GAMMAGE, Robert Alton, a Representative from Texas; born in Houston, Harris County, Tex., March 13, 1938; attended the public schools of Houston; A.A., Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, Tex.,…
GILMORE, Alfred, (son of John Gilmore), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Butler, Butler County, Pa., June 9, 1812; attended the public schools, and was graduated from Washington…
(Encyclopedia) Ney, Elisabeth or ElisabetNey, Elisabeth or Elisabetnī [key], 1833–1907, German-American sculptor, b. Münster. After studying sculpture at Munich and Berlin, she traveled widely and…
FLEEGER, George Washington, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Concord Township, Butler County, Pa., March 13, 1839; attended the common schools and West Sunbury Academy; enlisted in…
TURNER, Jim, a Representative from Texas; born in Fort Lewis, Pierce County, Wash., February 6, 1946; graduated from Crockett High School, Crockett, Tex; B.A., University of Texas, Austin, Tex…
(Encyclopedia) Poplar Bluff, city (1990 pop. 16,996), seat of Butler co., SE Mo., in the Ozark foothills, on the low bluffs of the Black River near the Ark. line; inc. 1870. It is a trade, shipping,…
PICKLE, James Jarrell (Jake), a Representative from Texas; born in Big Spring, Howard County, Tex., October 11, 1913; educated in the public schools of Big Spring, Tex.; B.A., University of…
McLEMORE, Atkins Jefferson, a Representative from Texas; born on a farm near Spring Hill, Maury County, Tenn., March 13, 1857; educated in the rural schools and by private tutors; moved to…
THORNBERRY, William Homer, a Representative from Texas; born in Austin, Travis County, Tex., January 9, 1909; attended the public schools; B.B.A., University of Texas, 1932; LL.B., University…
(Encyclopedia) Hilton, Walter, d. 1396, English religious writer, an Austin canon of Thurgarton, Nottinghamshire. His spiritual treatise The Scale of Perfection (ed. by Evelyn Underhill, 1923) is a…
