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unusual facts about Edward L. Youmans



. . . That Thou Art Mindful of Him

The story first appeared in the May 1974 issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction and the 1974 anthology Final Stage, edited by Edward L. Ferman and Barry Malzberg.

Car turntable

The architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed and implemented several residential vehicle turntables including the 1922 Doheny Ranch Estate in Beverly Hills, California, designed but never built for Edward L. Doheny, a Los Angeles oil tycoon and the Westcott House built in 1908 in Springfield, Ohio, for Burton J. Westcott, designer of the Westcott automobile and founder of the Westcott Motor Car Company.

Charles A. Canfield

In 1892, he partnered with Edward L. Doheny (1856-1935) to develop the first gusher in Los Angeles, at the intersection of Patton and Colton streets on Crown Hill, just northwest of today's Downtown Los Angeles.

Colorado School of Mines

The honorary named Colorado School of Mines buildings commemorate Dr. Victor C. Alderson, Edward L. Berthoud, George R. Brown, Dr. Regis Chauvenet, Dr. Melville F. Coolbaugh, Cecil H. and Ida Green, Simon Guggenheim, Nathaniel P. Hill, Arthur Lakes, Dr. Paul D. Meyer, Winfield S. Stratton, and Russell K. Volk.

Curse of the Faceless Man

It was directed by Edward L. Cahn who also directed Creature with the Atom Brain (1955), Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957), and The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959).

Edward Beach

Edward L. Beach, Sr. (1867–1943), U.S. Navy officer, author, and educator

Edward Bowen

Edward L. Bowen (born c.1942), American author of books on Thoroughbred horse racing

Edward Hearn

Edward L. Hearn (1866–1945), Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus

Edward L. Alperson

Alperson's last film of note was acquiring the film rights to Irma La Douce for Mirisch Productions that was filmed in 1963 by Billy Wilder but without the music.

What promised to be Alperson's good fortune turned out to be his downfall when he befriended James Cagney then on suspension from Warner Bros.

Edward L. Atkinson

In 1916 he served on the Western Front and fought at the Somme, receiving the Distinguished Service Order.

Edward L. Bader

He also played a year for a professional football team operated by Philadelphia Athletics owner Connie Mack.

Edward L. Baker, Jr.

Baker is the maternal grandfather of jazz saxophonist and Oscar nominee Dexter Gordon.

Edward L. Berthoud

He came to the United States in 1830 with his parents and spent his childhood along the Mohawk River and in Oneida County in Upstate New York.

In the early 1850s he worked as a surveyor on the Panama Canal.

Edward L. Bowen

He penned the story of Man o' War, the first book in the Thoroughbred Legends series published by Eclipse Press.

In 1960 he attended the University of Florida to study journalism then in 1963 transferred to the University of Kentucky, a move that allowed him to also write for the Lexington-basedThe Blood-Horse magazine.

Edward L. Burlingame

In 1879, he became connected editorially with the publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, and in 1886 was appointed founding editor-in-chief of Scribner's Magazine, where he served until his resignation in 1914.

Edward L. Deci

Deci is also Director of the Monhegan Museum (in Monhegan, Maine) where he spends his summers writing about psychology and art (though rarely at the same time).

Edward L. Ferman

He continued as editor until 1991, when he hired his replacement, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and continued as publisher of F&SF until he sold it to Gordon Van Gelder in 2000.

Edward L. Hamilton

Hamilton was elected as a Republican from Michigan's 4th congressional district to the 54th United States Congress and subsequently re-elected to the eleven succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1897 to March 3, 1921.

He was chairman of the Committee on Territories in the 58th through 61st Congresses.

Edward L. Hubbard

He graduated from Shawnee Mission High School in May 1957.

Edward L. Jackson

In 1925, Stephenson had been arrested and tried for the rape and murder of Madge Oberholtzer.

Edward L. Keithahn

He became interested in totem poles at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle, Washington, in 1909 and later traveled to southeast Alaska and eventually lived there working "in the Indian service," as he put it (meaning perhaps employment with the Bureau of Indian Affairs), living mainly among the Tlingit and Haida people.

Edward L. Masry

The case was adapted into the highly successful film, Erin Brockovich, with Albert Finney portraying Masry.

Ed Masry has a non-speaking cameo in the film Erin Brockovich as a diner patron sitting behind Julia Roberts, the same diner that cameos Erin Brockovich as a waitress.

Edward L. O'Neill

He was interred in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in East Orange, New Jersey.

He served in the United States Navy from 1919–1923, after which he became engaged in the real estate business in Newark.

Edward L. Pierce

He was a member of the Republican National Conventions of 1876 and 1884, and in December 1878, was appointed by President Hayes assistant Treasurer of the United States, but declined.

In December 1861, the United States Secretary of the Treasury dispatched Pierce to Port Royal, South Carolina to examine into the condition of the negroes on the Sea Islands.

Edward L. Taylor, Jr.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress.

Edward Stokes

Edward L. Stokes (1880-1964), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania

Henry M. Youmans

In the general election of 1890, Youmans ran as the candidate of the Democratic Party and defeated incumbent Republican Aaron T. Bliss to be elected from Michigan's 8th congressional district to the 52nd United States Congress, serving from March 4, 1891 to March 3, 1893.

Hinkley groundwater contamination

Erin Brockovich, a legal clerk to lawyer Edward L. Masry, investigated the apparent elevated cluster of illnesses in the community linked to hexavalent chromium.

Irwin I. Shapiro

In 1981, Edward Bowell discovered the 3832 main belt asteroid and it was later named after Shapiro by his former student Steven J. Ostro.

John B. Campbell Handicap

In his book Legacies of the Turf, prominent racing historian Edward L. Bowen says that at one time the John B. Campbell Handicap was a race of national importance.

Katzenbach

Edward L. Katzenbach (1878–1934), New Jersey Attorney General, brother of Frank S. Katzenbach, father of Nicholas Katzenbach

Mount Aldaz

Not only does Aldaz have a mountain named in association with him, but he also has a main-belt minor planet named in his honor, 13004 Aldaz (provisional designation: 1982 RR), discovered by Edward L. G. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station in Coconino County, Arizona, on September 15, 1982.

Ogden Mills Phipps

Dinny Phipps and his father were two of the subjects in the 2003 book Legacies of the Turf: A Century of Great Thoroughbred Breeders by race historian Edward L. Bowen that chronicled the history of Thoroughbred racing's most influential breeders.

Paul Trousdale

In 1954, he purchased the Doheny Ranch from Mrs Lucy Smith Doheny Battson, wife of Edward L. Doheny, Jr. (1893–1929), son of oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny (1856–1935), and developed it into Trousdale Estates, later home to Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tony Curtis and Ray Charles.

Self-determination theory

Edward L. Deci and Richard M. Ryan later expanded on the early work differentiating between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and proposed three main intrinsic needs involved in self-determination.

Temple Lea Houston

The film was written by Orville H. Hampton and directed by Edward L. Cahn.

The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake

The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake is a 1959 American black-and-white horror film written by Orville H. Hampton and directed by Edward L. Cahn, one of a series of films they made in the late 1950s for producer Robert E. Kent on contract for distribution by United Artists.

The She Creature

The She Creature (also known as The She-Creature) is a 1956 American black-and-white horror film produced by American International Pictures from a script by Lou Rusoff (brother-in-law of AIP executive Samuel Z. Arkoff), produced by Alex Gordon and directed by Edward L. Cahn.


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