(Encyclopedia) Twain, Mark, pseud. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910, American author, b. Florida, Mo. As humorist, narrator, and social observer, Twain is unsurpassed in American literature.…
CHAPMAN, John, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Wrightstown Township, Bucks County, Pa., October 18, 1740; commissioned justice of the peace February 25, 1779, and was one of the…
FREEMAN, Chapman, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., October 8, 1832; was educated at public and private schools and was graduated from the Philadelphia High School…
CHAPMAN, Henry, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Newtown, Pa., February 4, 1804; attended Doylestown Academy and Doctor Gummereâs private boysâ school near Burlington, N.J.;…
CHAPMAN, Charles, a Representative from Connecticut; born in Newtown, Conn., June 21, 1799; pursued academic studies; studied law at the Litchfield (Conn.) Law School; was admitted to the bar…
CHAPMAN, Reuben, a Representative from Alabama; born in Bowling Green, Caroline County, Va., July 15, 1799; attended an academy in Virginia; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1825 and…
(Encyclopedia) Tobey, Mark, 1890–1976, American painter, b. Centerville, Wis. An avid traveler, Tobey visited China and Japan in 1934. He then developed his celebrated “white writing,” in which he…
Double quotation marks enclose direct quotations: “What was Paris like in the Twenties?” our daughter asked. “Ladies and Gentlemen,” the Chief Usher said, “the President of the United States.”…
(Encyclopedia) Leyner, Mark, 1956–, American writer, b. Jersey City, N.J. His hyperliterate postmodernist short stories, collected in I Smell Esther Williams (1983), My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist…
