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Centre of population,
The centre of gravity of the population of a country, each individual being assumed to have the same weight.
The centre of population in the United States has clung to the parallel of 39° lat. and has moved in a westward direction during the last 110 years. The following table shows the movement of the centre of population since 1790:
Census Year.North Latitude.West Longitude.Approximate Location by Important Town.
1790 39° 15′ 5″76° 11′ 2″Twenty three miles east of Baltimore, Md.
1800 39° 16′ 1″76° 56′ 5″Eigh-teen miles west of Baltimore, Md.
1810 39° 11′ 5″77° 37′ 2″Forty miles northwest by west of Washington, D. C.
1820 39° 5′ 7″78° 33′ 0″Sixteen miles north of Woodstock, Va.
1830 38° 57′ 9″79° 16′ 9″Nineteen miles west-southwest of Moorefield, W. Va.
1840 39° 2′ 0″81° 18′ 0″Sixteen miles south of Clarkshutrg.
W. Va.
1850 38° 59′ 0″81° 19′ 0″Twenty-three miles southleast of Parke
Charleston, S. C.
City, port of entry, and commercial metropolis of South Carolina; on a peninsula between the Cooper and Ashley rivers, which unite in forming an admirable harbor; 82 miles northeast of Savannah, Ga. The city was founded in 1680 by an English colony; was occupied by the British in 1780-82; and was the State capital till 1790.
It has been the scene of many stirring and historical events.
The celebrated Democratic National Convention of 1860 was opened here, and after the split among the delegates an adjourned session was held in Baltimore.
It was the birthplace, the same year, of the Secession movement; the first act of hostility to the national government occurred here (see Sumter, Fort; Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant); was besieged and bombarded during the last two years of the war; and was evacuated by the Confederates on Feb. 17, 1865.
On Aug. 31, 1886, a large part of the city was destroyed by an earthquake, in which many lives were lost.
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Chew, Benjamin 1722-
Jurist; born in West River, Md., Nov. 29, 1722; settled in Philadelphia in 1745; was recorder in 1755-72; and became chief-justice of Pennsylvania in 1774.
During the Revolutionary War he sided with the royalist party, and in 1777 he was imprisoned in Fredericksburg, Va., because he had refused to give a parole.
On Oct. 4, 1777, during the battle of Germantown, a British outpost took refuge in his large stone mansion, and the Americans, in order to drive them out, fired on the building with muskets and cannon.
The building, however, was too strongly built to be demolished by the 3 and 6 pounder field-pieces of that time.
A brigade commanded by Maxwell was left to surround the house, while the main American force pushed on. This incident gave the British time to prepare for the American attack.
From 1790 to 1806, when the High Court of Errors and Appeals was abandoned, he was president of that court.
He died Jan. 20, 1810.
See Germantown, battle of.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Clinton , de Witt 1769 -1828 (search)
Clinton, de Witt 1769-1828
Statesman; born in Little Britain, Orange co., N. Y., March 2, 1769; graduated at Columbia
De Witt Clinton. College in 1786; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1788, but practised very little.
He was private secretary to his uncle George, governor of New York, in 1790-95, in favor of whose administration he wrote much in the newspapers.
He was in the Assembly of his State in 1797, and from 1798 to 1802 was a Democratic leader in the State Senate.
He was mayor of New York City in 1803-7, 1809-10, and 1811-14.
He was an earnest promoter of the establishment of the New York Historical Society and the American Academy of Fine Arts.
Opposed to the War of 1812-15, he was the Peace candidate for the Presidency in 1812, but was defeated by James Madison.
Mr. Clinton was one of the founders and first president of the Literary and Philosophical Society in New York, and was one of the most efficient promoters of the construction of the Erie Canal.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Coffin , Sir Isaac 1759 -1839 (search)
Coffin, Sir Isaac 1759-1839
Naval officer; born in Boston, May 16, 1759; was the son of a collector of the customs in Boston, who was a zealous loyalist.
He entered the British navy in 1773, became a lieutenant in 1776, and was active on the American coast at different times during the war for independence.
He served under Rodney, was made post-captain in 1790, and rear-admiral of the blue in 1804, in which year he was knighted.
In June, 1814, he was created admiral of the blue, and in 1820 admiral of the white.
He was a member of Parliament in 1818. Having a real attachment for his native country, he endowed a Coffin School in Nantucket, where many of his relatives lived, and gave for its support $12,500. He died in Cheltenham, England, July 23, 1839.