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...Harris, William Torrey Anna Callender Brackett was born on 21 May 1836 in Boston, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of a Boston businessman and his wife, Samuel E. and Caroline S. Brackett, and a cousin of social work pioneer, Jeffrey...

...Macran, H.S. Henry Stewart Macran was born in Dublin in 1865 and died there on 6 June 1937. He was educated at Wesley College, Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read Classics and Modern Languages. He...

...Adams, George Plimpton George Adams was born on 7 October 1882 in Northboro, Massachusetts, to Edwin A. Adams, a New England minister, and Caroline A. Plimpton Adams. Adams later placed his mother’s maiden name as his own middle name. He...

...Gustavus Watts Cunningham was born on 14 November 1881 in Laurens, South Carolina. In 1902 Cunningham received an MA from Furman College in South Carolina. His first teaching job was in English at Howard College in Birmingham, Alabama...

...Jacob Loewenberg was born on 2 February 1882 in Tuckum, Latvia, which was then part of Czarist Russia. At the age of thirteen he moved with his family to Riga, where he found employment as an office boy. Afraid of being drafted...

...Copleston, F.C. Frederick C. Copleston was born near Taunton in Somerset on 10 April 1907 and died in London on 3 February 1994. His family background was a rather privileged one. His father worked in the upper reaches of the Indian Civil...

...Willich, Johann August Ernst von August Willich was born on 19 November 1810 in Braunsberg, East Prussia, the son of Johann G. N. W. von Willich, an army officer and civil official, and Fredericka Lisette Michalowska. Upon the death of his...

...Stallo was one of the first proponents of Hegelian philosophy in America. He was born Johann Bernhard Stallo on 16 March 1823 in Sierhausen, Oldenburg, Germany, to Johann Heinrich Stallo and Maria Adelheid Moormann. While attending...

...Brokmeyer, Henry Conrad Henry Conrad Brokmeyer was born to Frederick William and Sophia Brokmeyer in Minden, Westphalia, Prussia, on 12 August 1826. Late in life, he told Denton Snider Snider, Denton Jacques that he left his parents’ home...

...Harris, William Torrey William Torrey Harris, son of Zilpah Davison Harris and William Harris, was born on 10 September 1835 in Killingly, Connecticut. As a farm boy he developed a strong interest in deep subjects, an interest...