Samuel W. McCall
Samuel Walker McCall (February 28, 1851 – November 4,
1923) was a member of the United States House of Representatives, and the 47th Governor
of Massachusetts. He was born in East
Providence Township, Pennsylvania
on February 28, 1851.
He was editor of the Boston Daily
Advertiser, and was elected a member of the Massachusetts House of
Representatives. He was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in
1888, 1900, and 1916. McCall was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third and
to the nine succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1893 to March 3, 1913). He served
as chairman of the Committee on Elections No. 3 (Fifty-fourth Congress). He was
not a candidate for renomination in 1912, and resumed the practice of law in Boston. In 1914, he
published a biography of his friend Thomas B. Reed
He was elected Governor of
Massachusetts 1916-1918. After retiring from elected office, he engaged in
literary pursuits and died in Winchester
on November 4, 1923. His interment was in Wildwood Cemetery.
JOHN ALDEN CARPENTER
(1876-1951)
Born
in Park Ridge, Illinois, Carpenter was raised in a musical
household. He was educated at Harvard
University, where he
studied under John Knowles Paine, and was president of the Glee Club and wrote
music for the Hasty-Pudding Club. Showing great promise as a composer, he
journeyed to London to study under Sir Edward
Elgar, later returning to the United States
to study under Bernhard Ziehn in Chicago.
It was there he earned a comfortable living as vice-president of the family
business, a mill supply company. He was a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia music
fraternity.
Carpenter composed many works meant to encompass the spirit of America, including the patriotic, The Home Road, and several jazz-inspired works. He composed several ballets, including one based on the Krazy Kat comics, and one in 1926, possibly his best-known, titled Skyscrapers set in New York (and which was premiered at the Metropolitan Opera), but equally inspired by his native Chicago. One of his most famous works was 1914's impressionistic orchestral suite Adventures in a Perambulator. In 1932 he completed The Song of Faith for the George Washington bicentennial. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1933.
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ReplyDeleteThis day there also was born Samuel Joel "Zero" Mostel (February 28, 1915 – September 8, 1977). He was an American actor of stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of comic characters such as Tevye on stage in Fiddler on the Roof, Pseudolus on stage and on screen in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Max Bialystock in the original film version of The Producers. Mostel was a student of Don Richardson, using an acting technique based on muscle memory. He was blacklisted during the 1950s, and his testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities was well-publicized. He was a Tony Award and Obie Award winner.
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