(Encyclopedia) Briggs, Charles Augustus, 1841–1913, American clergyman, theologian, and educator, b. New York City, studied at the Univ. of Virginia, Union Theological Seminary, and the Univ. of…
BEATTY, John, a Representative from Ohio; born near Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio, December 16, 1828; attended the common schools; entered the banking business in 1852, and subsequently, with his…
(Encyclopedia) DrusillaDrusilladr&oomacr;sĭlˈə [key], daughter of Herod Agrippa I, married to Felix the procurator and mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles.
(Encyclopedia) Dred Scott Case, argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1856–57. It involved the then bitterly contested issue of the status of slavery in the federal territories. In 1834, Dred Scott…
Senate Years of Service: 1821-1833Party: Democratic Republican; Adams-Clay Republican; Adams; Anti-JacksonianSEYMOUR, Horatio, (uncle of Origen Storrs Seymour), a Senator from Vermont; born in…
(Encyclopedia) Cooper, Thomas, 1759–1839, American scientist, educator, and political philosopher, b. London, educated at Oxford. His important works include Political Essays (1799); the appendixes…
(Encyclopedia) Mudd, Samuel Alexander, 1833–83, Maryland physician and Confederate sympathizer who on April 15, 1865, set the broken left leg of Lincoln's fleeing assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Mudd…
