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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cobb, Joseph Beckham 1819-1858 (search)
Cobb, Joseph Beckham 1819-1858 Author; born in Oglethorpe county, Ga., April 11, 1819; educated at Franklin College, Ga., settled in Noxubee county, Miss., in 1838. His publications include The Creole, or the siege of New Orleans (a novel ); Mississippi scenes, or sketches of Southern and Western life and adventure, etc. He died in Columbus, Ga., Sept. 15, 1858.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Marquand, Henry Gurdon 1819- (search)
Marquand, Henry Gurdon 1819- Capitalist; born in New York, April 11, 1819; was educated at Pittsfield, Mass.: engaged in the real estate, banking, and railroad business. He has been greatly interested in the work of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, of which he has been president for many years, and to which he has made many costly gifts, including a collection of bronzes valued at $50,000; bonds representing a value of $50,000; and a priceless collection of paintings by Van Dyke, Rubens, Gainsborough, Velazquez, Turner, Franz Hals, Hogarth, Van der Meer, and other old masters. He also built a chapel and (with Robert Bonner) a gymnasium (cost $20,000) for Princeton University, and with his brother presented a pavilion to Bellevue Hospital, New York City.
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 9 (search)
terfield (2). Chambers, William, s. of John of Boston—born here—bap. 8 June, 1740. Champney, Daniel, Jr., m. Hannah Emmons, 22 Sept. 1746. Nathan of Camb. and Elizabeth Osborn, of Charlestown this Pet., m. 23 June, 1760. (See Paige, 508; Wyman, 200） Chandler, Daniel, and Susanna Downing, of Lexington, m. 19 May, 1817. Cheever, William, s. of William of Boston, b. July, bap. 2 Aug. 1752. Childs, Amos, who d. 25 Jan. 1819, a. 41, had w. Sally, adm. to the ch. and baptized 11 Apr. 1819, and chil. Sophia Wyman and Amos, bap. 18 Apr. 1819. Amos the father m. Sally Wyman of Charlestown, 21 Mar. 1805. Amos, pro. the son, d. 4 July, 1826, a. 12. See Wyman's Charlestown, 213-14. 2. Ephraim, had w. Hannah, who o. c. 17 Feb. 1754, and a dau. Hannah, b. 4 Mar. 1753, prob. the Hannah, dau. of Hannah, bap. 3 Mar. 1754. Ephraim d. at Ebenezer Prentice's, on the town, 29 Jan. 1772, a. 60. 3. Phineas, d. 16 Dec. 1795, a. 66. Another Phineas, d. 19 Apr. 1807, a. 53; prob. <