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McMILLAN Thomas Sanders , a Representative from South Carolina; born near Ulmers, Allendale
County, S.C., November 27, 1888; attended the common schools near Ulmers;
graduated from Orangeburg (S.C…
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1842; received such an education as was then attainable and was graduated from
Wood High School;…
FISH Hamilton , a Representative from New York; born in Albany, N.Y., April 17,
1849; attended private schools in this country and in Switzerland, and was
graduated from Columbia College, New York…
(Encyclopedia) Berkman, AlexanderBerkman, Alexanderbĕrkˈmän, bûrkˈmən [key], 1870–1936, anarchist, b. Vilna (then in Russian Lithuania). He immigrated to the United States c.1887. Angered by the…
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LONGWORTH Nicholas , a Representative from Ohio; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, November 5,
1869; attended the Franklin School in Cincinnati, and was graduated from
Harvard University in 1891; spent…
by Robert Burns Song-Farewell To ElizaEpitaph For Robert Aiken, Esq.A Bard's Epitaph Is there a whim-inspired fool,
Owre fast for thought, owre hot for rule,
Owre blate to…
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