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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., chapter 11 (search)
ularly thereafter. On the request of its proprietors, Mr. Lovejoy gave up the establishment to them, intending to leave St. Louis; but they handed it over in payment of a debt of five hundred dollars, and the new owner immediately presented it to Mr. Lovejoy, telling him to go on with the paper as before. He had gone to Alton, Illinois, expecting to remove it to that city; but, while there, a letter reached him from St. Louis, urging him to return and remain, which he did. On the 28th of April, 1836, a quarrel occurred between two sailors, or boatmen, at the steamboat landing in St. Louis. When the civil officers attempted to arrest them for a breach of the peace, a mulatto named Francis J. McIntosh interfered, and enabled the boatmen to escape, for which he was very properly arrested, carried before a justice of the peace, and committed to jail. On his way thither, being informed that his punishment would be not less than five years in the State Prison, he immediately broke loo
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ropes, John Codman 1836- (search)
Ropes, John Codman 1836- Historian; born in St. Petersburg, Russia, April 28, 1836; graduated at Harvard in 1857; admitted to the bar in 1861. He is the author of The army under Pope; The story of the Civil War; The campaign of Waterloo, etc.
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)
ton, b. 5 Aug. 1752. A son of Josiah (Cont[inental]), late of Charlestown, bap. here 6 July, 1777. See Wyman, 473. 2. Rebecca, of Malden, and John Wheeler, of Dover, N. H., m. here 12 Mar. 1793. Calvin and Abby C. Putnam, of W. Camb., m. 28 Apr. 1836. Abby C., w. of Calvin, d. 20 Feb. 1837, a. 27. Hartwell, Joseph, set. 24, o. c. and bap. here 21 Oct. 1764. Had Sarah, bap. 21 Oct. 1764; and he (of Charlestown) had also Joseph, bap. 17 Apr. 1768; Anne, bap. 12 Aug. 1772; Sarah, bap. 4. The furniture of Gen. Putnam and his grandfather is still in the house. Sally, of Medford, m. Adam Cutter, of Charlestown, 14 Jan. 1798—Cutter (par. 34). See Wyman, 779. Benjamin, m. Dolly Park, 21 Aug. 1803. Abby C. and Calvin Harris, m. 28 Apr. 1836. Pynchon, Elizabeth, dau. of the late Hon. Jos. Pynchon, Esq., adm. Pct. ch. 9 Sept. 1770. Mary, dau. of Hon. Joseph Pynchon, Esq., dec'd, was adm. this ch. 29 Sept. 1771. Quincy, child of Doctor Quincy, Boston, d. 19 May, 1764, a. 14