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Pittsfield
Pittsfield city (1990 pop. 48,622), seat of Berkshire co., W Mass., between mountain ranges, on branches of the Housatonic River; inc. as a town 1761, as a city 1889. The city is the metropolis of the Berkshire resort area. Once a farming community, it developed industrially in the 19th cent. as a... Read more |
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William Miller
William Miller 1782-1849, American sectarian leader, b. Pittsfield, Mass. He was the founder of the sect of Second Adventists , sometimes called Millerites. In 1831, convinced from study of the Bible that the prophecies pointed to the second coming of Christ in 1843, he went about spreading his... Read more |
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Lenox
Lenox town (1990 pop. 5,069), Berkshire co., W Mass., in the Berkshire Mts., 7 mi (11 km) south of Pittsfield. It is primarily a summer resort. The Berkshire Festival , one of the country's premier music festivals, is held annually on the Tanglewood estate, which spans Lenox and adjoining ... Read more |
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Rob Thomas
THOMAS, Rob 1953– PERSONAL Original name, Robin Thomas Grossman; born February 12, 1953, in Pittsfield, MA. Addre... Read more |
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Alfred Henry Maurer
Alfred Henry Maurer , 1868-1932, American painter, b. New York City. He was apprenticed as a lithographer, taught himself painting, and went to Europe in 1897, studying briefly at the Académie Julian, Paris. While in Paris he was the first American painter to take a significant interest in... Read more |
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John George Nicolay
John George Nicolay , 1832-1901, biographer of Lincoln, b. Bavaria. In 1837 he was brought to the United States, and his family settled in Pike co., Ill. He worked on the Pittsfield, Ill., Free Press and was its editor and owner from 1854 to 1856. In 1860 he and his close friend, John Hay, became... Read more |
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Nancy Graves
Graves, Nancy (1940–1995). American sculptor and painter, born at Pittsfield, Massachusetts. She studied at Vassar College and Yale University and won a scholarship for painting that took her to Paris, 1964–5. Later in 1965 she visited North Africa and the Middle East, and in... Read more |
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Herman Melville
Herman Melville 1819-91, American author, b. New York City, considered one of the great American writers and a major figure in world literature. Early Life and Works Born into an impoverished family of distinguished Dutch and English colonial descent, Melville was 12 when his father died. He left... Read more |
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Marshall Field
Marshall Field 1834-1906, American merchant, b. Conway, Mass. In 1856, after five years' apprenticeship in a general store in Pittsfield, Mass., he went to Chicago and became a clerk for Cooley, Wadsworth & Co., a leading dry-goods house there, of which he became a junior partner in 1862. In... Read more |
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Kurt-Georg Kiesinger
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