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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), March, Francis Andrew 1825- (search)
56 has been Professor of English Language and Comparative Philology there. He has also served the college as adjunct Professor of Belles-Lettres and English Literature; lecturer on Constitutional and Roman Law, and librarian. In 1891 he succeeded James Russell Lowell as president of the Modern Language Association of America. He received the degrees of Litt.D., and D. C.L., from Cambridge University, in 1896, being one of six persons only who have ever been honored with these degrees by Cambridge. Professor March was president of the American Philological Association in 1873-74 and 1895-96; of the Spelling Reform Association in 1876-99; and of the Modern Languages Association in 1891-93. He is author of The relation of the study of Jurisprudence to the origin and progress of the Baconian Philosophy; Hamilton's theory of perception and Philosophy of the conditioned; A method of Philological study of the English language; A Parser and Analyzer for Beginners; Comparative grammar of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mifflin, Thomas -1800 (search)
Mifflin, Thomas -1800 Military officer; born of Quaker parents, in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1744; was educated in the Philadelphia College; visited Europe in 1765, and, on his return, became a merchant. Having served in the legislature of Pennsylvania, Thomas Mifflin. he was chosen a member of the first Continental Congress in 1774; was appointed major of one of the first regiments raised in Philadelphia, and accompanied Washington as aide-de-camp to Cambridge in the summer of 1775. All through the Revolutionary War Mifflin was a faithful and efficient officer, rising to the rank of major-general in 1777. He was eloquent in speech, and was efficient in rousing his countrymen to action when necessary. In this way, traversing Pennsylvania, he caused large numbers of its citizens to flock to the standard of Washington before the attack on the enemy at Trenton. He was quartermaster-general, and, in 1777, was a member of the board of war. Mifflin was one of Conway's cabal, a c