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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dickson , John , 1783 -1852 (search)
Dickson, John, 1783-1852
Statesman; born in Keene, N. H., in 1783; graduated at Middlebury College in 1808; practised law in Rochester, N. Y., in 1813-25; member of Congress in 1831-35.
He is credited with having delivered the first important anti-slavery speech ever made in Congress.
He published Remarks on the presentation of several petitions for the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia.
He died in West Bloomfield, N. Y., Feb. 22, 1852.
Dickson, John, 1783-1852
Statesman; born in Keene, N. H., in 1783; graduated at Middlebury College in 1808; practised law in Rochester, N. Y., in 1813-25; member of Congress in 1831-35.
He is credited with having delivered the first important anti-slavery speech ever made in Congress.
He published Remarks on the presentation of several petitions for the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia.
He died in West Bloomfield, N. Y., Feb. 22, 1852.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Duane , James , 1733 -1797 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dunlap , William , 1766 -1839 (search)
Dunlap, William, 1766-1839
Painter, dramatist, and historian; born in Perth Amboy, N. J., Feb. 19, 1766.
His father, being a loyalist, went to New York City in 1777, where William began to paint.
He made a portrait of Washington at Rocky Hill, N. J., in 1783.
The next year he went to England and received instructions from Benjamin West.
He became an actor for a short time, and in 1796 was one of the managers of the John Street Theatre, New York.
He took the Park Theatre in 1798.
From 1814 to 1816 he was paymaster-general of the New York State militia.
He began a series of paintings in 1816.
In 1833 he published a History of the American theatres, and in 1834 a History of the Arts of design. His history of New Netherland and the State of New York was published in 1840. Mr. Dunlap was one of the founders of the National Academy of Design.
He died in New York City, Sept. 28, 1839.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Duponceau , Peter Stephen , 1760 -1844 (search)
Duponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
Philologist; born in the Isle of Rhea;, France, June 3, 1760; went to Paris in 1775, where he became acquainted with Baron Steuben, and accompanied him to America as his secretary.
He was brevetted a captain (February, 1778), and assisted Steuben in the preparation of his system of military tactics 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 t
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dwight , Timothy 1752 -1817 (search)
Eaton, William, -1811
Military officer; born, in Woodstock, Conn., Feb. 23, 1764; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1790; entered the Continental army at the ageof sixteen; and was discharged in 1783.
In 1797 he was appointed American consul at Tunis, and arrived there in 1799.
He acted with so much boldness and tact that he secured for his country the freedom of its commerce from attacks by Tunisian cruisers.
He returned to the United States in 1803; was appointed naval agent of the United States for the Barbary States, and accompanied the American fleet to the Mediterranean in 1804.
He assisted Hamet Caramelli, the rightful ruler of Tripoli, in an attempt to recover his throne, usurped by his brother.
Soon afterwards Eaton returned to the United States, and passed the remainder of his life at Brimfield.
For his services to American commerce the State of Massachusetts gave him 10,000 acres of land.
The King of Denmark gave him a gold box in acknowledgment of his services
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Estaing , Charles Henry Theodat , Count Da , 1729 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Few , William 1748 -1828 (search)
Few, William 1748-1828
Jurist; born in Baltimore county, Md., June 8, 1748.
His ancestors came to America with William Penn.
His family went to North Carolina in 1758, and in 1776 William settled in Georgia, where he became a councillor, and assisted in framing the State constitution.
He was in the military service, and in 1778 was made State surveyor-general.
In 1780-83 and 1786 he was in Congress, and in 1787 assisted in framing the national Constitution.
He was United States Senator in 1789-93; and was a judge on the bench of Georgia three years. In the summer of 1799 he removed to New York, and became a member of the legislature and a commissioner of loans.
He died in Fishkill, N. Y., July 16, 1828.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fisheries, the. (search)