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Virginia Eliza Clemm was born in 1822 [1] and named after an older sister who had died at age two [2] only ten days earlier. [3] Her father William Clemm, Jr. was a hardware merchant in Baltimore. [4] He had married Maria Poe, Virginia's mother, on July 12, 1817, [5] after the death of his first wife, Maria's first cousin Harriet. [6]
Joyce Marilyn Meyer Sommers (July 20, 1927 – December 18, 1996), also known as the Christmas Tree Lady, was a formerly unidentified American woman who died by suicide in a cemetery in Annandale, Virginia, on December 18, 1996. She was identified more than 25 years later on May 11, 2022.
Cutts as Milady de Winter and Maximilian Schell as D'Artagnan in a 1960 television production of The Three Musketeers. In 1959 she appeared on Groucho Marx's quiz show You Bet Your Life with football coach Jack Curtice as her co-contestant. [5] She was a regular panellist on the DuMont quiz Down You Go and starred alongside Vincent Price in The ...
Virginia Caroline Rappe (/ r ə ˈ p eɪ /; July 7, 1891 – September 9, 1921) [2] was an American model and silent film actress. Working mostly in bit parts, Rappe died after attending a party with actor Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle , who was accused of manslaughter and rape in connection with her death, though he was ultimately acquitted of both ...
Jean Struven Harris (April 27, 1923 – December 23, 2012) was the headmistress of The Madeira School for girls in McLean, Virginia, who made national news in the early 1980s when she was tried and convicted of the murder of her ex-lover, Herman Tarnower, a well-known cardiologist and author of the best-selling book The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet.
Virginia Hall was born in Baltimore, Maryland on April 6, 1906, to Edwin "Ned" Lee Hall and his wife (also his secretary), Barbara Virginia Hammel. [7] [8] Ned Hall's father, John W. Hall, had stowed away on his father's clipper ship at the age of nine, and later became a wealthy businessman. She had a brother, John, four years her senior.
Born in Harrisburg, Illinois, she was the daughter of musician Dewey Alphaleta (née Todd) and businessman Edward William Gregg. [1] She had a stepsister, Mary. [2] When Gregg was five, [3] her family and she moved to Pasadena, California. [4] She attended Jefferson High School, [2] Pasadena Junior College, and Pacific Academy of Dramatic Art. [3]
Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (June 2, 1731 O.S. – May 22, 1802) was the wife of George Washington, who was the first president of the United States.Although the title was not coined until after her death, she served as the inaugural first lady of the United States, defining the role of the president's wife and setting many precedents that future first ladies observed.