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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morse , Samuel Finley Breese 1791 -1879 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New harmony. (search)
New harmony.
The first non-religious community established in America.
In 1805 a party of Harmonists, members of a sect founded in Wurtemberg about 1780, emigrated to America and first settled in Butler county, Pa. In 1814 they removed to Indiana; purchased 27,000 acres of land; and named the settlement Harmony.
Robert Owen (q. v.) purchased this property in 1824; renamed the settlement New Harmony; and organized a new community which, on Jan. 12, 1826, adopted a constitution under the name of The New harmony community of equality.
On July 4, following, Mr. Owen delivered his famous declaration of mental independence against the trinity of man's oppressors—private property, irrational religion, and marriage.
Owen failed in his scheme for a social community, and returned to England.
The original founders of Harmony, after selling their property in Indiana, returned to Pennsylvania, and established the new community of Economy, near Pittsbu
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ottendorfer , Oswald 1826 - (search)
Ottendorfer, Oswald 1826-
Journalist; born in Zwittau, Moravia, Feb. 26, 1826; studied in the universities of Prague and Vienna; took part in the Austrian Revolution of 1848; the Schleswig-Holstein war against Denmark; and in the revolutions in Baden and Saxony; came to the United States in 1850; was proprietor of the Staats-Zeitung, New York; and gave large sums of money to educational and charitable institutions.
He was an active Democrat, but opposed to Tammany Hall.
He died in New York City, Dec. 15, 1900.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Rapp , George 1770 -1847 (search)
Rapp, George 1770-1847
Reformer; born in Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1770; was the founder of the Harmonists.
He died in Economy, Pa., Aug. 7, 1847.
See New harmony; Owen, Robert.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Treaties. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Waldersee , Mary Esther , Countess von (search)
Waldersee, Mary Esther, Countess von
Born in New York City, Oct. 3, 1837: daughter of David Lee; spent her early years in Paris with her sister, Josephine, the wife of Baron August von Waechter, ambassador from Wurtemberg to France.
There Mary became the wife of Prince Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg-Noer, who had been exiled.
The prince died July 2, 1865, soon after his marriage.
In 1871 his widow married Albert, Count von Waldersee, who was appointed chief of the general staff of the German army to succeed Count von Moltke in 1888; field-marshal in 1895: and commander of the allied armies in China in 1900.
The countess is credited with possessing a powerful influence in the German Court, and with having brought about the marriage of Emperor William II.
with the Princess Augusta Victoria.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), U. (search)
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 43 : return to the Senate .—1859 -1860 . (search)
the barbarism of slavery.—Popular welcomes.—Lincoln's election.—
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 5 : (search)