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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Abbot , Joel , 1793 -1855 (search)
Abbot, Joel, 1793-1855
Naval officer: born in Westford, Mass., Jan. 18, 1793; entered the navy as midshipman at the beginning of the War of 1812: served first on the frigate President, and next on Lake Champlain with Commodore Macdonough, who when he asked Abbot if he were ready to die for his country received the reply: Certainly, sir; that is what I came into the service for.
He was then ordered to enter the British lines as a spy and destroy a number of spars which had been stored at Sorel.
For his success in this dangerous exploit and for his bravery in the engagement at Cumberland Head on Sept. 11, 1814, he received a sword of honor from Congress and was commissioned a lieutenant.
He was given charge of the pirate ship Mariana in 1818; promoted commander in 1838; and in the following year was given command of the Boston navy-yard.
During Commodore Perry's expedition to Japan in 1852 Abbot commanded the Macedonian, and later was appointed flag-officer of the squadron.
He
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Abert , John James , 1778 -1863 (search)
Abert, John James, 1778-1863
Military engineer; born in Shepherdstown, Va., Sept. 27, 1778: was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1811; soon afterwards resigned; studied law, and was admitted to the bar; served as a private soldier in the defence of the national capital in the War of 1812, and in 1814 was re-appointed to the army as a topographical engineer, becoming chief of the corps in 1838.
He was associated with the construction of many of the early national works of engineering, and was one of the organizers of the National Institute of Science, which was merged into the Smithsonian Institution.
He died in Washington, D. C., Dec. 27, 1863.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Academy of natural Sciences , (search)
Academy of natural Sciences,
An institution in Philadelphia, Pa.; founded in 1812; has published Journals since 1817, and Proceedings since 1841; and is noted for its very large collection of specimens in natural history.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Adams , John Quincy , 1767 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Adams , Julius Walker , 1812 -1899 (search)
Adams, Julius Walker, 1812-1899
Engineer; born in Boston, Mass., Oct. 18, 1812.
He was the pioneer engineer of the East River Bridge.
He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 13, 1899.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Alger , Cyrus , 1781 -1856 (search)
Alger, Cyrus, 1781-1856
Inventor; born in West Bridgewater, Mass., Nov. 11, 1781; became an iron-founder early in life.
In 1809 he founded in Boston the works which since 1817 have been known as the South Boston Iron Company.
During the War of 1812 he supplied the government with a large number of cannon-balls.
He devised many improvements in the construction of time-fuses for bomb-shells and grenades.
In 1811 he invented a method of making cast-iron chilled rolls.
and in 1822 designed the cylinder stove.
The first perfect bronze cannon.
the first gun ever rifled in the United States, and the largest gun of cast-iron, the Columbiad mortar, that had been cast in the country, were turned out at his foundry under his personal supervision.
He died in Boston, Feb. 4. 1856.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Andrew , Stephen Pearl , 1812 -1886 (search)
Andrew, Stephen Pearl, 1812-1886
Author; born in Templeton, Mass., March 22, 1812.
After practising law in the South, he settled in New York in 1847, and became a prominent abolitionist.
He gave much attention to phonographic reporting, and to the development of a universal philosophy which he named Integralism, and to a universal language named Alwato.
He was author of numerous works relating to these subjects, besides Comparison of the common law with the Roman. French, or Spanish Civil law on entails, etc.; Lore. Marriage and divorce; The labor dollar: transactions of the Colloquium (an organization established by himself and friends for philosophical discussion), etc. He died in New York, May 21, 1886.
Arkansas,
One of the Southwestern States; discovered by De Soto in 1541, who crossed the Mississippi near the site of Helena.
It was next visited by father Marquette (q. v.) in 1673.
It was originally a part of Louisiana, purchased from the French in 1803, and so remained until 1812, when it formed a part of Missouri Territory.
It was erected into a Territory in 1819, with its present name, and remained under a territorial government until 1836, when a convention at Little Rock, its present capital, formed a State constitution.
Its first territorial legislature met at Arkansas Post in 1820.
On June 15, 1836, Arkansas was admitted into the Union as a State.
In 1861 the people of Arkansas were attached to the Union, but, unfortunately, the governor and most of the leading politicians of the State were disloyal, and no effort was spared by them to obtain the passage of an ordinance of secession.
For this purpose a State convention of delegates assembled at the capital (Littl