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| 1. | E(dgar) W(atson), 1853–1937, U.S. novelist and editor. |
| 2. | Elias, 1819–67, U.S. inventor of the sewing machine. |
| 3. | Gordon (Gordie ), born 1928, Canadian ice-hockey player. |
| 4. | Irving, 1920–93, U.S. social historian and literary critic. |
| 5. | Julia Ward, 1819–1910, U.S. writer and reformer: author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic (wife of Samuel Gridley Howe). |
| 6. | Richard (Earl Howe; “Black Dick”), 1726–99, British admiral (brother of William Howe). |
| 7. | Samuel Grid⋅ley [grid-lee] , 1801–76, U.S. surgeon and humanitarian. |
| 8. | William, 5th Viscount, 1729–1814, British general in the American Revolutionary War. |
| Howe (hou) American inventor and manufacturer who designed early sewing machines (1845 and 1846) and subsequently won patent-infringement suits against a number of manufacturers, including Isaac M. Singer. |