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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 8 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 8 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Duponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 (search)
Duponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 Philologist; born in the Isle of Rhea;, France, June 3, 1760; went to Paris in 1775, where he became acquainted with Baron Steuben, and accompanied him to America as his secretary. He was brevetted a captain (February, 1778), and assisted Steuben in the preparation of his system of military tactics for the use of the United States troops. From 1781 to 1783 he was secretary to Robert R. Livingston, then at the The old magazine at Williamsburg. head of he North a Memoir on the structure of the Indian Languages. When seventy-eight years of age (1838) he published a Dissertation on the Chinese language; also a translation of a Description of New Sweden. In 1835 the French Institute awarded him a prize for a disquisition on the Indian languages of North America. Mr. Duponceau opened a law academy in Philadelphia in 1821, of Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours; and wrote several essays on the subject of law. He died in Philadelphia, April 2, 1844.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe 1793-1864 (search)
ition under General Cass to the Lake Superior copper region. He was also on a commission to treat with the Indians at Chicago. In 1823 he was made Indian agent at the Falls of St. Mary, and afterwards at Mackinaw, where he married a granddaughter of an Indian chief. He founded the Historical Society of Michigan in 1828; the Algic Society, at Detroit, in 1831, before which he delivered two lectures on the grammatical construction of the Indian languages. These, translated into French by Duponceau and presented to the French Institute, procured for Schoolcraft a gold medal from that institution. He published several works on Indian literature, as well as fiction, and in 1832 led a second government expedition to discover the real chief source of the Mississippi River, which was found to be Lake Itasca. In a treaty with the Indians on the Upper Lakes in 1836 he procured the cession of 16,000,000 acres of land to the United States, and he was appointed chief disbursing agent for the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Scioto Company. (search)
ere about fifty of them settled, and the remainder went to another point below, opposite the mouth of the Great Kanawha, where they formed a settlement called Gallipolis (town of the French). These emigrants were to be furnished with supplies for a specified time, but the company failed to keep their promises. They suffered much. They failed, also, in getting clear titles to their lands, and the company was charged with swindling operations. The settlers, through the good offices of Peter S. Duponceau, of Philadelphia, obtained a grant from Congress of 25,000 acres opposite the Little Sandy. It was ever afterwards known as The French Grant. Each inhabitant had 217 acres. The aims of the Scioto Company seem to have been simply land speculation, not founding actual settlements. It comprised, Dr. Cutter says, some of the first characters in America. They undoubtedly expected to purchase public securities at their then greatly depreciated values, and with them pay for the lands boug
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
far as he was able to introduce them at Harvard. Meanwhile there had arrived in this country several other bearers of influence from Latin countries. Peter Stephen DuPonceau (1760-1844) at the house of Beaumarchais in Paris met Baron Steuben, and came to America with him as secretary and aide de camp. Arriving in 1777, he recHis memoir on The Indian languages of North America brought him the Volney prize awarded for linguistics by the Academy of Inscriptions of the French Institute. DuPonceau is notable also for his broad conception of the future of American literature, which he wished to emancipate from provincialism by bringing it into the great Conre independent of that of great Britain (1834) is one of the earliest American documents to exhibit a comparative study of literature. Closely associated with DuPonceau both by personal friendship and by the broad humanism of his work was John Pickering (1777-1846), a son of the more celebrated Timothy Pickering. In Salem and i
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
., 581 Dresser, Horatio, 240 n. Drew, Mrs., John, 270 Drisler, Henry, 461 Driver, Professor, 207 Drowsy Sleeper, the, 511 Drummond, Judge, 151 Drum-Taps, 269 Du Barry, 281 Du Bellay, 458 Ducange, 461 Du Chaillu, Paul B., 163 Ducs de Bourgogne, 598 Duden, 578 Dugue, Oscar, 592, 596 Duhring, 436 Dumas, 269 Du Maurier, 379 Dunbar, C. F., 440 Dunciad, 487 Dunlap, 270, 272, 487 Dunne, F. P., 26, 29-30, 289, 290 Dunscombe, 438 DuPonceau, Peter Stephen, 448, 451 Durant, 526 D'Urville, 135 Dutch and Quaker colonies, the, 193 Dutton, C. E., 159 Duvallon, Berquin, 591 Dwight, Timothy, 86, 432, 461, 471, 498, 499, 542 Dye, Mrs., Emery, 140 Dying cowboy, the, 510, 514 Dykes, 500 Earl of Pawtucket, the, 283 Early English pronunciation, 462 Early history of the Saturday Club, the, 306 n. Early Western travels, 165 Earth as modified by human action, the, 473 Easiest way, the, 290, 293 East and West