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Browsing named entities in Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing). You can also browse the collection for 1845 AD or search for 1845 AD in all documents.
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wood , William Willis Wiley 1818 - (search)
Wood, William Willis Wiley 1818-
Naval engineer; born in Wake county, N. C., May 30, 1818; learned engineering at the West Point Foundry, N. Y.; entered the naval service in 1845, and, during the Civil War, was general inspector of steam machinery, and had charge of the construction of the National iron-clad fleet and the machinery of the new class of vessels then introduced.
He became engineerin-chief, and was retired May 30, 1880.
He died near Jutland, Md., Aug. 31, 1882.
Woodbury, Levi 1789-
Jurist; born in Francestown, N. H., Dec. 22, 1789; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1809; admitted to the bar in 1812; chosen clerk of the State Senate in 1816; in the same year was appointed a judge of the superior court.
He removed to Portsmouth in 1819, was chosen governor of New Hampshire in 1823; speaker of the House in 1825; United States Senator, 1825; and in 1831 was appointed Secretary of the Navy.
He was Secretary of the Treasury from 1834 to 1841, when he was again returned to the United States Senate.
In Congress Senator Woodbury was a recognized leader of the Democratic party.
In 1845 he was appointed one of the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, and died while in office, in Portsmouth, N. H., Sept. 4, 1851.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Woods , William Burnham 1824 -1887 (search)
Woods, William Burnham 1824-1887
Jurist; born in Newark, O., Aug. 3, 1824; graduated at Yale College in 1845; studied law and practised in his native place.
After the outbreak of the Civil War he entered the army as lieutenant-colonel of the 76th Ohio Volunteers; participated in the actions at Shiloh, Chickasaw Bayou, Dallas, Atlanta, Jonesboro, etc., and in the sieges of Vicksburg and Jackson; was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers, and brevetted major-general March 13, 1865.
After the war he resumed the practice of law; was United States judge of the 5th circuit in 1869-80, and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1880-87.
He died in Washington, D. C., May 14, 1887.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wright , Elizur 1804 -1885 (search)
Wright, Elizur 1804-1885
Journalist; born in South Canaan, Conn., Feb. 12, 1804; graduated at Yale College in 1826; was Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Western Reserve College in 1829-33; and secretary of the American Anti-slavery Society in 1833.
He was editor of Human rights in 1834-35, and the Anti-slavery magazine in 1837-38; Massachusetts abolitionist in 1839; and Daily Chronotype in 1845; was commissioner of insurance for Massachusetts in 1858-66; wrote an introduction to Whittier's Poems; and Savings Banks life insurance, etc.; contributed to the Atlantic monthly; and published several anti-slavery pamphlets.
He died in Medford, Mass., Nov. 22, 1885.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wright , Joseph Albert 1810 -1867 (search)
Wright, Joseph Albert 1810-1867
Governor; born in Washington, Pa., April 17, 1810; settled in Bloomington, Ind.; admitted to the bar in 1829 and began practice in Rockville, Ind.; member of Congress in 1843-45; governor of Indiana in 1849-57; minister to Prussia in 1857-61; and a United States Senator from March, 1862, to January, 1863.
In the latter year he was a second time made minister to Prussia.
He died in Berlin, Germany, May 11, 1867.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wyeth , John Allan 1845 - (search)
Wyeth, John Allan 1845-
Surgeon; born in Marshall county, Ala., May 26, 1845; educated at La Grange Military Academy, Ala.; served in the Confederate army as private during the Civil War; studied medicine; graduated at the University of Louisiana in 1869; was assistant demonstrator of anatomy in 1873-74; and prosector to Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, in 1880-97.
He organized and founded the New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital in 1882, the first post-graduate medical school in the United States; was Professor of Surgery and president of the faculty there; and president of the New York State Medical Association in 1901.
He wrote Essays on surgical Anatomy and Surgery; Textbook on Surgery; Life of Gen. N. B. Forrest, etc.
Youngstown,
A city and county seat of Mahoning county, O.; on the Mahoning River; 67 miles southeast of Cleveland.
It was settled by John Young, who, in 1800, purchased from the Connecticut Land Company the site of the present city and the township of the same name.
The industrial development of the city began in 1845-46, when the second rolling-mill in the State was erected here as well as the first furnace.
The principal industry to-day is the manufacture of iron.
Population in 1900, 44,885.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Zollicoffer , Felix Kirk 1812 - (search)
Zollicoffer, Felix Kirk 1812-
Military officer; born in Maury county, Tenn., May 19, 1812; was a printer and newspaper
Felix Kirk Zollicoffer. publisher at Paris, Tenn. In 1832 he edited the Nashville banner, the leading Whig paper in the State, and in 1835 was chosen State printer.
He was comptroller of the State treasury from 1845 to 1849, and State Senator in 1849.
From 1853 to 1859 he was in Congress, and a persistent advocate of State supremacy, and in 1861 was a member of the peace conference.
Then he became a brigadiergeneral in the Confederate army, taking command of east Tennessee.
In a battle at Camp Wild-cat, in Kentucky, Oct. 21, 1861, he was defeated by General Schoepf.
He was killed in the battle of Mill Spring, Jan. 19, 1862.