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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Ephron, Nora Louise

(Encyclopedia)Ephron, Nora Louise, 1941โ€“2012, American writer and film director, grad. Wellesley College (B.A., 1962). Witty, tough, self-deprecating, and ironic in all her guises, she was a reporter for the New ...

Tunney, Gene

(Encyclopedia)Tunney, Gene (James Joseph Tunney), 1898โ€“1978, American boxer, b. New York City. He began boxing in neighborhood clubs as a youngster. In World War I, he served in the U.S. marines and while in Pari...