WITTE, William Henry, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Columbia, Morris County, N.J., October 4, 1817; moved to Springtown, Bucks County, Pa., and attended the common schools; moved…
ROSS, Sobieski, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Coudersport, Potter County, Pa., May 16, 1828; attended the common schools and Coudersport Academy; engaged in civil engineering and…
MAYNARD, Harry Lee, a Representative from Virginia; born in Portsmouth, Va., June 8, 1861; attended the common schools of Norfolk County; was graduated from the Virginia Agricultural and…
HAMILL, Patrick, a Representative from Maryland; born in Allegany County, near Altamont, Md., April 28, 1817; attended the common schools in Westernport; engaged in the real estate business…
ALGER, Bruce Reynolds, a Representative from Texas; born in Dallas, Tex., June 12, 1918; moved to Webster Groves, Mo., with his parents in 1924, and attended the public schools; graduated from…
DE FOREST, Henry Schermerhorn, a Representative from New York; born in Schenectady, N.Y., February 16, 1847; attended the public schools of his native town and Eastman Business College,…
(Encyclopedia) Krusenstern, Adam Johann vonKrusenstern, Adam Johann vonäˈdäm yōˈhän fən kr&oomacr;ˈzənshtĕrn [key], 1770–1846, Russian navigator. From 1803 to 1806 he circumnavigated the globe.…
(Encyclopedia) scalar, quantity or number possessing only sign and magnitude, e.g., the real numbers (see number), in contrast to vectors and tensors; scalars obey the rules of elementary algebra.…
(Encyclopedia) epicureanismepicureanismĕpˌĭky&oobreve;rēˈənĭzˌəm [key], philosophy that follows the teachings of Epicurus, who held that pleasure is the end of all morality and that real pleasure…
