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Buncombe,
Mere talk, or speaking for the gratification of constituents.
It is said the word received this meaning from a remark of Felix Walker, representative to Congress from North Carolina, 1817-23.
While making a speech in the Missouri compromise debates with little relevancy, as the House thought, he asserted it did not matter, as he was making a speech for Buncombe, one of the counties he represented.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Calhoun , John Caldwell 1782 -1850 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Carleton , Thomas 1736 -1817 (search)
Carleton, Thomas 1736-1817
Military officer; born in England in 1736; joined the British army and came to America in 1755 as an ensign in Wolfe's command; was promoted lieutenant-general in 1798, and general in 1803.
During the Revolutionary War he received a wound in the naval battle with Arnold on Lake Champlain in 1776.
He died in Ramsgate, England, Feb. 2, 1817.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Child , David Lee 1794 -1874 (search)
Child, David Lee 1794-1874
Abolitionist; born in West Boylston, Mass., July 8, 1794; graduated at Harvard College in 1817: was later admitted to the bar. In 1830 he was editor of the Massachusetts journal, and while holding a seat in the legislature opposed the annexation of Texas; afterwards he issued a tract on the subject entitled Naboth's Vineyard.
In 1836 he published ten articles on the subject of slavery, and in the following year, while in Paris, addressed a memoir to the Societepour l'abolition d'esclavage.
He also forwarded a pamphlet on the same subject to the Eclectic review in London.
In 1843-44 he edited (with his wife) the Anti-slavery standard in New York.
He died in Wayland, Mass., Sept. 18, 1874.
Cholera, Asiatic
Described by Garcia del Huerto, a physician of Goa, about 1560, appeared in India in 1774, and became endemic in Lower Bengal, 1817; gradually spread till it reached Russia, 1830; Germany, 1831; carrying off more than 900,000 persons on the Continent in 1829-30; in England and Wales in 1848-49, 53,293 persons; in 1854, 20,097. First death by cholera in North America, June 8, 1832, in Quebec.
In New York, June 22, 1832.
Cincinnati to New Orleans, October, 1832 (very severe throughout the United States). Again in the United States in 1834, slightly in 1849, severely in 1855, and again slightly in 1866-67.
By the prompt and energetic enforcement of quarantine it was prevented from entering the United States in 1892.
The German steamship Moravia reached New York Harbor Aug. 31, having had twenty-two deaths from cholera during the voyage.
The President ordered twenty days quarantine for all immigrant vessels from cholera-infected districts, Sept. 1.
On Sept. 3, t
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Claiborne , William Charles Cole 1775 -1817 (search)
Claiborne, William Charles Cole 1775-1817
jurist; born in Sussex county, Va., in 1775; became a lawyer, and settled in Tennessee, where he was appointed a territorial judge.
In 1796 he assisted in framing a State constitution, and was a
William C. C. Claiborne. member of Congress from 1797 to 1801.
In 1802 he was appointed governor of the Mississippi Territory, and was a commissioner, with Wilkinson, to take possession of Louisiana when it was purchased from France.
On the establishment of a new government in 1804, he was appointed governor; and when the State of Louisiana was organized he was elected governor, serving from 1812 to 1816.
In the latter year he became United States Senator, but was prevented from taking his seat on account of sickness.
He died in New Orleans, La., Nov. 23, 1817.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Clinton , de Witt 1769 -1828 (search)