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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 1 1 Browse Search
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hart, Jonathan 1748- (search)
Hart, Jonathan 1748- Military officer; born in Kensington, Conn., in 1748; graduated at Yale in 1768; enlisted in the Continental army, serving throughout the War of the Revolution, attaining the rank of captain. After the war he entered the regular army as captain; was promoted to major. He participated in various campaigns against the Indians under Generals Scott, Harmar, and St. Clair. In the battle with the Miami Indians, while protecting the rear of the army, he and his command were overwhelmed by superior numbers and almost all were killed. He was the author of the Native inhabitants of the Western country, which appeared in vol. III. of the Transactions of the American Society. He died on Miami River, O., Nov. 4, 1791.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, A Glossary of Important Contributors to American Literature (search)
ght in Philadelphia and contributed to the Home journal. Some of his publications are Life of Horace Greeley (1855) ; humorous poetry of the English Language from Chaucer to Saxe (1856); Life and times of Aaron Burr (1857) ; life of Andrew Jackson (3 vols., 1859-60); General Butler in New Orleans (1863); Life and times of Benjamin Franklin (1864); Life of Thomas Jefferson (1874); and Life of Voltaire (1881). Died in Newburyport, Mass., Oct. 17, 1891. Percival, James Gates Born in Berlin, Conn., Sept. 15, 1795. He graduated from Yale in 1815 and studied medicine and botany. Later he was appointed assistant surgeon in the army. He contributed articles to the U. S. Literary magazine; studied geology and was appointed to assist in making a survey of the mineralogy and geology of Connecticut, the results of which are given in his Report of the geology of the state of Connecticut (1842). His poems Prometheus and Clio were published in 1822. He edited Vicesimus Knox's Elegant ext
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen, Our pioneer educators. (search)
service in this field. That she is fairly entitled to this enminence among the gifted women of our day, a very brief sketch of her career will fully show. The story itself is a true epic, needing only the simplest recital,--its main facts being more exciting than any fiction we should dare to invent. Her birth and childhood. February 23, 1787, is the date of her birth; Samuel and Lydia (Hinsdale) Hart, her parents; and a quiet country farmhouse in the parish of Worthington, in Berlin, Connecticut, her birthplace. Born of the best New England stock, she inherited the noblest qualities of her parentage. Her father, a man of unusual strength of intellect and will, was self-reliant, and well-read, in, at least, the English literature of the times; and her mother a quiet and practical woman, gifted with native tact and shrewdness, gentle, firm, and efficient. The home they made for their children was just the home in which gifted children would like to be reared. And this home
The Daily Dispatch: July 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway (search)
me letter I find a simple but some what ridiculous request, viz: "I would like your miniature after you get your uniform." A wife writes thus to her husband, from South Norwalk: "Dear James: I am very sorry to hear that you have to go to war, but I trust in God you will come back safe. * * * I see the newspapers every day, and see how many there is killed and wounded; it makes me feel so bad that I almost think every day a week long until your "time is up!" One letter from Berlin, Conn., dated July 19, is particularly race. It is addressed by a father to his son. After a somewhat prosy exordium respecting the Haying season, and the condition of grass, potatoes, and cord crops generally, pater familias waxes warm, romantic, and even patriotic Thus he handles the Northern military leaders: "Lyons and McClellan are Connecticut boys --the only ones who have done much We are getting out of patience with Scott. We like the spirit of Congress We want the rebellion crushed an
The Daily Dispatch: December 14, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
Heavy damages. --In the case of the executors of the late A. D. Enson against the Hartford and New Haven railroad, the Supreme Court have awarded damages to the amount of eight thousand dollars to each of the heirs. Mr. and Mrs. Enson were killed by a railroad accident in Berlin, Conn., in 1864.