Crandall
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People named Crandall
- Bruce P. CrandallBruce P. CrandallBruce Perry Crandall is a retired U.S. Army officer who received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Ia Drang. During the battle he flew 22 missions in an unarmed helicopter into enemy fire to bring ammunition and supplies and evacuate the wounded...
, retired U.S. Army helicopter pilot and Congressional Medal of Honor recipient - Charles Henry CrandallCharles Henry CrandallCharles Henry Crandall was an American author and poet. He was a noted farmer and had become active in real estate having amassed in Stamford by 1910...
, (1858–1923) author and poet - Charles Martin CrandallCharles Martin CrandallCharles Martin Crandall was an American inventor and toy-maker. He was best known for various toy blocks, "Crandall's Acrobats", "Noah's Dominoes", "Illuminated Pictorial Alphabet", "District School", "Menagerie", "Pigs in Clover" game and numerous other games and wooden toys such as wooden trains...
, (1833-1905) American inventor and toymaker - Del CrandallDel CrandallDelmar Wesley Crandall is a former professional baseball catcher and manager in Major League Baseball who played most of his career with the Boston & Milwaukee Braves...
(b.1930), retired American baseball player - Harrison Rayburn Crandall (1887-1970), American artist, photographer and author
- James Otis CrandallJames Otis CrandallJames Otis Crandall was a right-handed pitcher and second baseman. He was the first player to be consistently used as a relief pitcher. Consequently, he was given the nickname Doc by Damon Runyon who said Crandall was "the physician of the pitching emergency". He played from 1908 to 1918,...
(1887–1951), American baseball player who played for the New York Giants and the St. Louis Cardinals - Jesse Armour CrandallJesse Armour CrandallJesse Armour Crandall was an American inventor and toy-maker. He had taken out over 150 patents on toys in his 75 years of inventing. Crandall's father, Benjamin Potter Crandall, was also a toy-maker as well as three of Jesse's brothers...
, (1834–1920), American inventor and toymaker - John CrandallJohn CrandallJohn Crandall, one of the founding settlers of Westerly, Rhode Island, was born in 1618 in Westerleigh, Gloucestershire, England to James Crandall, a yeoman of Kendleshire in that parish, and his first wife Eleanor...
, (1609–1676), early settler of Rhode Island - Joseph CrandallJoseph CrandallJoseph Crandall was a Baptist minister and political figure in New Brunswick. He represented Westmorland County in the Legislative Assembly from 1820 to 1822....
, (ca 1761-1858), Baptist minister and political figure in New Brunswick - Lee Saunders Crandall, (1887-1969), general curator emeritus of the New York Zoological SocietyWildlife Conservation SocietyThe Wildlife Conservation Society based at the Bronx Zoo was founded in 1895 as the New York Zoological Society and currently manages some of wild places around the world, with over 500 field conservation projects in 60 countries, and 200 scientists on staff...
in Bronx, NY - Levin Crandall, (1826–1907), Commanding officer of 125th NY Infantry and aide-de-camp NY GAR
- Lucien Stephen CrandallLucien Stephen CrandallLucien Stephen Crandall was an American inventor of typewriters, adding machines and electrical devices. Crandall gave his name to several typewriters, and he was also involved in the development of various machines, such as the project to produce the Hammond design at the Remington factory, or...
, American inventor of typewriters, adding machines and electrical devices - Martin CrandallMartin CrandallMartin Lesley Crandall is the former keyboardist of The Shins, who also played bass guitar during some live performances, allowing fellow band member Dave Hernandez to play electric guitar...
, keyboardist for The Shins - Orson Leon CrandallOrson Leon CrandallOrson Leon Crandall was a United States Navy diver and a recipient of America's highest military decoration - the Medal of Honor.-Biography:...
(1903–1960), American U.S. Navy master diver and Congressional Medal of Honor recipient - Prudence CrandallPrudence CrandallPrudence Crandall , a schoolteacher raised as a Quaker, stirred controversy with her education of African-American girls in Canterbury, Connecticut...
(c.1803-1890), taught in the first integrated classroom in the US during the 1830s - Reed CrandallReed CrandallReed Crandall was an American illustrator and penciller of comic books and magazines. He was best known for the Quality Comics character Blackhawk and for stories in the critically acclaimed EC Comics of the 1950s.Crandall was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2009.-Early...
(1917–1982), American illustrator of comic books and magazines - Richard CrandallRichard CrandallRichard E. Crandall is an American Physicist and computer scientist who has made contributions to computational number theory.He is most notable for the development of the irrational base discrete weighted transform, an important method of finding very large primes. He has, at various times, been...
, American computer scientist and physicist - Robert CrandallRobert CrandallRobert Lloyd "Bob" Crandall is the former president and chairman of American Airlines. Called an industry legend by airline industry observers, Crandall has been the subject of several books and is a member of the Hall of Honor of the Conrad Hilton college.-Life:Robert Crandall was raised in Rhode...
(b. 1935), former president and chairman of American Airlines - Roland CrandallRoland CrandallRoland Dimon "Doc" Crandall was an American animator. He is best known for his work at Fleischer Studio, especially on the Betty Boop version of Snow White....
(1892–1972) American animator - Stephen H. CrandallStephen H. CrandallStephen Harry Crandall is professor emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He joined the faculty of MIT in 1946 where he taught dynamics and strength of materials until his retirement in 1991 . He was a prolific author of texts in solid mechanics, numerical methods, and random vibration. ...
(b. 1920), professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Places named Crandall
In the United States:- Crandall, IndianaCrandall, IndianaCrandall is a town in Jackson Township, Harrison County, Indiana, United States. The population was 152 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Crandall is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land....
- Crandall, South DakotaDay County, South DakotaAs of the census of 2000, there were 6,267 people, 2,586 households, and 1,688 families residing in the county. The population density was 6 people per square mile . There were 3,618 housing units at an average density of 4 per square mile...
- Crandall, TexasCrandall, TexasCrandall is a city in Kaufman County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,774 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Crandall is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....
- Crandall Canyon MineCrandall Canyon MineThe Crandall Canyon Mine, formerly Genwal Mine, was an underground bituminous coal mine in northwestern Emery County, Utah.The mine made headline news when six miners were trapped by a collapse in August 2007. Ten days later, three rescue workers were killed by a subsequent collapse...
, Utah
Fictional characters named Crandall
- Captain Crandall, leader of Teamo SupremoTeamo SupremoTeamo Supremo is an animated television series created by Disney. Animated in the limited animation style pioneered by Jay Ward, predecessors which inspired its style, it tells of three superhero kids: Captain Crandall, Skate Lad, and Rope Girl...
- Lt. Rip Crandall, Played by Jack Lemmon in The Wackiest Ship in the ArmyThe Wackiest Ship in the Army (film)The Wackiest Ship in the Army is a 1960 CinemaScope comedy-drama war film starring Jack Lemmon, Ricky Nelson and Chips Rafferty. It was filmed at Pearl Harbor and Kauai.-Plot summary:...
- Lt. Dolores Crandall, Played by Joan O'Brian in Operation PetticoatOperation PetticoatOperation Petticoat is a 1959 comedy film directed by Blake Edwards, and starring Cary Grant and Tony Curtis. It was the basis for a television series in 1977 starring John Astin in Grant's role...
- Lennart Crandall, Played by Brad Dexter in Johnny CoolJohnny CoolJohnny Cool is an offbeat 1963 crime film directed by William Asher. It stars Henry Silva and Elizabeth Montgomery.Johnny Colini, an exiled American gangster living in Sicily, rescues Salvatore Giordano, a young Sicilian outlaw, from the police...
- Bob "Lightnin'" Crandall, Played by Bob Steele in Lightnin'Crandall
- Corky Crandall, Played by Rebecca Balding in sitcom Makin' ItMakin' ItMakin' It is an American sitcom starring David Naughton as a disco dancer in the late 1970s. The series only lasted nine episodes, airing on Fridays at 8:00PM on ABC from February 1 through March 23, 1979 before being canceled...
- Sam Crandall, Played by Murray Hamilton in The FBI StoryThe FBI StoryThe FBI Story is a 1959 American drama film produced and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay by Richard L. Breen and John Twist is based on a book by Don Whitehead.-Plot:...
- George Crandall, Played by Larry Pennell in The FBI StoryThe FBI StoryThe FBI Story is a 1959 American drama film produced and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay by Richard L. Breen and John Twist is based on a book by Don Whitehead.-Plot:...
Other
- Crandall, a tool used for dressing stone (see stone carvingStone carvingStone carving is an ancient activity where pieces of rough natural stone are shaped by the controlled removal of stone. Owing to the permanence of the material, evidence can be found that even the earliest societies indulged in some form of stone work....
) - Crandall cabs - locomotiveLocomotiveA locomotive is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. The word originates from the Latin loco – "from a place", ablative of locus, "place" + Medieval Latin motivus, "causing motion", and is a shortened form of the term locomotive engine, first used in the early 19th...
unit originally designed by CNW's, Motive PowerMotive PowerMotive Power is a bi-monthly railway related magazine that focuses on diesel locomotives in Australia. The content includes photographs of locomotives & trains, news about newly delivered and repainted locomotives, technical articles, and fleet listings of the various Australian railway operators...
Chief, M. H. Crandall (see B unitB unitA "B" unit, in railroad terminology, is a locomotive unit which does not have a driving cab, or crew compartment, and must therefore be controlled from another, coupled locomotive with a driving cab . The term booster unit is also used. The concept was largely confined to North America...
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