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A historian for the ages Harry S Mcclaren writes photographic book of Wooster or A historian for the ages Harry S Mccarran writes photographic book of Wooster ?
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Wooster
Wooster , city (1990 pop. 22,191), seat of Wayne co., N central Ohio, in a farm area; inc. 1817. There is food processing and paper, plastic, and brass products are made there. The Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center is there, and the city is also the seat of The College of Wooster,... Read more |
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P G Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse (Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse) , 1881-1975, English-American novelist and humorist. After a short period, first working at a bank and then writing for a London newspaper, he became a full-time fiction writer. For over 70 years Wodehouse entertained readers with his comic novels... Read more |
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George Washington Crile
George Washington Crile , 1864-1943, American surgeon, b. Coshocton co., Ohio, M.D. Univ. of Wooster medical school (later merged with Western Reserve Univ.), 1887. He taught at the Univ. of Wooster (1889-1900) and at Western Reserve Univ. (1900-1924) and was a founder and director (from 1921) of... Read more |
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Karl Taylor Compton
Compton, Karl Taylor (b. Wooster, Ohio, 14 September 1887; d. New York, N.Y., 22 June 1954), physics. Like his brothers, Arthur Holly Compton and Wilson Martindale Compton, Karl Taylor Compton owed much of his later achievements in American science and education to the stimulating intellectual... Read more |
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Rubbermaid Inc
Rubbermaid Incorporated 1147 Akron RoadWooster, Ohio 44691-6000U.S.A.(303) 264-6464Fax:(303)287-2864Web site: http://www.rubbermaid.com Public Company Incorporated: 1920 as The Wooster Rubber CompanyEmployees: 13,861Sales: $2.35 billion (1996)Stock Exchanges: New YorkSICs: 2392... Read more |
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David Wooster
David Wooster , 1711-77, American Revolutionary officer, b. Fairfield co., Conn. He served as an officer in the British army during the last of the French and Indian Wars . Wooster resigned his commission upon the outbreak of the American Revolution, was one of the promoters of the Ticonderoga... Read more |
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Arthur Holly Compton
Arthur Holly Compton 1892-1962, American physicist, b. Wooster, Ohio, grad. College of Wooster (B.S., 1913), Ph.D. Princeton, 1916. He was professor and head of the department of physics at Washington Univ., St. Louis (1920-23), and professor of physics at the Univ. of Chicago (1923-45), where he... Read more |
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Willem Dafoe
DAFOE, Willem Nationality:American. Born:William Dafoe in Appleton, Wisconsin, 22 July 1955. Family:Son with Elizabeth LeCompte: Jack. Education:Attended University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Career:1975—Member of Theatre X experimental theatrical ... Read more |
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Danbury
Danbury , city (1990 pop. 65,585), Fairfield co., SW Conn.; settled 1685, inc. as a city 1889. Once home to a famous hat industry dating from 1780, this growing, diverse residential city now makes electronic equipment, plastics, machinery, and furniture. A colonial military depot, it was destroyed... Read more |
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Walker Evans
Walker Evans 1903-75, American photographer, b. St. Louis. Evans began his photographic career in 1928. His studies of Victorian architecture and his photographs of the rural South during the Great Depression, made for the Farm Security Administration, are among his best-known works. Many of... Read more |
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