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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hoskins , Nathan 1795 -1869 (search)
Hoskins, Nathan 1795-1869
Author; born in Withersfield, Vt., April 27, 1795; graduated at Dartmouth in 1820; taught in St. Albans, Vt., in 1821-22; afterwards practised law in Vergennes, Vt., and edited The Vermont Aurora.
His publications include History of Vermont; Notes on the West; and The Bennington Court controversy and strictures on Civil liberty in the United States.
He died in Williamstown, Mass., April 21, 1869.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Howard , John eager 1752 -1827 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hudson , Charles 1795 -1881 (search)
Hudson, Charles 1795-1881
Author; born in Marlboro, Mass., Nov. 14, 1795; became a Universalist clergyman in 1819, and was pastor at Westminster, Mass., for twenty years; was a member of Congress in 1841-49.
He was the author of History of Westminster; History of Lexington; Genealogical register of Lexington families.
He also prepared congressional reports, including Protective policy; Capital punishment; The northeastern boundary; and The incompetency of witnesses on account of religious belief.
He died in Lexington, Mass., May 4, 1881.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Husbands , Hermann 1768 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Irvine , James 1735 -1819 (search)
Irvine, James 1735-1819
Military officer; born in Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 4, 1735; took part in Colonel Bouquet's expedition as captain in a Pennsylvania regiment.
During the Revolutionary War he was captain and later lieutenant-colonel of the 1st Pennsylvania; and was commissioned colonel of the 9th Pennsylvania Regiment, Oct. 25, 1776.
He was taken prisoner during the action at Chestnut Hill, Dec. 5, 1777, carried to New York, and remained there till he was exchanged in 1781.
After the close of the war he was a member of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania in 1785-86, and of the State Senate in 1795-99.
He died in Philadelphia, Pa., April 28, 1819.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Irvine , William 1741 -1804 (search)
Irvine, William 1741-1804
Military officer; born in Fermanagh, Ireland, Nov. 3, 1741; was surgeon of a ship-of-war; came to the United States after the peace of 1763, and practised medicine at Carlisle, Pa. He was an active patriot, and raised and commanded the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment in 1776; was captured in the battle at Three Rivers, Canada; exchanged in May, 1778; served under Wayne, and in 1781 was stationed at Fort Pitt, charged with the defence of the Northwestern frontier.
He was a member of Congress in 1786-88, and took a civil and military part in the task of quelling the Whiskey Insurrection.
He was again a member of Congress in 1793-95.
He died in Philadelphia, July 29, 1804.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Irwin , Jared 1750 -1818 (search)
Irwin, Jared 1750-1818
Legislator; born in
Sunnyside, home of Washington Irving. Mecklenburg county, N. C., in 1750; removed to Georgia, and served throughout the Revolutionary War; was a member of the State constitutional conventions of 1789, 1795, and 1798; and was elected governor of the State in 1796 and 1806.
He died in Union, Ga., March 1, 1818.
Izard, Ralph
Statesman; born near Charleston, S. C., in 1742; was educated at Cambridge, England, and in 1767 married a daughter of Peter De Lancey, of New York.
They spent some time in Europe, and Mr. Izard was appointed by Congress commissioner to the Court of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and resided in Paris, where he took sides with Arthur Lee against Silas Deane and Franklin (see Deane, Silas). He returned home in 1780; procured for General Greene the command of the Southern army, and pledged his large estates for the purchase of ships-of-war in Europe.
He was in Congress in 1781-83, and in the United States Senate in 1789-95. Two years afterwards he was prostrated by paralysis.
His intellect was spared, and he lived in comparative comfort about eight years, without pain, when a second shock ended his life, May 30, 1804.