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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Clay, Cassius Marcellus 1810- (search)
Clay, Cassius Marcellus 1810- Diplomatist; born in Madison county, Ky., Oct. 19, 1810; son of Green Clay; was graduated at Yale College in 1832. He became a lawyer; was a member of the Kentucky legislature in 1835, 1837, and 1840. In June, 1845, he issued, at Lexington, Ky., the first number of the True American, a weekly anti-slavery paper. In August his press was seized by a mob, after which it was printed in Cincinnati and published at Lexington, and afterwards at Louisville. Mr. Clay was a captain in the war with Mexico, and was made prisoner in January, 1847. In 1862 he was appointed major-general of volunteers, and was United States minister to Russia from 1863 to 1869.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
me in Vermont......Feb. 25, 1845 Governor Bartley, of Ohio, refuses a requisition from Governor Owsley for one Kissam, charged with kidnapping slaves......March 14, 1845 Governor Whitcomb, of Indiana, issues a warrant to an officer from Kentucky for the arrest of a free mulatto on charge of stealing several slaves from Harrodsburg......April 25, 1845 Methodist Episcopal Church, South, organized, Louisville......May, 1845 Office of the True American, published at Lexington by Cassius M. Clay, for its abolition utterances entered by sixty citizens, and Clay's effects shipped to Cincinnati......Aug. 18. 1845 Reinterment of Daniel Boone and wife in the State cemetery at Frankfort......Sept. 13, 1845 Colony for Kentucky in Liberia leave Louisville under the auspices of the Kentucky Colonization Society......Jan. 7, 1846 Burial of those Kentuckians who fell in the Mexican War in the State cemetery at Frankfort......July 20, 1847 [It was at this burial that the poem,