Biography Category
(kr n´d l) (KEY) , 1803–89, American educator and abolitionist, b. Hopkinton, R.I. In 1831 she opened a school for girls in Canterbury, Conn. Her d...
( m´ n kw g´y r g´r ) (KEY) , 1875–1927, African educator and missionary, b. Anamabu, Gold Coast (now Ghana). Educated at Livingstone College, h...
(d bär´) (KEY) , 1721?–1824, British army officer, surveyor, and artist. He was born of French parents (probably in Switzerland), was educated at ...
(h l´br k) (KEY) , 1788–1854, American educator, founder of the lyceum movement, b. Derby, Conn., grad. Yale (1810). He experimented with various s...
(thôr´f n kärl´s vn ) (KEY) , fl. 1002–15, Icelandic leader of an attempt to colonize North America. He appeared in Greenland in 1002 and marrie...
( l f´ l t) (KEY) , 1773–1866, American educator, inventor, and clergyman, b. Ashford, Conn. In 1804, Nott became president of Union College, a pos...