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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cleaveland , Moses 1754 -1806 (search)
Cleaveland, Moses 1754-1806
Pioneer: born in Canterbury.
Conn., Jan. 29, 1754; graduated at Yale College in 1777; admitted to the bar; made a brigadier-general in 1796; and the same year was selected by a land company, of which he was a shareholder, to survey the tract which had been purchased in northeastern Ohio.
He set out with fifty emigrants from Schenectady, N. Y.; reached the mouth of the Cuyahoga on July 22; and finding it a favorable site for a town decided to settle there.
His employers called the place Cleaveland in his honor.
When the first newspaper, the Cleveland Advertiser, was established, the head-line was found to be too long for the form, and the editor cut out the letter a, which revision was accepted by the public.
General Cleaveland died in Canterbury, Conn., Nov. 16, 1806.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Coggeshall , George 1784 -1861 (search)
Coggeshall, George 1784-1861
Author; born in Connecticut in 1784; during the War of 1812-15 commanded two privateers.
His publications relating to the United States include History of American privateers and letters of marque during our War with England, 1812, 13, 14; and Historical sketch of commerce and navigation from the birth of our Saviour down to the present date.
He died in 1861.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Colleges in the United States . (search)
Colleges in the United States.
There were nine higher institutions of learning in the English-American colonies before the breaking-out of the Revolutionary War—namely, Harvard, in Massachusetts; William and Mary, in Virginia; Yale, in Connecticut; King's, in New York; College of New Jersey and Queen's, in New Jersey; College of Rhode Island; Dartmouth, in New Hampshire; and University of Pennsylvania. Hampden-Sidney College was founded in 1775, just as the war broke out. In these colonial institutions many of the brightest statesmen of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth were educated.
(See their respective titles.) At the close of the school year 1898-99 collegiate education in the United States was afforded by 484 colleges and universities, of which 318 were co-educational, and 136 for men only; 145 colleges and seminaries for women conferring degrees, forty-three institutions of technology, 163 theological schools, ninety-six law schools, 151 medical schoo
Collier, Sir George
Naval officer; entered the British navy in 1761; given command of the Rainbow in 1775, and cruised off the American coast.
In 1777 he captured the American vessel Hancock; destroyed the stores at Machias.
and thirty vessels on the northeast coast; and later he ravaged the coasts of Connecticut and Chesapeake Bay.
On Aug. 14, 1779, he captured the fleet of Commodore Saltonstall on the Penobscot River.
He died April 6, 1795.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Colonization Society , American (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Common schools, early , (search)
Common schools, early,
In 1649 provision was made in the Massachusetts code for the establishing of common schools in that province.
By it every township was required to maintain a school for reading and writing; and every town of 100 householders, a grammar school, with a teacher qualified to fit youths for the university (Harvard). This school law was reenacted in Connecticut in the very same terms, and was adopted also by Plymouth and New Haven.
The preamble to this law declared that, it being one chief project of that old deluder, Sathan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these later times persuading men from the use of tongues, so that at the least the true sense and meaning of the original might be clouded with false glossing of saintseeming deceivers, and that learning may not be buried in the grave of our fathers, therefore this law was enacted.
See education.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Confederation , articles of (search)