CHAPIN, Alfred Clark, (grandfather of Hamilton Fish, Jr., [1926- ]), a Representative from New York; born in South Hadley, Hampshire County, Mass., March 8, 1848; resided in Springfield, Mass…
KEOGH, Eugene James, a Representative from New York; born in Brooklyn, N.Y., August 30, 1907; attended the public schools and Commercial High School, Brooklyn, N.Y.; was graduated from the…
COVERT, James Way, a Representative from New York; born at Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y., September 2, 1842; attended the public schools and received an academic education in Locust Valley, N.…
FISCHER, Israel Frederick, a Representative from New York; born in New York City August 17, 1858; moved to Brooklyn in September 1887; attended the public schools and Cooper Institute, New…
FITZGERALD, John Joseph, a Representative from New York; born in Brooklyn, N.Y., March 10, 1872; attended the public schools, La Salle Military Academy (formerly Sacred Heart Academy), and was…
WILSON, Francis Henry, a Representative from New York; born in Clinton, Oneida County, N.Y., February 11, 1844; lived in Utica, N.Y., until ten years of age, when he moved with his parents to…
(Encyclopedia) Hartman, David, 1931–2013, Israeli rabbi and philosopher, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. The son of Hasidim who immigrated to the United States from Israel, he trained as a rabbi at Yeshiva Univ.,…
(Encyclopedia) Baziotes, WilliamBaziotes, Williambăzēōˈtēz [key], 1912–64, American painter, b. Pittsburgh. Baziotes's works of the 1940s and 50s are largely abstract images, usually with brooding,…
(Encyclopedia) Steig, William, 1907–2003, American cartoonist and children's book writer, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. He began drawing cartoons for the The New Yorker in the 1930s, and ultimately produced over…
(Encyclopedia) CanarseeCanarseekənärˈsē [key], Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). They occupied the western…