McDOWELL, Harris Brown, Jr., a Representative from Delaware; born on a farm near Middletown, New Castle County, Del., February 10, 1906; attended the public schools of Middletown, Wilmington (…
SEELY-BROWN, Horace, Jr., a Representative from Connecticut; born in Kensington, Montgomery County, Md., May 12, 1908; attended the public schools of Hoosick, N.Y.; was graduated from Hamilton…
BETTS, Jackson Edward, a Representative from Ohio; born in Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio, May 26, 1904; attended the public schools of Findlay, Ohio; graduated from Kenyon College, Gambier,…
(Encyclopedia) Mitford, Nancy, 1904–73, English novelist and biographer, b. London. She managed a London bookshop during World War II and moved to Paris in 1945. Mitford and her five celebrated and…
GUYER, Tennyson, a Representative from Ohio; born in Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio, November 29, 1913; educated in the public schools of Findlay; performed with Hagenback-Wallace Circus; B.S…
(Encyclopedia) Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans., case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1954. Linda Brown was denied admission to her local elementary school in Topeka because she was…
COLE, Raymond Clinton, (brother of Ralph Dayton Cole), a Representative from Ohio; born in Biglick Township, near Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio, August 21, 1870; attended the common schools…
newspaper publisherBorn: 1799Birthplace: Port Antonio, Jamaica Born to a slave mother and a white American merchant father, Russwurm was educated in Quebec and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1826…
COLE, Ralph Dayton, (brother of Raymond Clinton Cole), a Representative from Ohio; born in Vanlue, Hancock County, Ohio, November 30, 1873; attended the common schools; was graduated from…
MUNGEN, William, a Representative from Ohio; born in Baltimore, Md., May 12, 1821; moved with his parents to Ohio in 1830; attended the common schools; taught school; editor and publisher of…