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  John Howard Pyle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Howard Pyle (March 25, 1906–November 29, 1987) was the 12th governor of the U.S. state of Arizona, serving from 1951 to 1955.
Born in 1906 in Sheridan, Wyoming, Pyle was the first Arizona governor born in the 20th century and was the owner of KFAD (now KTAR) Radio in Phoenix.
Pyle died in 1987 in Tempe, Arizona and is buried in the Double Butte Cemetery in Tempe.
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 Howard Pyle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Howard Pyle, commonly called Howard Pyle, was a Republican governor of Arizona in the 1950s
Howard Pyle (March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911) was an American illustrator and writer, primarily of books for young audiences.
Pyle did not have much more concern for historical accuracy than the ballads, though he did alter Robin Hood and Queen Katherine to have the queen be Queen Eleanor, historically compatible with the king with whom Robin made his peace being King Richard the Lion-Hearted.
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 Governor J. Howard Pyle
Howard Pyle became Arizona's first Republican governor in 20 years when he won an upset victory over Democrat Ana Frohmiller in the 1950 general election.
The son of a Baptist Minister, Pyle was born March 25, 1906, in Sheridan, Wyoming, and lived for a time in Texas before moving with his family to Tempe, Arizona in 1925.
Pyle Conducted the famed Easter sunrise service at the Grand Canyon for 25 years and made the event so famous that NBC broadcast it nationally.
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 Elizabeth Nesbitt Room Illustrators Project
Pyle worked on the sketch for over six weeks until he was literally down to his last nickel and was forced to submit the drawing.
Pyle's classes were extremely successful and in 1898, with the help of the Drexel Institute, he started a summer class at Chadd's Ford, Pennsylvania in order to concentrate on a handful of talented students.
Pyle's most ambitious mural project was for the Hudson County Courthouse in Jersey City, New Jersey, and included five panels of historical subjects: Life in an Old Dutch Town, Hendryk Hudson and the Half-Moon, Peter Stuyvesant and the English Fleet, Dutch Soldier, and English Soldier.
www.library.pitt.edu /libraries/is/enroom/illustrators/pyle.htm   (2934 words)

  
 D.J. Frankenberg House  HP#27
Governor Howard Pyle (1906-1987), a highly respected elder statesman and Arizona Governor from 1951-1955, was actively involved in several organizations associated with the growth and preservation of Tempe.
Howard Pyle prepared a number of descriptive booklets for Tempe and received the Governor’s Award for Historic Preservation for his role in the preservation of the Niels Petersen House and the 1888 Tempe Bakery Hackett House rehabilitation.
Howard Pyle served on numerous committees, councils and boards, including: as chairman, National advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health, U.S. Department of Labor, 1971-73, and assisted in the development occupational health and safety policies; and chairman, Western Governors Conference, 1951-53, where he promoted and formed the present expanded national highway construction program.
www.tempe.gov /historicpres/GovernorHowardPyleHouse.html   (1655 words)

  
 Howard Pyle - Pirates
Howard Pyle’s career as an illustrator and author was defined, in his own day as it is in ours, by his pirate subjects.
Pyle studied art briefly in Philadelphia and at age 19 he was giving art lessons himself in Wilmington to supplement the family income, as the leather business was faltering badly in the panic-ridden 1870s.
Pyle was a great believer in the power of the imagination and sought ways for the readers of illus-trated texts to become actively involved by creating their own interpretations of the action of the story.
www.delart.org /damdocent/pylepirates.html   (3009 words)

  
 Pyle's rundown home should be bulldozed
Pyle was elected Arizona's first Republican governor in 20 years when he won what's been characterized as an "upset victory" over Democrat Ana Frohmiller.
According to the Arizona Biographical Dictionary by John F. Goff, Pyle was born March 25, 1906, in Sheridan, Wyo., the son of a Baptist minister.
Pyle died in 1987 and is buried in Tempe's Double Butte Cemetery.
www.azcentral.com /community/se/columns/articles/1223durrenberger23Z10.html   (612 words)

  
 University of Delaware: HOWARD PYLE CORRESPONDENCE
Howard Pyle was born on March 5, 1853 in Wilmington, Delaware.
Pyle's formal art education consisted of three years of study with the Antwerp-trained artist, Van der Weilen, in Philadelphia from 1869-1872.
Howard Pyle died during that trip on November 9, 1911 in Florence, Italy.
www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/findaids/pyle_h.htm   (562 words)

  
 lines and colors :: a blog about drawing, painting, illustration, comics, webcomics, cartoons, concept art and other ...
Howard Pyle, who is often rightly called “The Father of American Illustration”, is one of those remarkable points within that tapestry where the threads converge, the design is pulled together, reworked and renewed and influence radiates out in fresh patterns.
Pyle was born and lived most of his life in Wilmington, Delaware, not far from where I grew up, so I’ve been exposed to his wonderful illustrations for almost as long as I remember.
Howard Pyle was really on to something with his dynamic perspectives: he makes the viewer feel like they are participating in the scene.
www.linesandcolors.com /2006/05/08/howard-pyle   (1189 words)

  
 ASU Libraries: John J. Rhodes -- Going to Congress
John and Betty had decided to settle in Arizona, and he opened a law practice in Mesa with Max Killian.
Arizona had never elected a Republican to the House; the incumbent, John Murdock, was very popular, had served in Congress since 1937, and was chairman of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs—a committee vital to Arizona’s water interests.
During his early years in Congress, John Rhodes was appointed (to his great satisfaction) to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, as well as the Committee on Education and Labor.
www.asu.edu /lib/archives/rhodes/congress2.htm   (384 words)

  
 National Governors Association
JOHN HOWARD PYLE was born in Sheridan, Wyoming, on March 25, 1906.
Pyle had an extensive career in broadcasting, beginning with his broadcast report of the Japanese surrender during World War II to co-founding the nationally broadcasted Easter sunrise services at the Grand Canyon.
Howard Pyle was elected Governor of Arizona on November 7, 1950, and he was sworn into office on January 1, 1951.
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 Ernie Pyle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Ernest Taylor Pyle was born on Aug. 3, 1900, on the Sam Elder farm, located south and west of Dana, where his father was then tenant farming.
Pyle, the only child of Will and Maria Pyle, disliked farming, once noting that "anything was better than looking at the south end of a horse going north." After his high school graduation, Pyle--caught up in the patriotic fever sweeping the nation upon America's entry into World War I--enlisted in the Naval Reserve.
Pyle journeyed to England in 1940 to report on the Battle of Britain.
history.acusd.edu /gen/WW2Timeline/erniepyle.html   (1861 words)

  
 Howard Pyle Biography Page
Pyle was a Quaker and attended the Friends' School in Wilmington.
Pyle devoted his art work almost entirely to the production of illustrations which appeared in periodicals and books.
In 1910, Howard Pyle relocated his family to Florence, Italy where he hoped to study and pursue the painting of murals - drawing on the expertise of the Old World.
www.churchman.org /7howard_pyle.htm   (505 words)

  
 Home not a Pyle of junk after all
Pyle stated that this was their first house, that they bought the land for $260 and hired a contractor to build the house for $3,500.
Pyle stated in the interview that she and Howard visited the house when it was being constructed almost daily, and it had two bedrooms at the time.
According to Gasser, the Pyle place is a "modest-looking house and one would certainly not consider it as a governor's mansion.
www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/eastvalleyopinions/articles/0104durrenberger04.html   (700 words)

  
 Howard Pyle - Colonial
Pyle’s enthusiasm for revolutionary subjects and his considerable knowledge of the colonial and revolutionary eras were widely recognized by the most distinguished historians of his day.
Pyle was more effective than many of his predecessors and contemporaries in achieving this goal as it pertained to popular audiences.
Pyle’s dignified description of the trumpeter’s traditional role is far from the roistering episode in the window.
www.delart.org /damdocent/pylecolonial.html   (5221 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Book of Pirates: Books: Howard Pyle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
In it, Pyle breezes over Pierre Franois, Bartholomew Portuguese, and Roch Braziliano, all of whom are several minor characters who helped instigate, in their small way, the piracies of the 17th century.
Pyle continues by recounting brief histories of Captain Henry Morgan, who was knighted by King Charles II, and Captain Avary, whose exploits twisted against him.
Pyle then focuses on tales regarding Blackbeard in and around the Carolinas; Captain Low, who revenged against Yankees; and Pyle then concludes by mentioning the likes of "Ned" England, Captain Howell Davis, and of course the great Bartholomew Roberts.
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 Graveside Arizona
The gravesite is the in the 4th row of graves west of 9th Street, behind the 6th tree south of "B" Street.
The son of a Baptist minister, John Pyle came to Tempe, Arizona from Texas in 1925.
Governor Pyle's grave is in the northern portion of Section 4 at Tempe's Double Buttes Cemetery.
www.doney.net /aroundaz/graves.htm   (9400 words)

  
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In Arbuthnot's words, "A light-hearted tribute to one of my favorite fairy tales, its author or authors and to that charming long-lost manuscript of five of the Perrault Fairy Tales.
." PYLE, HOWARD (1853-1911 A1969 ABBOTT, CHARLES D. Howard Pyle: A Chronicle.
A1972 PITZ, HENRY C. Howard Pyle: Writer, Illustrator, Founder of the Brandywine School.
www.unm.edu /~lhendr/author/author6.01.html   (137 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Putney to Pyzik
Pyle, Kenneth Keith (1899-1965) — of North Dakota.
West Virginia state house of delegates from Wetzel County, 1937-38.
Pyles, M. — of Alderson, Monroe County, W.Va. Democrat.
politicalgraveyard.com /bio/putney-pyscher.html   (484 words)

  
 Howard Pyle Online
There are things in it which strike me dumb with admiration, including sketches of a Quaker town in the olden days by Howard Pyle.
Original works by Howard Pyle available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
All images and text on this Howard Pyle page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/pyle_howard.html   (380 words)

  
 Fine Art by Joseph Gatch
I prefer to explore the unlimited styles of previous artists and build upon their techniques.
Among the artists which I enjoy the most are: Rembrant Van Rijn, Hubert Robert, John Constable, Howard Pyle, Winslow Homer, JW Waterhouse, Edgar DeGas, and Charles Vickery.
I create art for the sole purpose of allowing people to see a side of the world that isn't readily accessible to them.
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 Authors
Coultas, Howard -..........Organic life of Plants and Animals
Dodge, N. -..........Memoir of Sir John William Herschel
Muir, John -..........Passes - Glaciers of the Sierra, etc
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 Introduction
3--John Howard Pyle, 1906-1987, Governor of Arizona 1950-1954, researched the early Anderson family through his mother, Mary Sue Anderson Pyle, 1884-1966, Kentucky and California.
His research dealt mostly with the Pyle family.
Moved to Jefferson Co., TN in 1825 with brothers John and Jesse.
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DESCRIPTION: Castle, 2002 edition, hardcover, 566 pages, authors include: John Steinbeck, Howard Pyle, Rosemary Sutcliff, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Jane Yolen and many others.
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 A Guide to Diaries in the Archives of American Art
The first series of entries begins on November 25, 1919 and continues to May 29, 1920.
Pearson mentions the work of Dean Cornell, Howard Pyle, John Singer Sargent, and Walter Biggs as study guides for her own painting.
Emerson, one of her art teachers whom she mentions continually throughout her life.
artarchives.si.edu /guides/site-diaries/index.cfm/fuseaction/collections.Detailcollection/CollectionGuideID/479   (185 words)

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