HAYMOND, William Summerville, a Representative from Indiana; born near Clarksburg, Harrison County, Va. (now West Virginia), February 20, 1823; attended the common schools and was graduated…
HARTLEY, Fred Allan, Jr., a Representative from New Jersey; born in Harrison, Hudson County, N.J., February 22, 1902; attended the public schools, Rutgers Prep, and Rutgers University, New…
FOSTER, Charles, a Representative from Ohio; born near Tiffin, Seneca County, Ohio, April 12, 1828; moved with his father to Rome, now the city of Fostoria, Seneca County, Ohio; attended the…
FULTON, Elmer Lincoln, (brother of Charles William Fulton), a Representative from Oklahoma; born in Magnolia, Harrison County, Iowa, April 22, 1865; moved to Nebraska in 1870 with his parents…
CRAVENS, James Addison, (second cousin of James Harrison Cravens), a Representative from Indiana; born in Rockingham County, Va., November 4, 1818; moved with his father to Indiana in 1820 and…
(Encyclopedia) Foote, Horton (Albert Horton Foote, Jr.), 1916–2009, American playwright and screenwriter, b. Wharton, Tex. He studied acting and acted in California and New York, and wrote his first…
(Encyclopedia) Bentham, Jeremy, 1748–1832, English philosopher, jurist, political theorist, and founder of utilitarianism. Educated at Oxford, he was trained as a lawyer and was admitted to the bar,…
(Encyclopedia) Williams, Sir Bernard (Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams), 1929–2003, English philosopher, grad. Oxford (1951). One of the most important philosophers of his era, he is credited with…
(Encyclopedia) Rhys, JeanRhys, Jeanrēs [key], pseud. of Ella Gwendoline Rees Williams, 1894–1979, English novelist, b. Dominica. Her novels written in the 1930s mercilessly exploit her own emotional…
