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(m k l´ k) (KEY) , 1808–95, American financier and public official, b. Kennebunk, Maine. Educated at Bowdoin College, he studied law in Boston and ...
1889–1967, English typographer and journalist. Morison was typographical consultant to Cambridge Univ. Press and to the English Monotype Corp. and e...
(s môN´ d kôl n´) (KEY) , d. 1546, Parisian printer. He was associated with the elder Henri Estienne and continued his work. Colines used elegant...
1805–78, American pioneer expressman, b. Thetford, Vt. As a child he moved with his family to central New York state. In 1843 he established express...
(ky närd´) (KEY) , 1787–1865, Canadian pioneer of regular transatlantic steam navigation, b. Halifax, N.S. The son of a United Empire Loyalist, he...
(w d´n r) (KEY) , 1885–1912, American bibliophile, b. Philadelphia. He had the greatest Robert Louis Stevenson collection in existence. Widener die...