CARLETON, Ezra Child, a Representative from Michigan; born in St. Clair, St. Clair County, Mich., September 6, 1838; attended the common schools, and was graduated from the Port Huron High…
CHILDS, Robert Andrew, a Representative from Illinois; born in Malone, Franklin County, N.Y., March 22, 1845; moved to Illinois with his parents, who settled near Belvidere, Boone County, in…
CHILD, Thomas, Jr., a Representative from New York; born in Bakersfield, near St. Albans, Vt., March 22, 1818; attended the common schools and entered the University of Vermont at Burlington…
publisher, philanthropistBorn: 1829Birthplace: Baltimore, Md. Having begun his career when he opened a Philadelphia bookstore in 1847, he soon expanded into publishing. He is most known for having…
(Encyclopedia) Christopher, SaintChristopher, Saintkrĭsˈtəfər [key] [Gr.,=Christ bearer], 3d cent.?, martyr of Asia Minor. His characteristic legend is that one day when he was carrying a little…
(Encyclopedia) legitimation, act of giving the status of legitimacy to a child whose parents were not married at the time the child was born. This is generally accomplished by the subsequent marriage…
(Encyclopedia) Spock, Benjamin McLane, 1903–98, American author and pediatrician, b. New Haven, Conn., educ. Yale (B.A., 1925) and Columbia Univ. College of Physicians and Surgeons (M.D., 1929). In…
(Encyclopedia) adoption, act by which the legal relation of parent and child is created. Adoption was recognized by Roman law but not by common law. Statutes first introduced adoption into U.S. law…
(Encyclopedia) surrogate mother, a woman who agrees, usually by contract and for a fee, to bear a child for a couple who are childless because the wife is infertile or physically incapable of…
