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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bunker Hill , battle of. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Constitution of the United States (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Elwyn , Alfred Langdon , 1804 -1884 (search)
Elwyn, Alfred Langdon, 1804-1884
Philanthropist; born in Portsmouth, N. H., July 9, 1804; graduated at Harvard College in 1823; studied medicine, but never practised; became known as a philanthropist.
He originated the Pennsylvania Agricultural Society and Farm-school, of which he was president in 1850; was also president of various philanthropic institutions.
He was the author of Glossary of supposed Americanisms; and Letters to the Hon. John Langdon, during and after the Revolution.
He died in Philadelphia, Pa., March 15, 1884.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Foreign affairs. (search)
Foreign affairs.
On Sept. 18, 1775, the Continental Congress appointed Messrs. Welling, Franklin, Livingston, Alsop, Deane, Dickinson, Langdon, McKean, and Ward a secret committee to contract for the importation from Europe of ammunition, small-arms, and cannon, and for such a purpose Silas Deane was soon sent to France.
By a resolution of the Congress, April 17, 1777, the name of this committee was changed to committee of foreign affairs, whose functions were like those of the present Secretary of State (see cabinet, President's). Foreign intercourse was first established by law in 1790. President Washington, in his message, Jan. 8, 1790, suggested to Congress the propriety of providing for the employment and compensation of persons for carrying on intercourse with foreign nations.
The House appointed a committee, Jan. 15, to prepare a bill to that effect, which was presented on the 21st.
It passed the House on March 30.
The two Houses could not agree upon the provisions of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Langdon , John 1739 -1819 (search)
Langdon, John 1739-1819
Statesman; born in Portsmouth, N. H., in 1739; was a successful merchant, and took an early and active part in the events preceding the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. He was a member of the Continental Congress (1775-76), but in June, in the latter year, he resigned his seat and became navy agent.
He was speaker of the Assembly, and was ready to make any reasonable sacrifice to promote the cause.
When means were needed to support a New Hampshire regiment, he gave all his hard money, pledged his plate, and applied to the same purpose the proceeds of seventy hogsheads of tobacco.
He furnished means for raising a brigade of the troops with which Stark gained the victory at Bennington.
He was active in civil affairs, also, all through the war, serving in the Continental Congress and his State legislature.
In 1785 he was president of New Hampshire, and in 1787 was one of the framers of the federal Constitution.
He was governor of his State in 1788, an
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