(Encyclopedia) Sewell, Jonathan, 1766–1839, Canadian jurist, b. Cambridge, Mass. He was educated in England and emigrated to Canada in 1785. A lawyer, he became attorney general of Lower Canada (…
(Encyclopedia) Dickinson, Jonathan, 1688–1747, American Presbyterian clergyman, a founder and first president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton Univ.), b. Hatfield, Mass., grad. Yale, 1706…
(Encyclopedia) Carver, Jonathan, 1710–80, American explorer, b. Weymouth, Mass. He served in the French and Indian War and in 1766 was hired by Robert Rogers to undertake a journey to some of the…
(Encyclopedia) Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew, 1883–1953, American general, b. Walla Walla, Wash. Commissioned in the army in 1906, he reached the rank of brigadier general in 1938. In World War II he…
(Encyclopedia) Daniels, Jonathan Worth, 1902–81, American newspaper editor and author, b. Raleigh, N.C. In 1925 he joined the staff of the Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer, edited by his father,…
(Encyclopedia) Edwards, Jonathan, the younger, 1745–1801, American theologian, b. Northampton, Mass., grad. College of New Jersey (now Princeton), 1765; son of Jonathan Edwards (1703–58). His career…
Brother Jonathan. In the revolutionary war, Washington, being in great want of supplies for the army, and having unbounded confidence in his friend, Jonathan Trumbull, governor of…
A noted coffee-house in Change Alley, described in the Tatler as the general mart of stock-jobbers. What is now called the Stock Exchange was called Jonathan's. “Yesterday the brokers and…
POLLARD Henry Moses , a Representative from Missouri;
born in Plymouth, Windsor County, Vt., June 14, 1836;
attended the common schools;
was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in…
POLLARD Ernest Mark , a Representative from Nebraska;
born in Nehawka, Cass County, Nebr., April 15, 1869;
attended the district school in Nehawka and was graduated from Nebraska State University…
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