GREY, Benjamin Edwards, (grandson of Benjamin Edwards), a Representative from Kentucky; born at âShiloh,â near Bardstown, Nelson County, Ky., birth date unknown; pursued an academic course…
(Encyclopedia) Lear, Edward, 1812–88, English humorist and artist. At 19 he was employed as a draftsman by the London Zoological Society; the paintings of parrots that he produced for The Family of…
(Encyclopedia) Taylor, Edward, c.1642–1729, American poet and clergyman, b. England, considered America's foremost colonial poet. He immigrated to America in 1668 and graduated from Harvard in 1671.…
(Encyclopedia) Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635–99, English prelate and author. A fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, he became (1657) rector of Sutton, Bedfordshire. In 1661 he published Irenicum, a…
Senate Years of Service: 1999-2005 Party: Democrat EDWARDS, John, a Senator from North Carolina; born in Seneca, South Carolina on June 10, 1953; attended public schools in Robbins, North…
(Encyclopedia) Magoon, Charles EdwardMagoon, Charles Edwardməg&oomacr;nˈ [key], 1861–1920, American administrator, b. Steele co., Minn. As an attorney (1899–1904) for the Bureau of Insular…
(Encyclopedia) Doisy, Edward AdelbertDoisy, Edward Adelbertdoiˈzē [key], 1893–1986, American biochemist, b. Hume, Ill., grad. Univ. of Illinois (B.A., 1914), Ph.D. Harvard, 1920. For his discovery of…
