(Encyclopedia) Charlestown, town on the island of Nevis, St. Kitts and Nevis, West Indies. Charlestown is the chief town and port of the island. Sugar…
BARTON, Silas Reynolds, a Representative from Nebraska; born in New London, Henry County, Iowa, May 21, 1872; moved to Hamilton County, Nebr., in 1873 with his parents; was graduated from the…
BURKE, Raymond Hugh, a Representative from Ohio; born in Nicholsville, Clermont County, Ohio, November 4, 1881; attended Jackson School; worked on a farm and in the village while studying to…
(Encyclopedia) Sangster, Charles, 1822–93, Canadian poet, b. Ontario. At first an imitator of Byron, he became, with the publication of Hesperus and Other Poems and Lyrics (1860), the first notable…
(Encyclopedia) Stoney Creek, town (1991 pop. 49,968), SE Ont., Canada. It is a suburb of Hamilton and was the site of an American defeat (1813) in the War of 1812.
(Encyclopedia) Coxe, TenchCoxe, Tenchkŏks [key], 1755–1824, American political economist, b. Philadelphia. He entered his father's mercantile business in 1776, but after 1790, when he became…
RICH, Carl West, a Representative from Ohio; born in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, September 12, 1898; attended Walnut Hills High School; University of Cincinnati College of Liberal Arts…
HUBBARD, Thomas Hill, a Representative from New York; born in New Haven, Conn., December 5, 1781; pursued classical studies; was graduated from Yale College in 1799; studied law; was admitted…
SCHERER, Gordon Harry, a Representative from Ohio; born in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, December 26, 1906; Salmon P. Chase College of Law, LL.B., in 1929 and attended the University of…
