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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.
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), Dickson , John ,1783 -1852 (search)
Dickson, John, 1783-1852
Statesman; born in Keene, N. H., in 1783; graduated at Middlebury College in 1808; practised law in Rochester, N. Y., in 1813-25; member of Congress in 1831-35.
He is credited with having delivered the first important anti-slavery speech ever made in Congress.
He published Remarks on the presentation of several petitions for the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia.
He died in West Bloomfield, N. Y., Feb. 22, 1852.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Douglass , Frederick ,1817 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Eastman , Harvey Gridley ,1832 - (search)
Eastman, Harvey Gridley, 1832-
Educator; born in Marshall, Oneida co., N. Y., Oct. 16, 1832; after attending the common schools of his neighborhood, completed his education at the State Normal School at Albany; and at the age of twenty-three opened a commercial school at Oswego, N. Y., having been a teacher in a similar school kept by his uncle in Rochester.
In that school he first conceived the plan of a commercial or business college.
On Nov. 3, 1859, Mr. Eastman opened a business college in Poughkeepsie, with a single pupil.
In 1865 there were more than 1,700 students in the college.
It was the first institution in which actual business was taught.
Mr. Eastman was a very liberal and enterprising citizen, foremost in every judicious measure which promised to benefit the community in which he lived.
He was twice elected mayor of the city, and held that office at the time of his death, in Denver, Col., July 13, 1878.
On the day of his funeral the city was draped in mournin
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ely , Alfred ,1815 -1892 (search)
Ely, Alfred, 1815-1892
Lawyer; born in Lyme, Conn., Feb. 18, 1815; settled in Rochester, N. Y., in 1835; admitted to the bar in 1841; member of Congress in 1859-63.
He was taken prisoner by the Confederates while visiting the battle-field of Bull Run in July, 1861, and confined in Libby prison for six months; was then exchanged for Charles J. Faulkner, the minister to France, who had been arrested for disloyalty.
While in Libby prison he kept a journal, which was later published as the Jo. Y., in 1835; admitted to the bar in 1841; member of Congress in 1859-63.
He was taken prisoner by the Confederates while visiting the battle-field of Bull Run in July, 1861, and confined in Libby prison for six months; was then exchanged for Charles J. Faulkner, the minister to France, who had been arrested for disloyalty.
While in Libby prison he kept a journal, which was later published as the Journal of Alfred Ely, a prisoner of War in Richmond.
He died in Rochester, N. Y., May 18, 1892.
Gally, Merritt
Inventor; born near Rochester, N. Y., Aug. 15, 1838; learned the printer's trade; graduated at the University of Rochester in 1863, and at the Auburn Theological Seminary in 1866; was a Presbyterian minister for three years. In 1869 he founded a manufactory for the construction of the Universal printing-press, which he had shortly before designed.
His patents aggregate more than 400, including the Orchestrone, an automatic musical instrument; the back vent system, for tubular church organs; the counterpoise pneumatic system of the aeolian, pianola, and other automatic musical instruments; a machine for making type from cold metal; differential telephone, etc.
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