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词条 Ottley Russell Coulter
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Career

  3. Personal life and death

  4. Selected works

  5. References

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Ottley Russell Coulter (June 6, 1890 - December 17, 1976) was an American strongman, circus performer, weightlifter and police officer. He was a co-founder of the American Continental Weightlifting Association, and the author of a book about strength athletics.

Early life

Coulter was born on June 6, 1890 in Parkman, Ohio.[1][2] He attended Hiram College for two years and dropped out.[1]

Career

Coulter began his career as a circus performer from 1912 to 1916,[3] including for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.[4] He also worked for US Steel.[4] In the late 1910s, he became a municipal police officer in Lemont Furnace, Pennsylvania.[4] To discourage the use of firearms, Coulter taught hand-to-hand combat in the police department.[1]

An early bodybuilder, Coulter was also a wrestler and powerlifter.[1][4] In the 1920s, he co-founded the American Continental Weightlifting Association with George F. Jowett and David P. Willoughby.[3][5] He was an early proponent of tracking progress in the performance of weight-lifters.[3] Coulter wrote articles in Strength, a magazine published by Alan Calvert, in the 1920s.[6] In 1952, he authored of a book about strength athletics.[1]

Personal life and death

With his Scottish-born wife nee Ethel Alexander,[7] Coulter had three children.[1] They resided in Lemont Furnace.[4] His wife predeceased him in 1972.[7]

Coulter died on December 17, 1976 in Lemont Furnace, at age 86.[2][4] He was buried in the Sylvan Heights Cemetery.[4]

Selected works

  • {{cite book |last1=Coulter |first1=Ottley R. |title=How to Perform Strongman Stunts |date=1952}}

References

1. ^{{cite web |title=The Ottley R. Coulter Sport Photography Collection: A Finding Aid to the Collection at the H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports |url=https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utlsc/00014/lsc-00014.html |website=Texas Archival Resource Online |publisher=University of Texas Libraries |accessdate=January 3, 2019}}
2. ^{{cite news |title=Coulter Dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/79702726/?terms=%22Ottley%2BRussell%2BCoulter%22 |accessdate=January 4, 2019 |work=The Morning Herald |location=Uniontown, Pennsylvania |date=December 18, 1976|page=11|via=Newspapers.com|registration=yes}}
3. ^{{cite journal |last1=Todd |first1=Jan |last2=Murphy |first2=Michael |title=Portrait of a Strongman: The Circus Career of Ottley Russell Coulter: 1912-1916 |journal=Iron Game History |date=2001 |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=4-21}}
4. ^{{cite news |title=Coulter, Ottley Russell |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/79702790/?terms=%22coulter%22 |accessdate=January 3, 2019 |work=The Morning Herald |location=Uniontown, Pennsylvania |date=December 20, 1976|page=49}}
5. ^{{cite journal |last1=Fair |first1=John D. |title=George Jowett, Ottley Coulter, David Willoughby and the Organization of American Weightlifting, 1911-1924 |journal=Iron Game History |date=May 1993 |volume=2 |issue=6 |pages=3-15 |url=https://www.starkcenter.org/igh/igh-v2/igh-v2-n6/igh0206c.pdf |accessdate=January 4, 2019|via=H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports}}
6. ^{{cite journal |last1=Beckwith |first1=Kimberly |last2=Todd |first2=Jan |title=Strength, America's First Muscle Magazine: 1914-1935 |journal=Iron Game History: The Journal of Physical Culture |date=August 2005 |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=11-28}}
7. ^{{cite news |title=Deaths: Mrs Ottley Coulter |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/451302746/?terms=%22Ottley%2BCoulter%22 |accessdate=January 3, 2019 |work=Public Opinion |location=Chambersburg, Pennsylvania |date=April 28, 1972|page=11|via=Newspapers.com|registration=yes}}
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10 : 1890 births|1976 deaths|People from Geauga County, Ohio|People from Fayette County, Pennsylvania|Hiram College alumni|American circus performers|American strength athletes|American male weightlifters|American municipal police officers|Strength training writers

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