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Stephen Row BRADLEY, Congress, VT (1754-1830)

Senate Years of Service: 1791-1795; 1801-1813Party: Anti-Administration; Democratic RepublicanBRADLEY, Stephen Row, (father of William Czar Bradley), a Senator from Vermont; born in…

John James INGALLS, Congress, KS (1833-1900)

Senate Years of Service: 1873-1891Party: RepublicanINGALLS, John James, a Senator from Kansas; born in Middleton, Essex County, Mass., December 29, 1833; attended the public schools in…

William Boyd ALLISON, Congress, IA (1829-1908)

Senate Years of Service: 1873-1908Party: RepublicanALLISON, William Boyd, a Representative and a Senator from Iowa; born in Perry, Ohio, March 2, 1829; attended country schools, the academy in…

Thomas Ezekiel MILLER, Congress, SC (1849-1938)

MILLER, Thomas Ezekiel, a Representative from South Carolina; born in Ferrebeville, Beaufort County, S.C., June 17, 1849; moved with his parents to Charleston, S.C., in 1851; attended the…

Isaac R. SHERWOOD, Congress, OH (1835-1925)

SHERWOOD, Isaac R., a Representative from Ohio; born in Stanford, Dutchess County, N.Y., August 13, 1835; attended the common schools, the Hudson River Institute, Claverack, N.Y., Antioch…

Famous Trains in The Americas

by Mike Rozett Peruvian Central Railway 1895 The Peruvian Central Railway is an engineering marvel. It originates in Callao then climbs more than 13,000 feet to cross the continental…

Women in Sports: Sailing

Krystyna Choynowski-Liskiewicz of Poland was the first woman to sail around the world solo. She accomplished this feat on March 28, 1976. Ellen MacArthur…

Saratoga campaign

(Encyclopedia) Saratoga campaign, June–Oct., 1777, of the American Revolution. Lord George Germain and John Burgoyne were the chief authors of a plan to end the American Revolution by splitting the…