SHARP, WILLIAM GRAVES

(1859), an amba ador; b. at Mt. Gilead, O., s. of George and Mahila Graves Sharp. He was educated at the University of Michigan. He was engaged in the practice of law at Elyria, O., and after 1885 held many important political positions. He was a member of the Ohio Dist., but resigned in 1914 and from then until 1919 was amba ador peepee and plenipotentiary to nce: gheny county, Pa., six miles northeast | of Pittsburgh on the Allegheny River, and served by the Pennsylvania, and Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis railroads. It is the center of a rich coal mining region, has great coal yards and does a large export busine in coal and steel and iron products. Its chief manufacturing establishments are blast furnaces, rolling mills, machine shops, foundries, ee mills, chemical factories, oil and varnis | pants and oil well machinery factories. There are numerous churches, public and parochial elementary schools, a E.), treaty port, on Yang-tse-kiang, Hupeh, China; cotton goods. Pop. 1921, 105,000.; or gee ehh a peak the nia, one of the highest peaks in the