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unusual facts about Billbergia 'Theodore L. Mead'


Billbergia 'Theodore L. Mead'

Theodore Luqueer Mead was an American horticulturist who favored the Billbergia genera in his hydridising work.


Albert E. Mead

Mead served as Mayor of Blaine, Washington (1892), as a member of the Washington State House of Representatives (1892), and as prosecuting attorney for Whatcom County, Washington from 1898 to 1903.

There is conflicting information about his town of birth: most reliable sources say it was Manhattan, Kansas, but there is one claim he was born in Ashland, Kansas.

Daniel W. Mead

Daniel W. Mead (March 6, 1862–October 13, 1948;) born in Fulton, New York.

G. R. S. Mead

In her celebrated biography of Jung, Deirdre Bair states that Carl Gustav Jung was also influenced by George Mead, himself owning at least eighteen of Mead's books (Bair, 2003, p. 297), but Sonu Shamdasani, 2005, states otherwise, at p. 100, fn 316.

Among notable names influenced by G.R.S. Mead there can be found: Ezra Pound, W.B. Yeats, Hermann Hesse, Kenneth Rexroth, and Robert Duncan.

James R. Mead

He continued trading with the various Indian tribes and supplying other traders including Jesse Chisholm.

Theodore L. Eliot, Jr.

Eliot graduated from Harvard College in 1948 and received a Master of Public Administration from Harvard's Graduate School of Public Administration in 1956.

Theodore L. Poole

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress.

William Merritt Chase Homestead

It was built as a residence and studio for artist William Merritt Chase (1849–1916) in 1892 by the prominent architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White.


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