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William Penn TAYLOR, Congress, VA

TAYLOR, William Penn, a Representative from Virginia; born in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Va., birth date unknown; received a limited schooling; held several local offices; elected as…

Heade, Martin Johnson

(Encyclopedia) Heade, Martin JohnsonHeade, Martin Johnsonhĕd [key], 1819–1904, American painter, b. Lumberville, Pa. He studied briefly with Edward Hicks and in Europe, and later traveled in Central…

Taylor, Alan John Percivale

(Encyclopedia) Taylor, Alan John Percivale, 1906–90, English historian, primarily interested in diplomatic and Central European history. Educated at Oxford, he became a fellow of Magdalen College in…

Taylor, John, English writer

(Encyclopedia) Taylor, John, 1578?–1653, English writer. He was a boatman on the Thames and hence is often called the Water Poet. A traveler throughout England and the Continent, he recorded his…

Taylor, John, Mormon leader

(Encyclopedia) Taylor, John, 1808–87, American leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, b. England. He emigrated in 1832 to Canada, where he was converted (1836) to the Mormon faith…

Taylor, Joseph Hooton, Jr.

(Encyclopedia) Taylor, Joseph Hooton, Jr., 1941–, American astrophysicist, b. Philadelphia, Ph.D. Harvard, 1968. Taylor was a professor at the Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst from 1969 to 1980,…

Arrow, Kenneth Joseph

(Encyclopedia) Arrow, Kenneth Joseph, 1921–2017, American economist, b. New York City, grad. City College of New York (B.S. 1940), Columbia (M.A. 1941, Ph.D. 1951). He was on the faculties of the…

primitivism

(Encyclopedia) primitivism, in art, the style of works of self-trained artists who develop their talents in a fanciful and fresh manner, as in the paintings of Henri Rousseau and Grandma Moses. The…

William Taylor ZENOR, Congress, IN (1846-1916)

ZENOR, William Taylor, a Representative from Indiana; born near Corydon, Harrison County, Ind., April 30, 1846; attended the common schools and the seminary of James G. May; studied law in New…