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13 unusual facts about Bethany


Bethany, Missouri

Babe Adams, who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates and pitched in two World Series baseball games, was a Bethany resident.

Bethany, Oregon

The area's first public library was opened in July 2007 by a non-profit organization named the Cedar Mill Community Library Association, which has operated a library in nearby Cedar Mill since 1976.

Bethany, South Australia

After their arrival at Port Adelaide on the Skjold, on 27 October, the majority of them moved to the established German settlements of Hahndorf and Klemzig.

Charles Reynolds Brown

Charles Reynolds Brown (October 1, 1862 – November 28, 1950) was an American Congregational clergyman and educator, born in Bethany, W. Va. He graduated at the University of Iowa in 1883 and studied theology in Boston University.

Chester J. Roberts

During this time Roberts served as head football coach at Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia (1914), Miami University in Oxford, Ohio (1915), and Platteville Normal College, now the University of Wisconsin–Platteville (1917), compiling a career college football record of 11–10.

Edgar Odell Lovett

After graduating from Shreve High School, he earned his B.A. at Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia, in 1890.

Faith Daniels

Born Faith Augustine in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Daniels attended Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia–where she was initiated as a member of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority–and graduated from Trinity High School in Washington, Pennsylvania.

First selectman

In towns such as Beacon Falls, Bethany, Orange, and Simsbury, the losing first selectman candidate can earn a seat on the board of selectmen, depending on the number of votes he or she garners.

Frederick Schwatka

His mother Amelia Hukill (1812-1885) was born near Bethany, Brooke County, in present-day West Virginia and was of English and Scots descent.

George Miksch Sutton

George Miksch Sutton (May 16, 1898, Bethany, Nebraska – December 7, 1982) was an American ornithologist and bird artist.

Katy Easterday

Easterday served as the head football coach at Simmons College—now Hardin–Simmons University—from 1919 to 1920, at Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia from 1922 to 1923, and at Waynesburg University from 1925 to 1927, compiling a career college football record of 33–24–8.

Ray B. McCandless

He served as the head football coach at Chadron State College in 1919, at Nebraska Wesleyan University from 1920 to 1922, at Bowling Green State Normal School—now Bowling Green State University— in 1923, and at Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia for the 1924 season, and compiling a career college football record of 23–24–4.

Walter M. Bortz III

Bortz received his bachelor's degree in biology at Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia.


A. W. Kjellstrand

While at Bethany, he also worked as the professor of Latin and served as a pastor.

Benjamin Joseph Franklin

Born in Maysville, Kentucky, in March 1839, Franklin attended private schools, and Bethany College, Bethany, Virginia (now West Virginia) from 1849 to 1851.

Best Coast

Rolling Blackouts by The Go! Team (2011, Memphis Industries) (Bethany Cosentino only, on tracks "Buy Nothing Day" and "Rolling Blackouts")

Bethania, North Carolina

The town was named "Bethania" the German form of the name Bethany, a village near Jerusalem recorded in the New Testament as the home of Mary, Martha and Lazarus, as well as that of Simon the Leper.

Bethany Mooradian

From 2002-2006, Bethany taught Mystery Shopping classes through community education centers in the Detroit Metropolitan area using her book, Become a Mystery Shopper as the class textbook.

Burton Dickerson

Burton is the father of Travis Dickerson, Linden Dickerson, Brandon Dickerson, Sarah Dickerson, and Bethany Dickerson Hight.

Hodierna of Jerusalem

Hodierna was the third of four daughters; her older sisters were Melisende (wife of Fulk of Jerusalem) and Alice (wife of Bohemund II of Antioch), and her younger sister was Ioveta (abbess of Bethany).

Jacob Ludwig Döhne

The Frontier War of 1846-47 between the Xhosa and the Whites put an end to all plans and the missionaries joined the fleeing masses, with Döhne, Guldenpfennig and Posselt finding safety at Bethany in the Orange Free State.

KAAN

KAAN-FM, a radio station (95.5 FM) licensed to Bethany, Missouri, United States

Kevin Paige

He also released a Christmas CD with his wife, Bethany Paige, entitled A W.O.W. Christmas in 2004, as well as a contemporary Christian disc entitled Faith, Hope, Love, Passion that same year.

Lazarus Laughed

The story features characters and events following the raising of Lazarus of Bethany from the dead by Jesus.

O Little Town of Bethlehem

William Rhys-Herbert included a new hymn-tune and harmonization as part of his 1909 cantata, Bethany.

Ralph de Luffa

Two panels from this work still survive, and depict the meeting of Jesus with Mary and Martha at Bethany as well as the miracle where Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead.

Retrofit Section 25 album

The project was initially started prior to founder and bassist Larry Cassidy's death in 2010 and contains vocal excerpts from his last studio sessions at West Orange Studios (from July 2009 onwards), as well as daughter Bethany Cassidy on new vocals.

Sainte-Baume

The French tradition of Saint Lazare of Bethany is that Mary Magdalene, her brother Lazarus, and Maximinus, one of the Seventy Disciples and some companions, expelled by persecutions from the Holy Land, traversed the Mediterranean in a frail boat with neither rudder nor mast and landed at the place called Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer near Arles.

Women's Project Theater

Other productions include Or, by Liz Duffy Adams, Smudge by Rachel Axler, Lascivious Something by Sheila Callaghan, Apple Cove by Lynn Rosen,Milk Like Sugar by Kirsten Greenidge, How The World Began by Catherine Treischmann, Bethany by Laura Marks and Jackie by Elfriede Jelinek.

Yellow Orange Rays

Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast sings backing vocals for "Yellow Orange Rays" as well as contributing to the song as a writer.