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Thomas Fearn Frist Sr. was born on December 15, 1910, in Meridian, Mississippi, the son of Jennie (Jones) Frist and Jacob C. Frist. [1]Frist was two years old when his father, railroad stationmaster Jacob Chester Frist, was critically injured pushing an elderly woman and her grandson out of the way of an oncoming train, which then struck him.
This is where employees of the estate resided. Additionally, the couple created and funded Biltmore Estate Industries, which developed a system of teaching traditional craft making. However, after George Vanderbilt's death, both Biltmore Village and Biltmore Estate Industries were sold in an effort to maintain focus on the estate itself. [3]
Vanderbilt was born in New York City, the third son of Cornelius Vanderbilt II (1843–1899) and Alice Claypoole Gwynne (1845–1934). His siblings were Alice Gwynne Vanderbilt (1869–1874), William Henry Vanderbilt II (1870–1892), Cornelius "Neily" Vanderbilt III (1873–1942), Gertrude Vanderbilt (1875–1942), Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt (1880–1925) and Gladys Moore Vanderbilt (1886 ...
Muhammad Yunus [a] (born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi economist, entreprenur, politician, and civil society leader, who has been serving as the 5th Chief Adviser of the interim government of Bangladesh since 8 August 2024. [1]
Amy Osborne Vanderbilt (July 22, 1908 – December 27, 1974) was an American authority on etiquette. In 1952 she published the best-selling book Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette. [1] The book, later retitled Amy Vanderbilt's Etiquette, has been updated and is still in circulation. Its longtime popularity has led to it being ...
Shea Sydney Ralph (born March 12, 1978) [1] is a former collegiate basketball player and current head coach for the Vanderbilt Commodores women's basketball team. [2] She was previously an assistant coach at UConn from 2008 to 2021.
Wright joined the faculty at Washington University School of Medicine in 1994 before earning his certification from the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery in 1996. As a practicing sports medicine specialist, Wright was appointed the head team physician of the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball in 2005, having already worked with the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League ...
Daniel Diermeier (born July 16, 1965) [2] is a political scientist and university administrator. He is serving as the ninth chancellor of Vanderbilt University.Previously, Diermeier was the David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, where he also served as provost. [3]