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| Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America, together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fenton , Reuben Eaton 1819 -1885 (search)
Fenton, Reuben Eaton 1819-1885
Statesman; born in Carroll, Chautauqua co., N. Y., July 4, 1819; was educated at Pleasant Hill and Fredonia academies, in his native county; and was admitted to the bar in 1841.
Finding the practice of law uncongenial, he entered business, and acquired a moderate fortune.
Meanwhile, he became interested in politics, and in 1843-51 served as supervisor of Carroll.
In 1852 he was elected to Congress by the Democrats, and there opposed the further extension of slavery.
This action resulted in his defeat, in 1854, for a second term, and he united with the Republican party, by whom, in 1856, he was elected to Congress, where he remained till 1864, when he resigned to become governor of New York, in which office he served two terms.
In 1869-75 he was in the United States Senate, and in 1878 was chairman of the United States commission to the International Monetary Conference in Paris.
He died in Jamestown, N. Y., Aug. 25, 1885.
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War, Index. (search)
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America, together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company), Ohio , Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio (search)
Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio
a town of 7,000 pop., on the Cincinnati & Zanesville Railroad, and connected by the Hocking Canal to the Ohio Canal at Carroll.
In a rich and populous agricultural district, and center of a flourishing trade.