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Sarah Bush Lincoln

stepmother of Abraham LincolnBorn: 12/13/1788Birthplace: Hardin County, Ky. Sarah Bush grew up in Elizabethtown, Ky., one of nine children of Christopher and Hanna Bush. In 1806 she married Daniel…

Tom Ford Biography

fashion designerBorn: August 27, 1961Birthplace: Austin, Texas In 1979, at the age of 16, Tom Ford left Santa Fe for Great Barrington, Massachusetts to attend Bard College…

Paul Seward TRIBLE, Jr., Congress, VA (1946)

Senate Years of Service: 1983-1989Party: RepublicanTRIBLE, Paul Seward, Jr., a Representative and Senator from Virginia; born in Baltimore, Baltimore County, Md., December 29, 1946; attended…

San Francisco, Calif.

Mayor: Edwin M. Lee (to Jan. 2016) 2010 census population (rank): 805,235 (13); Male: 408,462 (50.7%);…

Hansen, Lars Peter

(Encyclopedia) Hansen, Lars Peter, 1952–, U.S. economist, b. Champaign, Ill., Ph.D. Univ. of Minnesota, 1978. After teaching at Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh (1978–81), he joined the faculty of…

Morison, Samuel Eliot

(Encyclopedia) Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887–1976, American historian, b. Boston. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1912 and began teaching history there in 1915, becoming full professor in 1925…

James CLARK, Congress, KY (1779-1839)

CLARK, James, (brother of Christopher Henderson Clark and uncle of John Bullock Clark), a Representative from Kentucky; born near the Peaks of Otter in Bedford County, Va., January 16, 1779;…