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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Agricultural implements . (search)
Bard, John, 1716-1799
Physician; born in Burlington, N. J., Feb. 1, 1716; was of a Huguenot family, and was for seven years a surgeon's apprentice in Philadelphia.
Establishing himself in New York, he soon ranked among the first physicians and surgeons in America.
In 1750 he assisted Dr. Middleton in the first recorded dissection in America.
In 1788 he became the first president of the New York Medical Society; and when, in 1795, the yellow fever raged in New York, he remained at his post, though then nearly eighty years of age. He died in Hyde Park, N. Y., March 30, 1799.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bloomfield , Joseph , 1801 -1823 (search)
Bloomfield, Joseph, 1801-1823
Military officer; born in Woodbridge, N. J.; was a law student when the war for independence broke out, when he was made a captain, and entered the service of the patriots, serving until the end of the war. Then he had attained the rank of major.
After the war he was attorney-general of New Jersey: governor in 1801-12: brigadier-general during the War of 1812-15; member of Congress 1817-21; and was always esteemed a sound legislator and a judicious leader.
He died in Burlington.
N. J., Oct. 3, 1823.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Boudinot , Elias , 1740 -1821 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Burns , John , 1793 -1872 (search)
Burns, John, 1793-1872
Military officer; born in Burlington, N. J., Sept. 5, 1793; served in the War of 1812-15, taking part in the engagements at Plattsburg, Queenston, and Lund's Lane.
He endeavored to enlist for the Mexican War, but being rejected on account of his age went with the army as a teamster.
In 1863, when the Confederate scouts entered Gettysburg, he joined a party to oppose them, but was turned back by the National cavalry.
He took an active part in the subsequent battle of Gettysburg, and when the report of his participation reached the Northern States it aroused much interest and he was hailed as the hero of Gettysburg.
He died in Gettysburg, Pa., Feb. 7, 1872.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Champlain , Lake , operations on (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cooper , James Fenimore 1789 -1851 (search)
Cooper, James Fenimore 1789-1851
Author; born in Burlington.
N. J., Sept. 15, 1789:
James Fenimore Cooper. studied at Yale College, but did not graduate.
He was six years in the naval service.
Choosing literature as a profession, he took the path of romance, and wrote and published in the course of his life thirty-two volumes of fiction, the most famous of which were his Leatherstocking tales.
He wrote a History of the United States Navy, in 2 volumes; Lives of American naval officers; Battle of Lake Erie; Gleanings in Europe; Sketches of Switzerland; and a comedy.
He died in Cooperstown, N. Y., Sept. 14. 1851.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cuyler , Theodore Ledyard 1822 - (search)
Cuyler, Theodore Ledyard 1822-
Clergyman; born in Aurora, N. Y., Jan. 10, 1822; graduated at Princeton in 1841; ordained into the Presbyterian ministry in 1848; was pastor of Presbyterian churches in Burlington and Trenton, N. J., and of the Market Street Reformed Dutch Church in New York City: called to the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn, in June, 1860; became pastor emeritus in 1890.
He is the author of many religious books and has been a prolific contributor to the religious papers during the past fifty years.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hamilton , Andrew 1686 -1703 (search)
Hamilton, Andrew 1686-1703
Governor; born in Scotland; sent to East Jersey by its proprietaries in 1686; became acting governor in 1687; returned to England in 1689; appointed governor of East Jersey in 1692; deposed in 1697, and reappointed in 1699.
William Penn made him deputy governor of Pennsylvania in 1701.
Hamilton obtained the first patent from the crown for a postal service in 1694.
He died in Burlington, N. J., April 20, 1703.
Lawyer; born in Scotland, about 1676; acquired much distinction by his defence of the liberty of the press on the trial of Zenger in New York.
He filled many public stations in Pennsylvania, including that of speaker of the Assembly, which he resigned in 1739 in consequence of physical infirmity.
He died in Philadelphia Aug. 4, 1741.
See Zenger, John Peter.
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.