Senate Years of Service: 1890-1891Party: RepublicanMcCONNELL, William John, a Senator from Idaho; born in Commerce, Oakland County, Mich., September 18, 1839; pursued an academic course; moved…
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(Encyclopedia) Erskine, John, 1879–1951, American educator, author, and musician, b. New York City, grad. Columbia (B.A., 1900; Ph.D., 1903). He taught first at Amherst (1903–9) and then at Columbia…
(Encyclopedia) MuncieMunciemŭnˈsē [key], city (1990 pop. 71,035), seat of Delaware co., E Ind., on the White River; inc. 1854. It is a trade, processing, and manufacturing center. The city is in a…
(Encyclopedia) Nicolay, John GeorgeNicolay, John Georgenĭkˈəlā [key], 1832–1901, biographer of Lincoln, b. Bavaria. In 1837 he was brought to the United States, and his family settled in Pike co.,…
(Encyclopedia) Bridgman, Laura, 1829–89, the first blind and deaf person to be successfully educated, b. Hanover, N.H. Under the guidance of Dr. S. G. Howe, of the Perkins School for the Blind, she…
(Encyclopedia) Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm, 1853–1917, English actor-manager, whose original name was Herbert Draper Beerbohm. He was a half-brother of Max Beerbohm. His first success (1884) was as…
Senate Years of Service: 1954-1957Party: RepublicanBENDER, George Harrison, a Representative and a Senator from Ohio; born in Cleveland, Ohio, September 29, 1896; attended the public schools;…
SHERMAN, James Schoolcraft, a Representative from New York and a Vice President of the United States; born in Utica, N.Y., October 24, 1855; attended the public schools; pursued academic and…
Senate Years of Service: 1921-1933Party: DemocratBROUSSARD, Edwin Sidney, (brother of Robert Foligny Broussard), a Senator from Louisiana; born near Loreauville, in Iberia Parish, La.,…
