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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Coffin , Charles Carleton 1823 -1896 (search)
Coffin, Charles Carleton 1823-1896
(pen-name Carleton), author; born in Boscawen, N. H., July 26, 1823; during the Civil War was war correspondent of the Boston Journal.
His publications include Days and nights on the battle-field; Following the flag; Four years of fighting; Caleb Krinkle, a story of American life; Story of liberty; Old times in the colonies; Life of Garfield, etc. He died in Brookline, Mass., March 2, 1896.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dix , John Adams ,1798 -1879 (search)
Dix, John Adams, 1798-1879
Military officer; born in Boscawen, N. H., July 24, 1798.
After he left the academy at Exeter, N. H., he completed his studies in a French college at Montreal.
He entered the army as a cadet in 1812, when the war with
John Adams Dix. England began.
While his father, Lieutenant-Colonel Dix, was at Fort McHenry, Baltimore, young Dix pursued his studies at St. Mary's College.
In the spring of 1813 he was appointed an ensign in the army, and was soon promoted to third lieutenant, and made adjutant of an independent battalion of nine companies.
He was commissioned a captain in 1825, and having continued in the army sixteen years, in 1828 he left the military service.
His father had been mortally hurt at Chrysler's Field, and the care of extricating the paternal estate from difficulties, for the benefit of his mother and her nine children, had devolved upon him. He had studied law while in the army.
After visiting Europe for his health, Captain Dix s
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Farmer , Moses Gerrish 1820 -1893 (search)
Farmer, Moses Gerrish 1820-1893
Electrician; born in Boscawen, N. H., Feb. 9, 1820; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1844; taught in Elliot, Me., and in Dover, N. H., for two years. During his leisure hours while in Dover he invented several forms of electro-motors, one of which he used in his experimental workshop to drive a vertical lathe, and the other was used on a miniature railway.
Both motors were originally designed to illustrate his lectures.
He demonstrated that the electrical current could be used for discharging torpedoes and in submarine blasting.
On his miniature railway he transported by electricity the first passengers ever so carried in the United States.
In 1847 he moved to Framingham, Mass., and invented the telegraph fire-alarm.
In 1865 he invented a thermo-electric battery and also built the first dynamo machine.
In 1880 he patented an automatic electric-light system.
Besides these inventions he brought to light and perfected many others.
He is consi
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fessenden , William Pitt 1806 -1869 (search)
Fessenden, William Pitt 1806-1869
Legislator; born in Boscawen, N. H., Oct. 16, 1806; graduated at Bowdoin College in 1823; admitted to the bar in 1827; member of the Maine legislature two terms; and was elected to Congress in 1841.
From Feb. 24, 1854, till his death he was United States Senator, excepting when Secretary of the Treasury from July, 1864, to March, 1865.
He was one of the founders of the Republican party in 1856, and throughout the Civil War did eminent service as chairman of the finance committee of the Senate.
He died in Portland, Me., Sept. 8, 1869.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), St. Clair , Arthur 1734 -1818 (search)
St. Clair, Arthur 1734-1818
Military officer; born in Thurso, Caithness, Scotland, in 1734; was a grandson of the Earl of Roslyn, and was educated at the University of Edinburgh.
He studied medicine under the celebrated Hunter, of London, but inheriting a large sum of money from his mother, he purchased an ensign's commission in a regiment of foot (May 13, 1757) and came in Boscawen's fleet to America in 1758.
He was with Amherst at the capture of Louisburg, and, promoted to lieutenant in April, 1759, distinguished himself, under Wolfe, at Quebec.
In May, 1760, he married, at Boston, a half-sister of Governor Bowdoin; resigned his commission in 1762, and in 1764 settled in Ligonier Valley, Pa., where he established mills and built a fine dwelling-house.
Having held, by appointment.
several civil offices of trust, he became a colonel of militia in 1775, and in the fall of that year accompanied Pennsylvania commissioners to treat with the Western Indians at Fort Pitt.
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