Biography Category
1893–1969, husband-and-wife dance team. Vernon Castle was an English dancer, who studied civil engineering before turning to the stage and making hi...
1832–1904, American financier, b. Queenstown, Ireland. He was in business in England and Peru before establishing (1865) W. R. Grace & Company i...
(bâr´ n) (KEY) , 1855–1928, American financial editor, b. Boston. He worked on the Boston Daily News, then on the Evening Transcript, and in 1887 ...
(kärn ´g , kär´n g ) (KEY) , 1835–1919, American industrialist and philanthropist, b. Dunfermline, Scotland. His father, a weaver, found it incr...
(g ld) (KEY) , 1864–1923, U.S. railroad owner, b. New York City; son of Jay Gould. He was associated with his father, inherited all the holdings on ...
1922–, American dancer and choreographer, b. Chicago. Lang was a soloist with Martha Graham’s company (1942–52) before forming her own company i...