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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Everett , Edward , 1794 -1865 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fenian Brotherhood, the. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hoskins , Nathan 1795 -1869 (search)
Hoskins, Nathan 1795-1869
Author; born in Withersfield, Vt., April 27, 1795; graduated at Dartmouth in 1820; taught in St. Albans, Vt., in 1821-22; afterwards practised law in Vergennes, Vt., and edited The Vermont Aurora.
His publications include History of Vermont; Notes on the West; and The Bennington Court controversy and strictures on Civil liberty in the United States.
He died in Williamstown, Mass., April 21, 1869.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Prevost , Sir George 1767 -1816 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Saxe , John Godfrey 1816 -1887 (search)
Saxe, John Godfrey 1816-1887
Author; born in Highgate, Vt., June 2, 1816; graduated at Middlebury College in 1839; admitted to the bar in St. Albans, and practised in Franklin county in 1843-50; was editor of the Burlington Sentinel in 1850-56; attorney for Vermont; Democratic candidate for governor in 1859 and again in 1860; and was the author of Progress; The money King; Clever stories of many Nations, and several volumes of humorous poems.
He died in Albany, N. Y., March 31, 1887.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Smith , William Farrar 1824 - (search)
Smith, William Farrar 1824-
Military officer; born in St. Albans, Vt., Feb. 17, 1824; graduated at West Point in 1845, entering the corps of topographical engineers.
He was engaged in several important military surveys before the Civil War. When that began he was secretary of the light-house board at Washington.
He became a brigadier-general of volunteers in August, 1861, having done good service in the battle of Bull Run the previous month.
In the Peninsular campaign he was particularly distinguished, and was promoted to major-general (July, 1862). He commanded a division in Franklin's corps, and was in the battles of South Mountain and Antietam.
He commanded the 6th Corps at Fredericksburg (December, 1862) ; was chief engineer of the Army of the Cumberland late in 1863; was active in operations about Chattanooga late in that year; and from May to July, 1864, commanded the 18th Corps, Army of the Potomac.
He was brevetted major-general for gallant and meritorious services d
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wines , Enoch Cobb 1806 -1879 (search)
Wines, Enoch Cobb 1806-1879
Penalogist; born in Hanover, N. J., Feb. 17, 1806; graduated at Middlebury College in 1827; taught school in St. Albans, Vt., Alexandria, Va., and Washington, D. C.; became a teacher on board the United States ship Constellation in 1829; and later taught in Princeton and Burlington, N. J., and Philadelphia, Pa.; was ordained in the Congregational Church in 1849, and held pastorates in Cornwall, Vt., and Easthampton, L. I., till 1854, when he was appointed Professor of Ancient Languages in Washington College, Pa. He was made president of the University of St. Louis in 1859; was secretary of the New York Prison Association from 1862 till his death; and was actively engaged in prison reform.
In 1871 he was sent to Europe by the United States government to make arrangements for the international penitentiary congress which met in London, England, July 4, 1872.
It appointed an international commission, of which Dr. Wines was made chairman.
He published m