These 13 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Frelinghuysen, Fremstad, French.
JOSEPH SHER- MAN, a United States senator from New Jersey, born in Raritan, N. J. in 1869. He engaged in business and became director and officer of many important financial institutions. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the New Jersey Senate in 1902, but was elected in 1904 and again in 1908. In 1910 he was president of the Senate and acting governor of the State. In 1916 he was elected to the United States Senate.
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THEODORE, an , Millstone American lawyer; born in Millstone, N. J., March 28, 1787; was graduated at , and the College of New Jersey in 1804 the bar in 1808. In the admitted to War of 1812 he commanded a company of volunteers, and in 1817 became attorney-general of New Jersey, which office he held till 1829 when he was elected United States Senator. He was chosen chancellor of the University of nominated for New York in 1838; was Vice-President of the United States in of 1844; and in 1850 became president Rutgers College, which position on he retained until his death. He died in New Brunswick, N. J., April 12, 1862.
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a city of Nebraska, the county-seat of Dodge co. It is on the Union Pacific, the Chicago and Northwestern, and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroads. The city is an important dairying and live-stock center. Its industries include flour mills, planing mills, etc. It is the seat of the Fremont normal school, and the public buildings include a public library, court house, and a high school building. Pop. (1910) 8,718; (1920) 9,605.
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OLIVE, an American soprano. Born at Stockholm, Sweden, in 1870, she received most of her early education at Christiania. When in 1882 her parents moved to Minneapolis she had already learned to play the piano, and in a few years she was giving music lessons and singing in the church choirs. She came to New York in 1890 and after receiving vocal instruction made her début as a concert singer two years later. From 1892-1894 she studied in Germany under Lilli Lehmann, specializing in Wagnerian operas. For the next few years she sang in the grand opera companies of Vienna, Cologne, Antwerp, and Amsterdam. In 1900 the Royal Opera in Munich and the Covent Garden in London made an arrangement to secure her services for the next three years. In 1903 she made her début with the Metropolitan Opera Company as Sieglinde. Her success was such that for eleven consecutive seasons thereafter she was one of the stars of that famous company. ALICE. See THANET,
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DANIEL CHESTER, an American sculptor; born in Exeter, N. H., April 20, 1850; was educated in Boston and in Florence, Italy; had studios in Boston and Concord, N. H., in 1878-1887, and in New York City in 1887-1900. His principal works include "The Minute Man of Concord"; statues of General Cass, Rufus Choate, John Harvard, and Thomas Starr King; "Dr. Gallaudet and His First Deaf Mute Pupil"; "Statue of the Republic"; the Milmore Memorial, etc. Consult Caffin's "American Masters of Sculpture."
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. See Literature Jean de Racine. French Literature Victor Hugo. French Literature Pierre Corneille. French Literature Alphonse de Lamartine. French Literature Writers Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire. French Literature Jean Jacques Rousseau. French Literature
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Alice (1850-), an American story writer, better known by her pen name of Octave Thanet. She was born in Andover, Massachusetts, but has spent the greater part of her life in Iowa and Arkansas. Her strong, dramatic short stories have found a large number of readers as they have appeared in the magazines. Many of them have been collected into book form, among which may be mentioned Knitters in the Sun, Otto, the Knight, and Other Trans-Mississippi Stories, Stories of a Western Town, We All, A Book of True Lovers, and Man and His Neighbors. Miss French's stories appeal to a wide class of readers. They are Western tales of simple lives, naturally told. They contain a little pathos, much humor, and are full of human interest. That she is capable of the sustained effort necessary for a successful novel Mrs. French has proved in The Man of the Hour, a laborproblem story, absorbing and inspiring.
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Daniel Chester (1850-), an American sculptor. He was born in Exeter, New Hampshire , and received his education in Boston and in Florence, Italy. He has had studios in Boston, in Concord, New Hampshire, and in New York City. His most celebrated works are The Minute Man of Concord, Dr. Gallaudet and His First Deaf Mute Pupil, John Hancock, Lewis Cass, Death and the Young Sculptor, and the Statue of the Republic.
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PHILIP, an American poet; born in New York City, Jan. 2, 1752. His connection with Jefferson and other men of the time made him conspicuous. Among his poems are: Home of Night," "The College Examination," "Eutaw Springs," "The Indian Student," and "Lines to a Wild Honeysuckle." He died near Freehold , N. Y., Dec. 18, 1832.
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a method of painting on walls on a freshly laid stucco-ground of lime or gypsum. See Painting
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a city and county-seat of Fresno co., Cal.; on the Atchison , Topeka and Santa Fé Coast Line and the Southern Pacific railroads; 208 miles S. E. of San Francisco. Here are a public library, high school, county hospital, business college, waterworks, street railroads , electric lights, National and private banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. fruit growing and canning, farming, the manufacture of wine, and sheep raising . Pop. (1910) 24,892; (1920) 45,086. The chief industries are
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in music, a small piece of wood or ivory placed upon the finger board of certain stringed instruments, to regulate the pitch of the notes produced. pro By pressing the string down to the finger board behind a fret, only so much of the string can be set in vibration as lies between the fret and the bridge . viols contained in a chest had frets, and some of the early forms of the violin were even furnished with them. But not All the only do they prevent the rapid fingering only of difficult passages, but they also entirely deprive the violin of one of its most charming qualities , that of slurring or portamento, an attempt to produce which will, on a fretted instrument , result in a well-defined chromatic scale . Another reason for the abandonment of fretted violins was that, in extreme keys, the intervals could not be tempered . In architecture, a fret is an ornament formed by small bands or fillets , intersecting each other at right angles, used in classical architecture. It is susceptible of many modifications, and is still often employed. In heraldry , a fret is a bearing composed of bars crossed and interlaced.
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