Biography Category
d. 1556, English navigator. When, largely under the inspiration of Sebastian Cabot, a group of men in England undertook to finance a search for the No...
1889–1974, American educator, b. near Baldwin City, Kans., grad. Baker Univ., 1911, Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago, 1916. He taught in the educational depar...
( ´l k l´b rts n) (KEY) , 1891–1955, American authority on contract bridge, b. Romania. His father was an American engineer then living in Romani...
(py r kärd N´) (KEY) , 1922–, French fashion designer. He spent most of his early years working in Paris for such firms as Schiaparelli and Dior. ...
1815–1900, founder of Clark Univ., b. Hubbardston, Mass. After a long career in business and finance, he became interested in higher education, maki...
1737?–1785, 2d president of King’s College (now Columbia Univ.), b. England, educated at Oxford. He was ordained a priest in 1761 and went to King...