Tchaikovsky (song) Stanisław Moniuszko, Witold Maliszewski and Leopold Godowsky are actually Polish, not Russian, but all three were born in what was then part of the Russian Empire. Ira Gershwin began his career writing lyrics for his brother George Gershwin. Ira, the more self-effacing of the Gershwin brothers, was concerned that music publishers might think that George had chosen him as lyricist on the basis of nepotism rather than talent, so Ira originally chose to write lyrics under the pseudonym "Arthur Francis" (derived from the names of his other brother Arthur and his sister Frances). The song was originally a nonsense poem
Ira Davenport (politician) He was the Republican candidate for Governor of New York in the 1885 election, and was defeated by Democrat David B. Hill. Davenport died in Bath on October 6, 1904. He was buried at the Davenport Family Cemetery in Bath. In 1887, Davenport Katherine L. Sharpe (1860-1945), the daughter of State Senator George H. Sharpe (1828–1900). They had no children. The Davenport family's charitable donations included founding a home for orphaned girls, which was financed by the senior Ira Davenport and his brother Charles, and supported by Ira Davenport Jr. In addition, the Davenports endowed Bath's Ira Davenport Memorial Hospital,