Jackson was discovered by Kid Elberfeld at a minor league baseball game at the age of 14.

Elberfeld signed Jackson to his first professional contract, and recommended him to John McGraw, manager of the Giants.

Following Jackson's collegiate career, Elberfeld signed Jackson to his first contract, and he played for Little Rock in 1921 and 1922.

Despite this, Elberfeld recommended Jackson to John McGraw, manager of the New York Giants of the National League ( NL ), who was entitled to a Travelers ' player as he had lent a player to the team in 1922.

After the Highlanders fired manager Clark Griffith during the 1908 season, Chase held out and insisted he would not play for new manager Kid Elberfeld.

Engels also brought two cases of rifle cartridges with him when he went to join the uprising in Elberfeld on May 10.

At the game, Jackson's uncle introduced him to Kid Elberfeld, telling Elberfeld that his nephew was a talented baseball player.

On his way to Elberfeld, Engels took two cases of rifle cartridges which had been gathered by the workers of Solingen, Germany, when those workers had stormed the arsenal at Gräfrath, Germany.

There is no point in describing my feelings when I looked down from the Trolleturm on the ruins of the town of Barmen and on Elberfeld, half of which is destroyed.

It was founded only a few years before by Elias Eller when he relocated the Zionites there from Elberfeld.

Wuppertal in its present borders was formed in 1929 by merging the early industrial cities of Barmen and Elberfeld with Vohwinkel, Ronsdorf, Cronenberg, Langerfeld, and Beyenburg.

Playing their home games at the Stadion am Zoo, the club, which was relegated from the 3rd Liga in 2009, looks back on a rich and eventful history, since it was established in a merger between the two leading Wuppertal clubs SSV Elberfeld 04 and TSG Vohwinkel 80 in 1954.

* Sigurd Raschèr ( pronounced ' Rah-sher ') ( 15 May 1907 in Elberfeld, Germany-25 February 2001 in Shushan, New York ) was an American saxophonist of German birth.

Plücker was born at Elberfeld ( now part of Wuppertal ).

It was founded in 1885 by German immigrants and named for Elberfeld, Germany.

In 1904 Cassirer premiered Koanga, and in the same year the Piano Concerto was given in Elberfeld, and Lebenstanz in Düsseldorf.

At that time Wupper Valley was a historical Silicon Valley and its twin cities Barmen and Elberfeld the trading-and industrial capitals of Prussia.

This district was merged from 1820 till 1861 with the district Elberfeld, which then became a city in its own right, now it's part of Wuppertal.

A Committee of Public Safety was formed in Elberfeld to organize the citizens who were now in revolt.

Members of the Committee of Public Safety included Karl Nickolaus Riotte, a democrat and a lawyer in Elberfeld ; Ernst Hermann Höchster another lawyer and democrat, who became chairman of the Committee, and even Alexis Heintzmann, a lawyer and a liberal who was also the public prosecutor in Elberfeld.

On May 10, 1849, he was in Solingen and making his way toward Elberfeld.

He was born at Sonneborn near Elberfeld, and studied theology at Bonn ( from 1822 ) under K. I. Nitzsch and G. C. F. Lücke, held several pastorates, and eventually ( 1854 ) settled at Bonn as professor of theology in succession to Isaac August Dorner, becoming also in 1860 counsellor to the consistory.

The suspension railway of Elberfeld was built over the canal in order to keep the streets unobstructed

Elberfeld is a municipal subdivision of the German city of Wuppertal ; it was an independent town until 1929.

In fact the railway, the Schwebebahn Wuppertal, was eventually built between Oberbarmen and Vohwinkel and runs through Elberfeld.

In 1888 the district of Sonnborn was incorporated into Elberfeld.

The designers drew inspiration for the design from Antonio Sant ' Elia's drawings of Casa a gradinata and Marcel Breuer ’ s 1928 scheme for a hospital at Elberfeld, Indiana, another source of inspiration was Leslie Martin ’ s Bodleian Law Library in Oxford.

Günter Wand ( January 7, 1912 in Elberfeld, Germany – February 14, 2002 in Ulmiz near Bern, Switzerland ) was a German orchestra conductor and composer.

He was also hit by 24 pitches, the most in the American League since Kid Elberfeld in 1911.

Paul Ludwig Troost ( 17 August 1878 – 21 January 1934 ), born in Elberfeld, was a German architect.

Beecham's presentation of A Mass of Life at the Queen's Hall in June 1909 did not inspire Hans Haym, who had come from Elberfeld for the concert, though Beecham says that many professional and amateur musicians thought it " the most impressive and original achievement of its genre written in the last fifty years " Some reviewers, nevertheless, doubted the popular appeal of Delius's music, while others were more specifically hostile.

Norman Arthur " Kid " Elberfeld ( April 13, 1875 – January 13, 1944 ) was a professional baseball player.

The dominant urban centres Elberfeld ( historic commercial centre ) and Barmen ( more industrial ) have formed a unified built-up area since 1850.

* The play Die Wupper by Else Lasker-Schüler takes places in Elberfeld.

The central station is located in the district of Elberfeld.

* Born, Heinrich, Die Stadt Elberfeld.

Elberfeld is a town in Greer Township, Warrick County, Indiana, United States.

Elberfeld is one of a very few towns of its size not to have any kind of main highway running through it or direct access to a major highway.

Elberfeld is located at ( 38. 160067 ,-87. 447609 ).

In the same year, Delius began a fruitful association with German supporters of his music, the conductors Hans Haym, Fritz Cassirer and Alfred Hertz at Elberfeld, and Julius Buths at Düsseldorf.

He gave the premiere at Elberfeld on 14 December 1901.

He edited the Kirchenblatt für die reformierte Schweiz ( from 1845 to 1868 ), and also a series of biographies of the reformers of the Reformed Church, with selections from their writings ( Leben und Schriften der Väter und Begründer der reformierten Kirche, Elberfeld, 1857-62, 10 vols.

In 1900 the family moved to Elberfeld where he finished school, taking his abitur exam in 1910.

The strikers conquered Düsseldorf, Elberfeld, Essen and soon had control over the whole Ruhr area.

" In 1854, Darby visited Germany with meetings being set up at Elberfeld and Düsseldorf among others.

When the revolutionary upsurge renewed itself in the spring of 1849, the uprisings started in Elberfeld in the Rhineland on May 6, 1848.

Engels remained in the Palatinate to join the citizens gathering on the barricades of the city of Elberfeld in the Rhineland, to fight the anticipated Prussian troops that were expected to arrive and suppress the uprising.