These 8 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Root, Roper.
ROBERT BARNWELL, an American lawyer ; born in New York City, Aug. 7, 1829. He was an enthusiastic sportsman , and published: "The Game Fish of North America " (1860); "The Game Birds of the North" (1866); "Superior Fishing" (1866); "Florida and the Game Water Birds" (1868); "Five Acres Too Much " (1869), a satire provoked by Edmund Morris's "Ten Acres Enough"; and " Progressive Petticoats," a satire on female physicians. He died June 14, 1906.
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THEODORE, JR., an American military officer and public official, born in Oyster Bay, N. Y., in 1887, oldest son of Theodore Roosevelt (q. v.). He graduated from Harvard University in 1908 , receiving an honorary degree of M.A. in 1919. After leaving college he engaged in business. Upon the entrance of the United States into the World War, he volunteered, being commissioned major of the 26th infantry on April 20, 1917, and being promoted lieutenant-colonel in September, 1918. He saw service in France from June, ne, 1917, to the end of the war, participating in the battles at Cantigny, Soissons, and in the Argonne- Meuse and the St. Mihiel offensives. He was wounded and received the Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre. He was an organizer of the American Legion, a member of the National Executive Committee of the Boy Scouts of America, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, JR. and trustee of the American Museum of ber, 1919, he was elected to the New York Natural History, New York. In Novem- State Ass State Assembly, and was elected again Americans" (1919). He was nominated in November, 1920. He wrote "Average March 7, 1921, by President Harding, and confirmed March 9th.
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KERMIT, an American writer, born in Oyster Bay, N. Y., in 1889, the second son of THEODORE ROOSE- VELT (q. v.). He was educated at Harvard University in 1909, and in 1910 he accompanied his father on a hunting trip to Africa, being also his companion on his South American trip in 1914. From 1911 to 1916 he was engaged in engineering and banking enterprises in South America. During the World War he served as captain in the British army in Mesopotamia, being transferred to the 7th artillery, first division, United States Army, in June, 1918. He was honorably discharged in March, 1919, and received the British Military Cross and the Montenegrin War Cross. After the war he was for some time secretary of the American Ship and Commerce Corporation and of the Kerr Navigation Corporation. He wrote "War in the Garden of Eden" (1919).
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QUENTIN, an American aviator, youngest son of Theodore QUENTIN ROOSEVELT National Convention, in July, 1920. Fol- Roosevelt (q. v.), born at Oyster Bay, lowing his nomination he took a vigorous N. Y., in 1897. At the entrance of the suc- United States into the World War he at once enlisted in the aviation service and, after training, was assigned to the American Air Force in France. On July 14, 1918, he was flying with an American squadron, when it was suddenly attacked by German aeroplanes . A struggle ensued which culminated in a duel between Lieutenant Roosevelt and a German noncommissioned officer. The latter ceeded in so injuring Lieutenant Roosevelt's machine that it fell near the village of Chamery, about six miles north of the Marne. Lieutenant Roosevelt was found to have been shot through the head. He was buried with military honors by the German airmen and in 1920 the area in which his body lay was given to Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt by the French Government.
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GEORGE FREDERICK, an American musician and song-writer; born in Sheffield, Mass., Aug. 30, 1820. His first song, "Hazel Dell" (1853), was very popular. It appeared as the work of "Wurzel," the German name for "Root," a pseudonym he often used later. Among the most popular of his songs are: "Rosalie, the Prairie Flower" (1855); "Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom" (1861); "Just Before the Battle, Mother" (1863); "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys are Marching" (1864); and the well-known quartet, "There's Music in the Air." His cantatas include "The Flower Queen" (1852) and "The Haymakers" (1857). He did much to elevate the standard of music in the United States, and also published methods for the piano and organ, handbooks on harmony and teaching, etc. He died Aug. 6, 1895.
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The internal operating parts of this positive blower consist of two revolvers, each of which is operative. Externally the blower consists of the case, four journals and journal-boxes, four cut gears, an oil-tight housing, and two driving-pulleys. This blower operates by a regular displacement of air at each revolution, whether it runs fast or slow. When the air enters the case at the opening for induction, and is closed in by the wings of the revolvers, it is absolutely confined, and positively forced forward until brought to the education-pipe, where it must be discharged, or the machine stop, if perfectly tight, as there can be no backward escapement of the air after it once enters the case, the contact being kept up at all times in the centre of the blower between the pistons or revolvers, thus preventing any escape of the air in that direction. See BLOWER; BLAST.
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A very handy and useful substitute for heavy iron slings, when the flasks to be turned over are not too ponderous. Made as a single strand, with eyes at each end, or by splicing both ends of the rope together, they are infinitely superior to chains where large wood flasks are in constant service. The dealers supply these slings, leather-bound at the loops and middle, as desired. See SLINGS.
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DANIEL CALHOUN, an American public official, born in Marlboro S. C., in 1867. He was educated at Trinity College, N. C., and at the Na- popularity. tional University, Washington, D. C. From 1892 to 1894 he was a member of the S. C. House of Representatives, from 1894 to 1897 clerk of the United States Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce; from 1900 to 1910 expert special agent, United States Census Bureau; from 1910 to 1913 clerk of the Ways and Means Committee, United States House of Representatives; and from 1913 to 1916 first assistant postmaster general. He took active part in President Wilson's election campaign in 1916, was vice-chairman of the United States Tariff Commission from March to September, 1917, when he became commissioner of internal revenue. He greatly improved the collection of cotton statistics, originated the publication of the series of reports reports on cotton supply, and made a systematic study on behalf of the government of domestic and foreign textile industries. He wrote the "United States Post Office" (1917).
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