These 7 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Vance, Vandal, Vanderbilt.
ZEBULON BAIRD, an American lawyer; born in Buncombe co., at Washington College, Tenn., and at the University of North Carolina, and was admitted to the bar in 1852. He was member of Congress from North Carolina in 1858-1861; colonel in the Confederate army in the Civil War; governor of North Carolina in 1862-1865, and 1877-1879; and United States Senator from 1879 till his death in Washington, D. C., April 14, 1894.
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a city and county-seat of Clarke co., Wash.; on the Columbia river; and on the Great Northern, the Union Pacific and other railroads; 6 miles N. of Portland, Ore. Here are St. James College (R. C.), the State School for Deaf and Dumb, and the State School for Blind, Fort Vancouver, the headquarters of the Military Department of Columbia, one of the best equipped military posts W. of the Mississippi, National and State banks, and several weekly newspapers. The city has manufactures of lumber, sashes and doors, bricks, artificial stone, ice, etc. Pop. (1910) 9,300; (1920) 12,637.
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GEORGE, an English navigator; born about 1758. He entered the navy as midshipman in 1771; accompanied Cook on his second and third voyage (1772-1774 and 1776-1779); was made 1st lieutenant in 1780; and served in the West Indies till 1789. In 1790 he was put in command of a small squadron sent to take over Nootka from the Spaniards, and was also charged to ascertain if there was a N. W. passage. He sailed in the "Discovery," April 1, 1791, spent some time at the Cape, and afterward made for Australia and New Zealand, the coast of which he surveyed. He then went N. and received formal surrender of Nootka, and spent the three summers of 1792-1794 in surveying the coast as far N. as Cook's Inlet, wintering at the Sandwich Islands. On his return voyage he visited the chief Spanish settlements on the W. coast of South America, and reached England in 1795, where a narrative of his voyage was published in 1798. Vancouver Island was named after him. He died near London, May 10, 1798.
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van-koo'ver, George (1758-1798), an English sailor. He saw service under the famous Captain Cook on his second and third voyages. On his return to England he was made a first lieutenant . In 1790 he was sent out by the English government to search for a northwest passage. During this voyage he surveyed the Pacific coast of North America as far north as Cook's Inlet. On his return to England he published an account of his voyage under the title of A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the World in the Years 1790-5. His name has been perpetuated in Vancouver Island and the city of Vancouver, British Columbia , and in Vancouver, Washington.
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2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about other peoples, religions, or nationalities 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) one of the Slavonic or Teutonic tribes who inhabited the banks of the , Oder and the sea coasts of Pomerania and Mecklenburg, about A. D. 250. At the beginning of the 5th century they traversed the Rhine, the Rhône, and the Pyrenees, and founded a powerful kingdom in Spain. They afterward passed into Africa under their king, Genseric, 429, and after a career of conquest on that continent, during which they had embraced Christianity, Carthage fell under their victorious arms, Oct. 9, 439. Here they commenced the formation of a powerful navy, and fitted out an expedition against Rome, which they sacked June 15-29, 455. Having embraced the Arian heresy in 530, they carried on a cruel persecution against the members of the orthodox faith. Their rule in Africa was destroyed by Belisarius, and the entire nation had disappeared from that continent 558. Hence, a person ignorant and barbarous, and hostile to the progress of the arts and literature.
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CORNELIUS, an American capitalist; born near Stapleton, Staten Island, N. Y., May 27, 1794; early engaged in steamboat transportation between Staten Island and New York and so enlarged his business that he soon gained the complete control of the New York and Staten Island lines. Later he started steamboats in various waters-the Hudson, the Delaware, Long Island Sound, etc.; established steamboat and other connections between New York and California; and by 1864 was the owner or controller of nearly the whole water transportation in and about New York. In that year, however, he withdrew his capital from shipping and invested it in railroads. He secured the management of one railroad after another and in 1877 controlled stocks representing an aggregate capital of $150,000,000, of which he owned fully one-half. In 1861 he presented the swift $800,000 steamship "Vanderbilt" to the United States Government to be used for the capture of Confederate privateers and in 1873 founded the Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., with $500,000, afterward increased to $700,000. At the time of his death in New York City, Jan. 4, 1877, his fortune was estimated at nearly $100,000,000.
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an American capitalist; born in New Brunswick, N. J., May 8, 1821; son of the first Cornelius; appointed vice-president of the Hudson River railroad in 1864 and later of the New York Central railroad; and on the death of his father became president of these railroads, together with the Lake Shore and the Michigan Central. Subsequently he secured control of the Chicago and Northwestern and of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis railroads and also obtained connections with the New York, Chicago and St. Louis and West Shore railroads. He resigned his various offices, because of failing health, in 1883 and placed his affairs in charge of his son Cornelius. Among his public benefactions were the removal of the obelisk from Egypt to Central Park, New York City, and the gift of $200,000 to the Vanderbilt University fund. He died in New York City, Dec. 8, 1885.
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