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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Arnold , Benedict 1741 -1801 (search)
Arnold, Benedict, 1741-1801
Military officer; born in Norwich, Conn., Jan. 14, 1741.
As a boy he was bold, mischievous, and quarrelsome.
Apprenticed to an apothecary, he ran away, enlisted as a soldier, but deserted.
For four years (1763-67) he was a bookseller and druggist in New Haven, Conn., and was afterwards master and supercargo of a vessel trading to the West
Birthplace of Benedict Arnold. Indies.
Immediately after the affair at Lexington, he raised a company of volunteers and marched to Cambridge.
There he proposed to the Massachusetts Committee of Safety an expedition against Fort Ticonderoga, and was commissioned a colonel.
Finding a small force, under Colonels Easton, Brown, and Allen, on the same errand when he reached western Massachusetts, he joined them without command.
Returning to Cambridge, he was placed at the head of an expedition for the capture of Quebec.
He left Cambridge with a little more than 1,000 men, composed of New England musketeers and
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bacon , Leonard 1802 -1881 (search)
Bacon, Leonard, 1802-1881
Clergyman; born in Detroit, Mich., Feb. 19, 1802; was graduated at Yale in 1820, and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1824, and connected with Yale Divinity School for many years, and lecturer on American Church History.
He was one of the editors of the Independent for several years, and author of Select practical writings of Richard Baxter; Thirteen discourses on the two hundredth anniversary of the first Church in New Haven; Slavery discussed; Genesis of the New England churches, etc. He died in New Haven, Conn., Dec. 24, 1881.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Beecher , Lyman 1775 -1863 (search)
Beecher, Lyman, 1775-1863
Clergyman; born in New Haven, Conn., Oct. 2, 1775; was graduated at Yale in 1797, and ordained in 1799.
In 1832 he accepted the presidency of lance Seminary.
Cincinnati, and served the seminary in that capacity twenty years. He had seven sons, all of whom became Congregational clergymen — William, Edward, George.
Henry Ward, Charles, Thomas, and James.
His daughters were Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary Beecher Perkins, and Isabella Beecher Hooker.
He died in Brooklyn, Jan. 10, 186
Card-cloth.
The manufacture of cards for carding wool by hand was quite an important industry in America before the Revolution, and was carried on successfully during that war. In 1787 Oliver Evans, the pioneer American inventor, then only twenty-two years of age, and engaged in making card-teeth by hand, invented a machine that produced 300 a minute.
Already Mr. Crittendon, of New Haven, Conn., had invented a machine (1784) which produced 86,000 card-teeth, cut and bent, in an hour.
These inventions led to the contrivance of machines for making card-cloth—that is, a species of comb used in the manufacture of woollen or cotton cloths, for the purpose of carding and arranging the fibres preparatory to spinning.
It consists of stout leather filled with wire card-teeth, and is the chief part of the carding-machine in factories.
A machine for making the card-cloth complete was invented by Eleazar Smith, of Walpole, Mass., at or near the close of the eighteenth century, for which i
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Coinage , United States (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Daggett , Naphtali ,1727 - (search)
Daggett, Naphtali, 1727-
Clergyman; born in Attleboro, Mass., Sept. 8, 1727; graduated at Yale College in 1748; ordained pastor of a Presbyterian church at Smithtown, Long Island, in 1751; and in 1755 was chosen professor of divinity at Yale, which place he held until his death, in New Haven, Conn., Nov. 25, 1780.
In 1766, on the resignation of President Clap, he was chosen president of the college pro tempore and officiated in that capacity more than a year.
He was an active patriot when the War of the Revolution broke out; and when the British attacked New Haven, in 1779, he took part in the resistance made by the citizens and surrounding militia.
Dr. Daggett was made a prisoner, and the severe treatment to which he was subjected so shattered his constitution that he never recovered his health.
After the famous dark day (q. v.), in 1780, he published an account of it.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Doolittle , Amos 1754 -1832 (search)
Doolittle, Amos 1754-1832
Engraver; born in Cheshire, Conn., in 1754; was self-educated; served an apprenticeship with a silversmith; and established himself as an engraver on copper in 1775.
While a volunteer in the camp at Cambridge (1775) he visited the scene of the skirmish at Lexington and made a drawing and engraving of the affair, which furnishes the historian with the only correct representation of the buildings around the Green at that time.
He afterwards made other historical prints of the time.
He died in New Haven, Conn., Jan. 31, 1832.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dwight , Timothy 1752 -1817 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Earle , Pliny ,1762 -1832 (search)
Earle, Pliny, 1762-1832
Inventor; born in Leicester, Mass., Dec. 17, 1762; became connected with Edward Snow in 1785 in the manufacture of machine and hand cards for carding wool and cotton.
Mr. Earle had first made them by hand, but afterwards by a machine of his own invention.
Oliver Evans (q. v.)had already invented a machine for making card-teeth, which produced 300 a minute.
In 1784 Mr. Crittenden, of New Haven, Conn., invented a machine which produced 86,000 cardteeth, cut and bent, in an hour.
These card-teeth were put up in bags and distributed among families, in which the women and children stuck them in the leather.
Leicester was the chief seat of this industry, and to that place Samuel Slater (q. v.)of Rhode Island, went for card clothing for the machines in his cotton-mill.
Hearing that Pliny Earle was an expert card-maker, he went to him and told him what he wanted.
Mr. Earle invented a machine for pricking the holes in the leather—a tedious process by hand —a