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Wesleyan University alumni

  • Edward ThorndikeEdward Lee Thorndike was born in Williamsburg, Massachusetts. His father Edward R Thorndike served as a Methodist minister in Lowell, Massachusetts.
  • Lynn ThorndikeLynn Thorndike entered the world on the 24th of July 1882 in Lynn, Massachusetts. He was born into a family of scholars and clergy. His father Edward R.
  • D. B. WeissDaniel Brett Weiss was born on the 23rd of April 1971 in Chicago, Illinois. His family background traces back to Jewish roots with ancestral lines extending…
  • Joss WhedonJoseph Hill Whedon was born on the 23rd of June 1964 in New York City. He grew up on the Upper West Side as part of a family deeply embedded in television…
  • Wendell WallachWendell Wallach was born on the 21st of April 1946 in Torrington, Connecticut. His mother Gerda Wilhelmina Lewenz had been born in Berlin during World War I…
  • Gerald HoltonGerald James Holton was born on the 23rd of May 1922, in Berlin, Germany. He grew up in a Jewish family where his father worked as an attorney specializing…