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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 1 1 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, chapter 30 (search)
inguished. For eleven years he was engaged in an edition of Coke on Littleton, which declining health compelled him to leave incomplete. The loss to juridical learning on this account would have been irreparable, if the work had fallen into other hands than those of Mr. Butler. In 1813, from a too intense application to this work, in which his soul was engaged, Mr. Hargrave became afflicted with occasional alienations of mind, which led to his retirement from the profession. He died, Aug. 16, 1821, aged eighty, in the full possession of his faculties. He was said to have aided Lord Thurlow in the preparation of several elaborate judgments, which gave him the sobriquet in the profession of the lion's provider. Among his publications are a volume of law tracts, two volumes of Juridical arguments and collections, and three volumes under the fanciful title of Jurisconsult Exercitations. See 29 London Law Mag., 75-108; also Annual Obituary for 1821. Sir Samuel Romilly. This i
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 2 (search)
Mar. 27, 1865. Brevet Brig. General, U. S. Volunteers, Mar. 13, 1865. Mustered out, Mar. 5, 1866. Gardner, John Lane. Born at Boston, Mass., Aug. 1, 1793. Third Lieutenant, 4th U. S. Infantry, May 20, 1813. Second Lieutenant, March 28, 1814. Transferred to Corps Artillery, May 17, 1815. First Lieutenant, Corps of Artillery, Apr. 20, 1818. Captain and Assistant Deputy Q. M. General, May, 1820. Transferred to 3d U. S. Artillery, June 1, 1821. Transferred to 4th U. S. Artillery, Aug. 16, 1821. Captain and Assistant Quartermaster, May 18, 1820, to Oct. 24, 1830. Captain, 4th U. S. Artillery, Nov. 1, 1823. Captain and Quartermaster, U. S. Military Academy, West Point, N. Y., 1829 to 1830. Brevet Major, U. S. Army, Nov. 1, 1833. Major, 4th U. S. Artillery, Oct. 13, 1845. Brevet Lieut. Colonel, U. S. Army, Apr. 18, 1847. Brevet Colonel, Aug. 20, 1847. Lieut. Colonel, 1st U. S. Artillery, Aug. 3, 1852. Colonel, 2d U. S. Artillery, June 23, 1861. Retired, Nov. 1, 1861, on his