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Bryce, James, 1838-
Historian; born in Belfast, Ireland. May 10, 1838; was graduated at Oxford University in 1862; practised law in London till 1882; and was Professor of Civil Law in Oxford in 1870-93.
He was first elected to the British Parliament as a Liberal in 1880.
He has distinguished himself alike in politics and historical literature, and is best known in the United States for his work on The American commonwealth.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dalzell , Robert M. , -1873 (search)
Dalzell, Robert M., -1873
Inventor; born near Belfast, Ireland, in 1793; was driven into exile with his family by the Irish Rebellion of 1798, and came to New York.
In 1826 he settled in Rochester, N. Y., where he became a millwright.
Later he invented and introduced the elevator system for handling and storing grain.
He died in Rochester, N. Y., Jan. 22, 1873.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Godkin , Edwin Lawrence 1831 - (search)
Godkin, Edwin Lawrence 1831-
Journalist; born in Ireland, Oct. 2, 1831; graduated at Queen's College, Belfast, in 1851; was the first editor of the Nation, which was merged with the New York Evening post in 1882, which he also edited till 1899.
He is the author of Problems of Democracy; Unforeseen tendencies of Democracy; Reflections and comments, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), McCosh , James 1811 -1894 (search)
McCosh, James 1811-1894
Educator; born in Carskeoch, Scotland, April 1, 1811; was educated at the universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh; ordained in the Church of Scotland in 1835; later was made Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in Queen's College, Belfast.
He came to the United States in 1868, to assume the presidency of Princeton College, and served that institution with marked success till 1888, when he resigned.
His voluminous publications include The methods of the Divine government, physical and moral; Typical forms and special ends in creation ; The Intuitions of the mind Inductively investigated; The supernatural in relation to the natural; The laws of Discursive thought: being a treatise on formal logic; Christianity and Positivism; The Emotions; The religious aspect of evolution; The prevailing types of Philosophy: can they logically reach reality; The tests of various kinds of truths; Our
James McCosh. Moral nature; Philosophy of reality, etc. He died in Princet
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