Inglis Fletcher Papers, 1883-1967, 2015

Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948

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American novelist and non-fiction writer. From the description of Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton collection, 1907-1945. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 44590095 California author. From the description of TLS, n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754866384 Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton was an American novelist, short-story writer, biographer, and literary critic. From the description of Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton collection of ...

Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965

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Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (February 5, 1900 – July 14, 1965) was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat. Raised in Bloomington, Illinois, Stevenson was a member of the Democratic Party. He served in numerous positions in the federal government during the 1930s and 1940s, including the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Federal Alcohol Administration, Department of the Navy, and the State Department. In 1945, he served on the committee that created the United Nations, and he was a me...

Blackjack, Ada, 1898-1983

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Ada Delutuk Blackjack was born on May 10, 1898 in the Iñupiat village of Spruce Creek, in what was then known as the District of Alaska. Her mother sent her to Nome when she was eight years old. There, Methodist missionaries taught her to read, write, and sew. Also called Ada Blackjack Johnson, she married, had children with, and divorced a man named Johnson. Far from home and without money, she was forced to place their only surviving son, Bennett, in an orphanage and found work as a seamstress...

Owen, Ruth Bryan, 1885-1954

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Ruth Baird Bryan Leavitt Owen Rohde, also known as Ruth Bryan Owen, (October 2, 1885 – July 26, 1954) was an author and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, Owen was the daughter of three-time presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan. In 1928, she was elected from Florida's 4th district as Florida's first female U.S. Representative and the second from the South after Alice Mary Robertson. Representative Owen was also the first woman to earn a seat on the U.S. House Committee on For...

Baltic (Ship : 1800-1810)

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Amery, L. S. (Leopold Stennett), 1873-1955

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1897-1912 fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford; 1899-1909 on the The Times editorial staff; 1911-1945 Member of Parliament for South Birmingham (later Sparkbrook); 1914-1916 served in Flanders and the Near East; 1917-1918 on the staff of the War Council, Versailles; 1919-1921 Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Colonies; 1921-1922 Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty; 1922-1924 First Lord of the Admiralty; 1924-1929 Secretary of State for the Colonie...

Chambers, David Laurance, 1879-1963

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Kirby-Green, William.

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Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890

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Richard Francis Burton was born March 19, 1821, at Torquay; he was educated at Trinity College, Oxford, but did not take a degree. He became a noted linguist, writer, translator and explorer; he is probably best known for his translations of the works of The Arabian Nights and The Kama Sutra..., as well as his travels in Africa, the Middle East, South America and Iceland. Isabel Arundell was born March 20, 1831, in London, of an old, established Roman Catholic family. In 1861, afte...

Coker, Elizabeth Boatwright

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Fields, William Coffield.

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Mayflower II (Ship)

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Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960

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Zoologist, explorer, and author. From the description of Roy Chapman Andrews correspondence, 1931. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449556 Naturalist and explorer, leader of the Asiatic Zoological Expeditions and the Central Asiatic Expeditions, director of American Museum of Natural History from 1935 to 1941. From the description of Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930 [microform] / Roy Chapman Andrews. 1919-1930. (American Museum of Natural His...

PEN (Organization)

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P.E.N. is a rough acronym for poets, playwrights, essayists, editors and novelists. The first International Congress was held in London in 1923. From the description of Records [manuscript]. 1977. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225843867 Jules Romains was president of the international PEN Club from 1936 to 1941. After emigrating to the U.S. in 1941, he founded in New York City the European PEN Club in America, an organization of émigré authors from Nazi-occupi...

North Carolina State Art Society

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Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962

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Vilhjalmur Stefansson was born on November 3, 1879 in Arnes, Manitoba, Canada. He attended the University of North Dakota from 1897-1902. He was voted the best orator in 1900, and also worked for the school newspaper. In 1930 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree, only the third such degree awarded. He then transferred to the University of Iowa and graduated in 1903 with a degree from the School of Liberal Arts. He next enrolled at Harvard, graduating with a Master of Arts degree in 1...

Fletcher, Anne Christina.

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Lefler, Hugh Talmage, 1901-1981

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Hugh Talmadge Lefler, Kenan Professor of history at the University of North Carolina. From the description of Hugh Talmadge Lefler papers, 1800s-1977 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 46547929 From the guide to the Hugh Talmadge Lefler Papers, ., 1800s-1977, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

Hindus, Maurice Gerschon, 1891-1969

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Colgate class of 1915; noted journalist and expert on Soviet Union. From the description of Papers. (Colgate University). WorldCat record id: 31915887 Maurice Hindus (1891-1969) was a Russian-born novelist and American authority on the Soviet Union. He was the author of several books on peasant life in Russia as well as his own autobiography, Green Worlds (1938). From the guide to the Maurice Hindus Papers, 1938-1967, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracus...

Noel, J. B. L. (John Baptist Lucius), 1890-

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Nellie Meda Gold Mines (Aguila, Ariz.)

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Roanoke Island Historical Association

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Chartered in 1932 for the purpose of depicting by exhibitions, pageants, reproductions, and public broadcasts the efforts Sir Walter Raleigh made between 1584 and 1587 to establish a colony in the new world at Roanoke Island. From the description of Records, 1894-1986. (North Carolina Division of Archives & Hist). WorldCat record id: 122291961 ...

Williams, John L. B. (John Lauris Blake), 1893-1963

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Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926

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Bobbs-Merrill Company

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Publishing company located in Indianapolis, IN. Founded by Samuel Merrill, Sr. in 1850, initially as a bookstore that expanded into a publishing house under his son, Samuel Merrill, Jr., and subsequent partners following the Civil War. The name went through several permutations Merrill, Meigs, and Company; the Bowen-Merrill Company; and finally Bobbs-Merrill, named in part after director William Conrad Bobbs, in 1903. Bobbs-Merrill published works of many significant authors, including James Whi...

Alber, Louis John.

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Kizer, Benjamin H. (Benjamin Hamilton), 1878-1978

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Benjamin Kizer, Spokane attorney, was born in Ohio, but came to Spokane with his family in 1890. He never finished high school, but after working at a variety of jobs, went to the University of Michigan Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1902. He maintained his law practice until his death at the age of 99. He was active in public affairs and from 1944 to 1946, served as the United National Relief and Rehabilitation Administration director in China. He advocated relations with China in th...

Luckner, Felix, Graf von, 1881-1966

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Felix Graf von Luckner (1881-1966) was born near Dresden, Germany. As a teenager he ran away to work as a cabin boy on the Russian vessel Niobe. He attended the Lubeck Navigation College in Germany, after which he served as an officer on the Petropolis. In 1910, Luckner married Petra Schulz from Hamburg. While serving in the Imperial German Navy, he is promoted to lieutenant junior grade. During World War I he commanded the cruiser Seeadler. As a captain in the German navy, Luckner sunk 14 ships...

Green, Paul, 1894-1981

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Paul Eliot Green(1894-1981) was a Southern playwright, poet, and novelist. Born in Lillington, North Carolina, Green lived in the state all of his life and tried to capture in his writings the culture and heritage of the American South, concentrating on the experiences of tenant farmers, mill workers, Native Americans and African Americans. Green studied at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill under folk dramatist Frederick Koch of the Carolina Playmakers. After an interruption of his ...

Sunshine Mining Company (Spokane, Wash.)

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Fletcher, Inglis, 1879-1969

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Minna Towner Englis [Inglis?] Clark Fletcher (1879-1969), known to readers of her books as Inglis Fletcher, was born in Alton, Illinois, the eldest of three children of Maurice William and Flora Deane (Chapman) Clark. Minna Clark studied sculpture under Robert Bringhurst at Washington University in St. Louis, but was not graduated. She married John George Fletcher on 16 April 1902, and the couple moved to California. Peggy, as Mrs. Fletcher was known, followed her husband as he worked in several...