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Hawthorne, CA Economic Statistics

NumberPercentEMPLOYMENT STATUSPopulation 16 years and over59,676100.0In labor force36,68961.5Civilian labor force36,63361.4Employed32,80355.0Unemployed3,8306.4Percent of civilian labor force10.…

Hawthorne, CA Housing Statistics

NumberPercentTotal housing units29,574100.0UNITS IN STRUCTURE1-unit, detached8,15027.61-unit, attached2,4248.22 units7112.43 or 4 units2,5968.85 to 9 units3,62612.310 to 19 units2,5148.520 or…

Hawthorne, CA Social Statistics

NumberPercentSCHOOL ENROLLMENTPopulation 3 years and over enrolled in school26,943100.0Nursery school, preschool1,7416.5Kindergarten1,6416.1Elementary school (grades 1-8)12,33145.8High school (…

Hone, Nathaniel

(Encyclopedia) Hone, Nathaniel, 1718–84, Irish miniaturist and portrait painter. Hone is noted for his smoothly painted, informal portraits of middle-class subjects. His painting The Conjurer (1775)…

1983 National Book Awards

Autobiography/BiographyHardcoverIsak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller, Judith ThurmanPaperbackNathaniel Hawthorne in His Time, James R. MellowChildren's FictionHardcoverHomesick: My Own…

Dole, Nathan Haskell

(Encyclopedia) Dole, Nathan Haskell, 1852–1935, American author, b. Chelsea, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1874. After teaching in New York and in New England, he worked as a newspaperman in Boston, San…

Plimer, Andrew

(Encyclopedia) Plimer, Andrew, c.1763–1837, English miniature painter. He was an apprentice to Richard Cosway. His fine portraits are to be seen in the Victoria and Albert Museum and in the…

Crane, Walter

(Encyclopedia) Crane, Walter, 1845–1915, English designer, illustrator, and painter. As a painter he is grouped with the later Pre-Raphaelites, but he is better known for his illustrations of the…

Randolph-Macon College

(Encyclopedia) Randolph-Macon College, at Ashland, Va.; United Methodist; chartered 1830, opened 1832 at Boydton, Va., moved 1868; named for John Randolph and Nathaniel Macon. Originally a college…

Dett, Robert Nathaniel

(Encyclopedia) Dett, Robert Nathaniel, 1882–1943, American composer and pianist, b. Drummondville, Que. After receiving degrees from Oberlin College and the Eastman School of Music, Dett studied in…