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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Strain , Isaac G. 1821 -1857 (search)
Strain, Isaac G. 1821-1857
Naval officer; born in Roxbury, Pa., March 4, 1821.
While yet a midshipman (1845), he led a small party to explore the interior of Brazil, and in 1848 explored the peninsula of California.
In 1849 he crossed South America from Valparaiso to Buenos Ayres, and wrote an account of the journey, entitled The Cordillera and Pampa, Mountain and plain: sketches of a journey in Chile and the Argentine provinces.
In 1850 he was assigned to the Mexican boundary commission, and afterwards (1854) led a famous expedition across the Isthmus of Darien, for an account of which see Harper's magazine, 1856-57.
In 1856, in the steamer Arctic, Lieutenant Strain ascertained by soundings the practicability of laying an ocean telegraphic cable between America and Europe.
He died in Aspinwall, Colombia, May 14, 1857.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sumner , increase 1746 -1799 (search)
Sumner, increase 1746-1799
Jurist; born in Roxbury, Mass., Nov. 27, 1746; admitted to the bar in 1770, and began parctice in his native town; was a representative in the State legislature in 1776-80, and in the State Senate in 1780-97; associate judge of the Supreme Court in 1782-97; governor of Massachusetts in 1797-99; and a member of the convention that adopted the national Constitution in 1789.
He died in Roxbury, Mass., June 7, 1799.
Sumner, increase 1746-1799
Jurist; born in Roxbury, Mass., Nov. 27, 1746; admitted to the bar in 1770, and began parctice in his native town; was a representative in the State legislature in 1776-80, and in the State Senate in 1780-97; associate judge of the Supreme Court in 1782-97; governor of Massachusetts in 1797-99; and a member of the convention that adopted the national Constitution in 1789.
He died in Roxbury, Mass., June 7, 1799.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sumner , William Hyslop 1780 -1861 (search)
Sumner, William Hyslop 1780-1861
Military officer; born in Roxbury, Mass., July 4, 1780; graduated at Harvard College in 1799; admitted to the bar in 1802; was adjutant-general of Massachusetts in 1818-35.
His publications include An inquiry into the importance of the militia; Observations on National defence; Reminiscences; Memoir of increase Sumner, Governor of Massachusetts; Reminiscences of General Warren and Bunker Hill; History of East Boston; and Reminiscences of Lafayette's visit to Boston.
He died in Jamaica Plains, Mass., Oct. 24, 1861.
Sumter, Fort
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America . (search)
Warren, Joseph 1741-
Physician; born in Roxbury, Mass., June 11, 1741; killed in battle, June 17, 1775; graduated at Harvard College in 1759; studied medicine; began practice in 1764 in Boston, and by his successful treatment of small-pox patients acquired a high reputation among the faculty.
In politics he was in advance of public opinion in general, holding the doctrine that the British Parliament had no right to levy a tax of any kind upon the colonies.
When, in 1772, Samuel Adams declined to deliver the annual oration on the anniversary of the Boston massacre, Dr. Warren took his place, and exhibited great ability.
He again delivered the anniversary oration in 1775 in the midst of the danger caused by the presence of British troops and the exasperation of the citizens.
He had been made a member of the Boston committee
Joseph Warren. of correspondence in 1772, and worked incessantly and effectively for the cause of the colonists.
He was a delegate to the Suffolk county
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Welde , Thomas 1590 -1662 (search)
Welde, Thomas 1590-1662
Author; born in England, presumably in 1590; graduated at Cambridge University in 1613; was ordained in the Established Church, but owing to his Puritan belief sailed for Boston in 1632; and became minister of the first church in Roxbury, in July of that year.
In the following November John Eliot was made his associate.
He was prominent in arousing opposition to Anne Hutchinson and her teachings, and was active in her trial.
He returned to England in 1641.
He was the author of A short story of the rise, reign, and ruin of the Antinomians, Familists, and Libertines that infested the churches of New England; Antinomians and Familists condemned; and joint author of The perfect Pharisee under monkish holiness (written against the Quakers), etc. He died in England, March 23, 1662.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Williams , John 1664 -1729 (search)
Williams, John 1664-1729
Clergyman; born in Roxbury, Mass., Dec. 10, 1664; educated at Harvard College, and in 1686 settled as the first minister at Deerfield.
The village was attacked by French and Indians, March 1, 1704, and among the inhabitants carried into captivity were Mr. Williams and a part of his family.
Two of his children and a black servant were murdered at his door.
With his wife and five children he began the toilsome journey towards Canada through the deep snow.
On the second day his wife, weak from the effects of recent childbirth, fainted with fatigue, when the tomahawk of her captor cleaved her skull, and so he was relieved of the burden.
Her husband and children were taken to Canada, and, after a captivity of nearly two years among the Caughnawaga Indians near Montreal, they were ransomed and returned home, excepting a daughter Eunice (q. v.), whom the Indians refused to part with.
After the return of Mr. Williams to Deerfield in 1706 he resumed the charg
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 150 (search)
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145.-address of Edward Everett,--at Roxbury, Mass., May 8, 1861.
Mr. Chairman, ladies, and gentlemen:--The object which brings us together, even if it had not been so satisfactorily stated and so persuasively enforced by the gentlemen who have preceded me, sufficiently explains itself.
At the call of the President, seconded with the most praiseworthy and almost unexampled energy by the Governor of Massachusetts, a numerous force of volunteers has patriotically hastened to the defence of the Capital of the United States, threatened with invasion.
The war, for a long time, though in profound peace secretly prepared for, has been openly commenced by the South, by the seizure of the undefended forts.
arsenals, dockyards, mints, and custom houses of the United States, and the plunder of the public property contained in them, in flagrant violation of the law of the land, if the South is still in the Union, and equally flagrant violation of every principle, of international law,
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 276 (search)