(Benjamin Franklin) (1870-1902) US novelist. A naturalist writer, he wrote McTeague 1899, about a brutish San Francisco dentist and the love of gold (filmed as Greed 1923). He completed only two parts of his projected trilogy, the Epic of Wheat: The Octopus 1901, dealing with the struggles between wheat farmers, and The Pit 1903, describing the Chicago wheat exchange.

George William 1861-1944 American statesman

1. City in Tennessee (USA).
2. Town in South Carolina (USA).
3. Village in Illinois (USA).