1887 deaths - Article Index

Encyclopedia - William A. Wheeler: Encyclopedia - William A. Wheeler
William Almon Wheeler (June 30, 1819–June 4, 1887) was a Representative from New York and the nineteenth Vice President of the United S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Johann Jakob Bachofen: Encyclopedia - Johann Jakob Bachofen
The Swiss anthropologist and sociologist Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815 – 1887), is most often connected with his theory of matriarchy, or...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Valentine Aker Pasha Baker: Encyclopedia - Valentine Aker Pasha Baker
Valentine Aker Pasha Baker (1827—1887), British soldier, was a younger brother of Sir Samuel Baker. He was educated at Gloucester and i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doc Holliday: Encyclopedia Ii - Doc Holliday - Doc's Record Of Violence
The real Holliday was more complex than Wyatt's summary. Holliday may have been quick with a pistol, but his accuracy was not perfect, an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Joseph Whitworth: Encyclopedia Ii - Joseph Whitworth - Inventions
He popularized a method of producing accurate flat surfaces during the 1830s, using engineer's blue and scraping techniques on three tria...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doc Holliday: Encyclopedia Ii - Doc Holliday - What Those Who Knew Him Said Of His Character
In an interview in 1896, Wyatt Earp had this to say about Doc Holliday: "Doc was a dentist whom necessity had made a gambler; a gentleman...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doc Holliday: Encyclopedia Ii - Doc Holliday - Doc Holliday Mythology
One of the better stories about Doc Holliday never happened, although it should have—and the tale has made it into at least one movie. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doc Holliday: Encyclopedia Ii - Doc Holliday - Final Illness
He spent the rest of his brief life in Colorado. After a stay in Leadville, Colorado, Holliday suffered from the effects of the high alti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doc Holliday: Encyclopedia Ii - Doc Holliday - Early Travels And Dentistry
His first stop west (September, 1873) was Dallas, Texas, where he opened a dental office at 56 Elm Street, about three blocks east of the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doc Holliday: Encyclopedia Ii - Doc Holliday - Health
At birth he had a cleft palate and partly cleft lip. At two months of age this defect was repaired surgically by John's uncle J.S. Hollid...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doc Holliday: Encyclopedia Ii - Doc Holliday - The Dedicated Gambler
In September, 1878 an incident occurred in which Wyatt, a deputy city Marshal, was surrounded by men who had "the drop" on him. Doc, comi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doc Holliday: Encyclopedia Ii - Doc Holliday - Tombstone Arizona Territory
Dodge was not a frontier town for long, and by 1879 became too respectable for the kinds of people who had seen it through its early days...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doc Holliday: Encyclopedia Ii - Doc Holliday - Vendetta
The lawless killing started with Frank Stilwell, who was in Tucson to answer a robbery charge, but who wound up dead on the tracks in the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doc Holliday: Encyclopedia Ii - Doc Holliday - Genealogy And Education
He was born in Griffin, Georgia to Henry Burroughs Holliday and Alice Jane Holliday née McKey. John's mother died on September 16, 1866,...   » Read the article