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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Paulding, James Kirke 1779-1860 (search)
Paulding, James Kirke 1779-1860 Author; born in Dutchess county, N. Y., Aug. 22, 1779; was a son of an active Revolutionary soldier, who was commissary-general of New York troops in the Continental service, and was ruined by the non-acceptance by the government of his drafts, or non-redemption of his pledges, and he was imprisoned for debt. James went to New York City, and in early life became engaged in literary pursuits with Washington Irving, whose brother William married Paulding's sister. They began, in 1807, the popular publication Salmagundi. He was introduced to the government through his pamphlet on The United States and England, and, in 1814, was made secretary of the board of naval commissioners. Afterwards he was navy agent at New York, and, from 1839 to 1841, was Secretary of the Navy. Mr. Paulding was a facile and elegant writer of essays and stories, and was possessed of a fund of humor that pervaded his compositions. He contributed to the periodicals of the d
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stoddard, Richard Henry 1825- (search)
Stoddard, Richard Henry 1825- Author; born in Hingham, Mass., July 2, 1825; received a public school education in New York City; was literary reviewer for the New York World in 1860-70; accepted the same post on the New York Mail and express in 1880. Among his publications are Abraham Lincoln, a Horatian ode; Putnam the brave; A century after; Life of Washington Irving, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Tarrytown, (search)
Tarrytown, A village in Westchester county, N. Y., where the Hudson River expands and is locally known as Tappan Sea. It was the scene of the capture of Major John Andre by Paulding, Williams, and Van Wart; and contains the home and burial-place of Washington Irving; the Philipse manor-house, erected in 1682; a Dutch church, erected prior to 1699; and a monument to the Revolutionary soldiers of the vicinity, dedicated in 1894.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
or Liberia, Africa, with the negroes taken from the slaver Echo; 271 are returned out of 318......Sept. 20, 1859......Jefferson Davis addresses the Democratic State Convention of Mississippi in behalf of slavery and the extension of slave territory......October, 1859 Brown's insurrection at Harper's Ferry, W . Va.......Oct. 16-18, 1859 Gen. Winfield Scott is ordered to the Pacific coast in view of the British claims to San Juan; he arrives at Portland, Or.......Oct. 29, 1859 Washington Irving dies at Tarrytown, N. Y., aged seventy-six......Nov. 28, 1859 John Brown hanged at Charleston, W. Va.......Dec. 2, 1859 Thirty-sixth Congress, first session, assembles......Dec. 5, 1859 Green, Copeland, Cook, and Coppoc, Harper's Ferry insurgents, hanged......Dec. 16, 1859 Mr. Clark, of Missouri, introduces resolution in the House that no one who has approved Helper's The impending crisis was fit to be speaker......December, 1859 House adopts resolutions offered by John
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
1856 Dudley observatory built at Albany......1856 Failure of the Ohio Life and Trust Company in New York; a commercial panic spreads throughout the United States......Aug. 24, 1856 First telegraphic despatch received in New York from London by the Atlantic telegraph......Aug. 5, 1858 Edwin D. Morgan, Republican, elected governor......1858 M. Blondin (Émile Gravelet) crosses the Niagara River, just below the Falls, for the first time on a tight-rope......June 30, 1859 Washington Irving, born in New York City in 1783, dies at Tarrytown, N. Y.......Nov. 28, 1859 Population of the State, 3,880,735......1860 Erie Canal enlargement completed; entire cost, $52,491,915.74......1862 Horatio Seymour, Democrat, elected governor......November, 1862 Manhattan College, at Manhattanville, New York City, incorporated by the regents......April 2, 1863 Peace meeting held in New York City, called by leading Democrats to devise means for ending the Civil War......June 3,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Van Twiller, Wouter or Walter -1646 (search)
f Killian Van Rensselaer, the wealthiest of the newly created patroons. Van Rensselaer had employed him to ship cattle to his domain on Hudson River, and it was probably his interest to have this agent in New Netherland; so, through his influence, the incompetent Van Twiller was appointed director-general of the colony. He was inexperienced in the art of government, slow in speech, incompetent to decide, narrow-minded, and irresolute. He was called by a satirist Walter the doubter. Washington Irving, in his broad caricature of him, says: His habits were as regular as his person. He daily took his four stated meals, appropriating exactly an hour to each; he smoked and doubted eight hours, and he slept the remaining twelve of the four-and-twenty. He knew the details of the counting-room routine, but nothing of men or the affairs of State. He ever came into collision with abler men in the colony. In the company's armed ship Soutberg, with 104 soldiers, he sailed for Manhattan.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Warner, Charles Dudley 1829- (search)
Warner, Charles Dudley 1829- Author; born in Plainfield, Mass., Sept. 12, 1829; graduated at Hamilton College in 1851; admitted to the bar in 1856; practised in Chicago in 1856-60; engaged in journalism in Hartford in 1860; became co-editor of Harper's magazine in 1884. He was the author of A book of eloquence; The American newspaper; In the wilderness; Life of Washington Irving; Our Italy, Southern California, etc., and the editor of American men of letters; Captain John Smith, sometime Governor of Virginia and Admiral of New England: a study of his life and writings; A Library of Charles Dudley Warner. the World's Best Literature, etc. He died in Hartford, Conn., Oct. 20, 1900.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washington, George (search)
the Protestant Episcopal Church in New York, who had been appointed by the Senate one of the chaplains of Congress. So closed the ceremonies of the inauguration.—Irving's life of Washington. inaugural speech to both Houses of Congress, April 30, 1789. Fellow-citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives,—Among the and the governors of the States wrote letters expressing the public gratitude for his great services. For the conditions under which this address appeared, see Irving's Life of Washington, IV., 426. For an account of the discontents in the army just previous, which for a time threatened such serious dangers, see Irving, IV., 4Irving, IV., 406; Marshall, IV., 585; and Sparks, VIII., appendix XII., on The Newburg addresses. See in this general connection Washington's letters to the president of Congress, March 19, and April 18, 1783; to Benjamin Harrison, governor of Virginia, March 18, 1783; to Lafayette, April 5, 1783, and his farewell address to the armies, Nov. 2
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 27: (search)
an English steamer preparing to take a cargo of arms, ammunition, and clothing to Nassau. This ship belonged to the Messrs. Isaac, brothers, large blockade runners, who kindly tendered free passages to myself, and to my first lieutenant, and surgeon, who were to accompany me. I trust the reader will pardon me—as I hope the family itself will if I intrude upon its privacy—if I mention before leaving London, one of those old English households, immortalized by the inimitable pen of Washington Irving. One day whilst I was sitting quietly, after breakfast, in my rooms at Euston Square, running over the column of American news, in the Times, Commander North entered, and in company with him came a somewhat portly gentleman, with an unmistakable English face, and dressed in clerical garb—not over clerical either, for, but for his white cravat, and the cut of the collar of his coat, you would not have taken him for a clergyman at all. Upon being presented, this gentleman said to me, p<
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Chapter 1: old Cambridge (search)
elist, says Parke Godwin, always brought a breeze of quarrel with him. Cooper wrote thus to Rufus W. Griswold (August 7, 1842): A published eulogy of myself from Irving's pen could not change my opinion of his career .... Cuvier has the same faults as Irving, and so had Scott. They were all meannesses, and I confess I can soonerIrving, and so had Scott. They were all meannesses, and I confess I can sooner pardon crimes, if they are manly ones. I have never had any quarrel with Mr. Irving, and give him full credit as a writer. Still I believe him to be below the ordinary level, in moral qualities, instead of being above them, as he is cried up to be. He adds: Bryant is worth forty Irvings in every point of view, but he runs a liMr. Irving, and give him full credit as a writer. Still I believe him to be below the ordinary level, in moral qualities, instead of being above them, as he is cried up to be. He adds: Bryant is worth forty Irvings in every point of view, but he runs a little into the seemly (?) school. Letters of R. W. Griswold, pp. 144, 145. Whipple writes to Griswold six years later: I have no patience with the New York literati. They are all the time quarrelling with each other. Why not kiss and be friends? Ibid., p. 233. No such letter could ever have been written about the three most
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