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California gold attracted and European revolutions drove the Michelson family from their home at Strelno, Germany. Albert Abraham, then two, was just beginning to distinguish between German, Yiddish and Polish phrases. Nevada silver made the family pause at Virginia City, made with the Comstock Lode. There in 1869 Charles Michelson, now publicity director of the Democratic National Committee, was born. Tumultous Virginia City was no place to raise a family, although the small clothing store the father operated was prosperous. The Michelsons moved to Calaveras, Calif., birthplace in 1870 of Miriam Michelson, dramatic critic and author (Petticoat King, Duchess...
...Chicago, there dwells a renowned professor named Albert Abraham Michelson. A member of the faculty of the University of Chicago, he has made many a valuable contribution to Science. Born at Strelno, Germany, a son of Samuel Michelson and Rosalie Przlubska, he is a brother of Charles Michelson (rabidly Democratic chief of The New York World's Washington Bureau) and of Miriam Michelson (author). But he graduated from the Naval Academy at Annapolis when these two were still on the Pacific coast, in swaddling clothes...
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