(Encyclopedia) Catlin, George, 1796–1872, American traveler and artist, b. Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Educated as a lawyer, he practiced in Philadelphia for two years but turned to art study and became a…
(Encyclopedia) Chapman, George, 1559?–1634, English dramatist, translator, and poet. He is as famous for his plays as for his poetic translations of Homer's Iliad (1612) and Odyssey (1614–15).…
(Encyclopedia) Vancouver, George, 1757–98, English navigator and explorer. He sailed on Capt. James Cook's second and third voyages. After 1780 he served under Admiral George Rodney in the West…
Senate Years of Service: 1842-1846Party: DemocratMcDUFFIE, George, (father-in-law of Wade Hampton [1818-1902]), a Representative and a Senator from South Carolina; born in Columbia County, Ga…
(Encyclopedia) Fargo, William George, 1818–81, American pioneer expressman, b. Pompey, N.Y. He had been successively a postrider, freight agent, messenger, and resident agent (1843) for an express…
(Encyclopedia) Bellows, George Wesley, 1882–1925, American painter, draftsman, and lithographer, b. Columbus, Ohio. The son of an engineer, architect, and builder, he left Ohio State Univ. in his…
(Encyclopedia) Marshall, Samuel Lyman Atwood (S. L. A. Marshall), 1900–1977, American author and military analyst, b. Catskill, N.Y. Having served in World War I, he embarked upon a career in…
(Encyclopedia) Franklin and Marshall College, at Lancaster, Pa.; United Church of Christ (Evangelical-Reformed); coeducational; est. 1787 as Franklin College, reorganized 1853 when it merged with…
HARRISON, George Paul, a Representative from Alabama; born at âMonteith Plantation,â near Savannah, Ga., March 19, 1841; attended Effingham Academy and the Georgia Military Institute at…
ISACKS, Jacob C., a Representative from Tennessee; born in Montgomery County, Pa., birth date unknown; moved to Winchester, Tenn.; elected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress…