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1846–1927, American lawyer and industrialist, b. near Wheaton, Ill., grad. Union College of Law, Chicago, 1868. Rising rapidly as a corporation lawy...
1856–1929, American economist, b. St. Clair, Mich., grad. Univ. of Michigan, 1878, Ph.D. Univ. of Halle, 1885. He was professor of political economy...
( güst´ b rnôNv l´) (KEY) , 1805–79, Danish dancer, choreographer, and teacher. Bournonville studied in Copenhagen with his father Antoine, the ...
(both: n kôlä´ zhäNsôN´) (KEY) , d. c.1480, Venetian printer, b. France. Jenson studied printing with Gutenberg at Mainz for three years. He was...
(st ´v s nt) (KEY) , 1851–1923, American railroad executive, b. New York City; son of Hamilton Fish (1808–93). He became (1877) a director of the...
c.1421–91, English printer, the first to print books in English. He served apprenticeship as a mercer and from 1463 to 1469 was at Bruges as governo...