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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gentry , Meredith Poindexter 1809 -1866 (search)
Gentry, Meredith Poindexter 1809-1866
Legislator; born in North Carolina, Sept. 15, 1809; removed with his father to Tennessee in 1813; elected to the State legislature in 1835; to Congress in 1839.
When his State seceded he entered the Confederate Congress.
He died at Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 2, 1866.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gibbons , James Sloan 1810 -1892 (search)
Gibbons, James Sloan 1810-1892
Banker; born in Wilmington, Del., July 1, 1810; settied in New York City in 1835, and engaged in banking.
His publications inelude The Banks of New York, their dealers, the clearing-house, and the panic of 1857; The public debt of the United States; and a song, We are coming, father Abraham, three hundred thousand more (popular during the Civil War). He died in New York City, Oct. 17, 1892.
Gray, Elisha 1835-
Electrician; born in Barnesville, O., Aug. 2, 1835; in early life was a blacksmith, carpenter, and boatbuilder.
Later he went to Oberlin College, where he followed special studies in physical science, supporting himself by working at his trade.
In 1867 he invented a self-adjusting telegraph relay, and soon afterwards designed the telegraphic switch and annunciator for hotels, the private telegraph line printer, the telegraphic repeater, etc. In 1872 he organized the Western Electric Manufacturing Company, but in 1874 withdrew from it. In 1876 he claimed to have invented the speaking telephone, but after a memorable litigation that honor was awarded by the courts to Prof. Alexander Graham Bell.
In 1893 Professor Gray invented the telautograph, which so far improved the telephone and the telegraph as to transmit the actual handwriting of messages.
He established the Gray Electric Company at Highland Park, Ill., and organized the Congress of Electricians, in c
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hallowell , Richard Price 1835 - (search)
Hallowell, Richard Price 1835-
Author; born in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 16, 1835; removed to Massachusetts in 1859; was identified with the abolition movement; aided the formation of negro regiments during the Civil War. He is the author of The Quaker invasion of Massachusetts, and The pioneer Quakers.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hamilton , Frank Hastings 1813 -1886 (search)
Hamilton, Frank Hastings 1813-1886
Surgeon; born in Wilmington, Vt., Sept. 10, 1813; graduated at Union College in 1830.
and in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1835.
In 1839 he became Professor of Surgery in the Western College of Physicians and Surgeons, and in the following year in the medical college at Geneva.
In 1846 he was appointed Professor of Surgery in the medical college in Buffalo, of which he later became dean.
When the Long Island Hospital College was established in 1859, he became Professor of the Principles and Practice of Surgery there and also surgeon-in-chief.
In 1861 he was made Professor of Military Surgery, and at the outbreak of the Civil War went to the front with the 31st New York Volunteers.
During the first battle of Bull Run he was director of the general field hospital in Centreville.
In 1862 he was appointed a medical director in the army, and in 1863 a medical inspector, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel.
He, however, soon res
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hammond , James Henry 1807 - (search)
Hammond, James Henry 1807-
Statesman; born in Newberry, S. C., Nov. 15, 1807; graduated at South Carolina College in 1825; elected to Congress in 1835; governor of the State in 1842, and United States Senator in 1857.
He was a supporter of Calhoun, and an ardent advocate of nullification.
When South Carolina seceded he resigned his seat in the United States Senate, and retired to his plantation in Beech Island, where he died.
Nov. 13, 1864.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hampton , Wade 1754 -1835 (search)
Hampton, Wade 1754-1835
Military officer: born in South Carolina in 1754; was distinguished as a partisan officer under Sumter and Marion in the Revolution; and was twice a member of Congress—from 1795 to 1797, and from 1803 to 1805.
In October, 1808, he was commissioned a colonel in the United States army; in 1809 brigadier-general, and March 2, 1813, major-general.
Imperious and overbearing in his nature and deportment, he was constantly quarrelling with his subordinates.
He was superseded by Wilkinson in command at New Orleans when the war broke out in 1812, and was put in command of the Army of the North, with headquarters on the borders of Lake Champlain.
In that post he gained no honors, and his career there was chiefly marked by disobedience to the orders of his superiors.
In April, 1814, he resigned his commission, and left the army.
He was an extensive land and slave owner in South Carolina and Louisiana, and passed there a large portion of his later years.
He d
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Harris , William Torrey 1835 - (search)
Harris, William Torrey 1835-
Educator; born in North Killingly, Conn., Sept. 10, 1835; studied in Yale University, but did not graduate.
During 1857-67 he was principal and assistant superintendent in the St. Louis public schools; in the latter year was appointed superintendent, but in 1880 was forced by ill health to resign.
In 1880 he was a delegate from the United States bureau of education to the international congress of educators in Brussels.
On Sept. 13, 1889, he became United States commissioner of education.
Dr. Harris founded in St. Louis the Journal of speculative Philosophy in 1867, and in 1901 was still conducting it. He was chief editor of Appleton's series of School readers, and editor of Appleton's Educational series.
His other publications include: Introduction to the study of Philosophy; Hegel's logic; Critical expositions; and Psychologic foundations of education.
See education, elementary.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hart , Albert Bushnell 1854 - (search)