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Braithwaite, William Stanley

Braithwaite, William Stanley[1878-1962](1)Born at Boston, December 6, 1878. Educated in the public schools of that city. He has published two volumes of his own verse, "Lyrics of Life and…

William E. Leonard

Leonard, William Ellery[1876-1944](2)Born at Plainfield, N.J., Jan. 25, 1876. A.B. Boston University, 1898; A.M. Harvard, 1899. Fellow of Boston University in philology and literature, 1900…

William Vaughn Moody

Moody, William Vaughn[1869-1910](3)Born at Spencer, Indiana, July 8, 1869. Educated at Riverside Academy, New York, and at Harvard. In 1895 he became Assistant Professor of English in the…

Percy, William Alexander

Percy, William Alexander[1885-1942](1)Born in Greenville, Miss., May 14, 1885. Was prepared for college chiefly by a Roman Catholic priest; went to the University of the South, at Sewanee,…

William Goddard Biography

inventorBorn: 1913Died: 1997 Goddard and Lynott's invention of magnetic disk storage while with IBM was a major advancement in mass-storage technology,…

William Murphy Biography

inventorBorn: 20 July 1916Best Known as: inventor of disposable medical devices William Murphy Jr., M.D., invented disposable medical devices, including,…

Jody Williams Biography

Jody WilliamsactivistBorn: 10/9/1950Birthplace: Brattleboro, Vt. In 1992 Williams, working with six nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), established the International Campaign to Ban…

William Hewlett Biography

William Hewlettelectronics entrepreneurBorn: 5/20/1913Birthplace: Ann Arbor, Mich. electronics entrepreneur who, with David Packard, scraped together $538 in 1938 and started an electronics…