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25-458: For other uses, see Cordelia (disambiguation) . Cordelia [REDACTED] William Frederick Yeames , Cordelia , 1888 Gender Feminine Language(s) English Origin Word/name uncertain; possibly related to the word cordial (literally "heartfelt, from the heart ") Meaning allegedly "heart" or "daughter of

50-670: A Good Book Lady Cordelia Flyte, in Brideshead Revisited (1945) by Evelyn Waugh Cordelia Geard, in John Cowper Powys 's novel A Glastonbury Romance (1932) Cordelia Gray , in two books by P.D. James Cordelia Kenn, in Aidan Chambers' novel This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn (2005) Cordelia Ransom , in the Honorverse novels by David Weber The main character of

75-530: A cordial relationship. Knott and Cordelia attended the opening of Disneyland in July of 1955 and Walt Disney visited Knott's on several occasions both before and after Disneyland opened. The Knotts and the Disneys even dined at a local Chinese restaurant not far from Knott's Berry Farm. They were both members of the original planning council for Children's Hospital of Orange County . Walter Knott remained active in

100-523: A major supplier of produce for the area. In 1920, Knott went into a partnership with one of his cousins, berry grower Jim Preston, to farm 20 acres of land in Buena Park, California. In 1923, Knott set up a small berry stand on the property, facing Grand Avenue (now Beach Boulevard ) to sell their produce to locals and tourists on their way to the beach. At the end of their original lease in 1927, Parsons decided to go off on his own and Knott purchased

125-713: A pan-for-gold experience, a stagecoach ride, the Calico Mine Train dark ride , the Timber Mountain Log Ride log flume ride, and a Mexican-themed area. In 1968, the Knott family fenced the farm, charged gate admission for the first time, and Knott's Berry Farm officially became an amusement park. Even after Disneyland Park opened in 1955 only eight miles away in Anaheim , Knott's Berry Farm continued to thrive. Walt Disney and Walter Knott had

150-587: A series of musicals written and produced by Edward Harrigan Anime [ edit ] Cordelia Capulet , Japanese anime character in " Romeo x Juliet " Cordelia Gallo , Japanese anime character in " Gosick " Cordelia Glauca , Japanese anime character in Tantei Opera Milky Holmes Cordelia, Japanese anime character in Diabolik Lovers Films and television shows [ edit ] Cordelia,

175-542: A struggling farmer and businessman during the Great Depression , Knott became a firm believer in rugged individualism —that anyone could be successful through hard work, and any form of government intervention was wrong. Critics say this 'Old West' theme of his amusement park was a romantic and one-sided reflection of his beliefs. Because of his interest in American pioneer history, Knott purchased and restored

200-562: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Cordelia (disambiguation) Cordelia is a given name, most notably referring to: Cordelia may also refer to: Walter Knott Knott was born on December 11, 1889, in San Bernardino, California . His parents were Rev. Elgin Charles Knott, a Southern Methodist minister originally from Tennessee, and Margaret Virginia Daugherty Knott. Knott's father

225-1808: Is of uncertain origin. It is popularly associated with Latin cor ( genitive cordis ) " heart ", and has also been linked with the Welsh name Creiddylad , allegedly meaning "jewel of the sea", but it may derive from the French coeur de lion "heart of a lion". Notable people with the name [ edit ] Cordelia of Britain , legendary queen of the Britons, youngest daughter of King Leir Cordelia Agbebaku (1961–2017), Nigerian academic and former vice-chancellor of Ambrose Alli University Cordelia Botkin (1854–1910), American murderer Cordelia Bugeja (born 1976), British actress Cordelia Cameron , Australian actor-manager Cordelia Camp , American educator Cordelia Candelaria (born 1943), American educator and writer Cordelia Throop Cole (1833–1900), American social reformer Cordelia Elizabeth Cook (1919–1996), American combat nurse Cordelia Adams Crawford (1865–1943), American pioneer and healer Cordelia Edvardson (1929–2012), German-born Swedish journalist, author and Holocaust survivor Cordelia Fine (born 1975), British academic psychologist and writer Cordelia Agnes Greene (1831–1905), physician, philanthropist and suffragist from Upstate New York Cordelia Griffith (born 1995), English cricketer Cordelia Gundolf (1917–2008), German academic and educator Cordelia Harvey (1824–1895), First Lady of Wisconsin Governor Louis Harvey, known for founding Civil War Orphans' homes and advocating for war field hospital conditions Cordelia Hawkins, eponym of

250-650: The 2011 film Monte Carlo , played by Selena Gomez Cordelia Thornberry, in The Wild Thornberrys Literature [ edit ] In Kierkegaard's Either/Or in the section of Diary of a Seducer In Anne of Green Gables , Anne requests that she be called Cordelia rather than Anne Cordelia Blake, title character of the Winston Graham novel Cordelia (1949) Cordelia Flakk , in Jasper Fforde's Lost in

275-421: The Buena Park farm from his landlord, William H. Coughran. The next year, in addition to a new house for his family, Knott built an 80-foot-long stucco building on the farm to house a new berry market, a nursery, and a tea room for Cordelia to sell hamburgers, sandwiches, and pies (Cordelia cooked the food in the Knott family kitchen). When the Great Depression began in 1929, Knott started buying parcels around

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300-736: The Name Cordelia " . MedievalScotland.org . Retrieved 5 January 2013 . [REDACTED] Name list This page or section lists people that share the same given name . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cordelia&oldid=1257190283 " Categories : Given names English feminine given names Feminine given names Hidden categories: All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from January 2023 Articles with short description Short description

325-480: The Old West, and purchased buildings from many old ghost towns around the west (California, Arizona, Nevada and other states). The buildings were dismantled, trucked down to Buena Park, and reassembled on the farm. Knott gradually added to the ghost town over the next few years—including a saloon show, melodrama theater, and a full-scale railroad. Other attractions came in later years: a San Francisco cable car ,

350-1120: The U.S. town of Cordele, Georgia Cordelia Hood (1913–2011), American counter-intelligence agent Cordelia Howard (1848–1941), American child actress Cordelia James, Baroness James of Rusholme (1912–2007), British educator and justice of the peace Cordelia Knott (1890–1974), wife of Walter Knott and founder of Mrs. Knott's Chicken Dinner Restaurant at Knott's Berry Farm Cordelia Oliver (1923–2009), Scottish journalist, painter and art critic Cordelia Scaife May (1928–2005), American heiress and philanthropist Cordelia Schmid , German computer vision researcher Cordelia Stanwood (1865–1958), American ornithologist, wildlife photographer, artisan and writer Cordelia Strube (born 1960), Canadian playwright and novelist Cordelia Urueta Sierra (1908–1995), Mexican artist Cordelia Mendoza , American antiquarian and appraiser Cordelia Wege (born 1976), German actress Cordelia Wilson (1873–1953), American painter of New Mexico and American Southwest landscapes Fictional characters [ edit ] A supposed anglicization of Creiddylad ,

375-622: The death of his wife on April 12, 1974, Knott focused his attention on conservative politics. Knott was active in a variety of conservative causes, including founding the California Free Enterprise Assistance and endowed various private schools and colleges. He campaigned for Republican politicians like Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan . Knott was also a member of the John Birch Society and sponsored its Orange County chapter. Through his time as

400-574: The farm as the price of land dropped. In 1934, Knott introduced the hybrid boysenberry , named after its creator, Rudolph Boysen . The previous year, Knott had secured cuttings from Boysen's dilapidated berry plant—which was a cross between a blackberry, red raspberry and loganberry —and planted and cultivated it at his own farm. The plant produced huge berries, and Knott integrated the boysenberry into all of his products as well as Cordelia's tea room menu. The same year, Cordelia had an idea to serve fried chicken dinners at her tea room. The chicken

425-973: The name of a character in Welsh mythology Cordelia (King Lear) , a central character in William Shakespeare's tragic play King Lear Cordelia, the character who is the object of seduction in Kierkegaard's The Seducer's Diary (a long section in his book Either/Or ) Cordelia, the main character of the eponymous Dutch adult comic strip by Belgian cartoonist "ILAH" ( Inge Heremans ) Cordelia, character in James Lapine and William Finn's 1990 off-Broadway musical Falsettoland and later its two Broadway revivals, renamed Falsettos Cordelia Frost, character in MARVEL's " Emma Frost " comics, Emma's sister Cordelia, wife of Dan Mulligan in

450-654: The operation of Knott's Berry Farm until Cordelia's death in 1974, at which point he left day-to-day park operations to his children and focused on political causes. On December 3, 1981, just eight days shy of his 92nd birthday, Walter Knott died from complications of Parkinson's disease at his home in Buena Park, California . Knott is buried at Loma Vista Memorial Park in Fullerton, California . Knott's Berry Farm continues to operate year-round today. The Knott family remained owners of Knott's Berry Farm until 1997, when

475-550: The park was sold to Cedar Fair Entertainment Company (now Six Flags Entertainment Corporation ) for $ 300 million. The J.M. Smucker Co. owns the "Knott's Berry Farm" brand of jams, jellies, and snack foods—which Sumcker purchased from ConAgra Foods in 2008. Smucker discontinued selling Knott's branded products in 2024. Walter Knott married his high school sweetheart, Cordelia Hornaday, on June 3, 1911. They had four children: Virginia, Russell, Rachel, and Marion. After leaving his business operations to his children following

500-454: The sea( -god )", Jewel of the Sea (Welsh) Other names Nickname(s) Delia , Dilly, Rory, Cordy, Lia, Danny Related names Cordeilla, Cordélia, Cordell, Cordilla, Cordoylla, Cordula , Creurdilad Cordelia is a feminine given name . It was borne by the tragic heroine of Shakespeare 's King Lear (1606), a character based on the legendary queen Cordelia . The name

525-867: The short story "Cordelia the Crude" by Wallace Thurman Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan in the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold Cordelia Carstairs, protagonist of The Last Hours series by Cassandra Clare Video games [ edit ] Cordelia, a playable character in Fire Emblem Awakening Cordelia, final boss in Panel de Pon Cordelia, youngest daughter of King Regna, in Triangle Strategy References [ edit ] ^ Uckelman, Sara L. (21 January 2007). "Concerning

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550-597: The time he married Cordelia Hornaday in 1911, Knott was working for a cement contractor. In 1913, Knott homesteaded on 160 acres in the Mojave Desert near Newberry Springs and made his first effort at farming, which was unsuccessful. Knott tried farming again in 1917 near Shandon, California —growing produce to feed the employees of a cattle ranch and selling the excess supply for his own profit. This enterprise proved to be more successful, as Knott and Cordelia made enough money to pay off all his debts and had become

575-730: The titular character in the silent film Cordelia the Magnificent Cordelia Abbott , in the television soap opera The Young and The Restless Cordelia Chase , in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel Cordelia Foxx , character in American Horror Story: Coven Cordelia "Cody" Latimer, character in the New Zealand comedy-drama series Go Girls . Cordelia Winthrop Scott , from

600-405: Was a huge hit and the tea room was expanded into a full restaurant over the next six years. Lines outside the restaurant were often several hours long. To entertain the waiting chicken restaurant crowds, Knott built several roadside attractions, exhibits and shops, culminating in the building of a western ghost town on the property in 1940. Knott had an interest in American history, particularly

625-615: Was a preacher at a church in Santa Ana, California when he was born. When Elgin died of tuberculosis in 1896, Margaret moved Walter and his brother to Pomona, California . Walter Knott had aspirations of being a farmer from a very young age, and ended his formal schooling at age 16 (which was legal in California at the time) in order to start working. Knott was adept at growing produce, and would rent vacant lots around Pomona to grow produce to contribute to his family's income. At

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