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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Revolutionary War, (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Rivington , James 1724 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Rochambeau , Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur , Count de 1725 -1807 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Rodney , Cesar 1728 -1784 (search)
Rodney, Cesar 1728-1784
A signer of the Declaration of Independence; born in Dover.
Del., Oct. 7, 1728.
At the age of twenty-eight he was appointed sheriff of Kent county, Del., and afterwards was a judge.
He represented his district in the legislature, and was sent to the Stamp Act Congress in 1765.
For several years he was speaker of the Delaware Assembly; was a member of the committee of correspondence, and of Congress in 1774 arid afterwards.
Made a brigadier-general, he was active in supplying Delaware troops to the army under Washington, and, early in 1777, was in command of the Delaware line in New Jersey.
From 1778 to 1782 he was president of his State.
He died in Dover, Del., June 29, 1784.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), St. Clair , Arthur 1734 -1818 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Schmucher , Samuel Mosheim 1823 -1863 (search)
Schmucher, Samuel Mosheim 1823-1863
Author; born in New Market, Va., Jan. 12, 1823; graduated at Washington College, Pa., in 1840; became a Lutheran clergyman and held pastorates till 1848; was admitted to the bar in 1850, but applied himself to literary work.
He was author of Election of judges by the people; Constitutionality of the Maine liquor law; Life of John C. Fremont; Life of Alexander Hamilton; History of the Mormons; Life of Thomas Jefferson; Arctic explorations and discoveries; Life of Dr. Elisha Kent Kane; Life of Daniel Webster; Life of Henry Clay; Life of Washington; Blue laws of Connecticut; A history of the Civil War, etc. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., May 12, 1863.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Schuyler , Philip (John) 1733 -1857 (search)