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Slater, Samuel
(Encyclopedia)Slater, Samuel, 1768–1835, American pioneer in the cotton textile industry, b. Derbyshire, England. As an apprentice and later a mill supervisor, he gained a thorough knowledge of all the cotton-man...Shen
(Encyclopedia)Shen, in the Bible, place, perhaps close to Bethel, near which Samuel set up the stone Ebenezer.Birch, Samuel
(Encyclopedia)Birch, Samuel, 1813–85, English Egyptologist. He wrote a dictionary of hieroglyphics and translated the Book of the Dead.Phillips, Samuel
(Encyclopedia)Phillips, Samuel, 1752–1802, American educator and politician, b. North Andover, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1771. A member of the Massachusetts provincial congress (1775–80) and a delegate to the state...Barnett, Samuel Augustus
(Encyclopedia)Barnett, Samuel Augustus bärˈnĕt [key], 1844–1913, English clergyman and social worker. As vicar of St. Jude's, Whitechapel, in the slums of London, he pioneered in the social settlement movement...Bard, Samuel
(Encyclopedia)Bard, Samuel, see under Bard, John. ...Cooper, Alexander
(Encyclopedia)Cooper, Alexander: see under Cooper, Samuel. ...Warner, Samuel Louis
(Encyclopedia)Warner, Samuel Louis: see Warner Brothers. ...Toynbee Hall
(Encyclopedia)Toynbee Hall: see Barnett, Samuel Augustus. ...Clemens, Samuel Langhorne
(Encyclopedia)Clemens, Samuel Langhorne: see Twain, Mark. ...Browse by Subject
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