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Britannica 11th

Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition

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Taft

Britannica 11th

TAFT, LOR A DO (1860- ), American sculptor, was born at Elmwood, Illinois, on the 29th of April 1860. He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1879, and from 1880 to 1883 studied in the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris. In 1886 he became instructor at the Ar ...

Vol. 26, pp. 354-354 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 330.0

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Britannica 11th

... r a brief time granted full power to govern the archipelago. He appointed Judge Taft civil p/ja/pptoes. governor, and limited the power of the military governor to regions where insurrection continued. On the ist of July 1902 Congressional authority was substi ...

Vol. 27, pp. 612-735 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0