Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: People from Cortland, New York, Ronnie James Dio, Andrew Dickson White, Jim Mahady, Mark Nauseef, Francis Bicknell Carpenter, Raymond Gram Swing, Alton B. Parker, Nathan Lewis Miller, Amelia Bloomer, Erastus Milo Cravath, Elmer Ambrose Sperry, Homer D. Call, Daniel S. Lamont, Eric Soderholm, Robert Marcellus Stewart, Micky Lee Soule, Robert J. Serling, David Eugene Smith, John Miller, Clayton R. Lusk, Halsey Stevens, Charles H. Duell, Robert F. Rockwell, Horatio Ballard, Charles A. Hill, Lawrence J. Fitzgerald, Eleazer Wakeley, John G. Alexander, Albert Keep, Charles Nelson Clark, Sime Silverman, Milo Goodrich, Charles Holland Duell, Ira Lloyd Letts, Carla Tagliente, Edward Beers Thomas, Solmous Wakeley, William Dillon. Excerpt: Andrew Dickson White (November 7, 1832 - November 4, 1918) was a U.S. diplomat, historian, and educator, who was the co-founder of Cornell University. Andrew Dickson White was born on November 7, 1832 in Homer, New York to Clara (née Dickson) and Horace White. Clara was the daughter of Andrew Dickson, a New York State Assemblyman, and Horace was the son of Asa White, a farmer from Massachusetts whose once successful farm was ruined by a fire when Horace was 13. Horace, despite little formal education and an impoverished background, became a wealthy merchant and, in 1839, opened a successful bank in Syracuse. Andrew Dickson White thus entered the world, never to experience the poverty his father and grandfather had. He was baptized in 1835 at the Calvary Episcopal Church on the town green in Homer. White married twice. He first married Mary Amanda Outwater (February 10, 1836 - June 8, 1887) on September 27, 1857 and they remained married until her death in 1887. Together, they had three children: Frederick Davies White, who committed suicide in 1901 after a prolonged series of illnesses while...
