BAILEY Willis Joshua , a Representative from Kansas;
born near Mount Carroll, Carroll County, Ill., October 12, 1854;
attended the common schools, Mount Carroll High School, and the University of…
Senate Years of Service: 1824-1825; 1825-1828
Party: Crawford Republican; Jacksonian COBB Thomas Willis , a Representative and a Senator from Georgia; born in Columbia County, Ga., in
1784;…
(Encyclopedia) Parton, James, 1822–91, American biographer, b. England. He came to the United States in 1827. In 1848 he joined the staff of N. P. Willis's Home Journal in New York City. His…
(Encyclopedia) Brown, Olympia, 1835–1926, American Universalist minister and woman-suffrage leader, b. Prairie Ronde, Mich.; grad. Antioch College, 1860, and the theological school of St. Lawrence…
ALEXANDER Joshua Willis , a Representative from Missouri; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, January
22, 1852; attended public and private schools; graduated from Christian
University (now Culver-Stockton…
BRADLEY Willis Winter , a Representative from California; born in Ransomville, Niagara
County, N.Y., June 28, 1884; moved with his parents to Milnor, N.Dak., in July
1884 and to Forman, N.Dak., in…
Senate Years of Service: 1946-1966
Party: Democrat ROBERTSON Absalom Willis , a Representative and a Senator from Virginia; born in Martinsburg,
Berkeley County, W.Va., May 27, 1887; moved to…
(Encyclopedia) Coral Sea Islands, external territory of Australia, comprising scattered small islands and reefs spread over c.400,000 sq mi (1,035,995 sq km) of the South Pacific Ocean, E of the…
