NELSON, Thomas, Jr., (father of Hugh Nelson), a Delegate from Virginia; born in Yorktown, Va., on December 26, 1738; attended private schools and was graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge…
(Encyclopedia) Anne, 1665–1714, queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1702–7), later queen of Great Britain and Ireland (1707–14), daughter of James II and Anne Hyde; successor to William III.…
(Encyclopedia) PoldhuPoldhupôldy&oomacr;ˈ, pôlˈdy&oomacr; [key], town, Cornwall, SW England. Guglielmo Marconi sent the first transatlantic radio transmission (1901) from Poldhu to…
(Encyclopedia) Fitzsimmons, Robert L., 1863–1918, British boxer, b. Cornwall, England. Fitzsimmons began fighting professionally in Australia and New Zealand before going to the United States in 1890…
(Encyclopedia) MassenaMassenaməsēˈnə [key], village (1990 pop. 11,719), St. Lawrence co., extreme N N.Y., on the St. Lawrence River; settled 1792, inc. 1886. Aluminum and aluminum products are the…
SANFORD, Jonah, (great-grandfather of Rollin Brewster Sanford), a Representative from New York; born in Cornwall, Vt., November 30, 1790; attended the district schools; moved to Hopkinton, N.Y…
PALMER, Beriah, a Representative from New York; born in Bristol County, Mass., in 1740; attended the common schools; moved to Cornwall, Orange County, N.Y., in 1769; studied law; was admitted…
SLADE, William, a Representative from Vermont; born in Cornwall, Vt., May 9, 1786; attended the public schools, and was graduated from Middlebury (Vt.) College in 1807; studied law; was…
writerBorn: 1729Birthplace: slave ship crossing the Atlantic Ocean Sancho was born on a slave ship shortly after it left what is today the West African nation of Guinea. After the ship reached the…
(Encyclopedia) ExeExeĕks [key], river, c.55 mi (90 km) long, rising in the Exmoor, Somerset, SW England, and flowing S across the Cornwall peninsula, past Exeter to the English Channel at Exmouth.…
