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Webb, Walter Prescott

(Encyclopedia)Webb, Walter Prescott, 1888–1963, U.S. historian, b. Panola co., Tex. He joined the faculty of the history department at the Univ. of Texas in 1918, received his Ph.D. in 1932, and became full profe...

Besant, Sir Walter

(Encyclopedia)Besant, Sir Walter bĭzăntˈ [key], 1836–1901, English novelist and humanitarian, grad. Christ's College, Cambridge, 1859. He taught at the Royal College of Mauritius from 1861 to 1867. After his r...

Wilbraham

(Encyclopedia)Wilbraham, town (1990 pop. 12,635), Hampden co., S central Mass.; settled 1730, inc. 1763. It is mainly residential. Wilbraham and Monson Academy (1817) is there. ...

Longmeadow

(Encyclopedia)Longmeadow, town (1990 pop. 15,467), Hampden co., SW Mass., a residential suburb adjoining Springfield, on the Connecticut River; settled 1644, set off and inc. 1783. Bay Path College is there. ...

East Longmeadow

(Encyclopedia)East Longmeadow, town (2020 pop. 16,430), Hampden co., SW Mass., a suburb of Springfield; settled c.1740, set off from Longmeadow and inc. 1894. It is c...

Ludlow

(Encyclopedia)Ludlow, town (1990 pop. 18,820), Hampden co., SW Mass., on the Chicopee River; settled c.1750, set off from Springfield 1774, inc. 1775. It is a residential suburb of Springfield and Chicopee. Industr...

Agawam

(Encyclopedia)Agawam ăgˈəwäm [key], town (2020 pop. 28,692), Hampden co., S Mass., on the Connecticut River; settled 1636, inc. 1855. Largely residential, the town has robotics, mac...

West Springfield

(Encyclopedia)West Springfield, town (1990 pop. 27,537), Hampden co., SW Mass., on the Connecticut River opposite Springfield; settled 1654, set off from Springfield and inc. 1774. Light manufactures include paper,...

Holyoke

(Encyclopedia)Holyoke hōˈlē-ōkˌ, hōlˈyōk [key], city (2020 pop. 38,238), Hampden co., S cen...

Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn

(Encyclopedia)Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, 1815–81, English clergyman and author. As a student at Rugby he was influenced by the liberal views of Thomas Arnold. In 1838 he was elected a fellow of University College, ...