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  Henry Carr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Henry Carr (born November 27, 1942 in Detroit, Michigan) is a former American athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, Carr was one of the greatest long sprinters during the early 1960s.
Henry Carr: King of the Furlong by Jack Barlow
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Carr   (490 words)

  
 William Henry Carr
Carr’s father was a school principal, but his early and untimely death made it necessary for Carr to drop out of high school and take a job at the age of 17.
Carr’s educational exhibits were designed to communicate with visitors who had little knowledge of nature and many of him ideas and methods came from interacting with visitors.
Carr had been a prolific author of natural history articles and he continued to write these; he established a small bookshop dealing in rare natural history, science, and southwestern history books; and he became active in local environmental causes.
www.rpts.tamu.edu /pugsley/Carr.htm   (1366 words)

  
 Paul H. Carr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paul Henry Carr (February 13, 1924 - October 25, 1944) was a U.S. Navy gunner's mate third class who received a Silver Star for his actions aboard USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE 413) at the Battle off Samar during World War II.
Carr married Goldie Lee Johnson in Checotah, Oklahoma, on October 23, 1943, leaving her a widow just one year later.
Paul Henry Carr website, a history of Carr written by Sarah Lohn, his great niece, based on family documents.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_H._Carr   (168 words)

  
 William Carr and Susannah Brook Family Line   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
At the age of eighteen, Dabney Carr enrolled in William and Mary College in Williamsburg, and later studied to be a lawyer.
Notes on the Family Line of Dabney Carr Descendents of Virgnia Carrs from the family of Dabney Carr often become confused and erroneously append their ancestors to the Loudoun County line (the opposite mistake is also made quite frequently, i.e.
Dabney Carr served in the Virginia House of Burgesses and was a leader in pre-revolutionary Virginia.
members.tripod.com /~genealogy_thomas/carr.html   (1629 words)

  
 Father Henry Carr Catholic Secondary School
At Father Henry Carr, a safe schools program is in place where liaison has been established with the local community and police to ensure that the school continues to remain the safe place that it is.
The Carr community is committed to providing an excellence in education that reflects the academic, the spiritual, the physical and the social development of its members.
Carr was recognized for bringing together under the umbrella of Empowered Student Partnerships three leadership groups: the Student Council, Carr Cru Leadership and Violence Intervention Prevention to promote anti-bullying and anti-violence programs within the school community.
www.tcdsb.org /schools/fatherhenrycarr.asp   (1226 words)

  
 Henry Carr: Builder of Brighton House
Henry Carr's granddaughter Dorothy Abry (nee Earl) had memories of the coffee palace which she confided to our former secretary, Mrs.
I was her first child and was born in a four poster bed, heavily draped with blue brocade in the tower section of the building.
Henry Carr divorced his first wife, Mary, and married a divorced woman "She was the one who stayed with him one night at the Shamrock Hotel in Bendigo.
home.vicnet.net.au /~vbhs/Articles/122_Carr_Henry.htm   (953 words)

  
 Henry Carr - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Henry Carr (born November 27, 1942) is a former American athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, Henry Carr was one of the greatest long sprinters during the early 1960s.
Henry Carr was an outstanding high school sprinter in Detroit, before also starring at Arizona State University.
www.voyager.in /Henry_Carr   (520 words)

  
 Henry Carr of Ft. Hawkins, GA
Henry Carr served at the fort, and married a daughter of Col. Hawkins, for whom it was named.
Henry Carr was buried in the same plot as his son and daughter-in-law William A.
A Henry Carr was a Capt., married to Mary Griffin in Early Co., GA, dau of John and Mary Griffin.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~markfreeman/carrh.html   (10608 words)

  
 Sir Henry Merrivale thumbnails
Carr wrote twenty-two novels in which Sir Henry Merrivale handled the detective duties.
However, without informing him, Morrow chose the rather ridiculous Carr Dickson and this is the name that appears on the American hardback editions.
Carr (and Harper and Brothers) were none too happy and insisted on a different name.
jdcarr.com /sir_henry_merrivale_thumbnails.htm   (320 words)

  
 USS Carr (FFG 52)
CARR made her first six month deployment ten days later, escorting tanker convoys and providing sea area defense for the Northern Persian Gulf, returning to Charleston March 1988.
Carr begged the man to help him get off the last round, but the latter, seeing that the gun had been destroyed and its breach rendered an unrecognizable mass of steel, took the projectile from the gunner's hands.
Carr perished a few minutes later after he was dragged from the mount.
www.navysite.de /ffg/FFG52.HTM   (827 words)

  
 Carr - pafc02 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Henry J. Hall was born 3 Aug. 1839 at (Canandaigua), Ontario Co., NY, and died 4 Mar. 1924.
Henry says he was previously married to Caroline Hall, but that marriage was dissolved by a bill of separation at Shinglehouse, [Potter Co.,] Pennsylvania.
Henry Hall, age 79, born in NY, parents born in US, is listed as married, but the only other person in the household is a 75-year-old widowed housekeeper, Anna (__)mond.
www.onelibrary.com /Genealogy/carr/pafc02.htm   (4801 words)

  
 JOHN DICKSON CARR -- CARTER DICKSON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The ending is sadly disappointing, unfortunately, and Carr lets his villain escape, as he often does, for no real reason except some misdirected sympathy -- he left more justifiably motivated murderers to go to the hangman in other books.
No doubt if Carr didn't have to make a living by his writing, he could have gone back and revised all his books and stories, especially the ones he wrote in a hurry, but also some that very percipient critics such as Anthony Boucher pointed out easily correctible flaws in.
Carr was somewhat arrogant about accepting emendations to his text, even his spelling of 'wobble' as 'wabble' (which is often printed both ways in the same book).
www.mysterylist.com /carr5.htm   (4112 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Henry Carr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
HENRY CARR'S INFO Detailed accurate background data from $9.95.
Father Henry Carr and Catholic education in Canada.
Cultural appropriations and identificatory practices in Emily Carr's "Indian Stories".
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Henry+Carr   (449 words)

  
 Biography of Henry Marvell Carr
Carr first studied at the Leeds School of Art, later coming to London to train under William Rothenstein (1872–1945) at the Royal College of Art.
With the outbreak of the Second World War, Carr worked as a war artist with the 1st Army in North Africa and Italy.
Carr attempted to impart a symbolic significance to the young man, using fluid paint and a heroic stance, and indeed when he came to exhibit the work after the war he entitled it simply ‘The Sailor’.
www.nmm.ac.uk /mag/pages/mnuInDepth/Biography.cfm?biog=168   (265 words)

  
 Guy Carr — Jake Carr : ZoomInfo Business People Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
CARR was born and raised in Mitchell, South Dakota.
Henry Rawlingson Carr- Carr was the first student of Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone to obtain an honours degree and the first...
Father Henry Carr received his primary and secondary education in Oshawa, then came to Toronto in 1897 to work for a printer.A former...
www.zoominfo.com /people/level2page6181.aspx   (1308 words)

  
 Carr - pafc03 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Marilla A. Carr, 48, female, wife, born in Yates Co., mother of 3 children.
Carr, William, born Feb. 1851, age 49, married 26 years, born NY, parents born NY, Expressman.
Henry, son, born Jan. 1878, 22, spinner - cotton mill.
www.onelibrary.com /Genealogy/carr/pafc03.htm   (3467 words)

  
 Henry Carr
Henry Carr, after being badly wounded with the Canadian Black Watch on the western Front, was working in the British Consulate at the time.
Carr had supplied his own trousers, gloves and hat, and took offence over payment.
He was greatly surprised therefore, after Travesties had opened in London in June 1974, to receive a letter from the second Mrs Carr, informing him that her husband had been born in Sunderland, one of four sons, and brought up in County Durham until the age of 17, when he went to Canada.
pages.britishlibrary.net /alan.myers/lit/m-carr1.html   (249 words)

  
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I had heard the name Carr all my life but honestly, I am sure that my mother never knew she was related to the Carrs who were living in Stephentown at the same time she was there.
Brigader General Caleb16 Carr III (*Caleb15, *Caleb14, *Caleb13, *Caleb12, *Robert (Sir Baronet)11, *Benjamin (Sir)10, *Sir William9, *Sir John8 Kerr, *Sir Lord Andrew7, *Thomas (Jr.)6, *Thomas (Sr.)5, *Andrew4, *Robert3, *Henry2, *John1) was born August 06, 1778 in Stephentown, New York, and died February 06, 1840 in Williamstown, Mass..
Captain Carr, the subject of this article, was born in Oswego county, N. Y., March 4, 1835, a son of Caleb Carr, the eldest son of Joshua.
www.stephentowngenealogy.com /carr.html   (10311 words)

  
 Naval Institute Proceedings: Lest We Forget: Paul Henry Carr, VMA-322, November 2004 Proceedings
As they were loading their last remaining powder charge, it “cooked off” before they could close the breech, blowing the mount apart and killing or fatally wounding all but one of the ten-man crew.
When a member of the repair party entered what was left of the shattered gun mount, he found the gun captain, Gunner’s Mate Third Class Paul Henry Carr, torn open from the neck downward, with most of his internal organs exposed to view.
Carr, still alive, was holding the last projectile, begging for someone to load it into the gun and fire it.
www.usni.org /proceedings/Articles04/PRO11lwf.htm   (731 words)

  
 TRAVESTIES
Henry Carr (1894-1962) was also a genuine historical figure, albeit a minor one.
Carr apparently acquitted himself well in the role, and even bought himself some trousers, a hat and glove to play Algernon.
He learned that Carr met his first wife, Nora Tulloch, in Zurich, married her in England and moved back with her to Montreal, Canada, where he became company secretary for a department store.
sff.net /people/mberry/travest.htp   (687 words)

  
 GENEALOGICAL FILE 8
John Carr of England 1600's Thomas Carr I, England and Virginia Dabney Carr The Carr Who Is Buried Next To Thomas Jefferson at Montecello Joseph J. Carr Friday, March 12, 1773 was a turning point in American history.
Dabney Carr served in the Virginia House of Burgesses and was a leader in pre-revolutionary Virginia He died on May 16, 1773 of fever, and is buried in the Jefferson family cemetery at Montecello (Charlottesville, VA).
" Because this family is related to the Albemarle Co, VA Carrs, I have appended a file on Dabney Carr and his kin.
www.carr-genealogy.com /tree/tree08.html   (2394 words)

  
 Hall of Presidents - Henry C. Pritchett
Henry Carr Pritchett was the first head of the Sam Houston Normal Institute to bear the title "President".
At age 26, Pritchett was elected as a teacher and co-principal of the Coronal Institute in San Marcos.
Joseph Lucien Pritchett, known as "Professor Joe" was the younger brother of Henry Carr Pritchett.
www.shsu.edu /thennow/president/pritchett.html   (233 words)

  
 Georgetown City Council District 4 Councilmember Henry Carr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Georgetown City Council District 4 Councilmember Henry Carr
This vote was 3-3 and the mayor voted in favor of my amendment so it passed 4-3.
Those FOR were Berryman, Oliver, Carr, then Mayor Nelon.
www.henrycarr.us   (231 words)

  
 Family Web: Emma Carr (ca. 1847-??)
The wife of Henry Fisher is shown as Emma.
In addition to the parents, a son Henry Charles aged 16 and a daughter Elizabeth are shown.
On September 9, 1998 the marriage certificate of Emma Carr and Henry James Fisher was obtained.
www3.sympatico.ca /staines/familytree/carremma.html   (172 words)

  
 Silver Star Medal citation GM3c Paul Henry Carr, USNR
With the power of the rammer lost and mechanical failures in the ammunition hoist, CARR manned his station steadfastly in the face of continuous close-range fire of enemy guns during an attack by a numerically superior Japanese surface force on the Samuel B. Roberts.
By his outstanding technical skill and courageous initiative, CARR was instrumental in causing rapid and heavy fire from the gun to inflict damage upon an enemy heavy cruiser.
Although mortally wounded by the premature detonation of a powder charge, fired by hand, CARR tried unassisted to load and ram the only projectile available to that mount after order to abandon ship had been given.
www.bosamar.com /awards/carr.html   (210 words)

  
 Henry Carr - Principal Consultant
Henry has over 20 years Information Technology experience gained through a career that includes senior management, consulting, product and service management of the full range of corporate information and technology services,
Henry's approach is goal and quality orientated, creative and hands-on.
Henry's focus includes, but is not limited to:
www.genesis-consulting.co.nz /biocarr.html   (65 words)

  
 Henry Carr - Michigan Sports Hall of Fame   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Henry Carr - Michigan Sports Hall of Fame
Carr was a star athlete at Detroit Northwestern High School and Arizona State University.
A World class sprinter, he won two gold medals at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics by winning the 200 meter dash and anchoring the victorious U.S. 1,600 meter relay team.
www.athleticachievement.org /mshof/inductees/archives/carr.html   (107 words)

  
 Henry Wiltz CARR\Nannie WEBSTER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Henry Wiltz CARR was born January 09,1809 in Wythe County, VA. He married Nannie WEBSTER October 01, 1851.
He died February 20, 1876 in Floyd County, VA. Nannie WEBSTER, daughter of George WEBSTER and Peggy RICARD, was born May 02, 1818 in VA. She died June 27, 1877 in Floyd County, VA.
Children of Henry Wiltz CARR and Nannie WEBSTER are:
www.naturesync.com /~zoomastr/gedhtml/fam241.html   (178 words)

  
 carr
One of the greatest long sprinters in USA track and field history during the early 1960s, Henry Carr was an outstanding high school sprinter in Detroit, Mich., before also starring at Arizona State University.
While competing for the Sun Devils, he won or tied for three national titles, and set world records in the 200, 220 and 4 x 440 relay.
It was at the 1964 Olympics, however, where Carr achieved his greatest fame, winning the 200 and anchoring the winning 4 x 400-meters relay.
usatf.org /athletes/hof/carr.asp   (143 words)

  
 USATF - Hall of Fame
One of the greatest long sprinters in U.S. track and field history, Henry Carr was an outstanding high school sprinter in Detroit, Mich., before starring at Arizona University.
His anchor leg of 44.5 on the 4x400m relay at the 1964 Olympics solidified the U.S. victory in that event.
After college, Carr played football with the New York Giants and later the Detroit Lions.
www.usatf.org /HallOfFame/TF/showBio.asp?HOFIDs=29   (180 words)

  
 WarMuseum.ca - Art and War - British artist - Henry Carr
Carr was a successful portrait painter both before and after the war.
He painted London scenes throughout the flout, including such public spaces as St Clement Danes, St Pancras Station, and the Underground.
Following a number of portrait commissions, he was employed as a war artist in North Africa.
www.civilization.ca /cwm/artwar/artists/henry-carr_e.html   (60 words)

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