TAYLOR, William Penn, a Representative from Virginia; born in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Va., birth date unknown; received a limited schooling; held several local offices; elected as…
(Encyclopedia) Heade, Martin JohnsonHeade, Martin Johnsonhĕd [key], 1819–1904, American painter, b. Lumberville, Pa. He studied briefly with Edward Hicks and in Europe, and later traveled in Central…
(Encyclopedia) Taylor, Alan John Percivale, 1906–90, English historian, primarily interested in diplomatic and Central European history. Educated at Oxford, he became a fellow of Magdalen College in…
(Encyclopedia) Taylor, John, 1578?–1653, English writer. He was a boatman on the Thames and hence is often called the Water Poet. A traveler throughout England and the Continent, he recorded his…
(Encyclopedia) Taylor, John, 1808–87, American leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, b. England. He emigrated in 1832 to Canada, where he was converted (1836) to the Mormon faith…
(Encyclopedia) Taylor, Joseph Hooton, Jr., 1941–, American astrophysicist, b. Philadelphia, Ph.D. Harvard, 1968. Taylor was a professor at the Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst from 1969 to 1980,…
Distance runner Fred Lorz's Olympics disgrace in 1904
by John Gettings Related Links Olympics Overview 2012 Long before today's notorious scandals involving Tonya Harding,…
DOOLITTLE, John Taylor, a Representative from California; born in Glendale, Los Angeles County, Calif., October 30, 1950; graduated from Cupertino High School, Cupertino, Calif., 1968; B.A.,…
WEBSTER, Taylor, a Representative from Ohio; born in Pennsylvania October 1, 1800; moved with his parents to Ohio in 1806, where he received a limited schooling; attended Miami University,…
TAYLOR, Abner, a Representative from Illinois; born in Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine, in 1829; moved with his parents to Champaign County, Ohio, in 1832, thence to Fort Dodge, Iowa, and…
