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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 4 4 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 1 1 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 1 1 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sewell, May 1844- (search)
Sewell, May 1844- Educator; born in Milwaukee, Wis., May 27, 1844; graduated at Northwestern University in 1866; taught school for several years; prominent in woman suffrage movements and the education of women; actively connected with the National Woman Suffrage Association; and principal of a girls' classical school, founded by her husband. She has lectured on social, educational, literary, and reform topics; contributed to periodicals; and edited The Historical Resume of the world's Congress of Representative women.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
, of Kentucky, nominated for President, and Theodore Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey, for Vice-President.] Riots in Philadelphia between native Americans and the Irish......May 6-8, 1844 National Democratic convention at Baltimore, Md.......May 27, 1844 [Martin Van Buren, of New York, received on the first ballot 146 out of 266 votes, but failed to get the required twothirds vote; his name was withdrawn on the eighth ballot, and James K. Polk, of Tennessee, was nominated on the ninth; Silaent, but declined, and George M. Dallas, of Pennsylvania, was nominated.] First telegraphic communications in the United States during this convention, on the experimental line erected by the government between Baltimore and Washington......May 27, 1844 First session adjourns......June 17, 1844 Joe Smith, the Mormon prophet, with his brother Hiram, murdered by a mob at the jail in Carthage, Ill........June 27, 1844 Treaty with China, of peace, amity, and commerce......July 3, 1844
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maryland, (search)
eaches $16,050,000; deficit of treasury, $556,387.38......Dec. 1, 1840 State tax levied of 20 cents on every $100, afterwards increased to 25 cents......April 1, 1841 Maryland Historical Society founded......January, 1844 Whig National Convention in Baltimore nominates Henry Clay for President......May 1, 1844 Morse magnetic telegraph from Washington to Baltimore completed......May 20, 1844 Democratic National Convention at Baltimore nominates for President James K. Polk......May 27-29, 1844 Act waiving the State liens in favor of $1,700,000 bonds to be issued by the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company at par, with a guarantee that for five years after completion not less than 195,000 tons would be transported annually upon it, and a contract is made for the completion of the canal to Cumberland......March 10, 1845 United States Naval Academy established at Annapolis......1845 Rev. Charles Turner Torrey dies in State-prison under sentence for enticing slaves from
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, chapter 30 (search)
s morning with her to see Allston's Belshazzar, which is a great though unfinished creation of genius. I walked with Fisher last evening. He is well; and every thing goes on well. Lieber, you know, is in Europe. My brother George is in Paris: he hopes to see you. You will find him sagacious, learned, humane, interested in all the institutions which are the fruit and token of civilization in the true sense of that word. Ever affectionately thine, C. S. To J. C. Perkins he wrote, May 27, 1844:— Your dedication Of the American edition of Brown's Chancery Reports. cannot fail to give great pleasure to Mr. Choate. It is a beautiful, and I think a well deserved, tribute from a former pupil. It is with hesitation that I venture to touch rudely what is chiselled so carefully. But as a general rule, it seems to me that one cannot be too abstemious of adjectives in an inscription which should be close and lapidary in its character. . . . To Thomas Crawford. Boston, Jun
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 16: ecclesiastical History. (search)
iate funeral services in the presence of a great congregation, and in the house where he had so long been a living power. The present pastor of the church, Rev. Hiram K. Pervear, B. U. 1855, had been pastor of the Second Baptist Church in Cambridge about seven years, and of the First Baptist Church in Worcester nearly eight years, before his public recognition here on the 5th of January, 1873. The church has had nine Deacons, to wit:— Elected. Died. Age. Levi FarwellFeb. 10, 1818May 27, 184460 William Brown Deacons Brown and Coolidge were dismissed to the Church in Old Cambridge, Aug. 16, 1844.Feb. 10, 1818 June 25, 186175 Josiah Coolidge Deacons Brown and Coolidge were dismissed to the Church in Old Cambridge, Aug. 16, 1844.July 30, 1844Sept. 13, 187487 George Cummings Removed to Lancaster in 1850.Aug. 23, 1844 Josiah W. CookAug. 23, 1844 William B. HoveyJan. 29, 1849July 4, 187175 Joseph A. HolmesJan. 29. 1849 Albert VinalFeb. 19, 1850 Joseph GoodnowOct. 13
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
y. He held the position of private secretary to Governor Tillman from 1890 to 1894, and in the latter year was elected secretary of state, an office in which his honorable career is familiar to the people. In 1869 he was married, in Laurens county, to Louisa R., daughter of Dr. William Rook, and they have five children: Louise, wife of John T. Duncan, of Columbia; Frank G., Amelia, Evelyn and Elizabeth. Samuel A. Townes, ex-mayor of Greenville, was born at Marion, Perry county, Ala., May 27, 1844. His father, Maj. Samuel A. Townes, was a graduate of the university of Virginia, a journalist and lawyer and a major of South Carolina militia. He practiced law in South Carolina, his native State, and in Alabama, returning to South Carolina with his wife, Joanna Lois Hall, a native of Charleston, to rear his children. In April, 1861, Mr. Townes enlisted as a private in the Butler Guards at Greenville, and as private and later as sergeant in Company B, Second South Carolina regiment,