DeBenedetti, Charles Louis (27 January 1943–27 January 1987), historian, was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Louis Albert DeBenedetti, a bread delivery truck driver, and Clementine Caroline Diero DeBenedetti, a legal secretary. “Chuck,” as DeBenedetti liked to be called, attended Mendal Catholic High School and graduated in 1960. Reared in a strong Italian-Catholic family, DeBenedetti applied to and was accepted at the Jesuit-run Loyola University in Chicago, from which he graduated in 1964. On 29 August 1964 he married Sandra Kisala from Chicago. They had two children. DeBenedetti then enrolled in the graduate history program at the University of Illinois. In 1968 he was awarded his Ph.D. His dissertation, “American Internationalism in the 1920's: Shotwell and the Outlawrists,” supervised by ...
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DeBenedetti, Charles Louis (1943-1987), historian
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Fincke, William M. (1878-1927), pacifist minister and educator
Charles F. Howlett
Fincke, William M. (01 January 1878–31 May 1927), pacifist minister and educator, was born William Mann Fincke in New York City, the son of William H. Fincke, a wealthy businessman, and Julia Murrid Clark Fincke. In 1897 he graduated from the Hill School and in the fall entered Yale University, “where he played halfback on the varsity eleven” ( ...
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Firth, Roderick (1917-1987), philosopher and educator
John G. Troyer
Firth, Roderick (30 January 1917–22 December 1987), philosopher and educator, was born in Orange, New Jersey, the son of Leo Earl Firth, who was in the advertising business, and Ida Lake. Firth attended primary and secondary schools in New Jersey and spent summers boarding at Mountain Farm in Cobbleskill, New York. In 1934 he graduated from Newark Academy and in the same year entered Haverford College....
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Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997), poet
Ann Charters
Ginsberg, Allen (03 June 1926–06 April 1997), poet, was born in Newark, New Jersey, the younger son of Louis Ginsberg, a high school English teacher and and Naomi Levy Ginsberg. Ginsberg grew up with his older brother Eugene in a household shadowed by his mother's mental illness; she suffered from recurrent epileptic seizures and paranoia. An active member of the Communist Party–USA, Naomi Ginsberg took her sons to meetings of the radical left dedicated to the cause of international Communism during the Great Depression of the 1930s....
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Grimké, Thomas Smith (26 September 1786–12 October 1834)
Louise W. Knight
Grimké, Thomas Smith (26 September 1786–12 October 1834), lawyer, educational and peace reformer, politician, was born in Charleston, South Carolina, the second son of John Faucheraud Grimké and Mary Smith Grimké. John Grimké, a native Charlestonian of French Huguenot stock, was educated at the University of Cambridge, an officer in the American Revolution, and head justice of the state’s Court of Appeals. Mary Grimké, a descendant of an English landgrave, the state’s founding aristocracy, and the famous Irish rebel leader Rory O’Moore, was a co-founder of Charleston’s female benevolent society. Other children included ...
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Trueblood, Benjamin Franklin (1847-1916), college president and peace activist
Charles F. Howlett
Trueblood, Benjamin Franklin (25 November 1847–26 October 1916), college president and peace activist, was born in Salem, Indiana, the son of Joshua Trueblood and Esther Parker Trueblood, farmers. They were Quakers. After graduating in 1868 from a Quaker school, Earlham College, where he majored in Greek and Roman literature, Trueblood served as a professor of classics at Penn College in Oskaloosa, Iowa. His commitment to moral principles was a benchmark of his character and stood him in good stead throughout his professional career. On 12 July 1872 he married Sarah Hough Terrell of New Vienna, Ohio; they were to have three children. From 1872 to 1879 he was president of Wilmington College, another Quaker school, in Wilmington, Ohio. From 1879 to 1890 he continued his administrative career as president of Penn College....
