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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Electricity. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hall of fame, (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hanaford , Phebe Anne 1829 - (search)
Hanaford, Phebe Anne 1829-
Author; born in Nantucket, Mass., May 6, 1829; was ordained to the ministry of the Universalist Church in 1868, being the first woman to assume the clerical office in that Church.
Her publications include Abraham Lincoln; Field, gunboat, Hospital, and prison; Women of the century; Life of George Peabody, etc.
Hancock, John
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Medals. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morgan , John Pierpont 1837 - (search)
Morgan, John Pierpont 1837-
Capitalist; born in Hartford, Conn., April 17, 1837; son of Junius Spencer Morgan (born April 14, 1813; died April 8, 1890); was educated in the English High School of Boston, and at the University of Gottingen.
Germany. Returning to the United States in 1857 he entered the banking-house of Duncan, Sherman & Co., and in 1860 became American agent of the London house of George Peabody & Co. In 1871 he became a partner in the firm of Drexel, Morgan & Co., which later became J. Pierpont Morgan & Co. Mr. Morgan's firm has been conspicuous for many years in the reorganization of large industrial and railroad interests, and as syndicate managers.
In 1895 the firm agreed to supply the United States government with 3,500,000 ounces of standard gold coin at the rate of $17.80 per ounce, for thirty-year 4-per-cent.
bonds, and later in the year, when the financial situation again became alarming, the firm organized a syndicate which took $37,911,350 of a new
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Peabody , George 1795 -1869 (search)
Peabody, George 1795-1869
Philanthropist; born at Danvers, Mass., Feb. 18, 1795.
After serving as a clerk in his uncle's store in Georgetown, D. C., in 1812-13, he became a partner with Elisha Riggs, in New York City, and afterwards in Baltimore.
In July, 1843, he became a banker, in London, and amassed an immense fortune, which he used in making princely benefactions, as follows: To his native town, $200,000, to establish a lyceum and library; to the first Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, $10,000; to found an institute of science, literature, and the fine arts, in Baltimore, $1,400,000; and, in 1862, to the city of London, $2,500,000, for the benefit of its poor, for which the Queen gave him her portrait, the city its freedom, and the citizens erected a statue of him. In 1866 he gave to Harvard University $150,000 to establish a museum and professorship of American archaeology and ethnology, and, the same year, to the Southern Educational Fund, just created,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Story , William Wetmore 1819 -1895 (search)
Story, William Wetmore 1819-1895
Sculptor; born in Salem, Mass., Feb. 12, 1819; son of Joseph Story; graduated at Harvard College in 1838 and at its Law Department in 1840, but gave little attention to practice, and in 1848 removed to Italy.
He was United States commissioner on fine arts to the Paris exposition in 1879.
His works include a statue of George Peabody and busts of James Russell Lowell, Theodore Parker, Josiah Quincy, etc., and his publications, Life and letters of Joseph story; The American Question, etc. He died in Vallombrosa, Italy, Oct. 7, 1895.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America . (search)