2) Parker, Alton Brooks. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Parker, Alton Brooks, 1852-1926, American jurist, U.S. presidential candidate (1904), b. Cortland, N.Y. He practiced law in Kingston, N.Y., and was (1877-85) surrogate...

3) Davis, Miles. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Davis, Miles, 1926-91, American jazz musician, b. Alton, Ill. Rising to prominence with the birth of modern jazz in the mid-1940s, Davis became a dominant force in...

4) Schuller, Robert. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Schuller, Robert, 1926-, American Protestant minister and television evangelist, b. Alton, Iowa. Schuller gained attention (1955) when he used a drive-in theater...

5) Kingsley, Charles. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...tracts advocating Christian socialism. These views were embodied in his first two novels, Alton Locke (1850) and Yeast (1851), both of which deal with contemporary...

6) Lovejoy, Elijah Parish. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...views (he advocated gradual emancipation) became extremely unpopular, and in 1836 he moved to Alton, Ill. There he advocated immediate abolition in his Alton Observer....

7) Austen, Jane. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...to Bath for several years and then to Southampton, settling finally at Chawton Cottage, near Alton, Hampshire, which was Jane's home for the rest of her life. 1Northanger...

8) Drake, Francis Marion. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...and later headed (1882-98) the Indiana, Illinois & Iowa, which became part of the Chicago & Alton. As governor he called a special session of the general assembly...

9) Bryan, William Jennings. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...in the public eye. His reduced party power in 1904 resulted in the compromise nomination of Alton B. Parker, a conservative New Yorker, upon a platform dictated by...

10) Roosevelt, Theodore. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...man" captured the American imagination, and when he ran for reelection in 1904 he defeated Alton B. Parker, the Democratic presidential candidate, by 196 electoral...