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Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States., Chapter 7: Secretary of War. (search)
s and Caddoes visited Matamoras in June, and obtained large quantities of ammunition from the authorities there. Report of the Secretary of State (Texas), November, 1839, p. 22. On November 26, 1838, Mr. Jones, Texan minister, complained to the United States Government of the continual removal of discontented Indians from ed in the treaty. As it was an act of arbitrary authority on the part of the Executive, and in defiance of legislative action, it was clearly null. Ibid,, November, 1839, Document A, p. 13. Affairs stood thus when Lamar was inaugurated. The Hon. James Webb, Secretary of State, writing to the Texan minister at Washington, this remedy was tried only when all others failed. How the Cherokee question was met will, perhaps, be best explained in the report of the Secretary of War, November, 1839: The reason for the adoption of more summary measures in the settlement of the Cherokee question, than was originally intended, is found in the knowledg
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hammond, Marcus Claudius Marcellus 1814-1876 (search)
Hammond, Marcus Claudius Marcellus 1814-1876 Military officer; born in Newberry district, S. C., Dec. 12, 1814; graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1836; promoted first lieutenant in November, 1839; served during a part of the war with Mexico as additional paymaster; resigned in April, 1847, owing to failing health. He published A critical history of the Mexican War. He died in Beech Island, S. C., Jan. 23, 1876.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Michigan, (search)
....March 20, 1837 Board of seven commissioners of internal improvement appointed by act of legislature......March, 1837 Meeting of citizens of Detroit friendly to the Canadian patriot cause is held, Jan. 1, 1838. Jan. 5 the schooner Ann is seized, loaded with 450 stands of arms stolen from the Detroit jail, and sails away with 132 men and provisions for the patriots. Meeting of the public to preserve neutrality is held......Jan. 8, 1838 William Woodbridge elected governor......November, 1839 Governor Woodbridge, elected United States Senator, is succeeded by James W. Gordon as acting governor......May 31, 1841 Gen. Lewis Cass nominated for President of the United States by the National Democratic Convention at Baltimore......May 22, 1842 University of Michigan, planned by the governor and people in 1817, established by law, March 18, 1837, and located at Ann Arbor, is opened for reception of students......Sept. 20, 1842 State land office established at Marshall
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Texas, (search)
oved for carrying into effect the convention of Oct. 13, 1838......Jan. 11, 1839 By act of Texan congress, Dec. 10, 1836, the permanent flag of the republic bears three horizontal stripes of equal width, the upper one white, the middle one blue, with a five-pointed white star in the centre, and the lower one red......Jan. 25, 1839 Congress passes first educational act, appropriating certain lands for a general system of education......Jan. 26, 1839 Congress meets at Austin......November, 1839 France acknowledges the independence of Texas......1839 England, Holland, and Belgium acknowledge the independence of Texas......1840 Expedition under Gen. Hugh McLeod leaves Austin, June 18, 1841, for Santa Fe. When near San Miguel, his force is met by Mexican troops under Damacio Salazar, captured, and marched under guard to the city of Mexico......Oct. 17, 1841 Twelve hundred Mexicans under Gen. Adrian Woll capture San Antonio, Sept. 11, 1842, but are forced to retreat by
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 8: conversations in Boston. (search)
the opportunity for one of those curious examples of failing memory and unfailing self-confidence which were pointed out, by the reviewers of her Autobiography, at the time of its publication. She describes the communication as a letter which Miss Fuller declares she sent her, but she can only recall having received a very different letter and one quite unworthy of the writer. Harriet Martineau's Autobiography, i. 381. Yet Miss Martineau had herself made an entry in her own diary for November, 1839,--quoted by Mrs. Chapman in her appendix ; and this record says of the letter then received :-- Tuesday. An immense letter from Margaret Fuller. Sad about herself, and very severe on my book; -righteously so, but with much mistake in it. The spirit is very noble. Do I improve in courage about learning the consequences of what I do? I commit myself boldly, but I suffer a good deal. But I do not think I go back. I suffered a good deal from her letter. Harriet Martineau's Autobiog
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 14: first weeks in London.—June and July, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
teagle in London. family, and Hayward of the Law Magazine. Parke inquired after you, and said that in the Privy Council your work was of great resort. Baron Parke is a man with a remarkable countenance, intellectual and brilliant. The Solicitor-General Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1790-1868. He was appointed Solicitor-General in 1834; was succeeded in a month, on a change of government, by Sir William W. Follett, but was reappointed six months later, and continued to hold the office until November, 1839, when he was raised to the Bench of the Exchequer. In 1850 he became Vice-Chancellor, and in the same year was created Baron Cranworth. He was Lord Chancellor from 1852 to 1858, and from 1865 to 1867. Sumner was his guest at dinner several times in 1838, and was entertained by him again in 1857. honored me with a dinner, where I received the kindest attentions. He inquired about you, and Mr. Rand, Benjamin Rand, of Boston. as did the Attorney-General. Sir John Campbell. With th
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 17: London again.—characters of judges.—Oxford.—Cambridge— November and December, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
ghan, and Sir Edward Curry. This was strictly correct according to the Heralds' books, as the son of a peer takes precedence of knights, whatever may be their respective ages; but it shocked my notions of propriety. Dec. 14, 1838. Poor Allan Park is dead; and everybody is speculating about his successor. The Solicitor-General will be the man. Park died Dec. 8. Thomas Erskine (not Rolfe) was appointed, Jan. 9, 1839, his successor. Rolfe was appointed a baron of the Exchequer in Nov., 1839. Post, p. 52. I dined last night with Serjeant Wilde, and it was amusing to see the coquetry between him, Talfourd, Bompas, and Hill, with regard to the successor. I came up yesterday from Oxford, where I have passed four delightful days. I was installed by Sir Charles Vaughan as an honorary Fellow of All Souls. I have now given you the Queen's Bench and the Common Pleas judges. I shall follow this with the barons of the Exchequer; and then with a view of the common law bar. Afterwar
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Dec. 14, 1838. (search)
Dec. 14, 1838. Poor Allan Park is dead; and everybody is speculating about his successor. The Solicitor-General will be the man. Park died Dec. 8. Thomas Erskine (not Rolfe) was appointed, Jan. 9, 1839, his successor. Rolfe was appointed a baron of the Exchequer in Nov., 1839. Post, p. 52. I dined last night with Serjeant Wilde, and it was amusing to see the coquetry between him, Talfourd, Bompas, and Hill, with regard to the successor. I came up yesterday from Oxford, where I have passed four delightful days. I was installed by Sir Charles Vaughan as an honorary Fellow of All Souls. I have now given you the Queen's Bench and the Common Pleas judges. I shall follow this with the barons of the Exchequer; and then with a view of the common law bar. Afterwards you may expect something about the Chancery Bar and Admiralty. I have read Sir Mathew Hale's Ms. on the Admiralty, and find it to be a complete treatise on the subject, which contains nothing new to you, but which,
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 16: ecclesiastical History. (search)
iciate for the church, and was virtually its minister, till his lamented and untimely death, at the age of thirty-two, February 25th, 1828. Ibid., p. 62. Rev. Thomas W. Coit, D. D., was Rector from Easter, 1829, to Easter, 1835; Rev. M. A. D'W. Howe, D. D., for a few months in 1836 and 1837; and Rev. Thomas H. Vail from the spring of 1837 to Easter, 1839. Rev. Nicholas Hoppin, a native of Providence, R. I., and a graduate of Brown University, 1831, commenced his labors as Rector in November, 1839, and ministered to the church longer than all his predecessors in that office. During his rectorship the congregation so increased that it became necessary to enlarge the church edifice, and twenty-three feet were added to its length in 1857. A subscription had been commenced, in 1855, to procure a chime of bells for the church; the design was now prosecuted more vigorously and with such success that thirteen bells, at a cost of about five thousand dollars, were placed in the belfry of