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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 32 | 0 | Browse | Search |
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Allen , William , 1710 -1780 (search)
Allen, William, 1710-1780
jurist; born in Philadelphia about 1710; married a daughter of Andrew Hamilton, a distinguished lawyer of Pennsylvania.
whom he succeeded as recorder of Philadelphia in 1741.
He assisted Benjamin West, the painter, in his early struggles, and co-operated with Benjamin Franklin in establishing the College of Pennsylvania. Judge Allen was chief-justice of that State from 1750 to 1774.
A strong loyalist, he withdrew to England in 1774.
In London he published a pamphlet entitled The American crisis, containing a plan for restoring American dependence upon Great Britain.
He died in England in September, 1780.
educator and author; born in Pittsville, Mass., Jan. 2, 1784: graduated at Harvard College in 1802.
After entering the ministry and preaching for some time in western New York, he was elected a regent and assistant librarian of Harvard College.
He was president of Dartmouth College in 1817-20, and of Bowdoin College in 1820-39.
He was the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dunlap , William , 1766 -1839 (search)
Dunlap, William, 1766-1839
Painter, dramatist, and historian; born in Perth Amboy, N. J., Feb. 19, 1766.
His father, being a loyalist, went to New York City in 1777, where William began to paint.
He made a portrait of Washington at Rocky Hill, N. J., in 1783.
The next year he went to England and received instructions from Benjamin West.
He became an actor for a short time, and in 1796 was one of the managers of the John Street Theatre, New York.
He took the Park Theatre in 1798.
From 1814 to 1816 he was paymaster-general of the New York State militia.
He began a series of paintings in 1816.
In 1833 he published a History of the American theatres, and in 1834 a History of the Arts of design. His history of New Netherland and the State of New York was published in 1840. Mr. Dunlap was one of the founders of the National Academy of Design.
He died in New York City, Sept. 28, 1839.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Federal convention, the. (search)
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fulton , Robert 1765 -1815 (search)
Fulton, Robert 1765-1815
Inventor; born in
Robert Fulton. Little Britain, Lancaster co., Pa., in 1765; received a common-school education; became a miniature painter; and, at the age of twenty, was practising that profession in Philadelphia, by which he made
Fulton's Clermont enough money to buy a small farm in Washington county, on which he placed his mother.
Then he went to England; studied painting under Benjamin West; became a civil engineer; and made himself familiar with the steam engine, then just improved by Watt.
He devised various machines, among them an excavator for scooping out the channels of aqueducts.
He wrote and published essays on canals and canal navigation in 1795-96.
He went to Paris in 1797, and remained there seven years with Joel Barlow, studying languages and sciences, and invented a torpedo.
This he offered to the French and English governments, but both rejected the invention, and in December, 1806, he arrived in New York.
He went to Washingt
Ladue, Joseph 1854-
Miner; born in Plattsburg, N. Y., in 1854.
When twenty years old he went West, where he engaged in mining, becoming an expert.
Subsequently he went to Alaska, and after remaining there about fifteen years discovered the Klondike gold-fields, which soon became famous all over the world.
On June 23, 1897, he mapped out and founded Dawson City, at the mouth of the Klondike River, on land which he had purchased from the government for $1.25 an acre.
He was also the organizer of the Joseph Ladue Gold Mining and Development Company, one of the largest in that line.
He died in Schuyler Falls, N. Y., June 26, 1901.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morse , Samuel Finley Breese 1791 -1879 (search)
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese 1791-1879
Artist and inventor; born in Charlestown, Mass., April 27, 1791; was son of Jedediah Morse; graduated at Yale College in 1810, and went to England with Washington Allston in 1811, where he studied painting under Benjamin West.
In 1813 he received the gold medal of the Adelphi Society of Arts for an original model of
Samuel Finley Breese Morse. a Dying Hercules, his first attempt in sculpture.
On his return home in 1815 he practised painting, chiefly in portraiture, in Boston, Charleston (S. C.), and in New York, where, in 1824-25, he laid the foundation of the National Academy of Design, organized in 1826, of which he was the first president, and in which place he continued for sixteen years. While he was abroad the second time (1829-32), he was elected Professor of the Literature of the Arts of Design in the University of the City of New York.
Previous to his leaving home he had become familiar with the subject of electromagnetism by
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mountain Meadow massacre. (search)