Robert Silverberg was born in Brooklyn, New York on January 15, 1935 to Michael and Helen Silverberg. He was an only child. At an early age Silverberg began writing and by the time he entered his teenage years he was submitting stories to science...
Emma Jane Cook Davis (aka Jennie C. Davis, aka J.C. Davis, aka Mrs. Herbert Benton Davis) was born on October 17, 1851 in White Pigeon, Michigan. Davis lived in various locations growing up. At the age of four, her family moved to Iowa. When she...
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In 1767, upon the retirement of Andrew Miller, Thomas Cadell, 1742-1802, succeeded to the bookselling and publishing business. Cadell became one of the foremost publishers of his time before his retirement in 1793. At this time, he made over the...
Henri Coulette (1927-1988) was an award winning poet and educator. He published The war of secret agents (1965) and The family Goldschmitt (1971), and served as editor for The unstrung lyre : Interviews with fourteen poets (1965). Coulette...
Burke Eugene Casari, a resident of Lincoln, Nebraska, worked as an administrator for environmental programs at the State Health Department. He became interested in Richard Burton in 1962, while teaching in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Casari has...
Charles Leroy Lowman, M. D., was a prominent orthopedic surgeon in Los Angeles, California. He founded the Los Angeles Orthopedic Hospital in 1911 to treat children and adults with postural and orthopedic disabilities. In July 1974, President Nixon...
Jefferson Martenet was born on July 24, 1828. He left Baltimore Maryland on September 16, 1852 to northern California with plans to get rich quick off the California Gold Rush and return home within a few months. He arrived via steamer to San...
Georgia Willis Read, historian and author, was the daughter of Dr. George Willis Read, who led a company across the plains in 1850 to California. Georgia attended Smith College and served with the Smith College Relief Unit in France during World...
Basil W. Wilson was a consulting oceanographic engineer based in Pasadena, California. Wilson was a professor of Engineering Oceanography at Texas A&M University from 1952-1961. From 1961 to 1964 he conducted studies for the National Engineering...
Henry Herron Beauchamp was born in London in 1825. In 1838, he went to work for the merchant and shipping firm of Messrs. Samuel Baker, Philpotts & Co., after ten years in London was sent to Mauritius; and after a further two years, he decided to...
Theodore Joscelyn Curphey was born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada on October 25, 1897. He received his M.D., C.M. in 1921 from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. After receiving his medical license from the Medical Council of Canada in 1921,...
Bliss Carman (1861-1929) was a regional poet of both the Maritime Provinces, where he was born, and the New England area of the United States, where he passed away. Between 1893 and 1905 Carman published almost twenty volumes of verse, some of...
Stephen Tomaske (1956-2002) was an avid Pynchon fan and scholar. A student assistant and later a staff member in reference services at the library at California State University Los Angeles, he researched Pynchon's family history, youth and...
Franklin S. Farquhar was born in Fayette City, Pennsylvania on February 28, 1865. In April 1900, Farquhar, who was city editor of the Daily News Standard of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, moved his family to Montesano, Washington (where one of his uncles...
Robert V. Hine is a prominent historian of the American West. Hine earned his Ph.D. in history from Yale University in 1952 and spent a year as a fellow at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California before accepting a faculty position at the...
Margaret Huntington Holladay was born on February 4, 1899 in Texas to John Walker Broad and Martha E. Puriton. It appears that she had only one sister, Annie. At some point, Margaret and her family moved to California where she met and married...
Samuel L. Kreider was a prominent businessman in Los Angeles, California. Kreider was born in San Francisco, California, July 4, 1882. He was the son of Frank L. and Minnie M. Kreider. His father was a veteran of the Civil War and a past commander...