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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 212 212 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 42 42 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 40 40 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 31 31 Browse Search
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 21 21 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 16 16 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 16 16 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 13 13 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 12 12 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 9 9 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: November 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Northern Virginia. (search)
of this State in the Confederate Senate, died at his re in Montgomery county last Sunday. He was about fifty-nine years old at the time of his states and had been Senator not quite a year. He was the oldest son of the late Governor Preston, of Virginia, and was educated at Hampden Sidney College where he graduated in the year 1824;#x2014;When the University opened in 1825, he was one among the first that matriculated. It was there that he received the rudiments of his legal education. In 1827 he came to the bar in his native county, and gradually rising to the head of it, he practised with great success in that and the adjoining counties for many years — if we are not mistaken, even to the day of his death. About the year 1830 he was elected to the lower house of the Virginia Legislature, where he soon enquired an enviable reputation as a debater and a through man of business. He retired from the Legislature after a few years to resume his practice at the bar, but was returned t