hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing). You can also browse the collection for September 12th, 1811 AD or search for September 12th, 1811 AD in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hall, James 1744-1826 (search)
8; was admitted to the bar the same year; removed to Shawneetown, Ill., in 1820, and to Cincinnati in 1833. He edited at various times the Illinois gazette, the Illinois Intelligencer, the Illinois monthly magazine, and the Western monthly magazine. Among his published works are Life of Thomas Posey; Life of Gen. W. H. Harrison; Notes on the Western States; History of the Indian tribes; The wilderness and the War-path, etc. He died July 5, 1868. Geologist; born in Hingham, Mass., Sept. 12, 1811; was graduated at the Rensselaer School (now Polytechnic Institute) in Troy, in 1832; was retained there as assistant Professor of Chemistry and Natural Science, and became full professor in 1854. He held this chair till 1876, when he became professor emeritus. In 1836, when the geological survey of New York was organized, and four divisions made of the State, he was appointed assistant geologist in the second division. In the following year he was appointed State geologist. In 1838-