Illinois Alexander County, Illinois People QuickFactsAlexander CountyIllinoisPopulation, 2005 estimate 8,92712,763,371Population, percent change, April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2005 -6.9%2.8%…
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(Encyclopedia) Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847–1922, American scientist, inventor of the telephone, b. Edinburgh, Scotland, educated at the Univ. of Edinburgh and University College, London; son of…
(Encyclopedia) Newlands, John Alexander Reina, 1838–98, British chemist. He studied at the Royal College of Chemistry in London and worked as an industrial chemist. Newlands prepared the first…
Senate Years of Service: 1902-1907
Party: Republican ALGER Russell Alexander , a Senator from Michigan; born in Lafayette Township, Medina County,
Ohio, February 27, 1836; worked on a farm;…
Senate Years of Service: 1944-1959
Party: Republican SMITH Howard Alexander , a Senator from New Jersey; born in New York City, January 30, 1880; attended
the Cutler School in New York City;…
(Encyclopedia) Mudd, Samuel Alexander, 1833–83, Maryland physician and Confederate sympathizer who on April 15, 1865, set the broken left leg of Lincoln's fleeing assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Mudd…
(Encyclopedia) McClernand, John Alexander, 1812–1900, Union general in the American Civil War, b. Breckinridge co., Ky. He was admitted (1832) to the Illinois bar and sat as a Democrat in the U.S.…
(Encyclopedia) Galt, Sir Alexander TillochGalt, Sir Alexander Tillochtĭlˈək gôlt [key], 1817–93, Canadian statesman, b. England; son of John Galt. In 1835 he went to Canada in the service of the…
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