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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fires, Great. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hillis , George Morgan 1825 - (search)
Hillis, George Morgan 1825-
Clergyman; born in Auburn, N. Y., Oct. 10, 1825; graduated at Trinity College in 1847; ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1851.
After being rector in Watertown and Syracuse, N. Y., he was called to St. Mary's Church, Burlington, N. J., in 1870.
His publications include The transfer of the Church from colonial dependence to the freedom of the republic; John Talbot, the first Bishop in North America; The missions of the Church of England in New Jersey, etc.
Oneida Indians,
The second of the five nations that composed the original Iroquois Confederacy (q. v.). Their domain extended from a point east of Utica to Deep Spring, near Manlius, south of Syracuse, in Onondaga county, N. Y. Divided into three clans—the Wolf, Bear, and Turtle—their tribal totem was a stone in a forked stick, and their name meant tribe of the granite rock.
Tradition says that when the great confederacy was formed, Hiawatha said to them: You, Oneidas, a people who recline your bodies against the Everlasting Stone, that cannot be moved, shall be the second nation, because you give wise counsel.
Very soon after the settlement of Canada they became involved in wars with the French and their Huron and Montagnais allies.
In 1653 they joined their neighbors, the Onondagas, in a treaty of peace with the French, and received missionaries from the latter.
At that time they had been so reduced by war with southern tribes that they had only 150 warriors.
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Peck , John James 1821 - (search)
Peck, John James 1821-
Military officer; born in Manlius, N. Y., Jan. 4, 1821; graduated at West Point in 1843, entering the 2d Artillery.
He served in the war against Mexico, and resigned in 1853, settling in Syracuse as a banker.
In August, 1861, he was made brigadier-general of volunteers, and, July 4, 1862, major-general.
He performed excellent service during the whole Civil War, especially in defence of Suffolk.
He was mustered out in August, 1865, after which he was president of a life-insurance company in Syracuse, N. Y., where he died, April 21, 1878.
See Suffolk, siege of.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sumner , Edwin Vose 1797 -1863 (search)
Sumner, Edwin Vose 1797-1863
Military officer; born in Boston, Mass., Jan. 30, 1797; was engaged in mercantile pursuits in early life, and entered the army as second lieutenant in 1819.
He was in the Black Hawk War; served many years on the frontier; was distinguished in the war against Mexico and was brevetted colonel; and in 1851-53 was military governor of New Mexico.
In the spring of 1861 he superseded A. Sidney Johnston in command of the Department of the Pacific, and was made brigadier-general of volunteers.
He commanded the 1st Corps of the Army of the Potomac in the Peninsular campaign, and was twice wounded.
He was also wounded at Antietam, and in the battle of Fredericksburg he commanded the right grand division of the Army of the Potomac.
In May, 1862, he was brevetted major-general, United States army.
He died in Syracuse, N. Y., March 21, 1863.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Waldo , Daniel 1762 -1864 (search)
Waldo, Daniel 1762-1864
Clergyman; born in Windham, Conn., Sept. 10, 1762; graduated at Yale College in 1788; was a soldier in the Revolutionary army; suffered the horrors of imprisonment in a sugar-house in New York, and was pastor and missionary from 1792.
At the age of ninety-three he was chaplain of the national House of Representatives, when his voice and step were as vigorous as a man of sixty.
He died in Syracuse, N. Y., July 30, 1864.