Columbia Encyclopedia

Search results

500 results found

Morton, Oliver Perry

(Encyclopedia)Morton, Oliver Perry, 1823โ€“77, American political leader, b. Salisbury, Ind. He was admitted (1847) to the bar and began practice in Centerville, Ind. Morton helped organize the Republican party in ...

McClure, Alexander Kelly

(Encyclopedia)McClure, Alexander Kelly, 1828โ€“1909, American journalist and political leader, b. Perry co., Pa. He edited and published the Juniata Sentinel of Mifflintown, Pa., before acquiring and editing (1850โ...

Henry, Mary Kay

(Encyclopedia)Henry, Mary Kay, 1958โ€“, American labor leader, b. Detroit, B.A. Michigan State Univ., 1979. She began working with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in 1979, focusing on union organiz...

Greeneville

(Encyclopedia)Greeneville, town (2020 pop. 15,479), seat of Greene co., NE Tenn., in a tobacco, dairy, and cattle area; founded 1783, inc. 1875. It is a leading tobac...

Gaines, Edmund Pendleton

(Encyclopedia)Gaines, Edmund Pendleton, 1777โ€“1849, U.S. army officer, b. Culpeper co., Va.; brother of George Strother Gaines. He spent his boyhood in Tennessee and at the age of 22 joined the U.S. army. He surve...

Trist, Nicholas Philip

(Encyclopedia)Trist, Nicholas Philip, 1800โ€“1874, American diplomat, b. Charlottesville, Va. He attended West Point, studied law under Thomas Jefferson, whose granddaughter he married, and was private secretary to...

Yalow, Rosalyn Sussman

(Encyclopedia)Yalow, Rosalyn Sussman, 1921โ€“2011, American medical physicist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Univ. of Illinois, 1945. As a researcher at the Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital (from 1947), Yalow and c...

Tetley, Glen

(Encyclopedia)Tetley, Glen (Glenford Andrew Tetley, Jr.), 1926โ€“2006, American dancer and choreographer, b. Cleveland. He studied in New York City with Hanya Holm and trained with Martha Graham, subsequently danci...

Watson, Thomas Edward

(Encyclopedia)Watson, Thomas Edward, 1856โ€“1922, American political leader, b. Columbia co., Ga. A successful lawyer, he practiced in Thomson, Ga., before serving (1882โ€“83) in the state legislature and as a Farm...

Weatherford, William

(Encyclopedia)Weatherford, William, c.1780โ€“1824, Native American chief, b. present-day Alabama, also called Red Eagle. In the War of 1812 he led the Creek war party, stirred by Tecumseh, against the Americans. On...