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William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik, Chapter 4. (search)
surrounding country. The brow of the ridge, two hundred and fifty feet broad where it overlooks the river, widens gradually as it extends westwardly to the forest and ultimately to broad pastures. Skirting the base of the bluff is the Sangamon river, which, coming around a sudden bend from the south-east, strikes the rocky hill and is turned abruptly north. Here is an old mill, driven by water-power, and reaching across the river is the mill-dam on which Offut's vessel hung stranded in April, 1831. As the river rolled her turbid waters over the dam, plunging them into the whirl and eddy beneath, the roar of waters, like low, continuous, distant thunder, could be distinctly heard through the village day and night. The country in almost every direction is diversified by alternate stretches of hills and level lands, with streams between each struggling to reach the river. The hills are bearded with timber-oak, hickory, walnut, ash, and elm. Below them are stretches of rich alluv
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Georgia, (search)
John M. Berrien appointed Attorney-General......March 9, 1829 Legislation annuls all laws and ordinances made by Cherokees......Dec. 19, 1829 First gold from Georgia mines received at the United States mint......1830 Law forbidding any white person to enter the Cherokee country without license and oath of allegiance to Georgia......Dec. 22, 1830 Cherokee Georgia surveyed by order of governor, laid out in small sections, and distributed by lottery to the people of Georgia......April, 1831 Rev. Samuel A. Worcester and Elizur Butler, M. D., missionaries to Cherokees, refusing oath of allegiance to Georgia, are imprisoned in State penitentiary......Sept. 16, 1831 Supreme Court of the United States pronounces authority assumed by Georgia unconstitutional, declares void laws depriving Indians of their rights, and orders release of missionaries......March, 1832 Gospel of Matthew printed at New Echota in Cherokee language......1832 Altamaha and Brunswick Railroad, 12
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Louisiana, (search)
nment......1825 Legislature grants $10,000 to Thomas Jefferson Randolph for the family of Thomas Jefferson, as a mark of gratitude from Louisiana......March 16, 1827 Seat of government removed from New Orleans to Donaldsonville......1829 Provision for running boundary-line between Louisiana and Arkansas Territory under act of Congress......1830 New Orleans again made the seat of government......Jan. 8, 1831 Pontchartrain Railroad, 4 1/2 miles long, opened for traffic......April, 1831 Branch mint at New Orleans receives first bullion......March 8, 1838 During this and the two previous years Louisiana furnished 1,179 volunteers in the Florida war......1838 New constitution adopted in convention......May 14, 1845 Legislature meets in new State-house at Baton Rouge......Jan. 21, 1850 Steamer Pampero, with 500 men under Lopez, for expedition against Cuba, leaves New Orleans......Aug. 3, 1851 Riot because of Cuban expedition in New Orleans; office of Spani
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 8: the Liberator—1831. (search)
ume I. now (1885) in possession of Mr. Oliver Johnson bear in Mr. Garrison's own hand the name of the Protestant, an exchange newspaper edited by the Rev. George Bourne in New York City. &c., &c. In addition to this, a variety of letters, relative to the paper, are constantly accumulating, which require prompt answers. We have just taken a colored apprentice, Thomas Paul, son of the highly respected pastor (of the same name) of the African Baptist Church in Belknap Street, who died in April, 1831 (Lib. 1.63). From the printing-office the lad went to the Noyes Academy in Canaan, N. H. (Lib. 5.71), and thence to Dartmouth College (Lib. 7.203), where he graduated in 1841 (Lib. 11.151). Afterwards he became a teacher. however, who will shortly be able to alleviate our toil. I cannot give you a better apprehension of the arduousness of my labors than by stating that it is more than six weeks since I visited Mr. Coffin Peter Coffin, father-in-law of Mr. May. Atkinson Street was th
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
Biographical. Major-Generals and brigadier-generals, provisional army of the Confederate States, Accredited to North Carolina. Brigadier-General George Burgwyn Anderson Brigadier-General George Burgwyn Anderson, the oldest son of William E. Anderson and his wife, Eliza Burgwyn, was born near Hillsboro, Orange county, N. C., April, 1831. At an early age he entered the State university at Chapel Hill, and on graduation divided first honors with three others of his class. He was appointed to the United States military academy when seventeen years old, and was graduated tenth in a class of forty-three in 1852, with a commission in the Second dragoons. After a few months, at the cavalry school at Carlisle he was detailed to assist in the survey of a railroad route in California, after that duty rejoining his regiment at Fort Chadbourne, Tex. Having been promoted first lieutenant in 1855, he commanded his troop in the march from Texas across the plains to Fort Riley, Kan.; ac
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Autobiography of Gen. Patton Anderson, C. S. A. (search)
hn Adair, of Mercer county, Kentucky. He had previously been married to Miss Nancy Bell, by whom he had three children—Musadora, Rufus King and Caroline. In the second marriage there were born Nancy Bell, Catharine Adair, John Adair, (who died in infancy,) James Patton, John Adair, (who died in 1858,) Thomas Scott and Butler Preston. When I was an infant my father removed from the town of Winchester to his farm, Craggy Hope, about six miles distant, where he resided till his death, in April, 1831. When about eight years old I was sent for a short time to a country school near home, where I learned the alphabet and began to spell and read. Soon after my father's death my mother returned with her six children to her father's in Mercer county, Kentucky. My brother John Adair and myself were soon after sent to the house of Charles Buford (who had married my mother's youngest sister) in Scott county, Kentucky, and remained there about a year, attending a country school taught by a M
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 5: first visit to Europe (search)
of modern languages. He was also librarian. He gave a course of lectures on French, Spanish, and Italian literature, but there seems to have been no reference to German, which had not then come forward into the place in American education which it now occupies. As to literature, he wrote to his friend, George W. Greene, Since my return I have written one piece of poetry, but have not published a line. You need not be alarmed on that score. I am all prudence now, since I can form a more accurate judgment of the merit of poetry. If I ever publish a volume, it will be many years first. It was actually nine years. For the North American Review he wrote in April, 1831, an essay on The Origin and Progress of the French Language. He afterwards sent similar papers to the same periodical upon the Italian and Spanish languages and literatures, each of these containing also original translations. Thus he entered on his career as a teacher, but another change in life also awaited him.
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)
3, a. 34. 6. William, prob. s. of Thomas (3), d. 15 Aug. 1828, a. 29. 7. Ebenezer, s. of Ebenezer (4), d. 20 Dec. 1826, a. 40. Had child, d. 21 Aug. 1819, a. 2. He m. Rebecca Cutter—see Cutter Book, 119, 383. Wid. Rebecca was bap. Pct. ch. 6 Mar. 1836. 8. Isaac, s. of Ebenezer (4), had son, d. 8 Feb. 1835, a. 6 mos. See Cutter Book, 134. 9. Ammi, s. of Ebenezer (4), had Eliza Ann, bap. here 21 June, 1835. See utter Book, 134. 10. Thomas, s. of Ebenezer (4),m. Hannah Hill—Apr. 1831, W. Camb. Had Anne Louisa, bap. 21 June, 1835; Thomas Francis, bap. 1 Oct. 1837. d. 15 Nov. 1837, a. 4 mos.; a dau., d. 18 Aug. 1839, a. 15 ds.; Thomas F., d. 13 June, 1841, a. 8 wks. 11. Josiah, o. c. here 11 Sept. 1774. Had Elizabeth. b. 3, bap. 11 Sept. 1774; Josiah, b. 19, bap. privately, 20 Oct. 1776, d. 23 Oct. 1776, a. 4 ds. 12. Samuel, and w. Lydia, O. c. here 1 Oct. 1815. Had children, Lydia, Samuel Winship, Eliza, Elmira, Bethia Young and Anna, all bap. 1 Oct. 1815; als
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 4., First Universalist Society in Medford. (search)
ther alterations and improvements were made. The church building was raised and the vestry brought up with the grade of the land, making it light and cheerful; a pastor's room was arranged with a convenient entrance to the pulpit platform; the organ was moved from the gallery to the east end of the church; new pews and windows replaced the old ones, making the appearance of the auditorium much more pleasant and attractive as well as convenient for its work as a church. Pastors. In April, 1831, the Rev. Winslow Wright was installed as the first pastor, and after four years of faithful labor he resigned in April, 1835. Soon after his resignation the Rev. Joseph Banfield was made his successor, and remained as pastor for three years. The Rev. Dr. Hosea Ballou was made pastor of the society in 1838. There may be members of this society who remember the kind, pleasant manners of this truly Christian man, who always had a pleasant greeting and a kind word for every one. Dr.