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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Allen, William, 1710-1780 (search)
ce upon Great Britain. He died in England in September, 1780. educator and author; born in Pittsville, Mass., Jan. 2, 1784: graduated at Harvard College in 1802. After entering the ministry and preaching for some time in western New York, he was elected a regent and assistant librarian of Harvard College. He was president of Dartmouth College in 1817-20, and of Bowdoin College in 1820-39. He was the author of Junius unmasked; a supplement to Webster's dictionary; Psalms and hymns; Memoirs of Dr. Eleazer Wheelock and of Dr. John Codmand: a discourse at the close of the second century of the settlement at Northampton, Mass.; Wunaissoo, or the vale of Housatonnuck, a poem; Christian sonnets: poems of Nazareth and the cross: sacred songs; and numerous pamphlets, and contributed biographical articles to Sprague's Annals of the American pulpit. He also prepared the first edition of the American biographical and Historical dictionary. He died in Northampton, Mass., July 16, 1868.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Evans, Hugh Davey, 1792-1868 (search)
Evans, Hugh Davey, 1792-1868 Author; born in Baltimore, Md., April 26, 1792; began the practice of law in Baltimore in 1815; and became widely known as a constitutional lawyer. His publications include Theophilus Americanus (an American adaptation, with additions, of Canon Wordsworth's Theophilus Anglicanus) ; Essay on the episcopate of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, Sir George De Lacy Evans etc. He died in Baltimore, Md., July 16, 1868.