HAZELTINE, Abner, a Representative from New York; born in Wardsboro, Windham County, Vt., June 10, 1793; attended the common schools; was graduated from Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.,…
HOWE, Thomas Marshall, (father-in-law of James W. Brown), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Williamstown, Orange County, Vt., April 20, 1808; moved with his parents to Bloomfield,…
ALLEN, John Clayton, a Representative from Illinois; born in Hinesburg, Chittenden County, Vt., February 14, 1860; attended the common schools and Beeman Academy, New Haven, Vt.; moved to…
SCROGGY, Thomas Edmund, a Representative from Ohio; born in Harveysburg, Warren County, Ohio, March 18, 1843; attended the public schools; engaged in manufacturing; enlisted in July 1861 as a…
NORRELL, Catherine Dorris, (wife of William Frank Norrell), a Representative from Arkansas; born in Camden, Ouachita County, Ark., March 30, 1901; attended high school in Monticello, Ouachita…
(Encyclopedia) Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850–1924, U.S. senator (1893–1924), b. Boston. He was admitted to the bar in 1876. Before beginning his long career in the U.S. Senate he edited (1873–76) the…
(Encyclopedia) Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 1st Baron, 1800–1859, English historian and author, b. Leicestershire, educated at Cambridge. After the success of his essay on Milton in the Edinburgh…
(Encyclopedia) Mercer, Johnny (John Herndon Mercer)Mercer, Johnnymûrˈsər [key], 1909–76, American lyricist and songwriter, b. Savannah, Ga. Mercer, who was one of American popular music's most…
(Encyclopedia) multiple sclerosis (MS), chronic, slowly progressive autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system attacks the protective myelin sheaths that surround the nerve cells of the…
(Encyclopedia) Saarinen, EeroSaarinen, Eeroāˈrō säˈrĭnĕn [key], 1910–61, Finnish-American architect, grad. Yale (B.A., 1934), became an American citizen in 1940; son of Eliel Saarinen. Saarinen's…
