hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 234 234 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 54 54 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 43 43 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 40 40 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 24 24 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 24 24 Browse Search
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. 20 20 Browse Search
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 16 16 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 16 16 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 15 15 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: January 18, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for 1839 AD or search for 1839 AD in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: January 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Death of Bishop Cobbs. (search)
Death of Bishop Cobbs. --The Right Rev. Nicholas H. Cobbs, D. D. Bishop of Alabama, expired at his residence, in Montgomery, on Friday last. The deceased, who was born in Bedford county, Va., in 1795, enjoyed a high reputation as a Christian divine and scholar, and was universally esteemed and beloved — He first entered upon the duties of the priesthood at Richmond, Virginia, in 1825, became Chaplain of the University of Virginia in 1834, and in 1839 was called to the charge of St. Paul's Church, Petersburg, Va. In 1843 he accepted the rectorship of St. Paul's Church, Cincinnati, having in the meanwhile (1842.) been created under circumstances highly honorable to himself, a Doctor of Divinity, by Geneva, Now Hobart College, New York. He was elected to the Episcopate of Alabama in May, 1844, and consecrated to that holy office in October of the same year, at Philadelphia, entering upon its duties immediately after.