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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pearson, Jonathan 1813- (search)
Pearson, Jonathan 1813- Educator; born in Chichester, N. H., Feb. 23, 1813; graduated at Union College in 1835; was instructor there in 1835-39; assistant professor of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy in 1839-49; Professor of Natural History in 1849-73; and was then given the chair of Agriculture and Botany. His publications include Early records of the county of Albany; Genealogy of the first settlers of Albany; Genealogy of the first settlers of Schenectady; A history of the Schenectady patent, etc.
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 41: search for health.—journey to Europe.—continued disability.—1857-1858. (search)
Mr. Gladstone at Hawarden, and to the Marquis of Westminster at Eaton Hall; and his last night was at Liverpool with Mr. Richard Rathbone, with whom he had a common sentiment on questions of peace, prison discipline, and slavery. He wrote to Mr. Cobden, November 7:— To-day I sail, against the advice of physicians and friends, who insist upon a longer fallow for my brain. But I cannot be contented to stay. Our American political duties are more exacting. Since I parted from you at Chichester I have seen the Channel Isles, Normandy, Paris, Baden-Baden, Switzerland—, the Alps at St. Gothard and St. Bernard, and Chamouni, the Rhine, Holland, then the Manchester Exhibition, the highlands of Scotland, a little of England, including Gladstone and John Bright. The latter I never saw before. I was glad to find him with so many signs of health, though from my own case I can feel how important repose must be to him for some time longer. I leave England profoundly impressed by its civ
The Daily Dispatch: November 7, 1860., [Electronic resource], Death of the Duke of Richmond. (search)
Death of the Duke of Richmond. --The Lord of the Goodwood races is dead. He was the Duke of Richmond, whose death at London, on the 21st of October, is announced in the late news from Europe. His grace, as proprietor of Goodwood Park, near Chichester, and as the patron of the famous races there in July of every year, is better known to the American world than he is as one of the great nobles of England. His rank, lineage, and the chief events of his life, are summed up as follows: Charles Gordon Lenox, Duke of Richmond, born 1791, succeeded his father, fourth Duke, in 1819; married in 1817, to Lady Caroline Paget, daughter of the Marquis of Anglaise. He was in the seventieth year of his age at the time of his decease. The following were his titles:--1675--Duke of Lenox, Earl of Darnley, Baron of Torbelton, in the Peerage of Scotland. In the Peerage of England, 1675, Duke of Richmond, Earl of March, and Baron of Sterlington. In the Peerage of France, 1684, Duke d'aubig
The Daily Dispatch: November 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
mes two thousand miles from one point of his See to another. The King of Prussia has sent several volumes to the Smithsonian Library, Washington, District of Columbia. In Chester county, Pennsylvania, it is stated that not less than thirty mills are now at work manufacturing sorghum syrup. The price charged is twenty-five to thirty cents per gallon. There is now in the military prison of Knoxville, Tennessee, a grandson of Henry Clay, who was one of the late General Morgan's staff. A voter in Massachusetts recovered eight thousand dollars from the Selectmen for refusing to put his name on the poll list. Joseph Lake, a "fat boy," twelve years old and weighing three hundred and eighty- five pounds, died at his home in Chichester, New Hampshire, on the 19th, of typhoid fever. He took cold while on an exhibition tour. In New York, Wednesday, flour advanced twenty-five cents, wheat five cents, corn three cents, and coffee and sugar quarter of a cent each.