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Beers, Clifford Whittingham

(Encyclopedia) Beers, Clifford Whittingham, 1876–1943, American founder of the mental hygiene movement, b. New Haven, Conn., grad. Sheffield Scientific School, Yale, 1897. After the publication of A…

Beer, Thomas

(Encyclopedia) Beer, Thomas, 1889–1940, American author, b. Council Bluffs, Iowa, grad. Yale, 1911, and studied law at Columbia, 1911–13. He is best remembered for his biographies of Stephen Crane (…

John PERKINS, Jr., Congress, LA (1819-1885)

PERKINS John, Jr. , a Representative from Louisiana; born in Natchez, Miss., July 1, 1819; received his early education from private tutors; was graduated from Yale College in 1840 and from the…

John McKee SPRATT, Jr., Congress, SC (1942)

SPRATT John McKee, Jr. , a Representative from South Carolina; born in Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, N.C., November 1, 1942; graduated from York High School, York, S.C., 1960; A.B., Davidson…

John PATTON, Jr., Congress, MI (1850-1907)

Senate Years of Service: 1894-1895 Party: Republican PATTON John, Jr. , a Senator from Michigan; born in Curwensville, Clearfield County, Pa., October 30, 1850; prepared for college at Phillips…

Willis David GRADISON, Jr., Congress, OH (1928)

GRADISON Willis David, Jr. , a Representative from Ohio; born in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, December 28, 1928; attended the elementary and secondary schools in Cincinnati; B.A., Yale…

John ARNOT, Jr., Congress, NY (1831-1886)

ARNOT John, Jr. , a Representative from New York; born in Elmira, Chemung County, N.Y., March 11, 1831; educated at private schools in his native city; entered Yale College, but left before…

Knowles, John

(Encyclopedia) Knowles, John, 1926–2001, American writer, b. Fairmont, W. Va., grad. Yale, 1949. He is best known for his semiautobiographical first novel, A Separate Peace (1960), a coming-of-age…

Schuller, Gunther Alexander

(Encyclopedia) Schuller, Gunther Alexander, 1925–2015, American composer and conductor, b. Queens, N.Y. He studied French horn and flute, becoming principal hornist with the Cincinnati Symphony (1943…

Lowell Palmer WEICKER, Jr., Congress, CT (1931)

Senate Years of Service: 1971-1989 Party: Republican WEICKER Lowell Palmer, Jr. , a Representative and a Senator from Connecticut; born in Paris, France, to American parents, on May 16, 1931;…