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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Curry, Jabez Lamar Monroe 1825- (search)
Curry, Jabez Lamar Monroe 1825- Educator; born in Lincoln county, Ga., June 5, 1825; graduated at the University of Georgia in 1843; served with the Texas Rangers in the Mexican War in 1846; member of the United States Congress in 1857-61, and of the Confederate Congress in 1861-63; was lieutenant-colonel of cavalry in the Confederate army in 1863-65; president of Howard College, Alabama, 1866-68; Professor of Constitutional and International Law in Richmond College, Virginia, in 1868-81; and United States minister to Spain in 1885-88. His publications include The Southern States of the American Union in their relation to the Constitution and the resulting Union; Establishment and disestablishment in the United States; History of the Peabody education fund; and Civil history of the Confederate States.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Slater, John F. 1815-1884 (search)
States and their posterity. For this patriotic and munificent gift the thanks of Congress were voted, and a medal was presented. Neither principal nor income is expended for land or buildings. Education in industries and the preparation of teachers are promoted in institutions believed to be on a permanent basis. The board consists of Prof. Daniel C. Gilman, ex-president of Johns Hopkins University, as president; Chief-Justice Fuller, as vicepresident; Morris K. Jesup, as treasurer; J. L. M. Curry, as secretary and general manager; and Bishops Potter and Galloway, and Messrs. William E. Dodge, William A. Slater, John A. Stewart, Alexander E. Orr, and William H. Baldwin, Jr. The fund is a potential agency in working out the problem of the education of the negro, and over half a million of dollars has already been expended. By the extraordinary fidelity and financial ability of the treasurer, the fund, while keeping up annual appropriations, has increased to $1,500,000. Schools est
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 4: the New South: Lanier (search)
es the Eulogy of Sumner will live as the noble expression of a patriot and a seer, whose gentleness and devotion will win him a bright and quiet niche in the dark and troublous vestibule of Reconstruction. Another disciple of Calhoun, Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry (1825-1903), born in Georgia but reared in Alabama, learned at the University of Georgia to regard the Arch-Secessionist as second only to Aristotle. Going to Harvard in 1843 to study law, he was soon fired by Horace Mann with a passionwith lofty ideals of human rights and the limits of governmental action. They are rhythmic with the cadences of an oratory which too frequently forsook cold argument for fervid appeals to tradition and class interests. Rare was the apostle like Curry who preached the democratic necessity of developing both the black and the white races. Rarer still was the seer like Lamar who divined that the hope of the future lay in going to work to develop the material resources of the section. Not til
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
ranch, C. P., 166, 183 Crashaw, 343 Crayon sketches, 151 Crismus times is come, 330 Critic, the, 263 n. Crockett, David, Autobiography, 151 Cross, Marian Evans, 172, 371, 372, 375 Cross of snow, the, 40 Crossing at Fredericksburg, the, 281 Cruise of the Monitor, the, 282 Crumbling Idols, 390 Cry to Arms, a, 295, 298, 303 Crystal, the, 344 Cudjo's Cave, 405 Culver, Judge, 267 Cumberland, the (Longfellow), 282 Cumberland, the (Melville), 279, 282 Curry, J. L. M., 320, 321 Curtis, G. W., 167, 192 Cushing, Caleb, 164 Dabney, Richard. See Bibliography to Book III, Chap. in Dabney, Thomas, 314 Daily Advertiser, the (Boston), 180, 181, 185 Daily Confederate, the, 302 Daily Crescent, the, 263, 263 n. Daily times (Brooklyn), 267 Daisy Chain, the, 137 Damrosch, Dr., Leopold, 337 Dana, Charles A., 166, 192 Dana, Richard Henry, Sr., 164, 168 Dana, Richard Henry, Jr., 225, 399, 401 Danger of Sporting with innocent Cr