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Roger Atkinson PRYOR, Congress, VA (1828-1919)

PRYOR, Roger Atkinson, a Representative from Virginia; born near Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, Va., July 19, 1828; was graduated from Hampden-Sidney College, Virginia, in 1845 and from the…

Irvine Luther LENROOT, Congress, WI (1869-1949)

Senate Years of Service: 1918-1927Party: RepublicanLENROOT, Irvine Luther, a Representative and a Senator from Wisconsin; born in Superior, Wis., January 31, 1869; attended the common schools…

Timothy Otis HOWE, Congress, WI (1816-1883)

Senate Years of Service: 1861-1879Party: RepublicanHOWE, Timothy Otis, a Senator from Wisconsin; born in Livermore, Androscoggin County, Maine, February 24, 1816; attended the common schools…

Milton Wolff Biography

American commanderDied: January 14, 2008 (Berkeley, California) Best Known as: last commander of the American volunteers who fought against Franco in the Spanish Civil War…

Brown, John, American abolitionist

(Encyclopedia) Brown, John, 1800–1859, American abolitionist, b. Torrington, Conn. He spent his boyhood in Ohio. Before he became prominent in the…

Judith Merril

(Juliet Grossman; pseudonyms Ernest Hamilton, Cyril Judd, Judith Merril, Rose Sharon, Eric Thorstein)science fiction writerBorn: 1/21/1923Birthplace: New York City A writer, editor, and critic,…

Morrisburg

(Encyclopedia) Morrisburg, village (1991 pop. 2,429), SE Ont., Canada, on the St. Lawrence River. Just east of the village is the Upper Canada Village, a model of a typical 19th-century community.