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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) | 24 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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.) | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kennedy , John Pendleton 1795 -1870 (search)
Kennedy, John Pendleton 1795-1870
Statesman and author; born in Baltimore, Md., Oct. 25, 1795; graduated at the University of Maryland in 1812; admitted to the bar in 1816; elected to the House of Delegates, Maryland, in 1820; to the House of Representatives in 1838; was a member of the twenty-fifth, twenty-seventh, and twenty eling's free-trade report; A Memorial on domestic industry; A report on the commerce and navigation of the United States, by the committee of commerce, of which Mr. Kennedy was chairman; and also a Report on the warehouse system by the same committee; Life of William Wirt; Discourses on the life of William Wirt, and George Calvert, Wirt, and George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore. Mr. Kennedy as an author is, however, best known by his novels, Swallow barn; A sojourn in the old Dominion; Horse-shoe Robinson: a tale of the Tory ascendency; Rob of the bowl, a legend of St. Inigoes, a story of colonial Maryland life.
He died in Newport, R. I., Aug. 28, 1870.
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 2 : the early drama, 1756 -1860 (search)
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 3 : early essayists (search)
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 7 : fiction II --contemporaries of Cooper . (search)
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index. (search)
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 14 : Poe (search)
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 18 : Prescott and Motley (search)