BOUND, Franklin, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Milton, Northumberland County, Pa., April 9, 1829; attended the common schools and old Milton Academy; studied law at Easton, Pa.;…
(Encyclopedia) Hershey, uninc. city (2020 pop. 13,858), Dauphin co., S central Pa.; founded 1903 as a planned community for workers at the Hershey Corp…
POLLOCK, James, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Milton, Pa., September 11, 1810; attended the Kirkpatrick Private School at Milton; was graduated from Princeton College in 1831;…
DICKERMAN, Charles Heber, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Harford, Susquehanna County, Pa., February 3, 1843; attended the public schools of his native village and was graduated…
(Encyclopedia) Fish, Stanley Eugene, 1938–, American literary critic and educator, b. Providence, R.I.; grad. Univ. of Pennsylvania (B.A., 1959), Yale Univ. (M.A., 1960; Ph.D., 1962). Fish has taught…
MARR, Alem, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Upper Mount Bethel, Northampton County, Pa., June 18, 1787; moved to Northumberland County in 1795 with his parents, who settled near…
BURKE, James Anthony, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Boston, Mass., March 30, 1910; educated in the Boston public schools and Lincoln Preparatory School; attended Suffolk…
HOLMES, Adoniram Judson, a Representative from Iowa; born in Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio, March 2, 1842; moved with his parents to Palmyra, Wis., in 1853; attended the common schools; entered…
Eclipse Lit by Ricco Villanueva Siasoco Eclipses have played an important part in literature from the early Chinese poets to Milton and Twain.The astrological phenomenon known as a solar…
(Encyclopedia) Martin, John, 1789–1854, English painter and engraver. Martin's visionary and grandiose landscapes, the pictorial counterparts of English romantic poetry, won him international…
