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EDWIN HATFIELD, an American librarian, born in Zionville, Ind., in 1861. He graduated from Wabash College in 1883 and afterward studied at Columbia University and at the New York State Library School. He was cataloguer of the Newberry Library of Chicago and in the Carnegie Free Library in Braddock, Pa. In 1885 he organized and became librarian of the Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh, acting in that capacity until 1904. In the following year he became the director of the New York State Library and Library School and in 1913 was appointed Director of the New York Public Library.
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Anderson (City of South Carolina)
a city of South Carolina and the county-seat of Anderson co. It is about 100 miles N. W. of Raleigh, on the Blue Ridge and the Charleston and Western Carolina railroads. The city is in an important cotton-growing and agricultural region, and has also extensive industries, including cottonseed mills, fertilizer factories, flour mills, machine shops, etc. There are excellent schools and libraries, a city hall, a hospital, and a county court house. Power is furnished to the city by a large electric power station on the Seneca river, 10 miles from the city. Pop. (1910) 9,654; (1920) 10,570.
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Anderson (II)
MARY (MRS. A. DE NAVARRO), an American actress, born in Sacramento, Cal., July 28, 1859. She played for the first time at Louisville, in 1875, in the character of Juliet. Her success was marked and immediate, and during the following years she played with increasing popularity in the prin. cipal cities of the United States in various rôles. In 1883 she appeared at the Lyceum Theater, in London, and speedily became well known in England. In 1890, one year after retiring from the stage, she married A. de Navarro of New York.
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Anderson (III)
WILLIAM HAMILTON, American temperance advocate, born in Carlinville, Ill., Aug. 8, 1874; studied at Blackburn College and University of Michigan; taught school 1892-1894, and practiced law at Carlinville, 1896-1900. He became attorney for the Anti-Saloon League of Ill., Jan. 1, 1900, and from that time on has devoted his time wholly In 1914 he to the temperance cause. became State Superintendent of the New In York State Anti-Saloon League. 1920, he provoked considerable controversy by an attack upon certain members of the Catholic church whom he charged with obstructing the operation of prohibition laws.
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Anderson (JOHN FISHER American physician)
JOHN FISHER, American physician, born in Fredericksburg, Va., in 1873. He was educated in the public schools of this city and studied medicine at the University of Virginia and also in Vienna and Liverpool. He was appointed assistant surgeon in the United States Public Health and Marine Service in 1898 and did duty in connection with the yellow fever. After acting as quarantine inspector and immigrant inspector at several ports, he was sanitary observer in several cities in Europe from 1899 to 1901. From 1902 to 1909 he was assistant director of the Hygienic Laboratory in Washington, being appointed director in 1916. He was also assistant professor of hygiene in Rutgers College. One of the most eminent of American bacteriologists, he wrote many articles on his investigations into the cause of diseases.
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Anderson (ROBERT an American military)
ROBERT, an American military officer, noted for his defense of Fort Sumter, where the first gun was fired in the Civil War. He was born near Louisville, Ky., June 14, 1805; was graduated at West Point, and served in the Black Hawk, Seminole, and Mexican Wars. He was promoted major in 1857; took command of the troops in Charleston harbor in November, 1860; removed his forces from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter, Dec. 26; was invested there by the Confederates who bombarded the fort April 12-13, 1861; and evacuated the fort April 14. He was promoted Brigadier-General in 1861, and was retired in 1863, with the rank of brevet Major- General. He died in Nice, France, Oct 27, 1871.
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Andersonville
a village in Georgia, noted as having been the seat of a Confederate States military prison, which was notorious for unhealthfulness and for barbarity of discipline. Between Feb. 15, 1864, and April, 1865, 49,485 prisoners were received, of whom 12,926 died in that time of various diseases. Henry Wirz, the superintendent, was tried for injuring the health and destroying the lives of the soldiers confined here, was found guilty, and hanged, Nov. 10, 1865. The long trenches where the soldiers were buried have since been laid out as a cemetery.
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Andesite
a group of volcanic rocks, gray, reddish or dark brown in color. The ground-mass of these rocks is usually composed of feldspar-microlith, scattered through which are abundant crystals of plagioclase feldspar. Hornblende and augite, one or both, are generally present, together with magnetite, which is often very abundant. Andesite occurs chiefly in Tertiary and more recent strata, and is found in Hungary, Transylvania, Siebengebirge, Santorin, Iceland, the Andes, the western part of the United States, etc. genus of leguminous
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Andira
a American trees, with fleshy plum-like fruits. The wood is well fitted for building. The bark of andira inermis, or cabbage-tree, is narcotic and is used as an anthelminthic under the name of worm bark or cabbage bark. The powdered bark of andira araroba is used as a remedy in certain skin diseases, as herpes.
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Andiron
an iron bar supported on three feet. A pair of andirons stood in every old-fashioned fireplace or open hearth to hold the burning logs of wood. The outer ends of the bars were turned upward to prevent the wood from rolling outward. Ordinarily they were plain iron bars shaped by the village blacksmith, but they were fashioned, not infrequently, with artistic care, the upright ends terminating in knobs, sheathed in brass or silver. Irving speaks of the care which the good Dutch housewives bestowed on the knobs of their andirons to keep them polished. See Heating And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of cider simmered slow, The apples sputtered in a row, And, close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood.--Whittier, Snowbound.
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Andrassy
JULIUS, COUNT (andra'shē), Hungarian statesman, born March 8, 1823; studied at the Pest University; took part in the Revolution of COUNT JULIUS ANDRASSY 1848; was condemned to death, but escaped and went into exile; appointed Premier when self-government was restored to Hungary, in 1867; became Im perial Minister for Foreign Affairs in 1871; was a conspicuous member of the Congress of Berlin the German-Austrian alliance with Bisin 1878; negotiated marck in 1879; and the same year retired from public life. He died Feb. 18, 1890.
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