These 13 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Thomasville, Thomasville, Thompson.
a Carolina, in Davidson co. It is on the Southern and the Carolina and Yadkin railroads. Its industries include machine a woodworking plant, cotton mills, chair factories, etc. It is the seat of the Thomasville Baptist Orphanage. Pop. (1910), 3,877; (1920), 5,676.
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a city and countyseat of Thomas co., Ga.; on the Atlantic Coast Line, Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic, and the Florida Central railroad; 32 miles N. E. of Tallahassee, Fla. Here are a court house, South Georgia College, Young's College, the School for Colored Pupils, waterworks, electric lights, National and State banks, and several newspapers. It is a noted winter health resort. The city has iron foundries and machine shops. Pop. (1910), 6,727; (1920), 8,196. city of North
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DENMAN, an American actor; born in Girard, Pa., in 1833; began his professional career as a dancer, Irish character and general utility man. Later he starred in the comedy "Joshua Whitcomb," a play of his own, which was afterward remodeled as "The Old Homestead." He died April 14, 1911.
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MORTIMER M., pseudonym "Q "Q. K. PHILANDER DOESTICKS, P. B.," an American humorist; born in Riga, N. Y., Sept. 2, 1830. He contributed at first to the daily and in later years regularly to the weekly newspapers, and published in book form in 1855-1857; "Doesticks:
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JOHN POLK, an Ameri- What He Says"; "Plu-Ri-Bus-Tah," a New York"; "Nothing to Say"; "The Elephant Club." He died in New York city, June 25, 1875.
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AUGUSTUS CHARLES, an American clergyman; born in Goshen, Conn., April 30, 1812; was educated at Yale University and graduated at the Hartford Theological Seminary in 1838; studied abroad in 1838-1839; was ordained in the Congregational Church, became pastor of the Eliot Congregational Church, Roxbury, Mass., in 1842. He was a delegate to the Mildmay Missionary Conference in 1878 and the London Missionary Conference in 1888. His publications include "Better Land" (1855); "Morning Hours in Patmos" (1860); "The Mercy Seat" (1863); "Seeds and Sheaves" (1869); "Moravian Missions" (1882); "Foreign Missions" (1889); "Protestant Missions" (1894); "Eliot Memorial" (1900); etc. He died in 1901.
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ERWIN W., an American diplomatic official; born in Colquitt co., Ga., 1859, and graduated from Cornell University in 1881. His earlier years were spent in journalism and investigations of cotton and markets in Europe for the Department of Commerce. In 1914 he was appointed commercial attaché of the Department of Commerce and assigned to duty at Berlin and the Scandinavian capitals. Later he became manager of the district office of the United States Department of Commerce in New Orleans, La.
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FRANCIS, an English poet; son of a Lancashire physician; born about 1863. He was educated at Ushaw College, near Durham, and studied medicine at Owens College, Manchester. He determined to take up literature, however, and went to London. His first appearance in print was in the columns of "Merrie England." Collected volumes appeared as follows: "Poems" (1893); "Sister Songs" (1896); "New Poems" (1897); "A Renegade Poet" (1910), and several religious books. He died in 1907. FRANK ERNEST, an THOMPSON, THOMPSON, American educator; born in Duquoin, III., 1871. In 1901 he became an assistant instructor of education at Leland Stanford University; then, a year later, instructor in the State Normal School in San Francisco. He became professor and director of the College of Education of the University of Colorado in 1907.
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HOLLAND, an American educator and editor; born in Randolph co., N. C., 1873 and graduate of the University of North Carolina. He began his career as principal of the high school at Concord, N. C. (1895-9), became a fellow of Columbia in 1899 and was tutor of history there, later instructor (1902-6) and assistant professor (1906). He finally became associate professor at the College of the City of New York. He has been editor-in-chief of "The Book of Knowledge" and editor of "The People and the Trusts" (1912) and "The World War" (1920).
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DANIEL GREEN- LEAF, an American author; born in Montpelier, Vt., Feb. 9, 1850; was graduated at Amherst College in 1869; taught for three years, and was admitted to the New York bar in 1872. Thereafter he practised his profession in New York, while his leisure hours were devoted to literary pursuits, lecturing, etc. He made notable contributions to many periodicals; was the author of several books; and an active member of many literary and social clubs and societies. He died in New York city, July 10, 1897.
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HELEN BISHOP, an American educator; born in Chillicothe, Ohio. From 1903 till 1907 she was an assistant instructor at the Kansas State Agricultural College, then became professor of household economics at Lincoln College, in Lincoln, Ill. (1909-12). Was professor of home economics at New Hampshire College (1913-15), then professor of dietetics (1915-18) at the Connecticut College for Women, at New London. In 1918 she became dean of the division of home economics and professas State Agricultural College.
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HUGH MILLER, an American clergyman; born in County Londonderry, Ireland, June 5, 1830; was graduated at the Nashotah Theological Seminary, Wis., in 1852; was ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1856, and was Professor of Church History at the Nashotah Theological Seminary and editor of the "American Churchman," Chicago, in 1860-1870. He held the rectorship of Christ Church, New York City, in 1871-1875, and that of Trinity, New Orleans, in 1876-1883. He was consecrated Bishop of Mississippi in 1887. Dr. Thompson was the author of "Unity and Its Restoration" (1859); "Sin and sor of nutrition and dietetics at the Kan- Penalty" (1862); "Kingdom of God" (1872); "The World and the Kingdom" (1888); "The World and the Wrestlers" (1895); "More Copy" (1897). He died at Jackson, Miss., Nov. 17, 1902.
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LAUNT, an American sculptor; born in Abbeyleix, Ireland, Feb. 8, 1833; went to Albany, N. Y., in 1847, and there entered the office of a professor of anatomy. Later he studied sculpture under Erastus D. Palmer, produced several portrait busts and ideal heads of merit, and in 1850 removed to New York City, where he became an associate of the Academy of Design in 1859; an academician in 1862; and vicepresident in 1874. After traveling in Italy for several years he returned to New York and thereafter devoted himself to his art work. His productions include bust entitled "Elaine"; "Morning a Glory," a medallion; statues of Abraham Pierson at New Haven, Conn., and of Winfield Scott, at Washington, D. C.; portrait busts of William C. Bryant in the Metropolitan Museum, New York City, Edwin Booth as Hamlet, S. F. B. Morse, etc. He died in 1894.
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