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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hart , Albert Bushnell 1854 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lafayette , Marie Jean Paul Roch Yves Gilbert Motier , Marquis de 1757 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Martin , Francois Xavier 1762 -1846 (search)
Martin, Francois Xavier 1762-1846
Jurist; born in Marseilles, France, March 7, 1762; removed to North Carolina in 1782, where he taught French, learned printing, and established a newspaper.
He also published almanacs and school-books, studied law, and began its practice in 1789.
Jefferson appointed him a judge of the Mississippi Territory, and he was made attorney-general of the State of Louisiana in 1813.
In 1815 he was made a judge of the Supreme Court of Louisiana; remained on that bench for thirty-two years, and was chief-justice from 1837 to 1845.
He died in New Orleans, La., Dec. 11, 1846.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morgan , George Washington 1820 -1895 (search)
Morgan, George Washington 1820-1895
Military officer; born in Washington county, Pa., Sept. 20, 1820.
He was captain in the Texan war for independence; studied two years at West Point, 1841-43; and began the practice of law in Ohio in 1845.
In the war against Mexico he became colonel of the 2d Ohio Volunteers, and for his gallantry won the brevet of brigadiergeneral.
From 1856 to 1858 he was consul at Marseilles; 1858 to 1861 was minister resident at Lisbon, and in November of the latter year was made brigadier-general of volunteers.
He was in command of a division in the Army of the Ohio in 1862.
He served under Rosecrans, and commanded a division under Sherman at Vicksburg in 1863.
That year he resigned.
He was a member of Congress from 1868 to 1872.
He died in Fort Monroe, July 27, 1895.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nogaret , Stanislas Henry Lucien de 1682 -1759 (search)
Nogaret, Stanislas Henry Lucien de 1682-1759
Colonist; born in Marseilles, France, in 1682; enlisted in the army about 1698; ordered to Louisiana in 1716; and later appointed commander of Fort Rosalie.
In 1729 the Natchez Indians burned this fort and murdered nearly all the settlers in its vicinity.
Nogaret, with a few others, escaped, and a few months afterwards returned with a French force, defeated the Indians, and restored the fort.
He published Precis des établissements fondes dans la vallee du Mississippi par Le Chevalier Le Moyne de Bienville, suivi d'une histoire des guerres avec les Indiens Natchez.
He died in Paris in 1759
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Simonin , Louis Laurent 1830 -1886 (search)
Simonin, Louis Laurent 1830-1886
Geologist; born in Marseilles, Aug. 22, 1830; was educated at the School of Mines, at Saint Étienne; and in 1852, engaged in engineering; made several voyages to the United States, visited Cuba, the West Indies, Central America, the Isthmus of Panama, Mexico, and California; was a member of the international jury for the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876.
Among his publications are The Great West of the United States; The American; American Society, and Gold and silver.
He died in Paris, France, in June, 1886