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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Societies, religious and benevolent (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Southard , Samuel Lewis 1787 -1842 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stiles , Joseph Clay 1795 -1875 (search)
Stiles, Joseph Clay 1795-1875
Clergyman; born in Savannah, Ga., Dec. 6, 1795; graduated at Yale College in 1814 and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1825; ordained in the Presbyterian Church in 1826; was an evangelist in Georgia and Florida in 1829-35; served thereafter as pastor and evangelist in various localities till 1875.
He was the author of Speech on the slavery resolutions in the General Assembly; Modern reform examined, or the Union of the North and South on the subject of slavery; The National controversy, or the voice of the fathers upon the State of the country, etc. He died in Savannah, Ga., March 27, 1875.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Story , Joseph 1779 -1845 (search)
Story, Joseph 1779-1845
Jurist; born in Marblehead, Mass., Sept. 18, 1779; graduated at Harvard College in 1798; and was admitted to the bar in 1801, beginning practice at Salem.
After serving in the State legislature, he was elected to Congress in 1808.
He was speaker of the Massachusetts Assembly in 1811, and from November of that year until his death was associate judge of the United States Supreme
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From 1829 until his death he was also Dane Professor of Law in Harvard College.
His published judicial works evince very extensive learning, clear exposition, and profound views of the legal science.
His commentaries on the Constitution, entitled Conflict of laws, and his written judgments in his circuit make 27 volumes; his judgments in the Supreme Court of the United States make an important part of 34 volumes more.
He died in Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 10, 1845.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Streight , Abdel D. 1829 - (search)
Streight, Abdel D. 1829-
Military officer; born in Wheeler, N. Y., June 17, 1829; recruited the 51st Indiana Volunteers in 1861; was commissioned colonel, and was attached to the Army of the Cumberland.
On April 11, 1863, he left Nashville with unmounted troops on steamboats, to descend the Cumberland to Fort Donelson, at Dover, and thence to sweep around the rear of Bragg's army in southern Tennessee, cut off all his railway communications in northern Georgia, destroy manufactories and depots of supplies, and in every way to cripple the Confederates.
His was called an independent provisional brigade, created for a temporary purpose.
Landing at Dover, Streight marched across to the Tennessee, at Fort Henry, where he remained until the boats went down the Ohio and up the Tennessee to that post.
There he embarked his men, and, landing at Eastport, made a feint with General Dodge, then moving on Tuscumbia, to mask the real intention of his expedition.
He had been directed to gat
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Supreme Court , United States (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sutherland , Charles 1829 -1895 (search)
Sutherland, Charles 1829-1895
Surgeon; born in Philadelphia, Pa., May 29, 1829; appointed assistant surgeon in the United States army in 1852; surgeon-general in 1890.
He died in Washington, D. C., May 11, 1895.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Swayne , Noah Haynes 1804 - (search)
Swayne, Noah Haynes 1804-
Jurist; born in Culpeper county, Va., Dec. 7, 1804; admitted to the bar in 1823; and began practice in Coshocton, O., in 1825; elected to the Ohio legislature in 1829; United States district attorney for Ohio in 1831-41.
He became widely known in 1853 through his connection with the trial to secure insurance for the owners of the steamboat Martha Washington, which was destroyed by fire.
He was a justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1862-81.
He died, in New York City, June 8, 1884.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Swift , Joseph Gardner 1783 -1865 (search)