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Columbia Encyclopedia entry: Mayfield
Mayfield, city (1990 pop. 9,935), seat of Graves co., SW Ky., in an area of farms and clay deposits; founded 1823. It is an agricultural trade center with a tobacco market. In a plot at the local cemetery are the unusual Wooldridge monuments—stone figures of an eccentric aristocrat (buried there in 1899), his family, friends, and animal pets.
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  • Mayfield Heights

    Mayfield Heights, city (1990 pop. 19,847), Cuyahoga co., NE Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland; inc. 1925. It is primarily residential.

  • Mason, Bobbie Ann

    Mason, Bobbie Ann, 1940–, American regional author, b. Mayfield, Ky., grad. Univ. of Kentucky (B.A., 1962), State Univ. of New York, Binghamton (M.A., 1966), Univ. of Connecticut (Ph.D., 1972)...

  • regicides

    Regicides [Lat., =king-killers], in English history, name given to those judges and court officers responsible for the trial and execution of Charles I in 1649. After the Restoration (1660) of...

  • Mencken, H. L.

    Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis Mencken), 1880–1956, American editor, author, and critic, b. Baltimore, studied at the Baltimore Polytechnic. Probably America's most influential journalist, he beg...

  • Fitzgerald, F. Scott

    Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald), 1896–1940, American novelist and short-story writer, b. St. Paul, Minn. He is ranked among the great American writers of the 20th cent. Fit...

  • England, Church of

    England, Church of, the established church of England and the mother church of the Anglican Communion. The clergy of the church are of three ancient orders: deacons, priests, and bishops. Exce...

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