Twitchell
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Twitchell is a surname
, and may refer to
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
, and may refer to
- David and Ginger TwitchellTwitchell CaseCommonwealth v. Twitchell, 416 Mass. 114 was the most prominent of a series of criminal cases in the late 1980s and early 1990s in which parents who were members of the Christian Science Church were prosecuted for the deaths of children whose medical conditions had been treated only by Christian...
, Christian Scientists who were tried for manslaughter in the death of their son, Robyn - Rev. Dr. Joseph TwichellJoseph TwichellReverend Joseph Hopkins Twichell , writer and pastor, was Mark Twain's closest friend for over forty years, and appears in A Tramp Abroad as "Harris." They met at a church social after the Civil War when Twichell was pastor of Asylum Hill Congregational Church in Hartford, his only pastorate for...
, A New England reverend, and closest friend of Mark TwainMark TwainSamuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist... - Karl TwitchellKarl TwitchellKarl Twitchell was an American mining engineer.He surveyed for minerals in Saudi Arabia, for King 'Abd al-'Aziz. He then worked for Charles Richard Crane, looking for places to drill for water in Yemen...
, American engineer and surveyor - Kent TwitchellKent TwitchellKent Twitchell is an American muralist who is most active in Los Angeles. He is most famous for his larger-than-life mural portraits, often of celebrities and artists. His murals are realism not photorealism according to Twitchell.-Biography:Twitchell's father was Robert Twitchell who was a farmer...
, American artist - Mark TwitchellMark TwitchellMark Twitchell , is a Canadian who was convicted of first degree murder in the death of Johnny Altinger...
, Canadian filmmaker charged with murder - Marshall H. TwitchellMarshall H. TwitchellMarshall Harvey Twitchell was a Union Army soldier from Vermont who became a carpetbagger Republican state senator from Red River Parish in northwestern Louisiana during the era of Reconstruction....
, Louisiana state senatorLouisiana State LegislatureThe Louisiana State Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is bicameral body, comprising the lower house, the Louisiana House of Representatives with 105 representatives, and the upper house, the Louisiana Senate with 39 senators...
and carpetbaggerCarpetbaggerCarpetbaggers was a pejorative term Southerners gave to Northerners who moved to the South during the Reconstruction era, between 1865 and 1877....
during Reconstruction - Paul TwitchellPaul TwitchellPaul Twitchell was an American spiritual writer, author and founder of the group known as Eckankar. He is accepted by the members of that group as the Mahanta, or Living ECK Master of his time. He directed the development of the group through to the time of his death...
, American religious leader - Wayne TwitchellWayne TwitchellWayne Lee Twitchell was an American right-handed pitcher who spent ten seasons in Major League Baseball with the Milwaukee Brewers , Philadelphia Phillies , Montreal Expos , New York Mets and Seattle Mariners .Twitchell was an All-Star in 1973 for the last place Phillies when he had a...
, American baseball player
See also
- The Twitchell CaseTwitchell CaseCommonwealth v. Twitchell, 416 Mass. 114 was the most prominent of a series of criminal cases in the late 1980s and early 1990s in which parents who were members of the Christian Science Church were prosecuted for the deaths of children whose medical conditions had been treated only by Christian...
- Twitchell ReservoirTwitchell ReservoirTwitchell Reservoir is a reservoir in southern San Luis Obispo County and northern Santa Barbara County in California. The reservoir has a capacity of and is formed by Twitchell Dam on the Cuyama River about from its headwaters in the Chumash Wilderness Area and about from its confluence with...
in California - Twitchett