Biography Category
(äNtwän´ fräNswä´ kôNt d f rkrwä´) (KEY) , 1755–1809, French chemist. He was a pioneer in animal and plant chemistry and collaborated with...
1818–81, American pioneer expressman, b. Pompey, N.Y. He had been successively a postrider, freight agent, messenger, and resident agent (1843) for ...
1849–1919, American industrialist, b. Westmoreland co., Pa. He worked on his father’s farm, was a store clerk, and did bookkeeping before he and s...
(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...
1869–1954, American botanist and agricultural explorer, b. East Lansing, Mich. He entered the service of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, where he org...
(y ´hän foust) (KEY) , d. 1466?, printer at Mainz. Johann Gutenberg borrowed substantial sums of money from Fust, a goldsmith, lawyer, and money len...