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Albert Henry Wiggin

bankerBorn: 1868Birthplace: Medfield, Mass. Considered somewhat of a Wunderkind when he became youngest vice president ever at Chase National Bank at 36, he had already helped to organize the…

John Herbert Dillinger

bank robber, murdererBorn: 6/22/1903Birthplace: Indianapolis, Indiana Famous bank robber and cold-blooded killer who terrorized the Midwest during the early '30s, John Dillinger captured national…

Edward HAIGHT, Congress, NY (1817-1885)

HAIGHT, Edward, a Representative from New York; born in New York City on March 26, 1817; attended the common schools; employed in a countinghouse early in life; later engaged in the wholesale…

Coughlin, Charles Edward

(Encyclopedia) Coughlin, Charles EdwardCoughlin, Charles Edwardkŏgˈlĭn [key], 1891–1979, Roman Catholic priest in the United States, b. Ontario, Canada, grad. Univ. of Toronto, 1916. After study at…

apheresis

(Encyclopedia) apheresisapheresisəfĕrˈəsĭs [key], or hemapheresishemapheresishēˌməfĕrˈəsĭs [key], any procedure in which blood is drawn from a donor or patient and a component (platelets, plasma, or…

jumping mouse

(Encyclopedia) jumping mouse, rodent slightly larger than the common mouse, found in North America and N Asia, also called the kangaroo mouse. Its long hind legs and tail enable it to leap distances…

Bronfman, Edgar Miles, Sr.

(Encyclopedia) Bronfman, Edgar Miles, Sr. 1929–2013, Canadian-American business executive and philanthropist, b. Montreal, grad. McGill Univ. (1951). He was the eldest son of Samuel Bronfman, 1889–…

Susquehanna

(Encyclopedia) SusquehannaSusquehannasəskwĭhănˈə [key], river, 444 mi (715 km) long, rising in Otsego Lake, at Cooperstown, N.Y., and zigzagging SE and SW through E central Pa. to Chesapeake Bay near…