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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Huguenot Society of America, the. (search)
Huguenot Society of America, the. This society was organized April 12, 1883, and has its office in New York at No. 105 East Twenty-second Street. President, Frederic J. De Peyster; vicepresidents, William Jay, Rev. Lea Luquer, Henry M. Lester, A. T. Clearwater, Nathaniel Thayer, Richard Olney, William Ely, Col. R. L. Maury, Rev. A. H. Demarest, Herbert Du Puy; treasurer, Henry Cotheal Swords; secretary, Mrs. James M. Lawton. Descent from Huguenot ancestors is the qualification necessary for membership.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jay, William 1789-1858 (search)
Jay, William 1789-1858 Jurist; born in New York City, June 16, 1789; son of John Jay; graduated at Yale in 1807; appointed judge of the court of common pleas in 1818; reappointed under the new constitution in 1822; served till 1843, when he was superseded on account of his antislavery views. He is the author of Life of John Jay; A view of the action of the federal government in behalf of slavery; War and peace, in which he suggested that international disputes should be settled by arbitration; The Mexican War, etc. He died in Bedford, N. Y., Oct. 14, 1858.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Tuckerman, Bayard 1855- (search)
Tuckerman, Bayard 1855- Author; born in New York, July 2, 1855; graduated at Harvard College in 1878; and wrote Life of Lafayette; Peter Stuyvesant; William Jay and the abolition of slavery, etc.