(Encyclopedia) Abbott, Greg (Gregory Wayne Abbott), 1957–, U.S. lawyer and politician, b. Wichita Falls, Tex. A conservative Republican, he worked in private practice and served as a state judge,…
(Encyclopedia) Taylor, city (1990 pop. 70,811), Wayne co., SE Mich., a suburb of Detroit adjacent to Dearborn; founded 1847 as a township, inc. as a city 1968. A small rural village until World War…
(Encyclopedia) Southfield, city (1990 pop. 75,728), Oakland co., SE Mich., a suburb of Detroit, on the Rouge River; laid out 1817, inc. as a city 1958. There are electronics research, meat-processing…
(Encyclopedia) Purdue UniversityPurdue Universitypərdy&oomacr;ˈ, –d&oomacr;ˈ [key], main campus at West Lafayette, Ind.; land-grant with state support; coeducational; chartered 1865, opened…
(Encyclopedia) River RougeRiver Rouger&oomacr;zh [key], city (1990 pop. 11,314), Wayne co., SE Mich., an industrial suburb of Detroit, on the Detroit and Rouge rivers; settled c.1817, inc. 1899.…
(Encyclopedia) Ellison, Keith Maurice, 1963–, African-American politician, the first Muslim to be elected to the U.S. Congress; b. Detroit. A convert to Islam from Roman Catholicism while at Wayne…
(Encyclopedia) Browne, Thomas, d. 1825, Loyalist commander in the American Revolution. A resident of Augusta, Ga., he was the victim of colonist violence in 1775, when he was tarred and feathered for…
(Encyclopedia) Blass, Bill (William Ralph Blass), 1922–2002, American fashion designer, b. Fort Wayne, Ind. Active for three decades, he was most noted for high-quality, high-priced, and…
(Encyclopedia) Blunt, James Gilpatrick, 1826–81, American physician and Union general in the Civil War, b. Hancock co., Maine. He practiced medicine in Ohio and later in Kansas, where he became…
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