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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hopkins, Johns 1795-1873 (search)
Hopkins, Johns 1795-1873 Philanthropist; born in Anne Arundel county, Md., May 19, 1795; went to Baltimore in 1812 and entered a wholesale grocery store; and soon afterwards established himself in the trade. In 1822 he founded the house of Hopkins & Brothers, in which he made a large fortune. He retired from the grocery business in 1847, and engaged in banking and railroad enterprises; became director of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company; and chairman of its finance committee in 1855. He aided in founding the Johns Hopkins Hospital, free to all, to which he gave property valued at $4,500,000, in 1873; presented the city of Baltimore with a public park; and gave $3,500,000 to found Johns Hopkins University (q. v.). He died in Baltimore, Md., Dec. 24, 1873.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hoskins, Nathan 1795-1869 (search)
Hoskins, Nathan 1795-1869 Author; born in Withersfield, Vt., April 27, 1795; graduated at Dartmouth in 1820; taught in St. Albans, Vt., in 1821-22; afterwards practised law in Vergennes, Vt., and edited The Vermont Aurora. His publications include History of Vermont; Notes on the West; and The Bennington Court controversy and strictures on Civil liberty in the United States. He died in Williamstown, Mass., April 21, 1869.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hunter, David 1802-1886 (search)
Hunter, David 1802-1886 Military officer; born in Washington, D. C., July 21, 1802; graduated at West Point in 1822; was appointed colonel of the 6th Cavalry in May, 1861; and commanded the main column of the Union troops, as brigadiergeneral, in the battle of Bull Run, where he was severely wounded. In August he was made major-general of volunteers; served under Fremont in Missouri; and superseded him in November. In the spring of 1862 he was in command of the Department of the South. He commanded the Department of West Virginia in the summer of 1864, where he was active for a while. For his various services he was brevetted major-general in 1865. He was retired in 1866, and died in Washington, D. C., Feb. 2, 1886. In the spring of 1862 General Hunter was in command of the Department of the South. He declared martial law in his department. Giving a free interpretation to his instructions from the War Department, he took measures for organizing regiments of negro troops;
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ingham, Samuel Delucenna 1779-1860 (search)
Ingham, Samuel Delucenna 1779-1860 Legislator; born in Pennsylvania, Sept. 16, 1779; served several years in the Pennsylvania legislature; served in Congress in 1813-18 and 1822-29. President Jackson appointed him Secretary of the Treasury, but he resigned on account of the Kitchen Cabinet. He died in Trenton, N. J., June 5, 1860.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jackson, Andrew 1767-1845 (search)
credit in a bank. The general politely refused to accept it, and begged his friends to distribute it among the relatives of those who had fallen in the late battles. Nearly thirty years afterwards (1843), Congress refunded the sum with interest, amounting in all to $2,700. In 1817 he successfully prosecuted the war against the Seminoles. In 1819 he Jackson's reception by the citizens of New Orleans. resigned his military commission, and was governor of newly acquired Florida in 1821-22. He was again United States Senator in 1823-24; and in 1828, and also in 1832, he was elected President of the United States (see cabinet, President's). His warfare on the United States Bank during his Presidency resulted in its final destruction. President Jackson possessed great firmness and decision of character; was honest and true; not always correct in judgment; often rash in expressions and actions; misled sometimes by his hot anger into acts injurious to his reputation; of unflinc
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jackson, Claiborne Fox 1807-1862 (search)
Jackson, Claiborne Fox 1807-1862 Statesman; born in Fleming county, Ky., April 4, 1807; became conspicuous as a leader in the efforts of pro-slavery men to make Kansas a slave-labor State. In 1822 he went to Missouri; was a captain in the Black Hawk War; served several years in the State legislature; and was elected governor of Missouri by the Democrats in 1860. In 1855 he led a band of lawless men from Missouri, who, fully armed, encamped around Lawrence, Kan., where he took measures to prevent a legal polling of votes at an election for members of the territorial legislature, late in March. His followers threatened to hang a judge who attempted to secure an honest vote, and by threats compelled another to receive every vote offered by a Missourian. When the Civil War broke out, Jackson made strenuous efforts to place Missouri on the side of secession, but was foiled chiefly through the efforts of Gen. Nathaniel Lyon. He was deposed by the Missouri State convention, in July
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jay, William 1789-1858 (search)
Jay, William 1789-1858 Jurist; born in New York City, June 16, 1789; son of John Jay; graduated at Yale in 1807; appointed judge of the court of common pleas in 1818; reappointed under the new constitution in 1822; served till 1843, when he was superseded on account of his antislavery views. He is the author of Life of John Jay; A view of the action of the federal government in behalf of slavery; War and peace, in which he suggested that international disputes should be settled by arbitration; The Mexican War, etc. He died in Bedford, N. Y., Oct. 14, 1858.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Johnston, Richard Malcolm 1822-1898 (search)
Johnston, Richard Malcolm 1822-1898 Author; born in Powelton, Ga., March 8, 1822; graduated at Mercer University, Georgia, in 1841, and a year later was admitted to the bar. In 1857-61 he was Professor of Literature in the University of Georgia. He was an officer in the Confederate army throughout the Civil War. In 1867 he moved to Baltimore, and engaged in authorship. His works include Georgia sketches; Dukesborough tales; Historical sketch of English Literature (with W. H. Browne); Old mark Langston; Two Gray Tourists; Mr. Absalom Billingslea, and other Georgia folk; Ogeechee cross Firings; Widow Guthrie; The Primes and their neighbors; Studies: literary and social; Old times in Middle Georgia; Pearse Amerson's will, etc. He died in Baltimore, Md., Sept. 23, 1898.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jones, Horatio Gates 1822- (search)
Jones, Horatio Gates 1822- Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 9, 1822; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1841; was admitted to the bar in 1847; became connected with many historical societies. His publications include History of Roxborough and Manayunk; Report of the committee of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania on the Bradford Bicentenary; Andrew Bradford, founder of the newspaper press in the Middle States of America, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Judd, Sylvester 1789-1860 (search)
Judd, Sylvester 1789-1860 Author; born in Westhampton, Mass., April 23, 1789; was a member of the State legislature in 1817, and owner of the Hampshire gazette in 1822-34. He is the author of History of Hadley, and Thomas Judd and his descendants. He died in Northampton, Mass., April 18, 1860.
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