These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Hunter College, Hunting, Huntingdon.
an institution for the education of women, in New the New York York City, founded as Normal School, in 1870. It received its in honor of Presipresent designation dent Hunter, who was its head for nearly 50 years. There were in 1919 112 instructors and 1,277 students. The president was G. S. Davis, LL. D. The college is supported chiefly by appropriations from the city.
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John (1728-1793), a famous surgeon. He was a native of Lanarkshire, Scotland, an uncle of Joanna Baillie. He was educated at Oxford University. After filling various hospital and army appointments, he settled down in London to the practice of surgery. He was a lecturer in various hospitals. The famous Jenner was one of his students. Dr. Hunter was one of the most progressive surgeons London has ever seen. He was a thorough student. He converted his home into a museum. At his death he left 10,563 specimens and preparations illustrating human and comparative anatomy. His collection now forms the nucleus of the anatomical museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, London. An older brother, William Hunter, was noted likewise for his skill and habits of investigation. He left a very large collection to the University of Glasgow. See Surgery
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in ordinary language, the act or practice of hunting game or wild animals; the chase as a means of livelihood or for sport. In campanology, a term in change-ringing.
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SELINA, COUNT- ESS OF, an English reformer, daughter of Washington Shirley, 2d Earl Ferrers; born Aug. Aug. 24, 24, 1707. 170 She married the Earl of Huntingdon in 1728, and became a widow in 1746. Adopting the principles of the Calvinistic Methodists, she made the famous George Whitefield one of her chaplains, and assumed a leadership among his followers, who came to be known as "The Countess of Huntingdon's Connection." For the education of ministers she established and maintained a college at Trevecca; and built, or became possessed of, numerous chapels, the prin- 17, 1791.
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a borough and county-seat of Huntingdon co., Pa.; on the Juniata river, and on the Pennsylvania and the Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain railroads; 202 miles W. of Philadelphia. It is the farming and mining trade center of the county; has coal mines, and stove, hosiery, sewerpipe, and furniture factories. It is the seat of Juniata College, Orphans' Home, and State Industrial Reformatory. There are electric lights, public high school, daily and weekly newspapers, and National banks. Pop. (1910) 6,861; (1920) 7,051.
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an east-midland county of England, with an area of about 365 square miles. It is almost agricultural or pasture land, producing most of the standard vegetables. There are manufactures of paper, parchment, and tile. Pop. about 56,000. The capital is Huntingdon.
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ARCHER MILTON, an American writer, born in New York City in 1870. He was educated privately in New York and Spain. He was a son of Collis P. Huntington, and devoted a part of his great wealth to the foundation of the Hispanic Society of America to which he gave a magnificent building. He was a member of many foreign and American societies. He edited "The Poem of the Cid" (3 vols., 1897) and various other works. He contributed to magazines on Spanish- American subjects.
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a city and countyseat of Huntington co., Ind.; on both sides of the Little river, and on the Wabash, the Cincinnati, Bluffton and Chicago, and the Erie railroads; 48 miles E. of Logansport. It is in the center of a large coal mining and lime burning region, and has abundant water power, used in railroad repair shops, lime and cement works, bicycle, shoe, plow, and barrel factories. It has eleclights, public library, public high schools, daily and weekly newspapers, National bank. Pop. (1910) and a 10,272; (1920) 14,000.
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a city in Cabell co., W. Va.; on the Ohio and Guyandotte rivers, and on the Chesapeake e and Ohio. and the Baltimore and Ohio railroads; 52 miles W. of Charleston. It has steamship communications with all important river ports, and extensive manufactures of railway cars, brick, machinery, ice, etc., and the shops of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. It is the seat of Marshall College, the State Normal School, and the Douglas Colored High School, and has electric lights and street railways, daily and weekly newspapers, and National banks. It was named after the late Collis P. Huntington. Pop. (1910) 31,161; (1920) 50,177.
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DANIEL, an American painter; born in New York City, Oct. 14, 1816. He studied at Hamilton College. After a visit to Europe in 1839 he returned to New York and devoted himself to portraits, but he executed a great number of genre and historical pieces. In 1862-1869 he was president of the National Academy, and again in 1877-1891. Among his later works are "Philosophy and Christian Art" (1878), and "Goldsmith's Daughter" (1884). Gal "Mercy's Dream," in the Corcoran lery, Washington, is one of his most notable works. He painted portraits of Presidents Lincoln and Grant, and Senator John Sherman. He died April 18, 1906.
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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) COLLIS POTTER, one of the earliest American railroad builders; born in Connecticut in 1821. He started at the age of 15 as a peddler of clocks in the South and West. In 1848 he joined the rush to California and eleven years later he was one of the leading promoters of the Central Pacific railway. In 1881 Huntington, with Leland Stanford, built the Southern Pacific and Chesapeake and Ohio railroads. His enormous fortune, accumulated in these successful ventures, was partly used to further Indian and negro education. At his death in 1900 he bequeathed his valuable collection of paintings to the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
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ELLSWORTH, an American scientist and explorer; born in Galesburg, Ill., in 1876. He graduated from Beloit College in 1897 and afterward took post-graduate courses at Harvard. He carried on explorations in Turkey and Mesopotamia from 1897 to 1901. In 1903 and 1904 he was research assistant for the Car Carnegie Institute in Russian Turkestan. This was followed by explorations in Chinese Turkestan, India, China, and Siberia. He was instructor of geography at Yale from 1907 to 1910, assistant professor from 1910 to 1915, and research associate from 1917. He was a member of many geographical and scientific societies. He was the author of "Explorations in Turkestan" (1905); "The Pulse of Asia" (1907); "Palestine and Its Transformation" (1911); "Civilization and Climate" (1915); "Red Man's Continent" (1919).
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