1455) Luís Vaz de Camões

Luís Vaz de Camões (sometimes rendered in English as Camoens or Camoëns, c. 1524 or 1525 – 1580). He is considered Portugal's and the Portuguese language's greatest poet. His mastery of verse has been compared to that of Shakespeare, Milton, Vondel, Homer, Virgil and Dante. He wrote a considerable amount of lyrical poetry and drama but is best remembered for his epic work Os Lusíadas (The Lusiads). His collection of poetry The Parnasum of Luís de Camões was lost during his life. The influence of his masterpiece Os Lusíadas is so profound that Portuguese is sometimes called the "language of Camões".

The day of his death, 10 June, is Portugal's national day.

 

- "The testimonies of his contemporaries describe him as a man of average size, with reddish blond hair, blind in his right eye, skilled in all physical exercises and with a temperamental disposition, having little difficulty in engaging in fights." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu%C3%ADs_de_Cam%C3%B5es

 

- “That famous poet Luís de Camóes—who, speaking in absolutes, was the prince of them all—was a tall man with broad shoulders and reddish hair. His face was freckled and he was blind in one eye..." https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/lusiads

 

Luis Vaz de Camoes, 16th-17th century, Portuguese School

 

1454) John Edward Taylor

John Edward Taylor (1791 – 1844). English business tycoon, editor, publisher and member of The Portico Library, who was the founder of the Manchester Guardian newspaper in 1821, which was renamed in 1959 The Guardian.

- "He had a "shock of red hair". https://genealogy.links.org/links-cgi/readged?/home/ben/camilla-genealogy/current+c-taylor59011+2-2-0-1-0

 

 

1453) William Woodville Rockhill

William Woodville Rockhill (1854 – 1914). United States diplomat, best known as the author of the U.S.'s Open Door Policy for China, first American to learn to speak Tibetan, and one of the West's leading experts on the modern political history of China.

He served as ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Russia, China, Romania, Serbia, Greece, and wrote numerous books about Tibet.

 

- "Rockhill had red hair, which may show up either dark or light depending on the film employed." https://books.google.it/books?id=UsC1sEKQNeYC&pg=PA285...

 

- "Six-feet-four with a shock of red hair and a mustache right out of The Three Musketeers..." https://books.google.it/books?id=XzQKDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA108...

 

 

1452) John B. Felton

John Brooks Felton (1827 – 1877). American jurist and politician who served as the 14th Mayor of Oakland, California.

Felton was the son of an almshouse superintendent in Cambridge, Massachusetts and brother of Cornelius Conway Felton, a classics scholar at Harvard University and Samuel Morse Felton, Sr., a railroad executive. He graduated from Harvard in 1847 with a Bachelor's degree and briefly served as a Greek tutor before pursuing the law. He graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from Cambridge University in 1853. He studied the Napoleonic code in Paris for one year and became fluent in French and Spanish.

 

- "John Felton was something of a character and a good deal of a man, with fiery red hair on the outside of his head and much genial wit and wisdom within it." https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/20021719.pdf

 

 

1451) Edward Shils

Edward Albert Shils (1910 – 1995). Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and in Sociology at the University of Chicago and an influential sociologist. He was known for his research on the role of intellectuals and their relations to power and public policy. His work was honored in 1983 when he was awarded the Balzan Prize. In 1979, he was selected by the National Council on the Humanities to give the Jefferson Lecture, the highest award given by the U.S. federal government for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities.

Shils had a fraught relationship with Saul Bellow, a colleague at the University of Chicago who also served on the Committee on Social Thought. Shils served as his "mentor, character model and editor" and figures prominently in many of Bellow's novels, including Mr. Sammler's Planet (Artur Sammler), Humboldt's Gift (Professor Durnwald), and Ravelstein (Rakhmiel Kogon). Artur Sammler and Professor Durnwald are both described glowingly, but in Ravelstein the Shils character is treated with "animosity [that] reaches lethal proportions" following a falling out between the two.

 

- "... and the florid coloring that suggested the potential pug nacity of a former redhead." https://books.google.it/books?id=oS8s-fTnh58C&pg=PA2...

 

- "... five foot eight, stocky, with a reddish complexion and one red hair." https://books.google.it/books?id=GWcZBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT532...

 

 

1450) Sara Coleridge

Sara Coleridge (1802 – 1852). English author and translator. She was the third child out of four and the only daughter of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his wife Sara Fricker. She gained further popularity with instructive verses for children.

Guided by the poet Robert Southey, and with his ample library at her command, she read by herself the chief Greek and Latin classics, and before she was twenty-five had learnt in addition French, German, Italian and Spanish.

In September 1829, after an engagement of seven years duration, Sara Coleridge was married to her cousin, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1798–1843), younger son of Captain James Coleridge. He was then a chancery barrister in London.

Coleridge suffered a number of miscarriages and only two of her children, Herbert and Edith, survived to adulthood. Her son, Herbert Coleridge (1830–1861), won a double first class in classics and mathematics at Oxford in 1852. Her daughter, Edith Coleridge, edited a biography of Sara, The Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge (1873), which helped to preserve her mother's legacy.

 

- "... a complexion of dazzling fairness, rich auburn hair..." https://books.google.it/books?id=Ku1CBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT95...

 

- "Wherever she went, people were struck by her rare beauty - large, pale-blue eyes, fair auburn hair and minute figure..." chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/41989153.pdf

 

 

1449) Sara Hutchinson

Sara Hutchinson (1775 - 1835). Daughter of a family of Yorkshire farmers, she was the younger sister of Mary Wordsworth (wife of William Wordsworth). The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge fell in love with her after meeting her in 1799, during his first visit to the north of England and the Lakes. Nothing came of this, though, because she was fond of him, but didn't love him.

Practical and eminently capable, Sara, who never married, spent a great deal of time with the Wordsworths and their children. She also became a very close friend of the Southey family, providing invaluable assistance after the death of Herbert Southey in 1816 and also in the mid 1830s during Edith Southey’s confinement in The Retreat, York.

She inspired many of Coleridge's poems, where she is called Asra.

 

- "... she was not a conventionally romantic, dreamy Muse. She was cheerful and outgoing, a small energetic figure with a mass of auburn hair..." http://samueltaylorbloggeridge.blogspot.com/.../on-name...

 

 

1448) John Christie

John Reginald Halliday Christie (1899 – 1953), known to his family and friends as Reg Christie. English serial killer and alleged necrophile active during the 1940s and early 1950s. He murdered at least eight people—including his wife, Ethel—by strangling them in his flat at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London.

Two of Christie's victims were Beryl Evans and her baby daughter Geraldine, who, along with Beryl's husband, Timothy Evans, were tenants at 10 Rillington Place during 1948–49. This case sparked huge controversy after Evans was charged with both murders, found guilty of the murder of his daughter, and hanged in 1950. Christie was a major prosecution witness; when his own crimes were discovered three years later, serious doubts were raised about the integrity of Evans's conviction. Christie himself subsequently admitted killing Beryl, but not Geraldine; it is now generally accepted that Christie murdered both Beryl and Geraldine and that police mishandling of the original inquiry allowed Christie to escape detection and enabled him to murder four more women. The High Court quashed Evans's conviction in 2004, accepting that Evans did not murder either his wife or his child.

 

- "Unlike Ernest, Reg was small, skinny and slight; a shy boy with pale ginger hair and a limp handshake..." https://www.murdermiletours.com/.../murder-mile-true...

 

- "His hair was a reddish-ginger color and his eyes were pale blue." https://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/christie-john.htm

 

- "With reddish ginger hair and pale blue eyes, he was considered by his sisters as “pretty”..." https://serialkillercalendar.com/JOHN-CHRISTIE-SERIAL...

 

 

1447) Josiah Bartlett

Josiah Bartlett (1729 – 1795). American Founding Father, physician, statesman, a delegate to the Continental Congress for New Hampshire, and a signatory to the Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation. He served as the first governor of New Hampshire and chief justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court of Judicature.

- "Bartlett’s colleagues described him as tall, well built, with a fine figure and auburn hair." https://www.dsdi1776.com/josiah-bartlett/

 

- "The popular doctor, tall and handsome, with curly red hair..." https://books.google.it/books?id=hxs079e_uhMC&pg=PA385...

 

 

1446) Cyrus Vance

Cyrus Roberts Vance Sr. (1917 – 2002). American lawyer and United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1980. Prior to serving in that position, he was the United States Deputy Secretary of Defense in the Johnson administration. During the Kennedy administration he was Secretary of the Army and General Counsel of the Department of Defense.

As Secretary of State, Vance approached foreign policy with an emphasis on negotiation over conflict and a special interest in arms reduction. In April 1980, he resigned in protest of Operation Eagle Claw, the secret mission to rescue American hostages in Iran. He was succeeded by Edmund Muskie.

 

- "Mr. Vance’s political engagement did not manifest itself publicly at Yale. The young man with the long red hair usually kept conversations about politics to private settings with friends..." https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/18/nyregion/18vance.html

 

- "When he is not wearing his tortoise-shell glasses, Mr. Vance, with a reddish face, red hair that has mostly faded to gray, and a relaxed posture..." https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/nyregion/31vance.html

 

 

1445) Hisham I of Cordoba

Hisham I Al-Reda ibn Abd ar-Rahman (757 - 794). Second Emir of Cordoba, ruling from 788 to 796 in al-Andalus.

He was the first son of Abd al-Rahman I (r. 756-788) and his wife, Halul, and the younger half brother of Suleiman.

 

- "Hisham I had very white skin and reddish hair..." https://books.google.it/books?id=PJNgCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT146...

 

Coin of Hisham I

 

1444) Daniel Hale Williams

Daniel Hale Williams (1856 – 1931). African-American surgeon, who in 1893 performed what is referred to as "the first successful heart surgery". It was performed at Chicago's Provident Hospital, which he founded in 1891 as the first non-segregated hospital in the United States.

His father, Daniel Hale Williams Jr., was the son of a Scots-Irish woman and a black barber. His mother, Sarah Price, was African-American.

In 1913, Williams was elected as the only African-American charter member of the American College of Surgeons.

In 1893, Williams became the first African American on record to have successfully performed pericardium surgery to repair a wound. On September 6, 1891, Henry Dalton was the first American to successfully perform pericardium surgery to repair a wound. Earlier successful surgeries to drain the pericardium, by performing a pericardiostomy were done by Francisco Romero in 1801 and Dominique Jean Larrey in 1810.

 Williams was married in 1898 to Alice Johnson, natural daughter of the Jewish-American sculptor Moses Jacob Ezekiel and a biracial maid.

 

- "Fondly known to his patients as ''Dr. Dan,'' the red-haired Williams was a brilliant physician..." https://www.chicagotribune.com/.../ct-xpm-1989-01-29...

 

- "... but Daniel himself, in adult life, could easily be mistaken for being white, with his light complexion, red hair and blue eyes." https://books.google.it/books?id=rYgRDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA889...

 

 

1443) Edward C. O'Kelley

Edward Capehart O'Kelley (1857 – 1904). American killer who killed Robert Ford, who had killed the famous outlaw Jesse James to receive a bounty.

On 8 June 1892, while Ford was preparing to open his saloon, O’Kelley walked into the tent with a shotgun. Ford was turned away from the front entrance. O’Kelley called out, "Hello, Bob." As Ford turned around to see who spoke, O’Kelley fired his shotgun, hitting Ford in the neck and killing him instantly.

O’Kelley never explained why he had shot Ford. According to one account, O’Kelley married a relative of the Younger Brothers Gang and became friends with Jesse James, who became a cousin by marriage. Another version contends that con man Soapy Smith assured O’Kelley he’d be famous if he killed Ford. One theory involves the accusation that O’Kelley had stolen Ford’s diamond ring, and the dispute had escalated. O’Kelley was initially imprisoned for life, though his sentence was later reduced to 18 years. In the end, O’Kelley served only around 9 years at the Colorado State Penitentiary before being released due, firstly, to a 7,000-signature petition in favour of his release, and, secondly, to a medical condition.

 

- "O'Kelley was also known as Red O'Kelley due to his bright red hair..." http://www.vlib.us/old_west/guns.html

 

- "The man who killed Ford also went by “Red” O’Kelley because of his red hair." https://tomrizzo.com/day-retribution/

 

 

1442) James Gallatin

James Gallatin (796 – 1876). American banker, son of Albert Gallatin.

While his father helped broker the Treaty of Ghent, which ended the War of 1812 between Britain and the United States, James acted as his personal secretary during this diplomatic trip. After the success at Ghent, the Gallatins traveled to France just as Napoleon arrived at Cannes after escaping Elba. James' diary includes a detailed look into the lives of the nobles as they faced the threat of Napoleon's return. At one point, he is asked by the famous artist Jacques-Louis David to sit as Cupid for his painting Cupid and Psyche.

He succeeded his father as the president of the Gallatin National Bank in 1839. After his retirement in 1868 he relocated to Paris, France.

 

- "They call my hair auburn - I call it red." https://books.google.it/books?id=VKaBAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA25...

 

 

1441) George Mathews

George Mathews (1739 – 1812). American soldier and politician from the U.S. States of Virginia and Georgia. He was a brevet brigadier general in the Continental Army, the 20th and 24th Governor of Georgia, a U.S. Representative from Georgia, and the leading participant in the Patriot War of East Florida.

On the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, he served as colonel of the 9th Virginia Regiment in the Continental Army. He and his entire regiment were captured on October 4, 1777, in the Battle of Germantown. Mathews spent the next four years as a prisoner of war, including two years on a British prison ship. He was brevetted brigadier general at the end of the war.

After the war, Mathews moved to the state of Georgia and was quickly elected governor of the state.

Mathews relocated to the Mississippi Territory and in 1810 was sent as a secret agent by President James Madison to annex the Spanish territory of East Florida for the United States. Mathews was unable to claim the territory peacefully, so he created an insurrectionist force that captured Ferninanda Beach and Amelia Island and turned them over to the U.S. This act, now referred to as the Patriot War of East Florida, was denounced by Spain and its allies. Madison, under political pressure, disavowed Mathews' actions. The vagueness of Madison's instructions to Mathews have led to significant debate among historians as to whether Mathews acted outside of the purview of his mandate.

 

- "... he stood straight with his head thrown back, his red hair wind-blown..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mathews_(soldier)

 

- "His features were full and bluff, his hair light red..." https://books.google.it/books?id=xHy7DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA123...

 

 

1440) Carter Glass

Carter Glass (1858 – 1946), American newspaper publisher and Democratic politician. He represented Virginia in both houses of Congress and served as the United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Woodrow Wilson. He played a major role in the establishment of the U.S. financial regulatory system, helping to establish the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Glass won election to the United States House of Representatives in 1902 and became Chairman of the House Committee on Banking and Currency in 1913. Working with President Wilson, he passed the Federal Reserve Act, which established a central banking system for the United States. Glass served as Secretary of the Treasury from 1918 until 1920, when he accepted an appointment to represent Virginia in the United States Senate. Glass was a favorite son candidate for the presidential nomination at the 1920 Democratic National Convention.

Glass served in the Senate from 1920 until his death in 1946, becoming Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee in 1933. He also served as president pro tempore of the Senate from 1941 to 1945. He co-sponsored the 1933 Banking Act, also known as the Glass–Steagall Act, which created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and enforced the separation of investment banking firms and commercial banks. 

 

- "Glass had red hair..." https://books.google.it/books?id=-iN9CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT56...

 

- "The one-hundred-pound, red-headed Democrat was owner and editor of the Lynchburg News..." https://www.jstor.org/stable/24440499

 

- "Short (five feet four inches), with red hair..." https://books.google.it/books?id=aMiA05P92h8C&pg=PA174...

 

 

1439) Patterson Dial

Elizabeth Patterson Dial (1902 – 1945). American writer and silent film actress of the 1920s.

Under the name Patterson Dial, she appeared in fourteen motion pictures, beginning with Gloria's Romance in 1916.

In 1925 she marries novelist Rupert Hughes. Husband and wife became noted in literary circles and formed a writing team.

Patterson Dial died of a barbiturate overdose at the age of 42. The circumstances were mysterious and the police could not determine whether it was an accident or suicide. 

 

- "The lovely redhead had roles in more than a dozen films..." https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0224495/bio

 

 

1438) Henrietta Reubell

Henrietta Reubell (c. 1849–1924). Franco-American socialite and prominent figure in Paris society, known for hosting a lively salon at her apartment at 42 avenue Gabriel, including James McNeill Whistler, Oscar Wilde, Edith Wharton, and Henry James.

Her father, Frédéric Reubell, belonged to an Alsatian family with strong Revolutionary affiliations: her paternal great-grandfather, Jean-François Reubell (1747 - 1807) served as a president of the Directoire and her grandfather, Jean-Jacques Reubell (1777 - 1847) was a Napoleonic general. Reubell's mother, Julia Christiana Coster (d. 1884), was an American from a wealthy Dutch family in New York (she was a daughter of John Gerard Coster, who served as president of the Bank of the Manhattan Company).

The character of Etta Barrace, in Henry James' The Ambassadors (1903) is based on Henrietta Reubell. 

 

- "The painter William Rothenstein recollected a striking figure, with her bright red hair crowning an expressive but unbeautiful face..." https://books.google.it/books?id=vSJhEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT248...

 

Henrietta Reubell by John Singer Sargent

 

1437) Grayson Hall

Grayson Hall (1922 – 1985). American television, film, and stage actress. She was widely regarded for her avant-garde theatrical performances from the 1960s to the 1980s. Hall was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Golden Globe Award for the John Huston film The Night of the Iguana (1964).

She played multiple prominent roles on the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows (1966–71), and appeared on One Life to Live (1982–83).

Hall was born Shirley Grossman, the only child of Eleanor and Joseph Grossman. Her father was from Latvia and her mother, who had acted in the Yiddish theatre, was from South Africa. Both were from Jewish immigrant families. In 1952, she married writer Sam Hall. She had always used the stage name Shirley Grayson, but Sam Hall called her Grayson, "like an old Army buddy," she said in an interview. She eventually adopted Grayson Hall as her professional name.

 

- "Known for sometimes outré performances on Broadway, the slim, sharp-featured, red-headed actress was a perfect choice for the cult TV series Dark Shadows..." https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0355621/trivia

 

- "Other replies have included: The redhead?" https://www.graysonhall.net/.../chronicling-the-life-of.../

 

- "She had wild red hair, freckles..." https://books.google.it/books?id=G6S5Yc_jghwC&pg=PA10...

 

 

1436) Ella Day Rush Murray

Ella Day Rush Murray (1876-1943). American civil rights activist, suffragist, advocate of black enfranchisement. She sat on the board of directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was a charter member of the National Woman's Party and a member of the Consumers' League.

She was a scion of Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and of Richard Stockton, another signer of the Declaration.

In 1905 she married the engineer William Spencer Murray, Sr. and they had three sons, Richard Murray, John Murray, and William Spencer Murray, Jr.

 

- "Five foot five, with grayish-blue eyes, and oval face and flaming red hair..." https://books.google.it/books?id=6II6EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA51...

1435) Walter Damrosch

Walter Johannes Damrosch (1862 – 1950). German-born American conductor and composer. He is best remembered today as long-time director of the New York Symphony Orchestra and for conducting the world premiere performances of George Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F (1925) and An American in Paris (1928). Damrosch was also instrumental in the founding of Carnegie Hall. He also conducted the first performance of Rachmaninoff's third piano concerto with Rachmaninoff himself as a soloist.

Damrosch was born in Breslau, Silesia, a son of Helene von Heimburg, a former opera singer, and the conductor Leopold Damrosch, and brother of conductor Frank Damrosch and music teacher Clara Mannes. 

 

- "... and indeed his younger brother Walter did have blond-red hair." https://books.google.it/books?id=YLQXrHGNlQUC&pg=PA9...

 

- "On the evening of Nov. 17, 1891 a sharp-eyed Pole with an incredible stack of red-gold hair walked onto the stage of Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. [...] Leading the attendant orchestra was Manhattan's cool, deliberate Walter Damrosch, then a young man of 29." https://content.time.com/.../article/0,33009,788955,00.html

 

- "... and the rehearsals were led by his youngest son - twenty-two-year-old Walter, a young man with light red hair, as if justifying the name (his father's grandfather was Jewish, in Hebrew "damros" - "red")." https://vk.com/wall-4700158_25584?lang=en

 

 

1434) Heinrich Heine

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (born Harry Heine; 1797 – 1856). German poet, writer and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder (art songs) by composers such as Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert. Heine's later verse and prose are distinguished by their satirical wit and irony. He is considered a member of the Young Germany movement. His radical political views led to many of his works being banned by German authorities—which, however, only added to his fame.
He was called "Harry" in childhood but became known as "Heinrich" after his conversion from Jewish religion to Lutheranism in 1825. Heine's father, Samson Heine (1764–1828), was a textile merchant. His mother Peira (known as "Betty"), née van Geldern (1771–1859), was the daughter of a physician.
He was the third cousin of Karl Marx.


- "At this period Heine is described as a good-natured and gentle youth, but reserved, not caring to show his emotions. He was of middle height and slender, with rather long light brown hair (in childhood it was red, and he was called "Rother Harry") framing the pale and beardless oval face..." https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37478/37478-h/37478-h.htm


- "Little, dapper Heine with his long, wavy auburn hair..." https://books.google.it/books?id=mCQGEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA125...

 

 

1433) Henry F. Hoyt

Henry Franklin Hoyt (1854–1930). Pioneer doctor, born in St. Paul, Minnesota. After attending the University of Minnesota, he interrupt his medical studies and seek a new location out west. In the spring of 1877 he reached Deadwood, South Dakota, with the hope of finding a gold mine and establishing his medical practice there. His prospecting efforts were unsuccessful, however, and in September he made his way to New Mexico. There, he put up at the ranch of John S. Chisum, who told him that Tascosa, in the Texas Panhandle, was in need of a doctor.

In November 1877 Hoyt arrived at Tascosa in the middle of a smallpox outbreak and became an immediate hero after saving the life of Casimero Romero's adopted daughter, Piedad.

Hoyt resided for a time at Las Vegas, where for extra money he tended bar at the Exchange Hotel, then moved his practice to Bernalillo. There he remained until 1881, when he went back east to continue his studies. In March 1882 he received his M.D. degree from the Columbus (Ohio) Medical College. He then returned to St. Paul, where he became a surgeon for several railroad companies. On May 23, 1888, he married a widow, Ella Owens Gray, who had a son by her first marriage; the couple later also had a son of their own. In 1889 Hoyt was appointed head of the St. Paul health department.

At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War in May 1898, Hoyt enlisted in the medical department of the United States Volunteers as chief surgeon, with the rank of major. He served under Gen. Arthur MacArthur (father of Douglas MacArthur) in both that conflict and the subsequent Philippine Insurrection, where he was wounded in action. He received the Silver Star for gallantry in action during the insurrection and rose to the rank of surgeon general. After his discharge in October 1902, he practiced medicine in El Paso. In 1910 he moved to Long Beach, California, where he remained until his retirement. In his autobiography, A Frontier Doctor (1929), appears one of the last eyewitness accounts of the Panhandle frontier.

 

- "I attracted their special attention because I had a profusion of curly red hair." https://books.google.it/books?id=O0RvCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT15...

 

- "The contrast between his own pale skin and red hair..." https://books.google.it/books?id=mmLMZ1CAViYC&pg=PA18...

 

 

1432) Frances Belford Wayne

Frances Belford "Pinky" Wayne (1870 – 1951). American journalist based in Denver, Colorado. She is remembered for her newspaper work, and for her leadership on establishing public lighting and other holiday decorations in the downtown, beginning in 1918.

Her father was the judge and congressman James B. Belford.

 

- "Dubbed “Pinky” for her fiery-red hair, Wayne was influential in the establishment of Emily Griffith Opportunity School and the city’s annual Christmas lights display." https://www.denverpost.com/.../frances-pinky-wayne.../

 

- "Nicknamed Pinky because of her flame-red hair..." https://books.google.it/books?id=VTYGEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT81...

 

- "Belford's only daughter inherited the red hair, being known as "Pinky"..." https://krex.k-state.edu/.../12751/LD2668T41982H38.pdf...

 

 

1431) James Burns Belford

James Burns Belford (1837 – 1910). American politician and a U.S. Representative from Colorado.

Upon the admission of Colorado into the Union, Belford was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fourth Congress and was Colorado’s first U.S. congressman.

He was the father of journalist Frances Belford Wayne.

 

- "... he was also known for his "bright red hair, fiery speeches, and flamboyant persona” which landed him the nickname “Red-Headed Rooster of the Rockies,". https://www.thedenverchannel.com/.../stories-behind-the...

 

- "He was known as the "Red Rooster of the Rockies" because of his flaming red hair and "magnificently roseate beard." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_B._Belford