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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6 0 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 2 2 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), McGlynn, Edward 1837- (search)
priest and returned to New York City, where he became an assistant to Father Farrell in St. Joseph's Church. In 1866 he was appointed pastor of St. Stephen's Church in New York, and while in this pastorate founded St. Stephen's Home for Orphan and Destitute Children on a very meagre scale, but so rapidly did the enterprise grow that in a few years it occupied three lots on Twenty-eighth Street, two large houses, 20 acres of land at New Dorp, S. I., and an acre of land and house at Belmont, Fordham. He became a strong advocate of the single-tax theories of Henry George (q. v.) whom he heartily supported as candidate for mayor of New York City in 1887. These views were rebuked in a letter written him by Archbishop Corrigan, and shortly afterwards He was suspended from his pastorate and summoned to Rome to appear before the tribunal of the Propaganda. He, however, refused to go, and, in consequence, was excommunicated. In 1892 he was restored to the exercise of his priestly function
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Murray, John O'Kane 1847-1885 (search)
Murray, John O'Kane 1847-1885 Historian; born in Glenariffe, Ireland, Dec. 12, 1847; came to the United States in 1856; graduated at St. John's College, Fordham, N. Y.; and became a physician in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was the author of Popular history of the Catholic Church in the United States; The Catholic heroes and heroines of America; The Catholic pioneers of America, etc. He died in Chicago, Ill., July 30, 1885.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
er......August, 1643 Capt. John Underhill, a hero of the Pequod War, enters the Dutch service......September, 1643 Anne Hutchinson killed, the settlement destroyed, and her granddaughter, eight years old, captured......1643 Throgmorton's settlement attacked and destroyed......1643 Gravesend, Long Island, attacked, but Indians repulsed......1643 Father Jogues escapes from the Indians at Fort Orange; is brought to New Amsterdam and sails for Europe......1643 English under Robert Fordham, from Stamford, settle Hempstead, Long Island......1644 English and Dutch destroy an Indian village near Hempstead......1644 Kieft proclaims a public thanksgiving for the victory......March, 1644 Captain Underhill destroys an Indian village at Stamford, killing 600 Indians; fifteen Dutch soldiers wounded......March 12, 1644 Complaints against Kieft; his recall demanded......1644 Kiliaen Van Rensselaer dies at Amsterdam, Holland......1644 End of Indian war; treaty with s