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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...
1844–1935, American army officer and arctic explorer, b. Newburyport, Mass. Entering the Union army at 17, he emerged a brevet major of volunteers a...
(d r nt´, dy –) (KEY) , 1822–81, American lawyer and educator, b. Hanover, N.H., grad. Harvard, 1841. Christened Henry Welles Smith, he adopted t...
(b r´t l ´l n) (KEY) , 1899–1979, Swedish economist, b. Klippan. A professor at several Swedish universities, he wrote the influential Interregio...
(k v´ nd sh) (KEY) , pseud. of Henry Jones, 1831–99, English card game expert. Jones studied medicine, practiced in London, and retired in 1868. He...
(Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel) (sh n l´) (KEY) , 1883–1971, French fashion designer. She established her house of couture in Paris. An enormously influ...