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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson 1836-1917, English physician. A sister of Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Elizabeth also worked for woman suffrage. With difficulty she obtained a private medical education under accredited physicians and in London hospitals; in 1865 she was licensed to practice by the... Read more
Maxwell Anderson Maxwell Anderson
Maxwell Anderson 1888-1959, American dramatist, b. Atlantic, Pa., grad. Univ. of North Dakota, 1911. His plays, many of which are written in verse, usually concern social and moral problems. Anderson was a journalist until the successful production in 1924 of What Price Glory?, a war drama... Read more
Wilbur Samuel Jackman Wilbur Samuel Jackman
Wilbur Samuel Jackman 1855-1907, American educator, b. Mechanicstown, Ohio, grad. Harvard, 1884. Jackman was a leader of the nature study movement in elementary schools. He taught (after 1889) at the Cook County Normal School in Chicago and, beginning with Nature Study for the Common Schools ... Read more
John Wilbur John Wilbur
John Wilbur 1774-1856, American Quaker leader, b. Hopkinton, R.I. He became the leader of the opposition to the evangelical principles of J. J. Gurney and Elias Hicks, and his expulsion (1843) by the Quakers resulted in the formation of the new New England Yearly Meeting. His followers were called... Read more
Fannie Lou Hamer Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer 1917–<... Read more
Richard Wilbur Richard Wilbur
Richard Wilbur 1921-, American poet and translator, b. New York City, grad. Amherst (B.A., 1942) and Harvard (M.A., 1947). A skillful craftsman who writes gracefully in traditional verse forms, Wilbur is always original, generally affirmative in his view of the world, and can be profound and witty,... Read more
Edward Emerson Barnard Edward Emerson Barnard
Edward Emerson Barnard 1857-1923, American astronomer, b. Nashville, Tenn., grad. Vanderbilt Univ., 1887. From 1887 to 1895 he was astronomer at Lick Observatory in California, and from 1895 he was professor of practical astronomy at the Univ. of Chicago and astronomer at Yerkes Observatory. The... Read more
Wilbur Wright Wilbur Wright
WRIGHT, WILBUR(b.Miliville, Indiana, 16 April 1867; d. Dayton, Ohio, 30 May 1912)and WRIGHT, ORVILLE (b. Dayton, Ohio, 19 August 1871; d. Dayton. Ohio, 30 January 1948)aeronauticsWilbur and Orville Wright, the sons of Milton Wright, a bishop of the United Brethren Church, and Susan Catherine... Read more
John T. Raymond John T. Raymond
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Wilbur Olin Atwater Wilbur Olin Atwater
Wilbur Olin Atwater 1844-1907, American agricultural chemist, b. Johnsburg, N.Y. He was professor at several American universities and helped to set up and later became director of the first state agricultural experiment station (in Connecticut) in the United States. Along with Edward Bennett Rosa,... Read more

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