Meanings and history of the name Jurgen : | Edit. Share what you know! Famous real-life people named Jurgen: | Edit. Juergen JÃ¼rgen (habermas. b). 1929 A german sociologist and. Philosopher Juergen (jÃ¼rgen. klinsmann). B 1964 a german, football player. Now Manager (juergen. jÃ¼rgen). prochnow b 1941rigin of the name George: Derived from the Greek geÅrgos (earthworker, farmer), which is composed from the elements gÄ (earth) and ergein (to work). From A World of Baby Names by Teresa Norman.
Share Lemuel Chenoweth. Bridge builder Lemuel Chenoweth (June 25, 1811-August 26, 1887) was born near Beverly, Randolph County. On June 23, 1836, he married Nancy Ann Hart, the great-granddaughter of John Hart, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Chenoweth built churches, houses, sideboards, poster beds, buggies, wagons, a model of a reverse-cutting sawmill, and even dominoes. The Huttonsville Presbyterian Church built by him celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1983.
Clifton Chenier Biography. Born June 25, 1925, in Opelousas, LA; died December 12, 1987, in Lafayette, LA, buried in Loureauville, LA; son of Joseph (a sharecropper) Chenier. Singer, accordionist. Worked in rice and sugar fields as a youth in Louisiana; drove refinery trucks in Port Arthur, TX, 1947-54. Recording artist and concert performer, 1955-87. Featured in the 1973 documentary film Hot Pepper. Clifton Chenier has been eulogized in magazines as diverse as Nation and Rolling Stone as the King of Zydeco..