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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bissell , William , -1860 (search)
Bissell, William, -1860
H., legislator; born near Cooperstown, N. Y., April 25, 1811: elected to the Illinois legislature in 1811; and became prosecuting attorney for St. Clair county in 1844.
During the Mexican War he served as captain of the 2d Illinois Volunteers, and distinguished himself at Buena Vista.
In 1839-45 he was a representative in Congress from Illinois; was separated from the Democratic party on the Kansas-Nebraska bill; and was chosen governor on the Republican ticket in 1856, and afterwards reelected.
While in Congress he enagetel in a controversy with Jefferson Davis, who challenged Mr. Bissell.
In accepting the challenge Mr. Bissell chose as weapons muskets, distance 30 paces, which was unsatisfactory to the friends of Mr. Davis.
He died in Springfield.
Ill., March 18, 1860.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cooper , James Fenimore 1789 -1851 (search)
Cooper, James Fenimore 1789-1851
Author; born in Burlington.
N. J., Sept. 15, 1789:
James Fenimore Cooper. studied at Yale College, but did not graduate.
He was six years in the naval service.
Choosing literature as a profession, he took the path of romance, and wrote and published in the course of his life thirty-two volumes of fiction, the most famous of which were his Leatherstocking tales.
He wrote a History of the United States Navy, in 2 volumes; Lives of American naval officers; Battle of Lake Erie; Gleanings in Europe; Sketches of Switzerland; and a comedy.
He died in Cooperstown, N. Y., Sept. 14. 1851.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dix , John Adams , 1798 -1879 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Francis , Joseph 1801 -1893 (search)
Francis, Joseph 1801-1893
Inventor; born in Boston, Mass., March 12, 1801; invented a number of life-boats, life-cars, and surfboats, which came into general use. In 1850, when the British ship Ayrshire was wrecked on the New Jersey coast, 200 persons were saved by means of his life-car.
The only loss of life was that of a man who would not enter the car. He died in Cooperstown, N. Y., May 10, 1893.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nelson , Samuel 1792 -1873 (search)
Nelson, Samuel 1792-1873
Jurist; born in Hebron, Washington co., N. Y., Nov. 10, 1792; graduated at Middlebury College in 1813, and admitted to the New York bar in 1817.
He was circuit judge in 1823-31; was then appointed an associate justice of the Supreme Court of New York; and was its chief-justice in 1837-45.
In the latter year President Tyler appointed him an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court to succeed Judge Smith Thompson.
In the famous Dred Scott case (q. v.) he concurred with the decision of Chief-Justice Taney, holding that, if Congress possessed power under the Constitution to abolish slavery, it must necessarily possess the like power to establish it. In 1871 he was a member of the joint high commission on the Alabama claims.
Illness compelled him to resign his office in October, 1872.
He died in Cooperstown, N. Y., Dec. 13, 1873
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America . (search)