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Latham, Jean Lee was born on April 19, 1902 in Buckhannon, West Virginia, United States. Daughter of George Robert II and Winifred Ethelda (Brown) Latham.
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The story of Cryus Field and how he gain the responsiblity of laying the 1st Altlantic Cable. How in 1958 the first message traveled throu the great cable connecting the Old World with the New.
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A biography of the first woman doctor in the United States who worked in England and the U.S. to open the field of medicine to women.
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(1965 Harper & Row Design for Reading/Shifting Scenes trad...)
1965 Harper & Row Design for Reading/Shifting Scenes trade paperback, 1973 printing. B&W map. Follow Sam Houston's life from leaving Tennessee in disgrace through his years living with native Americans, to the Texas Revolution, to being the first President of the Republic of Texas.
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Readers today are still fascinated by Nat,” an eighteenth-century nautical wonder and mathematical wizard. Nathaniel Bowditch grew up in a sailor’s worldSalem in the early days, when tall-masted ships from foreign ports crowded the wharves. But Nat didn’t promise to have the makings of a sailor; he was too physically small. Nat may have been slight of build, but no one guessed that he had the persistence and determination to master sea navigation in the days when men sailed only by log, lead, and lookout.” Nat’s long hours of study and observation, collected in his famous work, The American Practical Navigator (also known as the Sailors’ Bible”), stunned the sailing community and made him a New England hero.
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Newbery Award-winning author tells the story of the man whose inventive genius made cotton king in America and in the world. Eli Whitney transformed the textile industry with his invention of the cotton gin; and he revolutionized the manufacturing process around the world with his creation of standardized parts. Fascinating!
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Latham, Jean Lee was born on April 19, 1902 in Buckhannon, West Virginia, United States. Daughter of George Robert II and Winifred Ethelda (Brown) Latham.
Bachelor of Arts, West Virginia Wesleyan College, 1925; Doctor of Letters, West Virginia Wesleyan College, 1956; B.D.E., Ithaca College, 1928; Master of Arts, Cornell Univercity, 1930; student, West Virginia Institute Technology, 1942.
While in Wesleyan College, she wrote plays. In Ithaca, she taught English, history and play production. She continued teaching in Ithaca after finishing her studies at Cornell.
Her first book for children was The Story of Eli Whitney.
WorldCat reports that 12 of her 13 books most widely held in participating libraries are biographies of Bowditch (fictionalized), Whitney, Samuel Morse, Rachel Carson, Elizabeth Blackwell, Francis Drake, Cyrus West. Field, Sam Houston (two, one brief and one fictionalized), David Farragut, John Ericsson, and James Cook. The other, This dear-bought land (1957), features "a fifteen-year-old boy joins the expeditionary force that hopes to establish a permanent English colony in Virginia.".
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(The story of Cryus Field and how he gain the responsiblit...)
(A biography of the first woman doctor in the United State...)
(1965 Harper & Row Design for Reading/Shifting Scenes trad...)
(Part of "The Rivers of the World" Series.)
(Biography of Eli Whitney)
(Book by Jean Lee Latham)
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(Children's book. Discovery book about Sam Houston.)
(245 pages)
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Publicity director South Pinellas chapter American Red Cross, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1949. Board directors Friends of University Miami (Florida) Library. Member National League American Pen Women, Women's Auxiliary United States Power Squadron, Phi Kappa Phi, Zeta Phi Eta.
Clubs: Zonta.