(Encyclopedia) Waynflete, WilliamWaynflete, Williamwānˈflēt [key], 1395?–1486, English prelate and lord chancellor. He was master of Winchester College before 1429, and in 1443 he became provost of…
(Encyclopedia) Weatherford, William, c.1780–1824, Native American chief, b. present-day Alabama, also called Red Eagle. In the War of 1812 he led the Creek war party, stirred by Tecumseh, against the…
(Encyclopedia) Zorach, WilliamZorach, Williamzŏrˈäk [key], 1887–1966, American sculptor, b. Lithuania. His family emigrated to the United States when he was four and settled near Cleveland. After…
Senate Years of Service: 1839-1851; 1853-1854Party: Whig; WhigPHELPS, Samuel Shethar, a Senator from Vermont; born in Litchfield, Conn., May 13, 1793; graduated from Yale College in 1811;…
(Encyclopedia) Bent's Fort, trading post of the American West, on the Arkansas River in present-day SE Colorado, E of Rocky Ford and La Junta and several miles above the mouth of the Purgatoire. The…
OLDFIELD, Pearl Peden, (wife of William Allan Oldfield), a Representative from Arkansas; born in Cotton Plant, Woodruff County, Ark., on December 2, 1876; educated in the public schools and at…
HUCK, Winnifred Sprague Mason, (daughter of William Ernest Mason), a Representative from Illinois; born in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., September 14, 1882; attended public schools in Chicago,…
Senate Years of Service: 1844-1848Party: DemocratASHLEY, Chester, a Senator from Arkansas; born in Massachusetts, June 1, 1790; moved with his parents to Hudson, N.Y.; attended the common…
KEAN, John, (great-grandfather of Hamilton Fish Kean, and John Kean [1852-1914], and great-great-grandfather of Robert Winthrop Kean), a Delegate from South Carolina; born in Charleston, S.C.,…
