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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Douglas, Stephen Arnold, 1813-1861 (search)
Douglas, Stephen Arnold, 1813-1861 Statesman; born in Brandon, Vt., April 23, 1813; learned the business of cabinet-making; studied law; became an auctioneer's clerk in Jacksonville, Ill.; and taught school until admitted to the bar, when he soon became an active politician. Because of his small stature and power of intellect and speech he was called The little giant. He was attorney-general of Illinois in 1835; was in the legislature; chosen secretary of state in 1840; judge in 1841; and was in Congress in 1843-47. He was a vigorous promoter of the war with Mexico, and was United States Senator from 1847 to 1861. He advanced and supported the doctrine of popular sovereignty in relation to slavery in the Territories, and was the author of the Kansas-Nebraska bill (q. v. ); and in 1856 was a rival candidate of Buchanan for the nomination for the Presidency. He took sides in favor of freedom in Kansas, and so became involved in controversy with President Buchanan. He was a can
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Duponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 (search)
cs for the use of the United States troops. From 1781 to 1783 he was secretary to Robert R. Livingston, then at the The old magazine at Williamsburg. head of the foreign office of the government; and then studying law, was admitted to practice in 1785, becoming eminent in the profession on questions of civil American Indians. In 1819 he published and international law. He finally devoted himself to literature and science, and made many valuable researches into the language and literature of the North a Memoir on the structure of the Indian Languages. When seventy-eight years of age (1838) he published a Dissertation on the Chinese language; also a translation of a Description of New Sweden. In 1835 the French Institute awarded him a prize for a disquisition on the Indian languages of North America. Mr. Duponceau opened a law academy in Philadelphia in 1821, of Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours; and wrote several essays on the subject of law. He died in Philadelphia, April 2, 1844.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Durand, Asher Brown, 1796-1886 (search)
6. His paternal ancestors were Huguenots. His father was a watch-maker, and in his shop he learned engraving. In 1812 he became an apprentice to Peter Maverick, an engraver on copper-plate, and became his partner in 1817. Mr. Durand's first large work was his engraving on copper of Trumbull's Declaration of Independence. He was engaged upon it a year, and it gave him a great reputation His engravings of Musidora and Ariadne (the latter from Vanderlyn's painting place him among the first line-engravers of his time. In 1835 he abandoned that art for painting, and became one of the best of American landscape-painters. His pictures are always well selected as subjects, pleasing in tone, and exquisite in coloring. Mr. Durand was one of the first officers of the National Academy of Design, and was its president for several years. He died in South Orange, N. J., Sept. 17, 1886, leaving Gen. Thomas S. Cummings, its first treasurer, the sole survivor of the founders of the institution.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Duyckinck, Evert Augustus, 1816-1878 (search)
Duyckinck, Evert Augustus, 1816-1878 Author; born in New York City, Nov. 23, 1816; graduated at Columbia College in 1835. His father was a successful publisher, and Evert early showed a love for books and a taste for literary pursuits. In December, 1840, he commenced the publication of Arcturus: a journal of books and opinions, in connection with Cornelius Matthews, which was continued about a year and a half. He contributed to the early numbers of the New York Review. In 1847, in connection with his brother George, he commenced the Literary world, a periodical which continued (with an interval of a year and five months) until the close of 1853. In 1856 the brothers completed the Cyclopaedia of American Literature, in 2 volumes, a work of great research and value. To this Evert added a supplement in 1865. His other important works are, Wit and wisdom of Sidney Smith; National portrait-gallery of eminent Americans; History of the War for the Union; History of the world from
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dwight, Theodore, 1764-1846 (search)
cut; and in 1806-7 was in Congress, where he became a prominent advocate for the suppression of the slave-trade. During the War of 1812-15 he edited the Mirror, at Hartford, the leading Federal newspaper in Connecticut; and was secretary of the Hartford convention (q. v.)in 1814, the proceedings of which he published in 1833. He published the Albany Daily Advertiser in 1815, and was the founder, in 1817, of the New York Daily Advertiser, with which he was connected until the great fire in 1835, when he retired, with his family, to Hartford. Mr. Dwight was one of the founders of the American Bible Society. He was one of the writers of the poetical essays of the Echo in the Hartford Mercury. He was also the author of a Dictionary of roots and Derivations. He died in New York City, July 12, 1846. Author; born in Hartford, Conn., March 3, 1796; graduated at Yale College in 1814; settled in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1833. In association with George White it is said that he induced a
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Edwards, Oliver, 1835- (search)
Edwards, Oliver, 1835- Military officer; born in Springfield, Mass., Jan. 30, 1835; was commissioned first lieutenant in the 10th Massachusetts Volunteers at the outbreak of the Civil War, and was promoted brigadier-general, May 19, 1865, for conspicuous gallantry. He received the surrender of Petersburg, Va., and commanded Forts Hamilton and Lafayette, in New York Harbor, during the draft riots of .1863. He was mustered out of the army in 1866.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ely, Alfred, 1815-1892 (search)
Ely, Alfred, 1815-1892 Lawyer; born in Lyme, Conn., Feb. 18, 1815; settled in Rochester, N. Y., in 1835; admitted to the bar in 1841; member of Congress in 1859-63. He was taken prisoner by the Confederates while visiting the battle-field of Bull Run in July, 1861, and confined in Libby prison for six months; was then exchanged for Charles J. Faulkner, the minister to France, who had been arrested for disloyalty. While in Libby prison he kept a journal, which was later published as the Journal of Alfred Ely, a prisoner of War in Richmond. He died in Rochester, N. Y., May 18, 1892.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ely, William G., (search)
Ely, William G., Military officer; born about 1835; joined the National army on the first call for volunteers. On June 13, 1863, he was captured in the engagement at Fort Royal Pike. After spending eight months in Libby prison, he endeavored to make his escape with 108 others through the famous underground passage dug beneath Twentieth Street. Four days later fifty of the number, including Colonel Ely, were retaken. He was, however, soon afterwards exchanged, and led his regiment, on June 4, 1864, at the battle of Piedmont; received the brevet of brigadier-general of volunteers in the same year.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 (search)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 Author; leader of the transcendental school of New England; born in Boston, May 25, 1803; graduated at Harvard in 1821; taught school five years, and in 1826 was licensed to preach by the Middlesex (Unitarian) Association. In the winter of 1833-34, after returning from Europe, he began the career of a lecturer and essayist. Marrying in 1835, he fixed his Ralph Waldo Emerson residence at Concord, Mass., and was a contributor to, and finally editor of, The dial, a quarterly magazine, and organ of the New England transcendentalists. He lived the quiet life of a literary man and philosopher, with the reputation, for more than forty years, of a profound thinker and elegant writer. He published essays, poems, and lectures, and died in Concord, Mass., April 27, 1882.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Equal rights party. (search)
Equal rights party. In the city of New York, in 1835, there arose in the ranks of the Democratic party a combination of men opposed to all banking institutions and monopolies of every sort. A Workingman's party had been formed in 1829, but had become defunct, and the Equal rights party was its successor. They acted with much caution and secrecy in their opposition to the powerful Democratic party, but never rose above the dignity of a faction. They made their first decided demonstration at Tammany Hall at the close of October, 1835, when an event occurred which caused them afterwards to be known as Loco-Focos (q. v.), a name applied by the Whigs to the whole Democratic party. The faction soon became formidable, and the regulars endeavored to reconcile the irregulars by nominating their favorite for the Presidency, Richard M. Johnson, for Vice-President with Martin Van Buren.
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