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2 unusual facts about Charles F. Hoffmann


Charles Hoffman

Charles F. Hoffmann (1838-1913), a German-American topographer with the Whitney Survey Party in California.

High Sierra Camps

Mount Hoffmann, named for topographer Charles F. Hoffmann of the California Geological Survey, is located just across May Lake, which is named for the woman Hoffman married, Lucy Mayotta Brown.


Arvède Barine

She mostly wrote on the subject of women, but she also wrote about travel, the political issues of the day, and the fantastic literature of authors such as Edgar Allan Poe and E. T. A. Hoffmann.

Cash register

In 1906, while working at the National Cash Register company, inventor Charles F. Kettering designed a cash register with an electric motor.

Charles Baird

Charles F. Baird (1923-2010), United States Under Secretary of the Navy and CEO of Inco Ltd.

Charles Carey

Charles F. Carey, Jr. (died 1945), United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

Charles Chandler

Charles F. Chandler (1836–1925), American chemist and public-health reformer

Charles Curry

Charles F. Curry, Jr. (1893–1972), U.S. Representative from California, member of the Seventy-second Congress of U.S.

Charles F. Adams-class destroyer

Although designed with cutting-edge technology for the 1950s, by the mid-1970s it was clear to the Navy that the Charles F. Adams-class destroyers were not prepared to deal with modern air attacks and guided missile.

Four ships of this class were transferred to the Hellenic Navy in 1992, but those have also been decommissioned.

Charles F. Brush

In 1882 the Brush Electric Company supplied generating equipment for a hydroelectric power plant at St. Anthony Falls in Minneapolis, among the first to generate electricity from water power in the United States.

Between 1910 and 1929 he wrote several papers on his version of a kinetic theory of gravitation, based on some sort of electromagnetic waves.

Charles F. Buck

He graduated from the high school of New Orleans in 1861, and then attended Louisiana State Seminary of Learning & Military Academy near Pineville, Louisiana.

Charles F. Chandler

In 1870 he and his brother William Henry Chandler, a chemistry professor at Lehigh University, started the journal The American Chemist, the first chemical journal in America.

Upon retirement he and his second wife Augusta Berard Chandler continued to reside in New York City, but spent more and more time at their summer home in Westhampton and at her family's home in New Hartford, Connecticut, where Chandler died in 1925.

Charles F. Curry, Jr.

As he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress, he engaged in the practice of law and in mining and other business enterprises.

Charles F. Haas

Ultimately, however, he settled in television, directing episodes of such popular series as Bonanza, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Outer Limits, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Charles F. Howard

In 1994, Charlie Howard ran in the Republican primary for District 26 in the Texas House of Representatives, which is demographically dominated by Sugar Land, against incumbent Republican Jim Tallas, who succeeded Tom DeLay in 1984 after DeLay made a successful run for Congress.

Additionally, he has also been recognized by various publications, including the Houston Chronicle for his efforts in securing funds for the expansion of U.S. Highway 59, which runs through Sugar Land, and by the Republican Party of Texas for Howard's strong recognition of the party's values.

Charles F. Knight

A Republican, he has supported John Ashcroft, Bush Cheney '04, Rudy Giuliani, Roy Blunt, John McCain, Mitt Romney.

Charles F. Masterson

Thus, shortly after Inauguration Day, Val Peterson (former Governor of Nebraska) was appointed to a position as an Administrative Assistant to President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Upon his leaving in March of that same year to assume the post of Administrator of the Federal Civil Defense Administration, Walter Williams and his (acting) special assistant, Stanley M. Rumbough, Jr. assumed the task of liaison between the White House, the cabinet departments and independent agencies.

Charles F. McLaughlin

He was a member of the Indian Claims Commission from April 5, 1947 until November 14, 1949 when he took the oath of office a day later as a United States district judge for the District of Columbia.

Charles F. Newcombe

In the process he became very interested in the Haida and started to collect their artifacts to "preserve" them from, what was then thought to be, the demise of the native culture.

Charles F. Sprague

He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1900 to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

Charles F. Urschel

Charles F. Urschel was born in Washington Township, Hancock County, Ohio in 1890 to Daniel Urschel and Emma (Anna) M Bangert.

Charles F. Wishart

Charles Frederick Wishart (1870–1960) was a United States Presbyterian churchman who was President of the College of Wooster from 1919 to 1944 and who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America in 1923 at the height of the Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy.

Charles Kimball

Charles F. Kimball, 19th-century American pastoral landscape and marine painter

Charles Sprague

Charles F. Sprague (1857–1902), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts

Charles Stein

Charles F. Stein II (1900–1979), Baltimore historian and heraldist

Charles Walcott

Charles F. Walcott (1836–1887), American Union brevet brigadier general during the American Civil War

Charlie Howard

Charles F. Howard (born 1942), known as Charlie, Texas state representative, 1995–present

David Ferdinand Koreff

A personal friend of E.T.A. Hoffmann and a member of his literary club The Serapion Brethren(Serapionsbrüder), Koreff authored a treatise “Über die Erscheinungen des Lebens und über die Gesetze, nach denen es im menschlichen Organismus sich offenbart” and a volume of lyric poetry "Lyrische Gedichte" (published in Paris in 1815).

Dean A. Hrbacek

He decided that he would run at that time only if the incumbent Republican, Charlie Howard, chose not to run.

Diego Valverde Villena

He has translated into Spanish literary works written by Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, John Donne, Edmund Spenser, George Herbert, Ezra Pound, Emily Dickinson, Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski, Paul Éluard, Joachim du Bellay, Valery Larbaud, Nuno Júdice, Jorge Sousa Braga, E.T.A. Hoffmann and Paul Celan.

Engineers Club of Dayton

The Engineers Club of Dayton was founded by Colonel Edward A. Deeds and Charles F. Kettering in Dayton, Ohio in 1914.

Fet-Mats

Friedrich Rückert also wrote about Fet-Mats but most of all E.T.A. Hoffmann wrote the short story Die Bergwerke zu Falun published in his collection Die Serapionsbrüder in 1819.

Gutenberg Glacier

The glacier was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after German-born seismologist Beno Gutenberg, director of the California Institute of Technology seismology laboratory in the 1930s, and collaborator with Charles F. Richter in developing the Richter Scale, 1935, used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes.

Hostages Trial

The judges in this case, heard before Military Tribunal V, were Charles F. Wennerstrum (presiding judge) from Iowa, George J. Burke from Michigan, and Edward F. Carter from Nebraska.

John J. Valentine, Sr.

Upon the resignation of Charles F. Crocker in August 1882, Valentine was elected vice president and a director of Wells Fargo.

Les Illuminés

It includes a fine portrait and evaluation of French writer Jacques Cazotte, author of The devil in love, who inspired E. T. A. Hoffmann and Charles Nodier, and who was unjustly guillotined during the French revolution in his 70s.

Manderson, Wyoming

The town was originally called Alamo, but it was renamed in 1889 in honor of Charles F. Manderson, chief counsel for Burlington Railroad.

Mansukh C. Wani

In 2000, Dr. Wani received an award for applied research in medicine, the Charles F. Kettering Prize, from the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation.

Mount Richter

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Charles F. Richter, American physicist, California Institute of Technology, 1930–70; in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg, 1935, he developed the Richter Scale which bears his name, used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes.

Orville Redenbacher's

Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet Popping Corn is a brand of popcorn made originally by Chester Inc. which was owned by Charles F. Bowman and Orville Redenbacher (who starred in nearly all the commercials the most exceptional being its Reden-Budders products up to his death in 1995).

R. J. Hollingdale

Hollingdale (20 October 1930 – 28 September 2001) was best known as a biographer and a translator of German philosophy and literature, especially the works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Goethe, E. T. A. Hoffmann, G. C. Lichtenberg, and Schopenhauer.

Richard H. Hoffmann

In 1942, Hoffmann's residence at 870 Park Avenue, NY was rebuilt in a "art moderne style" by prominent architect Ely Jacques Kahn.

Once composer Richard Rodgers asked Hoffmann to visit his friend Lorenz Hart who was having problems with alcoholism and who had a strong aversion to being treated by psychiatrists.

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

Judging from his works, major influences on his style were Robert Louis Stevenson, G. K. Chesterton, Edgar Allan Poe, Nikolai Gogol, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and H. G. Wells.

The Cornish Trilogy

Their first essay into the world of humanist patronage is to support a precocious composer in completing an unfinished opera by E.T.A. Hoffmann entitled Arthur of Britain, or the Magnanimous Cuckold, and then bringing it to the stage at Stratford, Ontario.

Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said that VASIMR technology could be the breakthrough technology that would reduce the travel time on a Mars mission from 2.5 years to 5 months.

William Carlos Ives

Ives moved to the town of Lethbridge in 1901 and joined a legal firm partnering with established lawyer Charles Conybeare.


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