These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Woolley, Woolman, Woolsey.
MARY EMMA, an American educator, born in Norwalk, Conn., in 1863. She graduated from Brown University in 1894. From 1886 to 1891 she was instructor at the Wheaton Seminary. In 1896 she was appointed as sociate professor of Biblical history at Wellesley College , and after filling several posts on the faculty of that institution, was appointed president of Mt. Holyoke College in 1900. She was a member of many learned and patriotic societies.
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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) JOHN, an American Quaker preacher and anti-slavery writer; born in Northampton , N. J., in August, 1720. His writings contain the protest published in America against the slave trade. His works include: "Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes" ( Philadelphia, 1753 and 1762); "Considerations on Pure Wisdom," etc. (1768); " Considerations on the True Harmony of Mankind," etc. (1770); "Epistles to Quarterly Meetings of Friends," etc. (1772 ). His "Journal of Life and Travels" was published in Philadelphia in 1775, and edited by Whittier, 1871. He died in York, England, Oct. 5, 1772.
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THEODORE DWIGHT, an American educator; born in New York City, Oct. 31, at Yale College in 1820; studied law and 31, 1801; was graduated later theology; was tutor at Yale in 1823-1825; licensed to preach in 1825; studied in Europe in 1827-1830; was Professor of Greek at Yale from 1831 to 1846; and then its president till 1871. In 1871-1881 he was president of the American company of revisers of the New Testament . Besides editions of Greek plays, etc., his works include an "Introduction to the Study of International Law" (5th ed. 1879); "Essays on Divorce and Divorce Legislation" (1869); "Political Science; or the State, Theoretically and Practically Considered" (2 vols. 1877); " Religion of the Past and of the Future " (1871); "Communism and Socialism" (1880); edited Lieber's "Civil Liberty and Self-Governcal Ethics" (1871). He died in New ment" (1871) and a "Manual of Politi- Haven, Conn., July 1, 1889. FENI- MORE, an American novelist and poet;
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Sarah Chancey (1845-), an American author, better known by her pseudonym of Susan Coolidge. She has written stories and poems for children as well as books for older people. What Katy Did and What Katy Did at School are among her most popular stories.
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CONSTANCE born in Claremont , N. H., March 5, 1848. Her principal books are: "Castle No where" (1875); "Rodman the Keeper" (1880); "Anne" ( 1882); "For the Major" (1883); "East Angels" (1886); "Jupiter Lights" (1889 ); "Horace Chase" (1894); "The Front Yard, and Other Italian Stories" (1895 ). She died in Venice in January, 1894.
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a town and county of Kent, on the Thames, 8 miles parliamentary borough of England , 3 miles along the river, and owes its imbelow London Bridge. It stretches about portance to the great arsenal, which has of gun and carriage factories, laboraa circumference of 4 miles, and consists tory, barracks, ordnance departments, etc. At North Woolwich, on the oprosite side of the river, many houses and extensive factories have of late years sprung up. Pop. about 120,000.
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FRANK W., an American merchant, born at Rodman, N. education and also attended a business Y., in 1852. He received a public school college. After serving an apprenticeship New York, he conceived the idea of as clerk in stores in various cities in establishing a store in New York in which no article should sell for more than 5c. He opened such a store in Utica , ter, Pa., in the same year, where he N. Y., in 1879, but removed to Lancasopened a similar store. He opened stores in various cities, until before his death they numbered over 1,000 in the Britain. These were controlled by the United States , and about 75 in Great Woolworth corporation, of which he was for either 5 or 10c. The stores were president. The articles in his stores sold exceedingly profitable and he became the possessor of a large fortune. He built the Woolworth building, at the time of its construction the highest in the world, died in 1919. on lower Broadway, New York City. He
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a city in Providence co., R. I.; on the Blackstone river, and on the New England, and the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroads, 16 miles N. by W. of Providence. It contains a public library, churches of the principal denominations, a high school, Soldiers' Monument, fair grounds, waterworks, electric lights, National and savings banks, and daily and weekly newspapers. A bridge here crosses the river, besides numerous others. The city is the trading center of northern Rhode Island and adjoining Massachusetts towns. The prosperity of the city is chiefly due to its industries. It has large manufactories of cotton cloth, woolen and worsted mills, rubber shoe factories, knit goods, wringers, mill and general machinery, boxes, rubber boots, harness pads, etc. Pop. (1910) 38,125; (1920) 43,496.
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now generally called curara, obtained from the Etrychnos toxifera, and used by the South American Indians as an arrow poison. An alcoholic extract, called curara or curarin, is obtained from the crude woorali, which is in commerce a black-brown resinous mass, soluble in water, but slightly so in alcohol. The alcoholic extract, obtained by Roulin and Boussingault in 1828, was a solid transparent mass, of an excessively bitter taste, and possessed all the virulence of the woorali poison. The woorali poison contains no strychnine, but belongs to the narcotic rather than to the tetanic poisons. It is extremely virulent and rapid in its action, so much so that a large animal may be killed by a poisoned arrow in five minutes, and it may retain all its properties for an indefinite length of time if kept dry.
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a city and county-seat of Wayne co., O.; on Killbuck creek, and on the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore and Ohio railroads; 25 miles W. of Massillon. It is in an agricultural section. Here are Wooster University (Presb.), the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, a high school, court house, electric lights, waterworks, National and other banks, and daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. It has manufactories of doors, sashes and blinds, carriages and wagons paving brick, harness, furniture, flour, mill gearing, boilers, engines, pianos, etc. Pop. (1910) 6,136; (1920)
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