hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 8 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Your search returned 12 results in 3 document sections:

Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stephens, John Lloyd 1805-1852 (search)
Stephens, John Lloyd 1805-1852 Author; born at Shrewsbury, N. J., Nov. 28, 1805; graduated at Columbia College in 1822; studied at the Litchfield Law School, and practised in New York. From 1834 to 1836 he was in Europe, and went to Egypt and ithe richest contributions on the subject of American antiquities ever made by one man. Frederic Catherwood accompanied Mr. Stephens, and made numerous drawings for the books. Mr. Stephens was a director of the Ocean Steam Navigation Company. He wasMr. Stephens was a director of the Ocean Steam Navigation Company. He was also president of the Panama Railroad Company, and was active in the construction of the road. In the constitutional convention of the State of New York (1846) Mr. Stephens was a delegate from the city of New York. He died in New York City, Oct.ident of the Panama Railroad Company, and was active in the construction of the road. In the constitutional convention of the State of New York (1846) Mr. Stephens was a delegate from the city of New York. He died in New York City, Oct. 12, 1852.
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
he age of eleven in 1836, and in ten years was a captain. He commanded the famous Dreadnaught, the swiftest ship of her time. He tells a thrilling story, for which Bishop Potter wrote the introduction, in From the Forecastle to the cabin (1887). South America was not forgotten by our American travellers and explorers, and a naval expedition in 1851-53 carried on an Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon (1854) under William L. Hemdon and Lardner Gibbon, while, earlier than this, John Lloyd Stephens was investigating the intermediate part of the Western Hemisphere, publishing his admirable results in Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan (1841) and Incidents of travel in Yucatan (1843). E. G. Squier's operations came out in Nicaragua (1856) and The States of Central America (1858). Far away in Turkey the Rev. Doctor William Goodell was having the experiences which he recounts in Forty years in the Turkish Empire (1876), edited by his son-in-law, E. D. G. Pr
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
stical view of Maine, 432 Statistics and economics, 442 Statistics and sociology, 442 Steam raft, 149 Stedman, E. C., 31, 36, 39, 41, 43, 44, 45-47, 50, 116, 121, 122, 125, 126– 128, 311, 314 Stedman, Elizabeth Dodge, 45 Steeves, H. R., 483 n. Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 170 Steffens, Lincoln, 317 Steinberg, Noah, 604 Steiner, 576 Steiner, E. A., 420 Steinway, H., 588 Stendhal, 105 Stenhouse, Mrs., 143 Stephen, Leslie, 488 Stephens, A. H., 182, 351 Stephens, John Lloyd, 136 Sterne, 539 Steuben, Baron, 448, 586 Stevens, T. W., 296 Stevens, Thaddeus, 350, 410 Stevenson, Burton Egbert, 68 Stevenson, R. L., 91, 312, 316 Steward, Ira, 438 Stewart, Andrew, 538 Stewart, Dugald, 227, 229 n. Stiff, Col., Edward, 131 Stiles, Ezra, 446, 447, 447 n., 471 Stillman, W. J., 487, 488 n. Still, still with Thee, when purple morning Breaketh, 500 Stimson, Frederic Jesup, 91 Stirling, Hutchison, 239 Stockton, Frank R., 86, 274 St