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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Van Reypen, William Knickerbocker 1840- (search)
Van Reypen, William Knickerbocker 1840- Naval officer; born in Bergen, N. J., Nov. 14, 1840; graduated at the Medical Department of the University of New York in 1862; served at the Naval Hospital, New York, in 1862, and on the frigate St. Lawrence of the East Gulf blockading squadron, in 1863-64; appointed medical director in March, 1865; surgeon-general United States navy, and chief of the bureau of medicine and surgery with the rank of rearadmiral, Oct. 22, 1897. During the American-Spanish War he designed and equipped the ambulance ship Solace, the first ever employed in naval warfare.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Winsor, Justin 1831- (search)
Winsor, Justin 1831- Historian; born in Boston, Mass., Jan. 2, 1831; educated at Cambridge, Paris, and Heidelberg; was superintendent of the Boston Public Library in 1868-77; librarian of Harvard from 1877 till his death, in Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 22, 1897. He contributed to the Knickerbocker magazine and other periodicals; and wrote Reader's Handy-book of the American Revolution; Memorial history of Boston; Narrative and critical history of America; The Mississippi Basin; The struggle in America between England and France, etc.