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Gordon Harry SCHERER, Congress, OH (1906-1988)

SCHERER, Gordon Harry, a Representative from Ohio; born in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, December 26, 1906; Salmon P. Chase College of Law, LL.B., in 1929 and attended the University of…

Harry Richard SHEPPARD, Congress, CA (1885-1969)

SHEPPARD, Harry Richard, a Representative from California; born in Mobile, Ala., January 10, 1885; attended the public schools; studied law; employed in transportation department of the Santa…

South Houston

(Encyclopedia) South Houston, city (1990 pop. 14,207), Harris co., SE Tex., an industrial suburb of Houston; inc. 1911. Manufactures include transportation equipment, machinery, and asphalt.

Deer Park

(Encyclopedia) Deer Park. 1 Uninc. village (2020 pop. 28,837), Babylon town, Suffolk co., SE N.Y., a primarily residential suburb on Long Island. 2…

Baytown

(Encyclopedia) Baytown, city (2020 pop. 83,701), Harris co., S Tex., at the head of Galveston Bay, on the Houston ship channel; inc. 1948 after the…

Locke, Alain LeRoy

(Encyclopedia) Locke, Alain LeRoy, 1885–1954, American writer, educator, philosopher, and cultural critic, b. Philadelphia, grad. Harvard (A.B., 1907; Ph.D., 1918), first African-American Rhodes…