News about William Chester Minor

The Oxford English Dictionary was not created by a team of dons and professors, and it was actually the Wikipedia of its day, assembled by a huge army of ordinary people. Among a diverse cast of housewives, factory inspectors, engineers, social activists, and a slew of others, three murderers and at least four people of psychiatric institutions have been listed as contributors. Over a 36-year span from 1880 to 1915, James Murray, a generous and devoted family man who had left school at 14 with no formal training, arranged thousands of volunteers recruited globally by newspaper advertisements.