(Encyclopedia) Cork, county, 2,881 sq mi (7,462 sq km), SW Republic of Ireland. Cork is the county seat. Largest of the Irish counties, it has a rocky…
(Encyclopedia) Ewell, Benjamin StoddertEwell, Benjamin Stodderty&oomacr;ˈəl [key], 1810–94, American educator, b. Georgetown, D.C., grad. West Point, 1832; brother of Gen. R. S. Ewell. He taught…
(Encyclopedia) Ruffin, EdmundRuffin, Edmundrŭfˈĭn [key], 1794–1865, American agriculturist, one of the Southern fire-eaters, b. Prince George co., Va. His interest in improving impoverished land led…
(Encyclopedia) Washington, Martha, 1731–1802, wife of George Washington, b. New Kent co., Va. The daughter of John Dandridge and Frances Jones Dandridge, she first married (1749) Daniel Parke Custis…
(Encyclopedia) Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859–1947, American suffragist and peace advocate, b. Carrie Lane, Ripon, Wis., grad. Iowa State College (now Iowa State Univ.), 1880. She was superintendent of…
(Encyclopedia) Peninsular campaign, in the American Civil War, the unsuccessful Union attempt (Apr.–July, 1862) to capture Richmond, Va., by way of the peninsula between the York and James rivers…
UDALL, Morris King, (brother of Stewart Lee Udall; father of Mark Udall; uncle of Thomas Udall; cousin of Gordon H. Smith), a Representative from Arizona; born in St. Johns, Apache County,…
PEERY, George Campbell, a Representative from Virginia; born in Cedar Bluff, Tazewell County, Va., October 28, 1873; attended the common schools, and was graduated from Emory and Henry College…
