Biography Category
1836–92, American speculator, b. Delaware co., N.Y. A country-store clerk and surveyor’s assistant, he rose to control half the railroad mileage i...
1800–1867, American industrialist, known as the “father of Southern cotton manufacture,” b. Monongalia co., Va. (now W.Va.). He devoted his life...
1810–88, one of America’s leading botanists and taxonomists, b. Oneida co., N.Y. As professor of natural history at Harvard from 1842, he was the ...
(h s ´ gr k´ ) (KEY) , 1918–2001, Spanish-American dancer and choreographer, b. Italy. Greco emigrated to the United States as a child. He first a...
(gr sh´ m) (KEY) , 1519?–1579, English merchant and financier. As the royal financial agent in Antwerp after 1551 he proved himself very able, thou...
1615–1702, early American printer. He established himself at Cambridge, Mass., in 1649, using a press owned by Henry Dunster, the first president of...