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Grace Hoadley Dodge
Grace Hoadley Dodge 1856-1914, American philanthropist, b. New York City; great-granddaughter of David Low Dodge. She played an important part in the founding of Teachers College of Columbia. She also promoted working girls' clubs and the New York Travelers' Aid Society.
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New York
New York Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Ontario (NW), and the province of Quebec (N).
Facts and Figures
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Green Mountain Boys
Green Mountain Boys popular name of armed bands formed (c.1770) under the auspices of Ethan Allen in the Green Mountains of what is today Vermont. Their purpose was to prevent the New Hampshire Grants , as Vermont was then known, from becoming part of New York, to which it had been awarded by th...
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John Lawrence Sullivan
John Lawrence Sullivan 1858-1918, American boxer, b. Roxbury, Mass. After gaining a local reputation in amateur boxing, the Boston Strong Boy, as Sullivan came to be called, toured New England cities and after 1878 boxed professionally. Sullivan, with a devastating right-handed punch, was successfu...
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Hip-Hop Culture
HIP-HOP CULTURE
Background
During the late 1970s an underground urban movement known as "hip-hop" began to develop in the South Bronx area of New York City. Encompassing graffiti art, break dancing, rap music, and fashion, hip-hop became the dominant cultural movement of the African American and H...
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New Harmony
New Harmony town (1990 pop. 846), Posey co., SW Ind., on the Wabash River; founded 1814 by the Harmony Society under George Rapp. In 1825 the Harmonists sold their holdings to Robert Owen and moved to Economy, Pa., where their sect survived into the early 1900s. Owen established a communistic c...
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John Torrey
John Torrey 1796-1873, American botanist and chemist, b. New York City, M.D. College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1818. He was professor of chemistry (1827-55) at his alma mater and professor of chemistry and natural history (1830-54) at Princeton. From 1853 he was chief assayer in the U.S. assay of...
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Edward Henry Harriman
Edward Henry Harriman 1848-1909, American railroad executive, b. Hempstead, N.Y.; father of William Averell Harriman . He became a stockbroker in New York City and soon entered the railroad field, where he attracted attention by able management of the Illinois Central RR, of which he became a dire...
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Charles Follen McKim
Charles Follen McKim 1847-1909, American architect, b. Chester co., Pa., studied (1867-70) at the École des Beaux-Arts. He was one of the founders of the firm of McKim, Mead, and Bigelow, which in 1879 became McKim, Mead, and White (see William Rutherford Mead and Stanford White ). A vast...
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Jane Cunningham Croly
Jane Cunningham Croly , pseud. Jennie June, 1829-1901, American journalist and feminist, b. England. She came to the United States at the age of 12 and in 1857 married author and editor David Goodman Croly. She was one of the earliest American newspaperwomen, writing for various New York newspap...
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