(Encyclopedia) Kroto, Harry (Sir Harold Walter Kroto), 1939–2016, British chemist, b. Harold Walter Krotoschiner, Ph.D. Univ. of Sheffield, 1964. Kroto was the son of German parents who fled Nazi…
(Encyclopedia) Garfield, Harry Augustus, 1863–1942, American educator, b. Hiram, Ohio, grad. Williams 1885, studied law at Columbia; son of President James A. Garfield. From 1888 to 1903 he practiced…
CHAPIN Graham Hurd , a Representative from New York;
born in Salisbury, Conn., February 10, 1799;
moved to Lyons, Wayne County, N.Y., in 1817;
was graduated from Yale College in 1819;
studied…
(Encyclopedia) Truman, Harry S., 1884–1972, 33d President of the United States, b. Lamar, Mo.
Truman remained active in politics for many years after his retirement, campaigning around the…
CHAPIN Chester William , a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Ludlow, Mass., December 16, 1798;
attended the common schools and Westfield Academy, Westfield, Mass.; engaged in mercantile…
BURCHARD Horatio Chapin , a Representative from Illinois; born in Marshall, Oneida County, N.Y., September
22, 1825; attended the public schools and private preparatory schools; was graduated…
CHAPIN Alfred Clark , a Representative from New York; born in South Hadley, Hampshire County, Mass.,
March 8, 1848; resided in Springfield, Mass., in Keene, N.H., and in Rutland, Vt.; attended…
(Encyclopedia) Selfridge, Harry Gordon, 1858–1947, American-British retail merchant, b. Ripon, Wis. He moved to Chicago in 1876, where he started a successful 25-year career at Marshall Field &…
(Encyclopedia) Bridges, Harry (Alfred Renton Bridges), 1901–90, American labor leader, b. Melbourne, Australia. Arriving (1920) as an immigrant seaman in San Francisco, he became a longshoreman and…
(Encyclopedia) Hopkins, Harry Lloyd, 1890–1946, American public official, b. Sioux City, Iowa. A social worker, he was appointed (1931) head of New York's Temporary Emergency Relief Administration by…
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