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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Whitney, William Collins 1841- (search)
Whitney, William Collins 1841- Capitalist; born in Conway, Mass., July 15, 1841; graduated at Yale University in 1863, and at the Harvard Law School in 1865; admitted to the bar and began practising in New York; assisted in organizing the Young Men's Democratic Club in 1871: was active in the movement against the Tweed ring; and Secretary of the Navy in 1885-89, during which period the creation of the new navy was begun. He has since been largely interested in street railway corporations.
L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience, Introductory Chapter. (search)
on for expenses, since labor and attendance were voluntary and the materials a gift, to the treasuries of the great fairs then in progress. Nor were the aged women lacking in patriotic devotion. Such inscriptions as these were not uncommon. The fortunate owner of these socks is secretly informed, that they are the one hundred and ninety-first pair knit for our brave boys by Mrs. Abner Bartlett, of Medford, Mass., now aged eighty-five years. A barrel of hospital clothing sent from Conway, Mass., contained a pair of socks knit by a lady ninety-seven years old, who declared herself ready and anxious to do all she could. A homespun blanket bore the inscription, This blanket was carried by Milly Aldrich, who is ninety-three years old, down hill and up hill, one and a-half miles, to be given to some soldier. A box of lint bore this touching record, Made in a sick-room where the sunlight has not entered for nine years, but where God has entered, and where two sons have bade thei
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 7: Franklin County. (search)
as a commissioned officer. The whole amount of money appropriated and expended by the town on account of the war, exclusive of State aid, was thirty-one thousand and fifty-three dollars ($31,053.00). The amount of money raised and expended for State aid to the families of volunteers during the war, and which was afterwards repaid by the Commonwealth, was as follows: In 1861, $55.14; in 1862, $660.17; in 1863, $1,746.49; in 1864, $2,379.69; in 1865, $2,200.00. Total amount, $7,041.49. Conway Incorporated June 16, 1767. Population in 1860, 1,689; in 1865, 1,538. Valuation in 1860, $725,053; in 1865, $703,919. The selectmen in 1861 were E. Cooley, W. C. Campbell, C. Batchelder; in 1862, E. Cooley, C. Batchelder, Newton Pease; in 1863, 1864, and 1865, C. Batchelder, W. C. Campbell, Consider Arms. The town-clerk during the whole period of the war was H. W. Billings. The town-treasurer in the years 1861, 1862, and 1863, was G. Edgerton; and in the years 1864 and 1865, H.
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 1: re-formation and Reanimation.—1841. (search)
younger was born at the mouth, Rogers's Writings, p. 158. and the elder near the sources, of that noble river—thus native to both of them. Mr. Garrison, on his part, fully responded to an invitation which was to gratify also his keen admiration for natural scenery. Lib. 11.147. This (in the main) pleasure excursion was the first ever undertaken by Mr. Garrison in his own country, and it made a lasting impression upon his memory. It began at Concord, N. H., on August 23, and ended at Conway on August 30; and in that time the Merrimac was ascended to the Franconia Notch, Littleton was visited, Mt. Washington ascended from Fabyan's, and the return made by way of the Crawford Notch. Rogers, in the Herald of Rogers's Writings, pp. 156, 193. Freedom, was the willing and graphic chronicler of the week's jaunt, which was put to anti-slavery account by Cf. Lib. 11: 147, 167. holding meetings along the route, with little aid and much obstruction from the clergy. In Rogers's native t
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 8 (search)
ard. First Sergeant, 3d Mass. Cavalry, Nov. 25, 1861. Captain, 1st La. Cavalry, Aug., 1862. Resigned, Sept. 24, 1864. Barrett, Samuel Eddy. Born at Cambridgeport, Mass., May 16, 1834. First Lieutenant, 1st Ill. Light Artillery, Apr. 19, 1861. Senior First Lieutenant, May, 1861. Mustered out, July 16, 1861. Senior First Lieutenant, 1st Ill. Light Artillery, July 16, 1861. Captain, Apr. 1, 1862. Major, Feb. 25, 1863. Resigned, Feb. 13, 1864. Bartlett, Prescott. Born at Conway, Mass., Aug. 19, 1821. Captain, 7th Ill. Cavalry, Aug. 12, 1861. Mustered out, Oct. 15, 1864. Bates, Ellsworth N. Born in Massachusetts. Captain, 20th Iowa Infantry, Aug. 25, 1862. Resigned, Sept. 18, 1863. Bates, Erastus Newton. See General Officers. Bates, John Franklin. Residence in Massachusetts at time of enlistment. Captain, 99th N. Y. Infantry, Jan. 17, 1862. Major, commissioned, Sept. 20, 1862, to rank, Aug. 19, 1862. Mustered out, July 2, 1864. Bates, Joshua