Asahel's mother was Ellen Sheriff ( 1844 – 1912 ) who was born in Pennsylvania, and both her parents were born in England.

Asahel's brother, Edward Sheriff Curtis, supported the family by opening a photography studio in Seattle, and Asahel went to work for him in 1894.

After working together for a few years, Edward and Asahel parted ways forever after a bitter disagreement over the rights to Asahel's Yukon photos, which Edward had published under his own name.

When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.

He was in earnest conversation with her father and the old vaquero, Luis Hernandez.

`` Karipo was great goddess, told our mothers that men were not necessary except to father children '', the crone told me.

My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.

It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.

His father was a good friend of Rabbi Szold, and Joe lived with the Szolds for a while.

What I fled from was my fear of what, unwittingly, you might betray, without meaning to, about my father and yourself.

But her father was not enthusiastic about sending young Paula to high school.

His father, George A. Mercer, was descended from an honored Southern family that could trace its ancestry back to one Hugh Mercer, who had emigrated from Scotland in 1747.

The lyricist's father was a lawyer who had branched out into real estate.

He was the son of a Scottish father and an American Jewish mother, long widowed, with whom he lived in a comfortable home in Flushing.

There was the Neapolitan, Ribas, a capable conniver whose father had been a blacksmith but who had fawned his way up the ladder of Catherine's and Potemkin's favor till he was now a brigadier ( and would one day be the daggerman designated to do in Czar Paul 1,, after traveling all the way to Naples to procure just the right stiletto ).

His father was a professor at Hartford Theological Seminary, and from him he acquired a conviction, which he passed along to me, that there is in the universe of persons a moral law, the law of love, which is a natural law in the same sense as is the physical law.

My father, who liked Alfred very much, was a constant visitor.

Banks the Butcher was a hard master and a hard father, a man who didn't seem to know the difference between the living flesh of his family and the hanging carcasses of his stock in trade.

She was the opposite of everything she should have been -- a positive pole in a negative home, a living reaction of warmth and kindness to the harsh reality of her father.

Karl was an almost exact copy of his father physically and it was strange to see the expected become the unexpected.

From the point of view of popularity the best-known member of the Commission was Walter Camp, the Yale athlete whose sobriquet was `` the father of American football ''.

the mere fact that he was selected, though as a substitute, to act as interlocutor or moderator for it, or perhaps we should say with Buck as ' father of the act ', is in itself a difficult phase of his development to grasp.

Angry that my father was being burnt alive in the mills ; ;

Jemela ( surname: Gerby ), 23, seems Hong Kong Oriental but has a Spanish father and an Indian mother, was born in America and educated at Holy Cross Academy and Textile High School, says she learned belly dancing at family picnics.

His father was a constant visitor.

Johnson supported Martin Van Buren and early on expressed an interest in the public lands, eventually being considered a father of the Homestead Act of 1862.

They lived in Portland in his early years, and moved to the countryside to Johnson Creek when he was 9 or 10, after the death of his father.

He was one of only three presidents who chose not to attend their respective successor's inauguration ; the others were his father and Andrew Johnson

As a member of the Texas House of Representatives, Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr., Johnson's father, been sensitive to his German-American constituency and had opposed the Creel Committee's attempt to disparage German culture and isolate German-Americans during World War I. Adenauer and Erhard had also stayed at Johnson's ranch in Gillespie County.

Phillip E. Johnson, retired UC Berkeley law professor, leading proponent of intelligent design, founding advisor of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, and " father " of the intelligent design movement, assisted Santorum in phrasing the amendment.

When John and Robert Kennedy next saw their father, Joe Kennedy, he told them signing Johnson as running mate was the smartest thing they had ever done.

* Grampa Johnson ( Oliver " Swede " Johnson )-Alice's father who spoils Dennis often.

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

Seward served as president of the S. S. Seward Institute after the death of his father, even while serving as Secretary of State during the Lincoln and Johnson administrations.

The RSA's Patron is currently HM Elizabeth II, the RSA's President is HRH The Princess Royal ( who replaced her father, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh in 2011 ), its Chairman is Luke Johnson ( businessman ), and its Chief Executive is Matthew Taylor.

By 1784, the Johnson family had moved to Great Crossing in Scott County, on land purchased by Johnson's father from Patrick Henry and James Madison.

After his father died, Richard Johnson inherited Julia Chinn, an octoroon slave who was seven-eighths European in ancestry.

William Manuel " Bill " Johnson ( August 10, 1872 – December 3, 1972 ), was an American jazz musician, considered the father of the " slap " style of string bass playing.

He claimed to come up with the idea for Twister while working on a Johnson ’ s Shoe Polish promotion at his father ’ s design company.

( George E. Johnson is the father of restauranteur Eppie Johnson.

* Rocky Johnson, wrestler, father of Dwayne Johnson

Johnson is regarded as " the father of Woburn.

After his father died in a boating accident when he was three, Johnson was raised by his grandparents, the Peat family.

This led to his decision to become a professional wrestler like his grandfather, Peter Maivia, and his father, Rocky Johnson.

Born into a musically inclined family, Johnson and his three sisters studied piano and his father was a whistling enthusiast.

He is heir to his father Stanford's ( Thomas Barbour ) $ 750 million fortune, which he is told will only be his if he marries the upper class Susan Johnson ( Jill Eikenberry ).

At the church, he jilts Susan, resulting in her abusive father, Burt Johnson ( Stephen Elliott ), attempting to stab Arthur with a cheese knife, though he is prevented by Martha.