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John Davidson

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

John Davidson 1857-1909, Scottish poet. After teaching in Scotland he went to London. There, struggling with poverty and illness, he wrote Fleet Street Eclogues (1893; Ser. 2, 1896), Ballads and Songs (1894), New Ballads (1897), literary dramas, and novels. He established a small reputation as a lyric poet, but he earned little money. Despairing, he drowned himself in the ocean near Penzance in 1909. Author not available, DAVIDSON, JOHN. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more

Davidson, John
Davidson, John (1857–1909), was a schoolmaster in Scotland before settling in London in 1899, having already published several plays. He...Theatrocrat God and Mammon , an intended trilogy of which the first two parts were published in 1907. T. S. Eliot expressed his debt to Davidson's use of ... Read more

Rockefeller, John Davidson (1839-1937)
John Davidson Rockefeller (1839-1937) Industrialist, philanthropist Beginnings. One of the most notorious robber barons of the late nineteenth...hospitals, and other institutions. In 1913 he founded the Rockefeller Foundation. He died in 1937. Allan Nevins, Study in Power: John D. Rockefeller, Industrialist ... Read more

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	Board doesn't keep faith, so Belk bolts.(TAR HEEL TATTLER)(John Belk donates to Davidson College.)

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