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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), De Haven , Edwin J. , 1819 -1865 (search)
De Haven, Edwin J., 1819-1865
Explorer; born in Philadelphia in 1819; entered the navy as midshipman, rose to lieutenant in 1841, and resigned in 1857.
He was with Wilkes in his great exploring expedition in 1838-42, and commanded the first exploring expedition fitted out at New York to search for Sir John Franklin in the Arctic seas.
The expedition consisted of the Advance, 140 tons, and the Rescue, 90 tons.
Dr. Kane, who accompanied the expedition, published a full account of it. After his return Lieutenant De Haven was employed on coast survey duty and in the Naval Observatory.
He died in Philadelphia Oct. 2, 1865.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Derry , Joseph T. , 1841 - (search)
Derry, Joseph T., 1841-
Author; born in Milledgeville, Ga., Dec. 13, 1841; graduated at Emory College in 1860; enlisted in the Oglethorpe Infantry in January, 1861, and with his company joined the Confederate army, March 18, 1861; served throughout the war, participating in the West Virginia, the Tennessee, and the Atlanta campaigns, being taken prisoner at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, June 27, 1864.
Among his works are a School history of the United States; History of Georgia; and the volume on Georgia in the Confederate military history of which Gen. Clement A. Evans is editor.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), De Trobriand , Philippe ReGis , 1816 -1897 (search)
De Trobriand, Philippe ReGis, 1816-1897
Military officer; born in Chateau des Rochettes, France, June 4, 1816; came to the United States in 1841; joined the National army as colonel of the 55th New York Regiment in August, 1861; took part in the engagements at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, etc.; was present as the commander of a division at Lee's surrender; received the brevet of majorgeneral of volunteers in April, 1865.
He joined the regular army in 1866; received the brevet of brigadier-general in 1867; retired in 1879.
He published Quatre ans de campagnes à l'armee du Potomac. He died in Bayport, L. I., July 7, 1897
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dodge , Henry , 1782 -1867 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Doty , James Duane , 1799 -1865 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Douglas , Stephen Arnold , 1813 -1861 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Douglass , Frederick , 1817 - (search)
Douglass, Frederick, 1817-
Diplomatist; born in Tuckahoe, Talbot co., Md., in Feb ruary, 1817; was a mulatto, the son of a slave mother; lived in Baltimore after he was ten years of age, and secretly taught himself to read and write.
Endowed with great natural moral and intellectual ability, he fled from slavery at the age of twenty-one years, and, going to New Bedford, married, and supported himself by day-labor on the wharves and in work shops.
In 1841 he spoke at an anti-slaver convention at Nantucket, and soon after wards was made the agent of the Massachusetts Anti-slavery Society.
He lectured extensively in New England, and, going to Great Britain, spoke in nearly all the large towns in that country on the subject of slavery.
On his return, in 1847, he began the publication, at Rochester, N. Y., of the North Star (afterwards Frederick Douglass's paper). In 1870 he
Frederick Douglass. became editor of the National era at Washington City; in 1871 was appointed assistant
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Draper , John William , 1811 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Durant , Henry Towle , 1822 -1881 (search)
Durant, Henry Towle, 1822-1881
Philanthropist; born in Hanover, N. H., Feb. 20, 1822; graduated at Harvard College in 1841; admitted to the bar in 1846; and became connected with Rufus Choate and other celebrated lawyers in practice in Boston.
Later he abandoned the practice of law to devote himself to the cause of religion and education.
After a few years his plans for an institution where women might receive a higher education were realized, and Wellesley College was founded at a cost of $1,000,000. The institution was opened in September, 1875, and was maintained by him at an expense of $50,000 a year until his death, and afterwards was aided by his widow.
He died in Wellesley, Mass., Oct. 3, 1881.