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Logan, James, chief of the Mingo

(Encyclopedia)Logan, James, c.1725–1780, chief of the Mingo, b. Pennsylvania. He took his name from James Logan (1674–1751) and is frequently called simply Logan. He was a leader of the Native Americans on the ...

Garrett, Thomas

(Encyclopedia)Garrett, Thomas, 1789–1871, American abolitionist, b. Upper Darby, Pa. A Quaker, he joined the Pennsylvania Abolition Society in 1818. At Wilmington, Del., where he became a hardware merchant and to...

Hershey

(Encyclopedia)Hershey, uninc. city (2020 pop. 13,858), Dauphin co., S central Pa.; founded 1903 as a planned community for workers at the Hershey Corp., the chocolate...

Brainerd, David

(Encyclopedia)Brainerd, David brāˈnərd [key], 1718–47, missionary to the Native Americans, b. Haddam, Conn. Licensed to preach in 1742, he spent his brief years among the Native Americans, first in New York an...

Haggi

(Encyclopedia)Haggi hăgˈī [key], in the Bible, founder of a Gadite family. ...

Jahleel

(Encyclopedia)Jahleel jäˈlēĕl [key], in the Bible, founder of a Zebulonite family. ...

Rezon

(Encyclopedia)Rezon rēˈzŏn [key], in the Bible, founder of a dynasty in Damascus and adversary of Solomon. ...

Elpaal

(Encyclopedia)Elpaal ĕlˈpāăl, ĕlpāˈăl [key], in the Bible, founder of a Benjamite family. ...

Bampton, John

(Encyclopedia)Bampton, John, 1689–1751, English clergyman, founder of an Oxford lectureship on religious subjects. The Bampton Lectures, now given biennially, have frequently given rise to lively controversy. ...
 

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