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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Abbot , Benjamin , -1849 (search)
Abbot, Benjamin, -1849
Educator; born, 1762.
He was graduated at Harvard in 1788. Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H., was conducted by him until 1838.
Among his pupils were George Bancroft, Lewis Cass, Edward Everett, John G. Palfry, Jared Sparks, and Daniel Webster.
He died in Exeter, N. H., Oct. 25, 1849.
Bancroft, George,
Historian; horn in Worcester, Mass., Oct. 3, 1800: son of Rev. Aaron Bancroft, a distinguished Unitarian clergyman and pioneer in liberal Chris . Bancroft to his cabinet as Secretary of the Navy, and he signalized
George Bancroft, Ll.D. his administration by the establishment of the Naval Academy at Annapol Taylor to cross the Rio Grande and invade the territory of Mexico.
In 1846 Mr. Bancroft was sent as United States minister plenipotentiary to England, and in 1849 t th German Confederation, and in 1871 to the German Empire.
In August, 1868, Mr. Bancroft received from the University of Bonn the honorary degree of Doctor Juris ; a the fiftieth anniversary of the reception of his first degree at Gottingen.
Mr. Bancroft was a contributor of numerous essays to the North American review.
In 1889 l plan.
He died Jan. 17, 1891.
The death of Lincoln.--On April 25, 1865, Mr. Bancroft delivered the following oration on the death of President Lincoln, in New Yo
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