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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 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) 1 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hall, Samuel 1740-1807 (search)
Hall, Samuel 1740-1807 Printer; born in Medford, Mass., Nov. 2, 1740; was a partner of the widow of James Franklin in 1761-68, in which year he published the Essex gazette in Salem, Mass. He removed to Cambridge in 1775 and published the New England chronicle, and subsequently the Massachusetts gazette. He died in Boston, Mass., Oct. 30, 1807.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wadsworth, James Samuel 1807- (search)
Wadsworth, James Samuel 1807- Military officer; born in Geneseo, N. Y., Oct. 30, 1807; educated at Harvard and Yale colleges; studied law with Daniel Webster; and was admitted to the bar in 1833, but never practised, having sufficient employment in the management of a large patrimonial estate. He was a member of the peace convention in 1861, and was one of the first to offer his services to the government when the Civil War broke out. When communication between Washington and Philadelphia was cut off in April, 1861, he chartered a vessel and filled it with supplies, with which he sailed for Annapolis with timely relief for Union soldiers there. In June he was volunteer aide on General McDowell's staff, and was noted for bravery in the battle of Bull Run. In August he was made brigadier-general of volunteers, and in March, 1862, military governor of the District of Columbia. In that year he was Republican candidate for governor of New York, but was defeated by Horatio Seymour