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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Regulating act, (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Royalist colonies. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Russell , Benjamin 1761 -1845 (search)
Russell, Benjamin 1761-1845
Journalist; born in Boston, Mass., Sept. 13, 1761; learned the printer's art of Isaiah Thomas; served in the army of the Revolution; and was the army correspondent of Thomas's newspaper, the Massachusetts spy, published at Worcester, Mass. In 1784 he began the publication, in Boston, of the Columbian Centinel, a semi-weekly, which soon became the leading newspaper in the country, containing contributions from men like Ames, Pickering, and other able men of the Federal school in politics.
Mr. Russell was twenty-four years a representative of Boston in the Massachusetts Assembly, and was for several years in the State Senate and the executive council.
He was the originator of the word Gerrymandering (q. v.). He died in Boston, Mass., Jan. 4, 1845.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Shays , Daniel 1747 -1825 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Smythe , William Ellsworth 1861 - (search)
Smythe, William Ellsworth 1861-
Journalist; born in Worcester, Mass., Dec. 24, 1861; received an academic education; settled in the West in 1888, and was there editor of various papers.
He is the author of The conquest of arid America, and magazine articles, including The irrigation idea; Arid America; Ultimate California; The Mormon industrial system; Real Utopias of the arid West; The step-child of the republic; and The struggle for water in the West.
Stone, Lucy 1818-
Reformer; born in West Brookfield, Mass., Aug. 13, 1818; graduated at Oberlin College in 1847; began lecturing on woman's rights and antislavery in the same year; travelled extensively through the United States and Canada, lecturing to large audiences; one of the organizers of the first national woman's rights convention in Worcester, Mass., in 1850, of the New England Woman Suffrage Association in 1868, and of the American Woman Suffrage Association in 1869.
In 1870 she established The woman's journal, of which she was editor till her death, in Dorchester, Mass., Oct. 18, 1893.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Temperance reform. (search)
Thayer, Eli 1819-1899
Educator; born in Mendon, Mass., June 11, 1819; graduated at Brown College in 1845; established the Oread Institute, Worcester, Mass., in 1848; member of the legislature in 1853-54, during which period he organized and founded the Emigrant Aid Company and endeavored to unite the North in favor of his scheme to send into Kansas anti-slavery settlers.
His company founded Topeka, Lawrence, Manhattan, and Ossawatomie, of which places Gov. Charles Robinson said: Without th have been a slave State without a struggle; without the Aid Society these towns would never have existed; and that society was born of the brain of Eli Thayer.
Mr. Thayer was a member of Congress in 1857-61.
He invented an automatic boiler cleaner, an hydraulic elevator, and a sectional safety steamboiler.
His publications include a history of the Emigrant Aid Company; several lectures; a volume of his speeches in Congress; and the Kansas crusade.
He died in Worcester, Mass., April 15, 1899.