* Nellie Verrill Mighels Davis, journalist

* Henry Rust Mighels, journalist, politician, first husband of Nellie Verrill Mighels Davis

Using her maiden name, it was covered by Nellie Verrill Mighels Davis, the first woman to report a prize fight.

Two years later, he married Nellie Johnson, whose father owned a bank that merged with the one where Davis worked.

* 1924 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected the first female governor in the United States.

** Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected as the first woman governor in the United States.

** Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman to be named director of the United States Mint.

* January 5 – Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor ( Wyoming ) in the United States.

Nellie Tayloe Ross ( November 29, 1876 – December 19, 1977 ) was an American politician, the 14th Governor of Wyoming from 1925 to 1927, and director of the United States Mint from 1933 – 1953.

Nellie Tayloe Ross refused to campaign, but easily won the race on November 4, 1924.

In 1925, Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first woman elected as a governor in the United States, for the state of Wyoming.

On April 21, 1938, Schlag's design for the Jefferson nickel was selected by Nellie Tayloe Ross, Director of the United States Mint.

Just two weeks before her inauguration, Nellie Tayloe Ross had been sworn in as governor of Wyoming to finish the expired term of her late husband.

Nellie was in the kitchen, had just come to work, when she heard Tim arguing with Julia in the living room.

Nellie Harris wasn't old, she was ancient -- a tiny shriveled woman with a face like a tan prune.

There was worse to follow, with various Essendon players publicly blaming each other for the poor performance against Richmond, and then, with dissension still rife in the ranks, the side plummeted to an embarrassing 28 point loss to VFA premiers Footscray Football Club in a special charity match played a week later in front of 46, 100 people, in aid of Dame Nellie Melba's Disabled Soldiers ' Fund, purportedly ( but not officially ) for the championship of Victoria.

This job was as a part-time assistant in " Booklovers ' Corner ", a second-hand bookshop in Hampstead run by Francis and Myfanwy Westrope, who were friends of Nellie Limouzin in the Esperanto movement.

Orwell needed somewhere he could concentrate on writing his book, and once again help was provided by Aunt Nellie, who was living at Wallington, Hertfordshire in a very small sixteenth-century cottage called the " Stores ".

Secombe was born in rooms in the Danygraig Area of St. Thomas and later the family moved to a council house in the St Thomas district of Swansea, the third of four children of Nellie Jane Gladys ( née Davies ), a shop manageress, and Frederick Ernest Secombe, a grocer .< ref >

* Liberally adapted by playwright Wallace Shawn, the work was brought back to Broadway by the Roundabout Theatre Company in March 2006 with Alan Cumming playing Macheath, Nellie McKay as Polly, Cyndi Lauper as Jenny, Jim Dale as Mr Peachum, Ana Gasteyer as Mrs Peachum, Carlos Leon as Filch, Adam Alexi-Malle as Jacob and Brian Charles Rooney as a male Lucy.

Her performance was called " memorable ... funny and poignant in turns ", and she earned a Tony Award. Richard Watts, Jr. of the New York Post wrote: " nothing I have ever seen her do prepared me for the loveliness, humor, gift for joyous characterization, and sheer lovableness of her portrayal of Nellie Forbush ....

She was named after Soviet gymnast Nellie Kim.

His mother, Manuela " Nellie " Oaxaca, was of Aztec ancestry.

A bronze statue of Stratton by Nellie Walker was placed on the grounds of his estate in 1909.

Determined to get some army experience, Edward attended manoeuvres in Ireland, during which an actress, Nellie Clifden, was hidden in his tent by his fellow officers.

E. V. Rieu could not longer delay his callup and was drafted in 1917, the management then being under his wife Nellie Rieu, a former editor for the Athenaeum ‘ with the assistance of her two British babies .’ It was too late to have important electrotype and stereotype plates shipped to India from Oxford, and the Oxford printing house itself was overburdened with government printing orders as the empire ’ s propaganda machine got to work.

On 24 September 1861, Crown Princess Victoria introduced her brother Albert Edward to Alexandra at Speyer, but it was not until almost a year later on 9 September 1862 ( after his affair with Nellie Clifden and the death of his father ) that Albert Edward proposed to Alexandra at the Royal Castle of Laeken, the home of his great-uncle, King Leopold I of Belgium.

In 1884, when Nellie Ross was seven years of age, her family moved to Miltonvale in Cloud County in northern Kansas.

Nellie was sent on a trip to Europe in 1896 by two of her brothers.

She was in Newcastle upon Tyne in the summer of 1949, accompanied by her friend Anne Dooley ( née Kelly ), a local woman, who was the model for Nellie Cotter, the extraordinary heroine of the book.

A newspaper article from January 1927 claims an American ice-cream was named after Pavlova: " Dame Nellie Melba, of course, has found fame apart from her art in the famous sweet composed of peaches and cream, while Mme.

In Canada, Nellie McClung was a longstanding advocate of temperance.

In August 1997, Charles married his second wife, Jackie, with whom he has two daughters Anna-Jo ( born 1997 ) and Nellie ( born 2003 ).

Harold Macmillan was born at 52 Cadogan Place in Chelsea, London, to Maurice Crawford Macmillan ( 1853 – 1936 ), publisher, and Helen ( Nellie ) Artie Tarleton Belles ( 1856 – 1937 ), artist and socialite, from Spencer, Indiana in the United States.

On March 16, 1751, James Madison, the fourth President of the United States, was born in Port Conway in southern King George County at Belle Grove plantation, the childhood home of his mother, Eleanor Rose " Nellie " Conway, the daughter of its owner, Francis Conway, for whom Port Conway was named.

Nellallitea ' Nella ' Larsen ( born Nellie Walker ( April 13, 1891 – March 30, 1964 ), was an American novelist of the Harlem Renaissance.

She was born Nellie Walker in Chicago, Illinois, on April 13, 1891, the daughter of Marie Hanson, a Danish immigrant, and Peter Walker, a West Indian man of predominantly African descent from Saint Croix, who soon disappeared from her life.

Steenburgen was born in Newport, Arkansas, the daughter of Nellie Mae ( née Wall ), a school-board secretary, and Maurice Steenburgen, a freight-train conductor who worked at the Missouri Pacific Railroad.

On September 20, 1882, he married Mary Deering of Cobourg ; the pair would have two children, Nellie Louise Sifton ( born August 1883 ) and Lewis Raymond St Clair Sifton ( born February 1898 ).

Polly Bergen ( born Nellie Paulina Burgin ; July 14, 1930 ) is an American actress, singer, television host, and entrepreneur.

Crawford was born in Wahoo, Nebraska, in 1880, the son of Stephen O. Crawford ( born 1842 in Vermont ) and Nellie Crawford ( born 1855 in Iowa ).

Breen was born in San Antonio, Texas, the son of Walter Henry Breen and Mary Helena ( Nellie ) Brown Mehl.

Nellie McClung, born Nellie Letitia Mooney ( 20 October 18731 September 1951 ), was a Canadian feminist, politician, and social activist.

Canadian suffragette and activist Nellie McClung was born in the town of Chatsworth.

Frederick Payne was born in Lewiston, Maine, to Frederick and Nellie ( née Smart ) Payne.

Edward had an older sister, Arizona ( Zoa ) born in 1867, two younger brothers, Daniel Boone Hebern, born on February 17, 1871, and William Hebern, born April 8, 1875 in Houston, Texas, as well as a younger sister, Nellie Hebern, born in 1874.

Nellie McKay ( born Nell Marie McKay ), is an American singer-songwriter, actor, and former stand-up comedienne, noted for her critically acclaimed albums, and for her Broadway debut in The Threepenny Opera ( 2006 ), for which she won a Theatre World Award.