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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Davenport , Henry Kallock ,1820 -1872 (search)
Davenport, Henry Kallock, 1820-1872
Naval officer; born in Savannah, Ga., Dec. 10, 1820; joined the navy in 1838; commanded the steamer Hetzel in 1861-64; took part in the engagements on James River and off Roanoke Island; and was promoted captain in 1868.
He died in Franzensbad, Bohemia, Aug. 18, 1872.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Davidson , John Wynn ,1824 -1881 (search)
Davidson, John Wynn, 1824-1881
Military officer; born in Fairfax county, Va., Aug. 18, 1824; graduated at West Point in 1845, entering the dragoons.
Accompanying Kearny to California in 1846, he was in the principal battles of the war with Mexico.
He was also active in New Mexico, afterwards, against the Indians.
In 1861 he was made major of cavalry, and early in 1862 brigadiergeneral of volunteers, commanding a brigade in the Army of the Potomac.
After serving in the campaign on the Peninsula, he was transferred (August, 1862) to the Department of the Mississippi, and cooperated with General Steele in the capture of Little Rock, Ark. He was brevetted major-general of volunteers in March, 1865; promoted to lieutenant-colonel, 10th Cavalry, in 1866; was Professor of Military Science in Kansas Agricultural College in 1868-71; promoted to colonel, 2d Cavalry, in 1879.
He died in St. Paul, Minn., June 26, 1881.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Davis , Cushman Kellogg ,1838 - (search)
Davis, Cushman Kellogg, 1838-
Statesman; born in Henderson, N. Y., June 16, 1838;
Cushman Kellogg Davis. graduated at the University of Michigan in 1857; studied law and began practice in Waukesha, Wis. During the Civil War he served three years in the Union army.
In 1865 he removed to St. Paul, Minn. He was a member of the Minnesota legislature in 1867; United States district attorney for Minnesota in 1868-73; governor of Minnesota in 1874-75; and elected to the United States Senate in 1887, 1893, and 1899.
For several years he was chairman of the Senate committee on foreign relations, and familiarity with the international affairs of the United States led to his appointment as a member of the commission to negotiate peace with Spain after the war of 1898.
He published The law in Shakespeare.
He died in St. Paul, Nov. 27, 1900.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), De forest , John William ,1826 - (search)
De forest, John William, 1826-
Military officer; born in Humphreysville (now Seymour), Conn., March 31, 1826; entered the National army as captain at the beginning of the Civil War; served continuously till January, 1865; and was adjutant-general of the Veteran Reserve Corps in 1865-68.
His publications include The history of the Indians of Connecticut, from the earliest-known period to 1850, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Delano , Columbus ,1809 -1896 (search)
Delano, Columbus, 1809-1896
Statesman; born in Shoreham, Vt., June 5, 1809; settled in Mount Vernon, O., in 1817; admitted to the bar in 1831, and became prominent as a criminal lawyer.
He was a member of Congress in 1844-64 and 1866-68; was appointed United States commissioner of internal revenue in 1869, and later by reorganizing the bureau increased the receipts in eight months more than 100 per cent.; and was Secretary of the Department of the Interior in 1870-75.
He died in Mount Vernon, O., Oct. 23, 1896.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), De long , George Washington ,1844 - (search)
De long, George Washington, 1844-
Explorer; born in New York City, Aug. 22, 1844; graduated at the United States Naval Academy in 1865, and promoted ensign in 1866; master in 1868; lieutenant in 1869; and lieutenant-commander, Nov. 1, 1879.
He was with Capt. Daniel L. Braine on the Juniata, when he was ordered, in 1873, to search for the missing Arctic steamer Polaris and her crew.
On July 8, 1879, he was given command of the Jeannette, which had been fitted out by James Gordon Bennett, Jr. (q. v.), for a three years exploration trip via Bering Strait.
By an act of Congress the vessel was placed under the authority of the government.
After touching at Ounalaska, St. Michael's and St. Lawrence Bay, the Jeannette sailed to Cape Serdze Kamen, Siberia, in search of Professor Nordenskjold, the Swedish explorer.
Sailing northward the vessel was caught in the pack-ice, Sept. 5, 1879, off Herald Island, and, after drifting 600 miles to the northwest in a devious course, was crushed b
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dwight , Theodore William ,1822 -1892 (search)
Dwight, Theodore William, 1822-1892
Educator and jurist; born in Catskill, N. Y., July 18, 1822; graduated at Hamilton College in 1840; appointed Professor of Municipal Law in Columbia in 1858; Professor of Constitutional Law in Cornell in 1868, and lecturer on constitutional law in Amherst in 1869; appointed a judge of the
Theodore William Dwight. commission of appeals in January, 1874. Professor Dwight was the most distinguished teacher of law in the United States.
He died in Clinton, N. Y., June 28, 1892.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Elkins , Stephen Benton ,1841 - (search)
Elkins, Stephen Benton, 1841-
Legislator; born in Perry county, Ohio, Sept. 26, 1841; graduated at the Missouri University in 1860; admitted to the bar in 1863; captain in the 77th Missouri Regiment 1862-63; removed to New Mexico in 1864, where he engaged in mining; elected member of the Territorial legislature in 1864; became attorney-general of the Territory in 1868; United States district attorney in 1870; representative in Congress in 1873-77; Secretary of War in 1891-93; and elected United States Senator from West Virginia in 1895.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Elliott , Charles Loring ,1812 -1868 (search)
Elliott, Charles Loring, 1812-1868
Painter; born in Scipio, N. Y., in December, 1812; was the son of an architect, who prepared him for that profession.
He became a pupil of Trumbull, in New York, and afterwards of Quidor, a painter of fancy-pieces.
Having acquired the technicalities of the art, his chief employment for a time was copying engravings in oil, and afterwards he attempted portraits.
He practised portrait-painting in the interior of New York for about ten years, when he went to the city (1845), where he soon rose to the head of his profession as a portrait-painter.
It is said that he painted 700 portraits, many of them of distinguished men. His likenesses were always remarkable for fidelity, and for beauty and vigor of coloring.
He died in Albany, Aug. 25, 1868.