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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Abbott , Charles Conrad , 1843 - (search)
Abbott, Charles Conrad, 1843-
Naturalist; born in Trenton, N. J., June 4, 1843.
He was graduated at the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1865; spent several years in making a valuable collection of archaeological specimens, which he presented to the Peabody Museum at Cambridge, Mass.; and was an assistant in that institution in 1876-89.
Among his publications are The Stone age in New Jersey; A naturalist's Rambles about home; several volumes on bird life, and a number of novels.
Abbott, Lyman, 1835-
Clergyman and editor; born in Roxbury, Mass., Dec. 18, 1835; third son of Jacob; was graduated at the University of the City of New York in 1853; was admitted to the bar there, and for a time practised in partnership with his brothers Benjamin Vaughan and Austin. Subsequently he studied theology with his uncle, John Stevens Cabot, and was ordained as a Congregational minister in 1860.
He was secretary of the Freedmen's Commission in 1865-68; became editor of the Literary record in Harper's magazine, and conductor of the Illustrated Christian weekly; and for a time was associated with Henry Ward Beecher (q. v.) in the editorship of The Christian Union., In 1888 he succeeded Mr. Beecher as pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn.
In 1898 he resigned and took full editorial charge of The outlook, formerly The Christian Union.
Among his publications is A dictionary of religious knowledge.
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An Anglo-American understanding.
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Agassiz , Elizabeth Cabot , 1823 - (search)
Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot, 1823-
Naturalist and educator; born in Boston, Mass., in 1823; daughter of Thomas G. Cary; was married to Prof. Louis Agassiz in 1850.
In 1865 she accompanied her husband on his expedition to Brazil, and in 1871-72 was on the Hassler expedition.
She greatly aided her husband in his studies and writings: was joint author with her son of Seaside studies in natural history; published Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence; and was president of the Harvard Annex, now Radcliffe College, from its organization till 1899, when she resigned.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Agricultural implements . (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Allen , Joel Asaph , 1838 - (search)
Allen, Joel Asaph, 1838-
Zoologist; born in Springfield, Mass., July 19, 1838; studied zoology at the Lawrence Scientific School.
In 1865-71 he was a member of scientific expeditions to Brazil, the Rocky Mountains, and Florida: in 1870-85 was assistant in ornithology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology in Cambridge.
He was president of the American Ornithologists' Union in 1883-90, and since 1885, has been curator of the department of vertebrate zoology in the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
Professor Allen edited the Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, and was author of Monographs of North American Rodents (with Elliott Coues); History of North American Pinnipeds, etc.
Ambulance service.
The benevolent work of the Volunteer Refreshment Saloons of Philadelphia during 1861-65 was
Philadelphia.
Firemen's ambulance. supplemented by a good work carried on wholly by the firemen of that city.
When sick and wounded soldiers began to be brought to the hospitals in Philadelphia, the medical department found it difficult to procure proper vehicles to convey them from the wharves to their destination.
The distress caused by delays and inconvenient conveyances the sympathetic firemen attempted to alleviate.
An arrangement was made for the chief of the department to announce the arrival of a transport by a given signal, when the firemen would hasten to the landing-place with spring-wagons.
Finally, the Northern liberties engine Company had a fine ambulance constructed.
More than thirty other engine and hose companies followed their example, and the suffering soldiers were conveyed from slip to hospital with the greatest tenderness.
These ambulances c