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... 1 City (1990 pop. 24,127), San Mateo co., W Calif., a residential suburb midway between San Francisco and San Jose; laid out 1851, inc. 1926. There is light manufacturing, and the College of Notre Dame (est. 1851) is there.2 Town (1990 pop. 24,720), Middlesex co., E Mass., a residential suburb of Boston; settled 1636, inc. 1859.

1811–75, American inventor, b. Rensselaer co., N.Y. As a child he lived in Oswego, N.Y. He patented in 1851 a practical sewing machine that could do continuous stitching. Although he lost a suit for infringement brought by Elias Howe, his company was already so well established that it took the lead in a subsequent combination of manufactures and pooling of patents. Between 1851 and 1865 ...

... 805–52) sculptor; born in Boston, Mass. Drawn to painting and sculpture from his boyhood, he was encouraged by the painter, Washington Allston, before graduating from Harvard (1825). He went off to study sculpture in Rome, the first American to do so, but malaria forced him home (1827) where he worked on portrait busts. In 1828 he went to Florence, Italy ...

At Salt Lake City; coeducational; state supported; opened 1850, chartered 1851 as Univ. Of Deseret, closed 1851–67. It was empowered to give degrees in 1884 and renamed in 1892. The university's diverse research programs include studies of the American West, the Middle East, biomedical engineering, isotope geology, and supercomputing. The Huntsman Cancer Institute and the state engineering ...

... 1805–52) lawyer, reformer; born in Beverly, Mass. He practiced law in Salem and Boston and helped shape Democratic Party policy. As a member of the state legislature and in speeches and articles, he advocated free trade, religious tolerance, public education, collective bargaining, and temperance; he opposed slavery, corporate wealth, and the death penalty ...