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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 5 | 3 | Browse | 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.) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition. | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: January 9, 1861., [Electronic resource] | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Carrington , Henry Beebee 1824 - (search)
Carrington, Henry Beebee 1824-
Military officer; born in Wallingford, Conn., March 2, 1824; graduated at Yale College in 1845.
When the first call for troops was issued at the beginning of the Civil War he raised nine regiments of militia in western Virginia for three-months' volunteers; was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers in November, 1862; and served throughout the war with distinction.
In 1870-73 he held the chair of Military Science and Tactics at Wabash College, Ind. His publications include American classics, or incidents of Revolutionary suffering; Crisis thoughts; Absa-ra-ka, land of massacre, and Indian operations on the Plains; Battles of the American Revolution; Battle-maps and charts of the American Revolution; Patriotic reader, or human liberty developed; Columbian selections; Beacon lights of patriotism; The Washington obelisk and its voices; Washington, the soldier; Lafayette and American Independence, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dutton , Clarence Edward , 1841 - (search)
Dutton, Clarence Edward, 1841-
Military officer; born in Wallingford, Conn., May 15, 1841; graduated at Yale College in 1860; served in the National army in 1862-64 and took part in several important engagements; was appointed a second lieutenant of ordnance, U. S. A., Jan. 20, 1864; and was promoted major May 1, 1890.
After the close of the Civil War lie was assigned to duty with the United States Geological Survey.
His publications include Geology of the high Plateaus of Utah; Hawaiian volcanoes; The Charleston earthquake of 1886; Tertiary history of the Grand Cañon District; Mount Taylor and the Zuñi plateau, et
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Great charter (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Noyes , John Humphrey 1811 -1886 (search)
Noyes, John Humphrey 1811-1886
Clergyman; born in Brattleboro, Vt., Sept. 6, 1811; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1830; licensed to preach in 1833, and in the following year declared he had experienced a second conversion.
Hefounded a new sect called Perfectionists in Putnam county, Vt. After twelve years he imbibed some of the teachings of Fourier and persuaded his disciples to live in communities.
In 1848 he went with his followers to Oneida, N. Y., where he established the Oneida Community.
He taught that God had a dual body— male and female.
The only successful communities, those founded at Oneida, N. Y., and Wallingford, Conn., adopted what was named complex marriage, and lived in a unity house.
Subsequently they were compelled to abandon complex marriage and their number soon diminished.
Noyes published The second coming of Christ; History of American socialism, etc. He died in Niagara Falls, Canada, April 13, 188