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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 ...
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...
(n r ´y f) (KEY) , 1938–93, Russian ballet dancer, b. near Irkutsk, Siberian USSR (now Russia). Nureyev studied in Ufa and Leningrad (now St. Peter...
(d g´d l) (KEY) , 1841–83, American social investigator, b. Paris. While inspecting (1874) county jails for the New York Prison Association, he dev...
1841–1922, American financier, b. Tioga co., N.Y.; brother of John D. Rockefeller. He joined (1865) his brother in the oil-refining business. Willia...