. Thirty years later, it was renamed in honor of newspaper publisher Michael Henry de Young, a longtime champion of the museum.
Charles de Young was born on January 8, 1846 [2] in Natchitoches, Louisiana. [3] He was the son of Cornelia "Amelia" [4] (née Morange; 1809–1881) and Miechel de Young (died 1854), who married in 1837, [5] and the brother of Michael Henry "Harry" de Young and Virginia de Young (died 1875). [2]
When the company was founded in 1881, he was named a vice-president. Spreckels succeeded his father as company president upon the latter's death in 1908. In 1884, he shot Michael de Young, the editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, over negative coverage of his family’s business.
Count Gwyneth Paltrow among the legions of Sixteen Candles fans to be shocked by the age of former actor Michael Schoeffling, who played high school heartthrob Jake Ryan in the 1984 film. On ...
A woman in Washington, D.C., may call it one thing. A guy living off a main square in Mexico City might call it another. But a tug of war over referring to the immense body of water off the coast ...
Born as Michael Edward Gil Eigenmann [1] to performer Eddie Mesa and actress Rosemarie Gil, he and his siblings, Mark and Cherie, grew up steeped in the arts. He is the uncle of Gabby Eigenmann, Tim ″Sid Lucero″ Eigenmann, Max Eigenmann, and Andi Eigenmann. De Mesa is of Swiss, Spanish, and Filipino descent. [2] [3]