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Finley, Samuel

(Encyclopedia) Finley, Samuel, 1715–66, Presbyterian minister, president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton), b. Ireland. He went to North America in 1734 and is believed to have studied under William Ten...

Auchmuty, Sir Samuel

(Encyclopedia) Auchmuty, Sir Samuel ôkmyo͞oˈtē, ôkˈ–, äˈmətē [key], b. 1758 (not, as commonly stated, 1756) in New York City, d. 1822, British general. A Loyalist soldier in the American Revolution, he w...

Barnett, Samuel Augustus

(Encyclopedia) Barnett, Samuel Augustus bärˈnĕt [key], 1844–1913, English clergyman and social worker. As vicar of St. Jude's, Whitechapel, in the slums of London, he pioneered in the social settlement movement...

Lover, Samuel

(Encyclopedia) Lover, Samuel, 1797–1868, Irish painter, novelist, and songwriter. Before turning to literature, Lover was a painter, and in 1828 he became a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy of Art. However, h...

Fallows, Samuel

(Encyclopedia) Fallows, Samuel, 1835–1922, American clergyman, bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church, b. England, grad. Univ. of Wisconsin, 1859. He served with the Union army in the Civil War and afterward held...

Mazzuchelli, Samuel Charles

(Encyclopedia) Mazzuchelli, Samuel Charles mäˈzho͞okĕlē [key], 1806–64, Italian missionary in America. He was a Dominican. He was ordered (1830) to the island of Mackinac to be the only permanent priest in th...

Brannan, Samuel

(Encyclopedia) Brannan, Samuel, 1819–89, California pioneer, b. Saco, Maine. Converted to Mormonism, he edited a Mormon paper in New York City before leading a party of Mormons by sea from New York to California. ...

Alexander, Samuel

(Encyclopedia) Alexander, Samuel, 1859–1938, British philosopher, b. Australia. From 1893 to 1924 he was professor of philosophy at Victoria Univ., Manchester. Strongly influenced by the theory of evolution, Alexa...
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