August 18, 2025 • 13 mins
Dive into a witty and captivating collection of short biographies featuring notable figures from 5000 BC to 1914. Edited by S. McGaughey, this unique work offers a humorous twist on history, reminding us that only those with verifiable evidence of their passing are included in Who Was Who. The editor humorously declares that press releases and paid entries are strictly forbidden, ensuring a delightful and authentic reading experience. Revel in the engaging narratives brought to life by our talented readers Sean McGaughey (Sections 1-12), Jim Mowatt (Sections 1-4), Alan Davis Drake (Sections 1-2), Laurie Anne Walden (Sections 3-12), and Sibella Denton (Sections 5-12).
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Section six. Who Was Who? By Erwin L. Gordon.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please
visit LibriVox dot org.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Who Was Who five thousand VC to nineteen fourteen Edited
by Erwin Leslie Gordon.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Recording by Sabella Denton, Sean.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Mc gahey, and Laurie Ann Walden.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
H Hafid Moulai, a sultan of Morocco who succeeded in
abdicating before he was abdicated.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Hagar miss Abraham's wife's maid who nearly broke up a
happy family.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Hannemann, doctor of Leipzig, discovered the sugar pill and called
it homeopathy.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Ham second officer and engineer of the Ark.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Hahmed Abdul, a retired professor of diplomacy, champion, promptser and
a sick man. When a youth, he began instructing the
monarchs of Europe in the use of a government. One
of his favorite pastimes was reading ultimatums fearless until a
warship entered the harbor, and even then usually got rid
(01:15):
of it with promises employed massacres to break the monotony
of reigning, acquired as fine a harem as ever sat
on silk cushions. Some of H's younger subjects thought he
should be ostlerized see Doctor Ostler. They gave him his
harem and salary and locked him up in a palace.
Then the wise ones lost Tripoli and about everything but
(01:37):
sleeping room in Europe motto I told you so. Ambition
to be back on the job, recreations, private entertainments, address
harem epitaph. Everybody worked but.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Father Hamlet, a Dane who had difficulty with an auxiliary verb,
also founded the Foolish Questions.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Hammerstein Oscar, an opera broker who inflicted himself high prices
and buildings upon certain communities.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Handel placed Handel's largo on the music stands. Also wrote
a few other heirs.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Harry C. Thomas and Richard.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Harvard John, an Englishman who founded a great American university
near the cultured town of Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America,
where football players and the sons of American millionaires eke
out an education.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Harvey doctor w a physician who learned in sixteen nineteen
that his parents had blood which circulated the discovery has
since been of some profit to his successors.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Hindes of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a man who never tried to
conceal his name, sold American baked beans, ketchup, and fifty
five other varieties to the world.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Helena, Saint Constantine's mother. She built a few churches. Also
see Napoleon.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Hemans Missus. A poet has who gave to the world
that rich, soulful and exquisite poesy The boy stood on
the burning deck. It is said that the poem has
been paradised.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Henry pat an Irish American politician who demanded liberty or
death from all that can be ascertained. He secured the latter.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Hercules, the Sandow of the ancients, promoter of the Olympic Games,
and laborer. Hercules claim to have done some things which
are even questioned by the partisans of Doctor Cook, killed
about everybody, erected two pillars, stole some apples, and in
short did everything but enter politics or invent the breakfast
(03:52):
food ambition, the thirteenth labor recreation, muscle development, travel address,
the pillars clubs athletic epitaph now is a mighty man.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Fallen Hiawatha an American Indian who permitted his wife to
starve to death simply for the want of proper nourishment.
Many claim a great American poet used bad taste in
writing the biography of such a man.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Hitchins, Robert Planter of the Garden of Allah, experimented with Belladonna.
Hitchins is still in Who's Who, and multitudes of readers
hope he will remain there for some time to come. Ambition, sales, recreation,
filling his fountain pen or cleaning typewriter address care of
(04:45):
the publisher home sicily editor's note. The editor hopes to
meet mister Hitchins some day and is compelled to make
the biography flattering.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Hill Samuel, a man who did things in a hurry,
also a celebrated rainstorm.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Hobson, Spanish American war hero who lowered his ideals and
went to Congress. Later he became a temperance lecturer, was
heard by great crowds, produced statistics to show how few
saloons failed.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
After a lecture, Holmes Sherlock detective. When a child he
devoured inexpensive literature and theaters. This fired his mind to
eliminate Scotland Yard as a crime detecting agency, entered the
profession of a detective, but was unknown until Doctor Watson
pulled him into print. His fortune was then made. All
(05:40):
the society scandals were placed in his hands, and if
he only told what he knew about society, Holmes solved
the most complicated mysteries with a stroke of his hypodermic needle,
and was only baffled in locating the murderer of cock Robin.
His name struck terror into the hearts of criminals and
competing publishers. After all the criminals in England had been
(06:00):
jailed or hung. He was killed by an author, but
the Great Home solved the mystery of the grave and
came back to life in town to see his murderer knighted,
now at work on the Suffragette case ambition, another Doctor
Watson recreation. Fond of Doyle's works and the violin address
(06:21):
thirty one Baker Street, Clubs, London Prison Society epitaph au Revoir.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
But Homer, travel writer, mythology expert and journalist began career
as a reporter on the Athens Times, was discharged for
incompetence and took up honest writing. Found a publisher who
thought his writings would sell to posterity. Later Homer took
(06:50):
charge of the Ulysses Tours, was war correspondent for the
Greek Associated Press at the Siege of Troy. Ambition, fewer
classics and more money publication ce libraries and school rooms.
Address care Athens clubs, literary fourth Estate.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Hood read writing a brave little girl who escaped alive
from a wolf which had previously partaken of a relative.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Hood Robin, a fine robber of Merry, England who took
from the rich and gave to the poor, and made
crackerjack material for stories.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Hood Sasparilla, the manufacturer of another remedy for Harvey's discovery.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Hope, the most beautiful woman who ever lived. She was
a near relation of ambition, discovered the words wish and
if gave her name to the world. She was the
first woman to manufacture ideals, and has been made the
patron saint of the suffragettes see Suffragette. H went about
making life worth while. She was loved by all those
(08:04):
millions of lovers and all those millions of men and
women who endeavored to do things. Ambition, the discouraged recreation
success address. Perhaps she has resided in your home.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus, a rhymster of Greece who sang
and drank of the Fillernian wine.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Horatius Roman bridge tender who saved the city and swam
the Tiber without getting stuck in the mud.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Our the man of the most popular and versatile man
who ever lived, attracted tremendous attention. Newspapers printed his picture
and ran long articles about his life, family, eccentricities, et cetera.
One fame in war, science, pulpit aviation, stage, art, music, politics, literature, finance.
(08:59):
By saving a life and in exploring his accomplishments were infinite.
H was lionized by royalty, society and beautiful women, made addresses,
gave interviews, received honors. He was the man everyone wanted
to shake by the hand so they could tell other
people they had done it. Ambition, another hour, recreation, basking address,
(09:22):
all countries, clubs, all open.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Cuerta Victoriano, a Mexican who made it necessary to employ
extra telegraphers and throat lotions at the White House. He
also was responsible for the phrase the Mexican situation.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Her Benjamin Chariot Racer actor appeared in all large cities,
showing his noble figure, raised his horses down. The villain
packed up and moved to the next town.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Hurst William Randolph, father of the American unwhitened newspapers Democrat,
started life in a humble manner, only controlling a few newspapers.
He soon purchased others his magical touch changed their color.
Employed the greatest staff of imaginary geniuses ever gathered together.
(10:17):
These men had the ability to write unhampered by mere
details or facts. H also employed many good lawyers and
used them frequently, Fortified by his constituents to wit the
aforesaid geniuses and newspapers. H entered politics as a candidate
for anything was always Brian and roosevelted ambition, same as
(10:39):
Brian recreation. Reading yellow journals address all large American cities.
Epitaph the vote is mightier than the.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Pen Hyde mister see doctor jekyl.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I Ibikus, a Grecian poet who of poetry by permitting
words to rhyme at the ends of the lines.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Icarus, father of aviation, record holder for the first tumble,
selected water as the spot for his fall and was
not picked up with the debris ambition a wright machine
recreation tuning up Address, Greece, clubs.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Arrow Ekaterinogrask of Russia. Little is known of his life,
except that he built a celebrated fort to protect the
poor Cossacks from the molestations of the populace. Was probably
blown up or died in prison.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Ingersoll the first man to bring the price of turnips
to within the reach of authors and artists. Historians claim
he would have made another fortune had he lived when
the Sundial Trust had its own way.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Ingersoll, Robert g one of those contented souls who did
not believe in anything and made a fortune by telling
people what he believed.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Innocent thirteen Popes, Address.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Rome, Irving Washington, a pleasing American writer who visited Westminster Abbey,
made Rip van Winkoe wake up, and wrote a few biographies.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Isaac last name unknown, son of Abraham and Sarah, spent
his childhood like all little Isaac's, and later married Rebecca,
claimed by historians to have been a Jewess, had two
famous sons, Esau and Jake. See both but especially the latter.
Died at the tender age of one hundred and eighty years.
(12:38):
Editor's note The editor apologizes for a seeming familiarity. He
did his best to ascertain the lady's last name, but failed.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Isabella a Spanish queen who vowed she would not change
her clothes until the Moors were driven from the country.
Her husband, the King, raised an army and accomplished the feat.
Isabella's name is sometimes connected with the discovery of America. This, however,
is in error, as Columbus took a more active part.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Isaiah, a prophet who wore second hand clothing.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Ishmael, son of Abraham, whose appearance complicated his father's estate,
traveled extensively in the desert with his mother.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
End of Section six h and I
Section six. Who Was Who? By Erwin L. Gordon.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please
visit LibriVox dot org.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Who Was Who five thousand VC to nineteen fourteen Edited
by Erwin Leslie Gordon.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Recording by Sabella Denton, Sean.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Mc gahey, and Laurie Ann Walden.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
H Hafid Moulai, a sultan of Morocco who succeeded in
abdicating before he was abdicated.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Hagar miss Abraham's wife's maid who nearly broke up a
happy family.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Hannemann, doctor of Leipzig, discovered the sugar pill and called
it homeopathy.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Ham second officer and engineer of the Ark.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Hahmed Abdul, a retired professor of diplomacy, champion, promptser and
a sick man. When a youth, he began instructing the
monarchs of Europe in the use of a government. One
of his favorite pastimes was reading ultimatums fearless until a
warship entered the harbor, and even then usually got rid
(01:15):
of it with promises employed massacres to break the monotony
of reigning, acquired as fine a harem as ever sat
on silk cushions. Some of H's younger subjects thought he
should be ostlerized see Doctor Ostler. They gave him his
harem and salary and locked him up in a palace.
Then the wise ones lost Tripoli and about everything but
(01:37):
sleeping room in Europe motto I told you so. Ambition
to be back on the job, recreations, private entertainments, address
harem epitaph. Everybody worked but.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Father Hamlet, a Dane who had difficulty with an auxiliary verb,
also founded the Foolish Questions.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Hammerstein Oscar, an opera broker who inflicted himself high prices
and buildings upon certain communities.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Handel placed Handel's largo on the music stands. Also wrote
a few other heirs.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Harry C. Thomas and Richard.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Harvard John, an Englishman who founded a great American university
near the cultured town of Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America,
where football players and the sons of American millionaires eke
out an education.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Harvey doctor w a physician who learned in sixteen nineteen
that his parents had blood which circulated the discovery has
since been of some profit to his successors.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Hindes of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a man who never tried to
conceal his name, sold American baked beans, ketchup, and fifty
five other varieties to the world.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Helena, Saint Constantine's mother. She built a few churches. Also
see Napoleon.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Hemans Missus. A poet has who gave to the world
that rich, soulful and exquisite poesy The boy stood on
the burning deck. It is said that the poem has
been paradised.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Henry pat an Irish American politician who demanded liberty or
death from all that can be ascertained. He secured the latter.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Hercules, the Sandow of the ancients, promoter of the Olympic Games,
and laborer. Hercules claim to have done some things which
are even questioned by the partisans of Doctor Cook, killed
about everybody, erected two pillars, stole some apples, and in
short did everything but enter politics or invent the breakfast
(03:52):
food ambition, the thirteenth labor recreation, muscle development, travel address,
the pillars clubs athletic epitaph now is a mighty man.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Fallen Hiawatha an American Indian who permitted his wife to
starve to death simply for the want of proper nourishment.
Many claim a great American poet used bad taste in
writing the biography of such a man.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Hitchins, Robert Planter of the Garden of Allah, experimented with Belladonna.
Hitchins is still in Who's Who, and multitudes of readers
hope he will remain there for some time to come. Ambition, sales, recreation,
filling his fountain pen or cleaning typewriter address care of
(04:45):
the publisher home sicily editor's note. The editor hopes to
meet mister Hitchins some day and is compelled to make
the biography flattering.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Hill Samuel, a man who did things in a hurry,
also a celebrated rainstorm.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Hobson, Spanish American war hero who lowered his ideals and
went to Congress. Later he became a temperance lecturer, was
heard by great crowds, produced statistics to show how few
saloons failed.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
After a lecture, Holmes Sherlock detective. When a child he
devoured inexpensive literature and theaters. This fired his mind to
eliminate Scotland Yard as a crime detecting agency, entered the
profession of a detective, but was unknown until Doctor Watson
pulled him into print. His fortune was then made. All
(05:40):
the society scandals were placed in his hands, and if
he only told what he knew about society, Holmes solved
the most complicated mysteries with a stroke of his hypodermic needle,
and was only baffled in locating the murderer of cock Robin.
His name struck terror into the hearts of criminals and
competing publishers. After all the criminals in England had been
(06:00):
jailed or hung. He was killed by an author, but
the Great Home solved the mystery of the grave and
came back to life in town to see his murderer knighted,
now at work on the Suffragette case ambition, another Doctor
Watson recreation. Fond of Doyle's works and the violin address
(06:21):
thirty one Baker Street, Clubs, London Prison Society epitaph au Revoir.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
But Homer, travel writer, mythology expert and journalist began career
as a reporter on the Athens Times, was discharged for
incompetence and took up honest writing. Found a publisher who
thought his writings would sell to posterity. Later Homer took
(06:50):
charge of the Ulysses Tours, was war correspondent for the
Greek Associated Press at the Siege of Troy. Ambition, fewer
classics and more money publication ce libraries and school rooms.
Address care Athens clubs, literary fourth Estate.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Hood read writing a brave little girl who escaped alive
from a wolf which had previously partaken of a relative.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Hood Robin, a fine robber of Merry, England who took
from the rich and gave to the poor, and made
crackerjack material for stories.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Hood Sasparilla, the manufacturer of another remedy for Harvey's discovery.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Hope, the most beautiful woman who ever lived. She was
a near relation of ambition, discovered the words wish and
if gave her name to the world. She was the
first woman to manufacture ideals, and has been made the
patron saint of the suffragettes see Suffragette. H went about
making life worth while. She was loved by all those
(08:04):
millions of lovers and all those millions of men and
women who endeavored to do things. Ambition, the discouraged recreation
success address. Perhaps she has resided in your home.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus, a rhymster of Greece who sang
and drank of the Fillernian wine.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Horatius Roman bridge tender who saved the city and swam
the Tiber without getting stuck in the mud.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Our the man of the most popular and versatile man
who ever lived, attracted tremendous attention. Newspapers printed his picture
and ran long articles about his life, family, eccentricities, et cetera.
One fame in war, science, pulpit aviation, stage, art, music, politics, literature, finance.
(08:59):
By saving a life and in exploring his accomplishments were infinite.
H was lionized by royalty, society and beautiful women, made addresses,
gave interviews, received honors. He was the man everyone wanted
to shake by the hand so they could tell other
people they had done it. Ambition, another hour, recreation, basking address,
(09:22):
all countries, clubs, all open.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Cuerta Victoriano, a Mexican who made it necessary to employ
extra telegraphers and throat lotions at the White House. He
also was responsible for the phrase the Mexican situation.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Her Benjamin Chariot Racer actor appeared in all large cities,
showing his noble figure, raised his horses down. The villain
packed up and moved to the next town.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Hurst William Randolph, father of the American unwhitened newspapers Democrat,
started life in a humble manner, only controlling a few newspapers.
He soon purchased others his magical touch changed their color.
Employed the greatest staff of imaginary geniuses ever gathered together.
(10:17):
These men had the ability to write unhampered by mere
details or facts. H also employed many good lawyers and
used them frequently, Fortified by his constituents to wit the
aforesaid geniuses and newspapers. H entered politics as a candidate
for anything was always Brian and roosevelted ambition, same as
(10:39):
Brian recreation. Reading yellow journals address all large American cities.
Epitaph the vote is mightier than the.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Pen Hyde mister see doctor jekyl.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I Ibikus, a Grecian poet who of poetry by permitting
words to rhyme at the ends of the lines.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Icarus, father of aviation, record holder for the first tumble,
selected water as the spot for his fall and was
not picked up with the debris ambition a wright machine
recreation tuning up Address, Greece, clubs.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Arrow Ekaterinogrask of Russia. Little is known of his life,
except that he built a celebrated fort to protect the
poor Cossacks from the molestations of the populace. Was probably
blown up or died in prison.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Ingersoll the first man to bring the price of turnips
to within the reach of authors and artists. Historians claim
he would have made another fortune had he lived when
the Sundial Trust had its own way.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Ingersoll, Robert g one of those contented souls who did
not believe in anything and made a fortune by telling
people what he believed.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Innocent thirteen Popes, Address.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Rome, Irving Washington, a pleasing American writer who visited Westminster Abbey,
made Rip van Winkoe wake up, and wrote a few biographies.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Isaac last name unknown, son of Abraham and Sarah, spent
his childhood like all little Isaac's, and later married Rebecca,
claimed by historians to have been a Jewess, had two
famous sons, Esau and Jake. See both but especially the latter.
Died at the tender age of one hundred and eighty years.
(12:38):
Editor's note The editor apologizes for a seeming familiarity. He
did his best to ascertain the lady's last name, but failed.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Isabella a Spanish queen who vowed she would not change
her clothes until the Moors were driven from the country.
Her husband, the King, raised an army and accomplished the feat.
Isabella's name is sometimes connected with the discovery of America. This, however,
is in error, as Columbus took a more active part.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Isaiah, a prophet who wore second hand clothing.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Ishmael, son of Abraham, whose appearance complicated his father's estate,
traveled extensively in the desert with his mother.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
End of Section six h and I
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