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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 5 1 Browse Search
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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 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), Cutler, Manasseh 1742-1823 (search)
Cutler, Manasseh 1742-1823 Clergyman; born in Killingly, Conn., May 3, 1742; graduated at Yale College in 1765; studied theology; was ordained in 1771; was a chaplain of a regiment in the army in 1776; became an excellent botanist; and gave the first scientific description of the plants of New England. As agent for the Ohio Company in 1787, he bought 1,500,000 acres of land northwest of the Ohio, and started the first company of emigrants to that region, who founded the town of Marietta in April, 1787. He travelled thither in a sulky (a two-wheeled, oneseated carriage), 750 miles in twenty-nine days. He was a member of Congress in 1800-4. He died in Hamilton, Mass., July 28, 1823.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Essex Junta, the. (search)
such a design was alluded to, at about the same time, by De Witt Clinton, in New York, and in the Boston Patriot, a new administration paper, to which the Adamses, father and son, were contributors. Such a plot, if it ever existed, was confined to a few Federalist members of Congress, in consequence of the purchase of Louisiana. They had proposed to have a meeting in Boston, to which Hamilton was invited, though it was known that he was opposed to the scheme. The meeting was prevented by Hamilton's sudden and violent death. A series of articles signed Falkland had appeared in New England papers, in which it was argued that if Virginia, finding herself no longer able to control the national government, should secede and dissolve it, the Northern States, though thus deserted, might nevertheless be able to take care of themselves. There seem to have been no more treasonable designs among the members of the Essex Junta than in the Hartford convention (q. v.), and the designs of that
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), March, Francis Andrew 1825- (search)
as also served the college as adjunct Professor of Belles-Lettres and English Literature; lecturer on Constitutional and Roman Law, and librarian. In 1891 he succeeded James Russell Lowell as president of the Modern Language Association of America. He received the degrees of Litt.D., and D. C.L., from Cambridge University, in 1896, being one of six persons only who have ever been honored with these degrees by Cambridge. Professor March was president of the American Philological Association in 1873-74 and 1895-96; of the Spelling Reform Association in 1876-99; and of the Modern Languages Association in 1891-93. He is author of The relation of the study of Jurisprudence to the origin and progress of the Baconian Philosophy; Hamilton's theory of perception and Philosophy of the conditioned; A method of Philological study of the English language; A Parser and Analyzer for Beginners; Comparative grammar of the Anglo-Saxon language; Anglo-Saxon readers. He is author of Latin hymns, etc.
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Sumner. (search)
Boston, early in 1860, all his friends went to Dr. S. G. Howe to know if he was really cured, and Howe said: He is a well man, but he will never be able to make another two hours speech. Yet Sumner trained himself and tested his strength so carefully that in the following spring he delivered his oration on the barbarism of slavery, more than an hour in length, before the Senate; and in 1863 he made a speech three hours in length, a herculean effort that has never been equalled, except by Hamilton's address before the Constitutional Convention of 1787. I remember Sumner in the summer of 1860 walking under my father's grape trellis, when the vines were in blossom, with his arms above his head, and saying: This is like the south of France. To think of Europe, its art, history, and scenery, was his relaxation from the cares and excitement of politics; but there were many who did not understand this, and looked upon it as an affectation. Sumner in his least serious moments was often
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 6: Essex County. (search)
appropriated and expended by the town for war purposes, exclusive of State aid, was twenty-seven thousand eight hundred and twelve dollars and fifty-seven cents ($27,812.57). The amount of money raised and expended by the town during the four years of the war for State aid to soldiers' families, and afterwards reimbursed to it by the Commonwealth, was as follows: In 1861, $764.08; in 1862, $2,544.56; in 1863, $3,403.96; in 1864, $3,557.33; in 1865, $3,000.00. Total amount, $13,269.93. Hamilton Incorporated June 21, 1793. Population in 1860, 789; in 1865, 800. Valuation in 1860, $449,810; in 1865, $481,423. The selectmen in 1861 were Daniel E. Safford, Samuel Adams, Benjamin W. Patch; in 1862, 1863, and 1864, William A. Brown, John Whipple, 2d, Alvin Smith; in 1865, Nathaniel B. Butler, George B. Dodge, Stephen G. Hiler. The town-clerk during all these years was Joseph P. Lovering. The town-treasurer in 1861 and 1862 was George Appleton; in 1863, 1864, and 1865, Danie
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Index to volumes I. And II. (search)
7-1846], 1.270. Pickering, Timothy [1745-1829], daughter nursed by F. M. Garrison, 1.38, political support from G., 54. Pierpont, John, Rev. [1785-1866], church attended by G., 1.78; address against militia system, 81; criticised and praised by G., 114; visits him, 125; writes ode for his Park St. Church address, 125, 126; address on imprisonment for debt, 269; church quarrel, 454; at Chardon St. Convention, 2.425.—Portrait in Harper's Monthly, Jan., 1880. Pillsbury, Parker [b. Hamilton, Mass., Sept. 22, 1809], Acts of A. S. Apostles, 2.289. Pinckney, Henry Laurens [1794-1863], gag resolutions, 2.74, 81, 127. Pitman, Isaac, 1.330. Pitt, William [1759-1806], 1.379, 465. Plumly, —, Mr., 1.137. Plummer, Harriott, 1.330. Polk, James Knox [1795-1849], denounces British Colon. memorial, 1.303, and World's Convention memorial, 2.381. Pollard, Benjamin, 2.15. Poole, William F., 1.90. Porter, William S., Rev. 2.175. Post (Boston), accuses G. of self-mobbing, 1.386,
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, Gail Hamilton-Miss Dodge. (search)
,--This is all very *well; but tell us something about her personally. Where does she live; and how? Is she single or wedded? Is she tall or short? Plain or pretty? Has she made money as well as made mouths? In short, let us have a little gossip. That's what we are after. Don't I know it? I should think I had been laid on the gridiron times enough myself to understand your appetite. Well — here goes. Gail Hamilton's real name is Mary Abigail Dodge. Her birthplace is in Hamilton, Massachusetts. She is unmarried, a Calvinist, and an authoress from choice. Her father was a farmer. Her mother produced Gail Hamilton; that is sufficient as far as she is concerned. She had a brother, who Mrs. Grundy declares is the Halicarnassus mentioned in her books, and whom the men she has flagellated in her writings call poor devil! supposing him to be her husband! She was brought up as New England girls are generally brought up in the country-, simply, healthfully, purely; with pl
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1860. (search)
rth Carolina, marching and fighting with it on the Tarborough expedition of November, and in the Goldsborough expedition of the month after. Very early in his experience as a soldier Weston found out —what his friends had feared from the time of his enlistment —that his physical strength was quite inadequate to the exposures of military life. On the first expedition towards Tarborough, and just before the retreat, he became utterly prostrated by a violent attack of camp diarrhea, and at Hamilton he was ordered by the surgeon to leave his regiment, and take passage down the Roanoke, for Newbern, in a gunboat. I can recall with perfect distinctness his appearance and manner, and the very tone of his voice, his eyes burning, yet full of tears, as he told me what the orders were which he had received from Dr. Ware. Several of his companions said that they had rarely been so much touched as by the sight of Weston's grief and mortification at his separation from his company. During