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Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Darlington , William , -1863 (search)
Darlington, William, -1863
Scientist; born of Quaker parents in Birmingham, Pa., April 28, 1782; studied medicine, languages, and botany, and went to Calcutta as surgeon of a ship.
Returning in 1807, he practised medicine at West Chester with success; was a Madisonian in politics, and when the war broke out in 1812 he assisted in raising a corps for the service in his neighborhood.
He was chosen major of a volunteer regiment, but did not see any active service.
He was a member of Congress from 1815 to 1817 and from 1819 to 1823.
In his town he founded an academy, an athenaeum, and a society of natural history.
Dr. Darlington was an eminent botanist, and a new and remarkable variety of the pitcher plant, found in California in 1853, was named, in his honor, Darlingtonica California.
He wrote and published works on botany, medicine, biography, and his.. tory.
Dr. Darlington was a member of about forty learned societies in America and Europe.
He died in West Chester, Pa., Apr
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), East India Company , the. (search)
Hall, Gordon 1784-
First American missionary to India; born in Tolland county, Mass., April 8, 1784; was ordained at Salem in 1812, and sailed for Calcutta, where he arrived in February, 1813, and spent thirteen years there in missionary labors.
He died of cholera in India, March 20, 1826.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Judson , Adoniram 1788 -1845 (search)
Judson, Adoniram 1788-1845
Missionary; born in Malden, Mass., Aug. 9, 1788; graduated at Brown University in 1807, and Andover Theological Seminary in 1810.
He was ordained on Feb. 6, 1812, and with his wife, Anne Hasseltine, sailed for Calcutta on the 19th.
In Rangoon, Burma, he toiled nearly forty years, gathering around him thousands of converts and many assistants, Americans and Burmese.
He translated the Bible into the Burmese language, and had nearly completed a dictionary of that language at the time of his death.
His wife dying in 1826, he married (April, 1834) the widow of a missionary (Mrs. Sarah H. Boardman), who died in September, 1845.
While on a visit to the United States in 1846, he married Miss Emily Chubbuck ( Fanny forester, the poet), who accompanied him back to Burma.
His first wife, Anne Hasseltine, was the first American woman missionary in the East Indies.
He died at sea, April 12, 1850.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Steam navigation. (search)