Biography Category
(y hä´n s fr ´b n) (KEY) , 1460–1527, German printer. He established himself at Basel and there in 1516 printed the Greek New Testament, edited a...
(f f) (KEY) , c.1768–1854, American cabinetmaker, b. Scotland. He emigrated to America c.1783, settling at Albany, N.Y., where he was apprenticed to...
1905–76, U.S. business executive, b. Houston. As a young man he inherited (1925) the patent rights to an oil tool drill, which, manufactured by the ...
(zhül p r ´) (KEY) , 1810–92, French dancer and choreographer, b. Lyons. Perrot studied with Auguste Vestris and Salvatore Vigano. He gained fame ...
(strous) (KEY) , family of American merchants, public officials, and philanthropists. Isidor Straus, 1845–1912, b. Rhenish Bavaria, emigrated (1854)...
(r ´bl ng) (KEY) , 1806–69, German-American engineer, b. Mulhouse. He studied engineering in Berlin and in 1831 came to the United States. He demon...