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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Finances, United States . (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Inman , Henry 1801 -1899 (search)
Inman, Henry 1801-1899
Painter; born in Utica, N. Y., Oct. 20, 1801; was a pupil of John Wesley Jarvis, the portrait-painter, to whom he was apprenticed for seven years. He painted landscapes and historical pictures, but portraits were his chief subjects, and he introduced lithography into the United States.
In 1844 he went to England, where, becoming the guest of Wordsworth, the poet, he painted his portrait.
He also painted the portraits of other distinguished men while in England.
He had begun painting an historical picture for the national Capitol, representing Daniel Boone in the wilds of Kentucky, at the time of his death, in New York City, Jan. 17, 1846.
Author; born in New York, July 30, 1837; educated at the Brooklyn public schools and Athenian Academy, and is the author of The old Santa Fe trail; Great Salt Lake trail, tales of the trail; The ranch on the Oxhide; Pioneer from Kentucky, etc. He died in Topeka, Kan., Nov. 13, 1899.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Internal improvements. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Navy of the United States (search)
Thayer, Eli 1819-1899
Educator; born in Mendon, Mass., June 11, 1819; graduated at Brown College in 1845; established the Oread Institute, Worcester, Mass., in 1848; member of the legislature in 1853-54, during which period he organized and founded the Emigrant Aid Company and endeavored to unite the North in favor of his scheme to send into Kansas anti-slavery settlers.
His company founded Topeka, Lawrence, Manhattan, and Ossawatomie, of which places Gov. Charles Robinson said: Without these settlements Kansas would have been a slave State without a struggle; without the Aid Society these towns would never have existed; and that society was born of the brain of Eli Thayer.
Mr. Thayer was a member of Congress in 1857-61.
He invented an automatic boiler cleaner, an hydraulic elevator, and a sectional safety steamboiler.
His publications include a history of the Emigrant Aid Company; several lectures; a volume of his speeches in Congress; and the Kansas crusade.
He died in Worc
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America . (search)
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