These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Higgins, High Church, High German.
FRANK WAYLAND, an American public official, born in Rushford, N. Y., in 1865. He graduated from Riverview Military Academy; entered business in which he was very successful; and was elected to the State Senate in 1894, serving till 1902. In the following year he was appointed lieutenant-governor and was elected governor on the Republican ticket for the term 1905 to 1907. He died in the latter year.
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FRANCIS JOHN, an American naval officer, born in Boston, Mass., in 1843. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1861; became a lieutenant in the following year and rose to the various grades, becoming commodore in 1898. In the Civil War he served with the West Gulf Blockading Squadron and was wounded in this service. He took part in many important actions and at the close of the war he saw service on the sea and on shore. He commanded the Naval Training Station at Newport from 1887 to 1890; was captain of the Mare Island Navy Yard in 1894-1895; and on special duty at the New York Navy Yard in 1896 and 1897. During the war with Spain he commanded the battleship "Massachusetts" rank for conspicuous conduct in battle. From 1898 to 1901 he was chairman of the Lighthouse Board and from 1901 to 1903 commander-in-chief of the North Atlantic Fleet. His last service was as commandant in the Washington Navy Yard from 1903 to 1905. He retired from active service in the latter year.
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HENRY LEE, an American financier and philanthropist, born in New York City in 1834. He studied at Harvard, but left to travel in Europe and to study music there. At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted to serve in the First Massachusetts Cavalry, and was brevetted lieutenant colonel.' He entered the banking business in 1868 as a member of the firm of Lee, Higginson & Co. and acquired a large fortune. His chief interest was music and he maintained as long as he lived the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the most noted musical organization in the United States. He also gave largely to charity. His prominence in all fields of activity won for him the name of "Boston's first citizen" and honorary degrees from Harvard and Yale universities. He died in 1919. - HIGGINSON, THOMAS WORTH, an American author; born in Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 22, 1823; was graduated at- Harvard College in 1841. He entered the Unitarian ministry in 1847, but left in 1858, becoming active in anti-slavery agitation. During the Civil War he served first as captain and THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON later as colonel. His publications inand was advanced three numbers in clude: "Woman and Her Wishes"; "Sympathy of Religions"; "Young Folks' History of the United States" "Young, Folks' Book of American Ex plorers"; "English History for Americans"; "Cheerful Yesterdays"; "Old Cambridge"; etc. He died May 9, 1911.
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one of the three great parties in the English Church. They regard the Episcopal form of government as so essential to a true church that, as a rule, they do not feel free to recognize, as sister churches, those Christian denominations which are under other forms of government. During the 19th century High-churchism developed first into Tractarianism and then into Ritualism. Believing the Church to have received the right of autonomy from its Divine Head, the High-church party disapprove the Royal Supremacy, and dispute the right of the civil courts to try ecclesiastical cases. SIVES.
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originally the Teutonic dialect spoken in the S. and elevated parts of Germany, as distinguished from Platt Deutsch or Low German, spoken more lowland portions of in the N. and Germany.
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a city in North Carolina, in Guilford co., on the Southern and the Carolina and Yadkin River railroads. It has important industries, including furniture mills, car shops, wagon factories, silk mills, etc. Pop. (1910) 9,525; (1920) 14,302.
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the chief priest in any faith, he who occupies the highest place in the hierarchy, as the Pontifex Maximus among the Romans. In Judaism, the divinely-appointed head of the Jewish hierarchy. The first to hold office was Aaron. The high priests were to be without blemish, were to avoid eating things which died of themselves, or marrying a widow or a divorced person. They were not to make mourning for private or domestic sorrows. The Romans were afraid of the influence likely to be acquired by so exalted a spiritual functionary and apparently appointed a new one every year (John xviii: 18). term which
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the open sea or ocean. The claims of various nations to exclusive rights and superiority over extensive tracts of the ocean highway have been settled after much controversy by a general international law. The principle now accepted is that the jurisdiction of maritime states extends only for 3 miles, or within former cannon range of their own coasts; the remainder of the seas being high seas, accessible on equal terms to all nations. Inland seas and estuaries, of course, are excepted.
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operated by a large measure of force of some sort. A high-pressure alarm in a steam en- HIGH EXPLOSIVES. See EXPLO- gine is an alarm intended to give notice of a dangerous head of steam, and to prevent an explosion of a steam generator. A high-pressure engine is a steam engine, condensing or non-condensing, in which the the safety-valve is loaded (United States) with a weight equivalent to a boiler-pressure of 35 pounds to the square inch. The term "highpressure" has a very indefinite signification; condensing engines are often called "low-pressure," and non-condensing engines "high-pressure," but the question of condensing is not necessarily one of pressure.
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2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) the name given by secret organization Americans to a known to exist among the Chinamen in North America, and which has caused considerable disturbance in the Chinese population of San Francisco, Calan The Chinese call these societies pro ocy or "hatchet" societies, and the members "hatchet boys." The members claim to be Chinese Freemasons, but seem in reality to be lawless spirits unable to brook the discipline of the regular charitable societies, and who have consequently organized for mutual protection crime.
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