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coneflower

(Encyclopedia) coneflower, name for several American wildflowers of the family Asteraceae (aster family). The purple coneflowers (genus Echinacea), found E of the Rockies, have purple to pinkish…

Monroe Leland HAYWARD, Congress, NE (1840-1899)

Senate Years of Service: 1899-1899 Party: Republican HAYWARD Monroe Leland , a Senator from Nebraska; born in Willsboro, Essex County, N.Y., December 22, 1840; served during the Civil War in…

William HAYWARD, Jr., Congress, MD (1787-1836)

HAYWARD William, Jr. , a Representative from Maryland; born at ``Shipshead,'' near Easton, Talbot County, Md., in 1787; attended Easton Academy and was graduated from Princeton College in 1808;…

Phillips, David Graham

(Encyclopedia) Phillips, David Graham, 1867–1911, American writer, b. Madison, Ind., grad. College of New Jersey (now Princeton), 1887. He worked as a newspaper reporter in Cincinnati and New York…

state flowers

(Encyclopedia) state flowers. Each state of the United States has designated, usually by legislative action, one flower as its floral emblem; the rose has been designated by Congress as the national…