Y. L. Lipscomb ran a general store on the old South Bessemer car line which opened in 1890, though the first settlers actually came to the area in the 1830s, when Vincent Loveless established his farm in the area.

When Lipscomb was three years old ( some sources say four ), in 1834 or 1835, his father moved the family temporarily to Sangamon County, Illinois, ( whose county seat, Springfield, would become the state capital in 1837 ) for the express purpose of freeing Granville Lipscomb's four slaves.

Had Lipscomb become a physician like his father, he would have been the fourth physician in a row along the Lipscomb male line.

Blind Lemon Jefferson ( in and around Dallas ) was the first major artist of the field, and he was followed by legends like Blind Willie Johnson ( who was principally a gospel singer ) and Big Mama Thornton and Lightnin ' Hopkins and Mance Lipscomb.

Fascinated by Texas blues legends like Mance Lipscomb and Lightnin ' Hopkins and steeped in the cultural sauce piquante of his border state, he played traditional folk tunes on the same Austin-Houston club circuit as Townes Van Zandt and Jerry Jeff Walker.

In 2005, the Texas Legislature named the city " The Blues Capital of Texas ," in honor of the late Mance Lipscomb, a Navasota native and blues musician.

In his letter, reprinted as " To His Excellency The President of The Confederate States of America ," Lipscomb stated his position in no uncertain terms so that " members of the churches of Jesus Christ " would be exempt from serving as soldiers in the Confederacy.

Walker was also awarded the " Avalon Award ," the highest award given for contribution and accomplishment by his alma mater, David Lipscomb University, in 2005.

The estate was first known as Bletchley Park during the ownership of Samuel Lipscomb Seckham, who purchased it in 1877.

In May 1963, Lipscomb appeared at the first Monterey Folk Festival in California.

Lipscomb later had a high-school physics course and took first prize in the state contest on that subject.

Prof. Robert H. Baker suggested that Lipscomb research the direct preparation of derivatives of alcohols from dilute aqueous solution without first separating the alcohol and water, which led to Lipscomb's first publication.

In at least the first two of these areas Lipscomb gave himself a big challenge likely to fail,

Ethane barrier to rotation about the carbon-carbon bond, first accurately calculated by Pitzer and Lipscomb.

The ethane barrier to rotation ( diagram at left ) was first calculated accurately by Pitzer and Lipscomb using the Hartree-Fock ( SCF ) method.

The mineral lipscombite ( picture at right ) was named after Professor Lipscomb by the mineralogist John Gruner who first made it artificially.

Sport: In the first half of the twentieth century, before Major League Baseball was racially integrated, dark-skinned and dark-complexion players were nicknamed Nig ; examples are: Johnny Beazley ( 1941 – 49 ), Joe Berry ( 1921 – 22 ), Bobby Bragan ( 1940 – 48 ), Nig Clarke ( 1905 – 20 ), Nig Cuppy ( 1892 – 1901 ), Nig Fuller ( 1902 ), Johnny Grabowski ( 1923 – 31 ), Nig Lipscomb ( 1937 ), Charlie Niebergall ( 1921 – 24 ), Nig Perrine ( 1907 ), and Frank Smith ( 1904 – 15 ).

The city of Lipscomb was first incorporated on June 30, 1910, and was named for L. Y. Lipscomb, one of three brothers who first settled in the area in 1885.

Lipscomb graduated its first senior class in 1948, leaving behind the name of " junior college " forever.

In 1954, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools granted Lipscomb its first accreditation.

In the first Lipscomb Bisons home game at Allen Arena, Bison Clayton Osborne made a in bounds shot from three-quarters of the court away.

While all of these arguments are common today in anarchist thought, Lipscomb may have been the first to bring them all together, at least in America and likely preceded only by William Godwin in England and Proudhon in France.

* Oscar Hugh Lipscomb ( 1980 – 2008 ) ( first metropolitan archbishop )

By age 17, he was getting booked by the region ’ s top promoter, Morris Siegel, and in 1938, he won his first title by defeating Buck Lipscomb for Northwest Middleweight crown.

The first president was Andrew Adgate Lipscomb, a contemporary of Charles Dickens and Harriet Beecher Stowe who was one of the most respected scholars of his time.

Perry and his benefactor agreed on 5 percent, and he has maintained that commitment to Lipscomb ever since in the form of a scholarship for residents of Simpson County.

In this area Lipscomb originally intended a more ambitious project: " My original intention in the late 1940 ’ s was to spend a few years understanding the boranes, and then to discover a systematic valence description of the vast numbers of electron deficient intermetallic compounds.

* David Lipscomb ( 1866 – 7 ) Civil Government: Its Origin, Mission and Destiny, and the Christian's Relation to It ( reprinted in 2006 as On Civil Government ).

On October 14, 2008, Perry was inducted into Lipscomb University's Athletics Hall of Fame.

On August 31, 2009, Hillbilly Jim appeared on ESPN's fantasy football podcast " Fantasy Focus " with Nate Ravitz and fill-in host Keith Lipscomb.

The 1976 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Lipscomb " for his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding ".

He regaled Claire with an account of the mock mass performed by the cassocked bloods, which he had had at firsthand from old Bud Dodington, one of the leaders of the so-called `` Order ''.

About this time Wills purchased and performed with an old Guadagnini violin that had once fetched $ 7, 600 for $ 1, 600, the equivalent of about $ 24, 000 in 2009.

This allowed most separations to be performed in less than 20 minutes, with improved separations compared to the old method.

If the surgery is performed on very young patients ( 2 – 5 years old ), the remaining hemisphere may acquire some rudimentary motor control of the ipsilateral body ; in older patients, paralysis results on the side of the body opposite to the part of the brain that was removed.

One meaning often given is that of old songs, with no known composers ; another is music that has been transmitted and evolved by a process of oral transmission or performed by custom over a long period of time.

Freestyle experienced another resurgence of popularity in the late 2000s, as older, well-known freestyle artists, producers and record labels released new music, and old and new freestyle artists performed at Philadelphia-area bars and night clubs.

He did paint the old character mustache over his real one on a few rare performing occasions, including a TV sketch with Jackie Gleason on the latter's variety show in the 1960s ( in which they performed a variation on the song " Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean ," co-written by Marx's uncle Al Shean ) and the 1968 Otto Preminger film Skidoo.

Gardner also returned to his old interests in the anthropology of Malaya, witnessing the magical practices performed by the locals, and he readily accepted a belief in magic.

It was performed on a four year old girl named Ashanti DeSilva.

When Connick, Jr., was nine years old, he performed the Piano Concerto No. 3 Opus 37 of Beethoven with the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra ( now the Louisiana Philharmonic ), and later played a duet with Eubie Blake at the Royal Orleans Esplanade Lounge in New Orleans.

He proved to be a prodigy and performed with the Chicago, St. Louis, and Detroit Symphonies before he was ten years old.

Yet again, today it is almost certain that this legend was used as a metaphor, in allusion to the old Slavic pagan ceremony known as the " postrzyżyny ": During that ceremony hair cutting was performed to every boy at the age of seven.

' Apples ', ' Spring Awakening ', ' Almost Nothing to do with Frogs ' and ' Flames Over New Jersey ; were all shows performed at the Underbelly during the 2012 Fringe by current and old Etonians, with the latter 2 productions written and directed by boys from the school.

He recorded her telling folk stories in her native language, and then used the recordings as a basis for sounds that became the Ewok language and were performed by voice actors who imitated the old woman's voice in different styles.

Additionally, in Act 3, Scene 2, Tranio is briefly presented as an old friend of Petruchio, who knows his mannerisms and explains his tardiness prior to the wedding, a role which, up until now, had been performed by Hortensio.

In accordance with old ballet tradition, on the day she was to have next performed, the show went on as scheduled, with a single spotlight circling an empty stage where she would have been.

In 1990, the " classic " lineup of Akkerman, Van Leer, Ruiter, and Van der Linden performed old and new compositions on the Dutch TV shows Veronika and Goud van Oud.

In 1978 the two performed a stage version of the show at the London Palladium ; lasting for three months, it followed the same format as the show, with old sketches and some new material, supported by variety acts.

The services of the temples were performed by old women who were physically misshapen, though intellectually superior persons, giving rise to the fear of witches and of the mishappen.

That same year, Webb performed live at the club Cinegrill, performing " What Does a Woman See in a Man " and introducing several additional new songs, including " Sandy Cove " and an old folk hymn, " I Will Arise ".

Some of the old traditions survive and are performed at Easter.

B * Witched performed in the 2007 gig ' Battle of the Pop Bands ' which brought old bands from the late 1990s and early 2000s.

In 1989, Wilbert Keon of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute performed the country's first artificial heart transplant on an 11-month old baby.

Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries and the Dambusters March were performed by 3, 910 kazooists in the Royal Albert Hall crowd, surpassing the old record of 3, 861 players set in Sydney, Australia in 2009.