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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Arbitration, international Court of, (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hall , Granville Stanley 1845 - (search)
Hall, Granville Stanley 1845-
Educator; born in Ashfield, Mass., May 5, 1845; graduated at Williams College in 1867.
He served as professor of psychology in Antioch College, Ohio, in 1872-76.
Later he studied in Bonn, Leipsic, Heidelberg, and Berlin.
Returning, he lectured on psychology in Harvard University and Williams College in 1880-81.
In 1881 he became Professor of Psychology in Johns Hopkins University, and remained there till 1888, when he accepted the presidency, with the chair of psychology, of Clark University.
He is author of Aspects of German culture; Hints toward a select and descriptive bibliography of education (with John M. Mansfield), etc. In 1900 he was editor of The American journal of psychology and The Pedagogical Seminary.
Jayne, Horace 1859-
Biologist; born in Philadelphia, March 5, 1859; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1879, and at its medical school in 1882; studied biology at Leipzig and Jena in 1883-84; and, returning to the United States, was first appointed lecturer in biology in the University of Pennsylvania, and subsequently Professor of Vertebrate Morphology there.
For a number of years he was dean of the faculty.
In 1900 he was director of the Wistar Institute of the University of Pennsylvania.
He is the author of Mammalian Anatomy; Revision of the Derumestidae of North America; Abnormities observed in North American Coleoptera, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kosciuszko , Tadeusz (Thaddeus) 1746 - (search)
Leach, Abby 1855-
Educator; born in Brockton, Mass., May 28, 1855; was educated in Boston and at Leipsic; took private courses with different professors at Harvard University; was instrumental in the organization of Radcliffe College; and became Professor of Greek in Vassar College.
She is vice-president of the American Philological Association, and a member of the Archaeological Society; and of the committee of management of the American school at Athens, Greece.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Parkhurst , Charles Henry 1842 - (search)
Parkhurst, Charles Henry 1842-
Clergyman; born in Framingham, Mass., April 17, 1842; graduated at Amherst in 1866; studied at Halle and Leipzig; became pastor of the Madison Square Presbyterian Church, New York City, in 1880.
In 1891 he accepted the presidency of the Society for the Prevention of Crime.
The revelations made by the society led to an investigation of the New York police by the State authorities in 1894.
Among Dr. Parkhurst's publications is Our fight with Tammany.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pastorius , Francis Daniel 1681 (search)
Pastorius, Francis Daniel -1681
Author of A Particular Geographical Description of the Lately Discovered Province of Pennsylvania situated on the Frontiers of this Western World, America.
Published in Frankfort and Leipzig in 1700; translated from the original German by Lewis H. Weiss.
John G. Whittier, in an introductory note to his poem, The Pennsylvania Pilgrim, wrote:
The beginning of German emigration to America may be traced to the personal influence of William Penn, who in 1677 visited the Continent, and made the acquaintance of an intelligent and highly cultivated circle of Pietists, or Mystics, who, reviving in the seventeenth century the spiritual faith and worship of Tauler and the Friends of God in the fourteenth, gathered about the pastor Spener, and the young and beautiful Eleonora Johanna von Merlau.
In this circle originated the Frankfort Land Company, which bought of William Penn, the governor of Pennsylvania, a tract of land near the new city of Phila
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pauperism in the United States . (search)
Seidl, Anton 1850-
Orchestral conductor; born in Budapest, Hungary, May 7, 1850; studied music at the Leipsic Conservatory, and later became a confidential friend and amanuensis of Richard Wagner during the latter's labors at Bayreuth.
After rapidly rising in fame as Wagner's assistant conductor and as a general conductor at Leipsic in 1878 as the leader of the Angelo Neumann tour with the Nibelungen dramas, and at the Bremen Opera House in 1883-85, Mr. Seidl was engaged, in 1885, as conductor for the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, to succeed Dr. Leopold Damrosch.
During his incumbency of this post—which continued intermittently for twelve years —there were produced under his direction, for the first time in America, Wagner's Das Rheingold; Siegfried; Gotterdammerung; Tristan und Isolde; and Die Meistersanger.
In addition to his duties as conductor at the Metropolitan Opera House, Mr. Seidl was, at various times during his residence in the United States, conductor of th
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Socialism, (search)