| Pike County (Ill.) - 1880 - 978 pages
...(Mclear) Crawford; his father, who still owns land here, has been a resident of this township for 30 years. The subject of this sketch was educated in the common schools here. In 1879 he married Lillie Cory, and they have a child, born Nov. 21, 1879, whose name is Clarence... | |
| W. E. Alexander - Allamakee County (Iowa) - 1882 - 770 pages
...acres well improved. His father also owns a farm of 160 acres, southwest of this a couple of miles. The subject of this sketch was educated in the common schools and at Grinnell College. He was married to Miss Mary Gramelich, March 28, 1876. She was also born in this... | |
| Governors - 1884 - 846 pages
...to Dupliin, Clinton Co., Mich., where his father was in turn a merchant, miller and farmer. Mr. S., the subject of this sketch, was educated in the common schools, and in 1871 engaged in mercantile business at Elsie, Mich., until in 1873, when his health failed and he... | |
| John Clark Rand - Massachusetts - 1890 - 738 pages
...Walpole, the fifth in descent from William Curtis, the ancestor who came from England, September 16, 1632. The subject of this sketch was educated in the common schools and academy of his native town. At the age of seventeen he left his home to learn the carpenter's trade... | |
| Talcott Enoch Wing - Monroe County (Mich.) - 1890 - 818 pages
...Watertown, Jefferson county, New York, was born March 25, 1842, in Frenchtown, Monroe county, Michigan. The subject of this sketch was educated in the common schools, and after arriving at the age of twenty -one years, he worked on his father's farm until the fall of 1873,... | |
| James Kazerta Mercer, C. N. Vallandigham - Ohio - 1896 - 354 pages
...was a soldier in the war for independence. On his mother's side the family were Pennsylvania Dutch. The subject of this sketch was educated in the common schools, and later studied medicine, and was admitted to practice. He has been a life long republican, although... | |
| William Harrison Taylor - Connecticut - 1908 - 382 pages
...Walter H. and Sarah (Granniss) Scott, and was born in Terryville, town of Plymouth, November 8, 1806. The Scott family is one of the oldest and most respected...graduated from the Hartford Public High School, class of 1885; Yale College class of 1889, and Yale Law School, class of 1891, receiving the degree of LL.B.... | |
| Samuel Storrs Howe, Theodore Sutton Parvin, Frederick Lloyd, Sanford W. Huff, Charles Aldrich, Edgar Rubey Harlan - Iowa - 1897 - 816 pages
...Shaw, was also Assistant Secretary of War under Gen. Henry Knox, and afterwards first Consul to China. The subject of this sketch was educated in the common schools and at the seminary at Readfield, Maine. Coming west at the age of 19, he lived for a time in Indiana,... | |
| William Harrison Taylor - Connecticut - 1910 - 390 pages
...Scott, and was born in Terry ville. town of Plymouth, November 8, 1866. He was educated in the public schools and was graduated from the Hartford Public High School, class of 1885; Yale College, class of 1889; and Yale Law School, class of 1891, receiving the degree of LL.B.,... | |
| Connecticut - 1898 - 252 pages
...1659, to a Covenant, entered into by the first settlers of Lancaster, he spelled his name Wyelder. The subject of this sketch was educated in the common schools and in the Academy at Fryeburg, Maine. Upon the death of his mother, his father had found a home for the... | |
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