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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Perry, Benjamin Franklin 1805-1886 (search)
Perry, Benjamin Franklin 1805-1886 Lawyer; born in Pendleton District, S. C., Nov. 20, 1805; was admitted to the bar in 1827; was a strong Unionist, and was instrumental in organizing a Union party in South Carolina; founded a Union paper in Greenville, S. C., in 1850, entitled The Southern patriot. In 1860 he made strenuous efforts to prevent the secession of the State, but, being unsuccessful, embraced the Southern cause. His publications include Reminiscences of public men; and Sketches of eminent American statesmen, with speeches and letters of Governor Perry, prefaced by an outline of the author's life. He died in Greenville, S. C., Dec. 3, 1886.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stribling, Cornelius Kinchiloe 1796-1880 (search)
Stribling, Cornelius Kinchiloe 1796-1880 Naval officer; born in Pendleton, S. C., Sept. 22, 1796; became a midshipman in 1812. He was assigned to the captured British vessel Macedonian, on her arrival at New York, Jan. 1, 1813; became a lieutenant in 1818, commander in 1840, captain in 1853, commodore in 1862, and rear-admiral on the retired list in 1866. During a long life, Admiral Stribling was ever active in the service, most of the time afloat. From 1850 to 1853 he was superintendent of the Naval Academy at Annapolis; commanded the East India Squadron from 1859 to 1861; the Philadelphia navy-yard, 1863-64; the Eastern Gulf blockading squadron, 1864-65, and was a member of the light-house board from 1867 to 1871. He died in Martinsburg, Va., Jan. 17, 1880.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Trescot, William Henry 1822-1898 (search)
at McConkey's Ferry. graduated at Charleston College in 1840; admitted to the bar in 1843; assistant Secretary of State from December, 1860, till the secession of South Carolina; held a seat in the legislature of that State in 1862-66; began the practice of law in Washington in 1875; was a member of the commission of 1880 to revise the treaty with China; special agent to the belligerents of Peru, Chile, and Bolivia in 1881, and during the same year represented the government in the negotiations concerning its rights in the Isthmus of Panama; appointed with General Grant in 1882 to effect a commercial treaty with Mexico. His publications include A few thoughts on the foreign policy of the United States; The diplomacy of the Revolution; Diplomatic system of the United States; An American view of the Eastern question; The diplomatic history of the administrations of Washington and Adams; Address before the South Carolina Historical Society, etc. He died in Pendleton, S. C., May 4, 1898.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), South Carolina, (search)
on, captures the British ship Dominicia, of fifteen guns and crew of eighty men, and shortly after the London Trader with a valuable cargo......August, 1813 Cherokees cede territory lying within the chartered limits of South Carolina, by treaty at Washington, March 22, 1816; ratified by the legislature of South Carolina......Dec. 19, 1816 Monroe appoints John C. Calhoun Secretary of War......Oct. 8, 1817 Territory ceded by the Cherokees in 1816, annexed to the election district of Pendleton......1820 College of Charleston, commenced in Charleston in 1785, reorganized and opened......Jan. 1, 1824 Legislature denounces the United States tariff as encroaching on State rights......Dec. 12, 1827 Public meeting on State rights held at Columbia......Sept. 20, 1830 Governor Hamilton recommends to legislature a nullification act......1830 Legislature calls a convention at Columbia, Nov. 19, 1832, to consider the protective tariff......Oct. 25, 1832 President instruc
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
perations at Charleston. He died at New York, March 26, 1887. Brigadier-General Clement Hoffman Stevens Brigadier-General Clement Hoffman Stevens was born in Norwich, Conn., August 14, 1821, the son of Lieut. Clement W. Stevens, United States navy, and Sarah J. Fayssoux, daughter of Dr. Peter Fayssoux, surgeongen-eral of the army in South Carolina during the war of the revolution. Not long after his birth the father left the navy and the family settled in Florida, but removed to Pendleton, S. C., at the outbreak of Indian troubles in 1836. In youth he served for several years as private secretary to his kinsmen, Commodore William B. Shubrick and Capt. Edward Shubrick. In 1842 he abandoned this service at sea, and became an official of the Planters and Mechanics bank at Charleston, of which he was cashier at the period of secession. In January, 1861, he presented to Gen. David F. Jamison, secretary of war for the State, a design he had prepared for an ironclad battery, and it
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
ces Grant. Captain Daniels' early life was spent at Pendleton, S. C. In 1852 he graduated from the Citadel military academ. John L. Young, of Union, and Mrs. R. W. Simpson, of Pendleton, S. C., are left to mourn his loss. Of the four brothers, wr Colonel Daniel Alexander Ledbetter was born near Pendleton, S. C., in what was then Pickens district, in July, 1828, thher died, and shortly afterward his mother removed to Pendleton, S. C., and later to Anderson, where she married Daniel Brown 1829. From the age of eight years he was reared at Pendleton, S. C. He entered the Confederate States service as colonel n 1859, and at once began the practice of medicine at Pendleton, S. C. In the spring of 1861 he raised a company known as th, at Norwich, Conn. He was educated at the schools of Pendleton, S. C., and entered the navy as a midshipman in 1839. He waFranklin, La., but his body has since been removed to Pendleton, S. C., and interred in the family burying ground of the Wes
The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], Watch-House cases (search)
Commodore Shubrick. --The announcement of the death of Commodore Shubrick, U. S. N., at Pendleton, S. C., was erroneous. He is in Washington, attending to business.
The Daily Dispatch: January 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
tates revenue cutter J. C. Dobbin, which was seized at Savannah by the Georgiana, arrived at Norfolk on Tuesday morning, and sailed for Baltimore that evening. The Columbia (S. C.) papers announce officially that the small-pox has disappeared from that city. The representation in the Georgia Convention is thus classed: For immediate secession, 175; for co-operation, 95; not certain, 8, and 11 counties to hear from. Capt. W. B. Shabrick, late of the U. States Navy, died at Pendleton, S. C., on Monday last. He entered the service June 20, 1806, and resigned his commission recently to take service under his native State. He had seen much service, having received several dangerous wounds in the face and head in battle. The steamer Star of the South, which arrived at Savannah Sunday, from New York, carried $75,000 worth of arms, chiefly rifles and revolvers. It is stated that in consequence of the obstructions in Charleston harbor, the steamers formerly plying bet
The Daily Dispatch: August 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 15 (search)
lker, Tippah county, Miss. 2d Mississippi regiment; Thomas Hays, New Orleans, Delta Rangers; Lieut. Danott, Alleghany county, Va., 27th Virginia regiment; J. M. McFail, Anderson, S C., 4th South Carolina regiment; George Baker, W. C. Humphreys, F. A Hammond, Atlanta, Ga; J. T. C Calvin, Green county, Ga; James Renshaw, S. Garrett; L Brick, L. H. Grunaling, Atlanta; A. T. Holmes, S. W. Brush, Lewis Estmeal, Savannah, Georgia; W. A. Barron, Rome, Georgia, 8th Georgia regiment; R. Pinkney, Pendleton, S. C., 4th South Carolina regiment; F. F. Grayson, Leesburg, Va., 8th Virginia regiment, and J. O'Brien, Savannah, Ga., 8th Georgia Regiment, taken at Bull Run, John Silks, Abberville, S. C., 2d South Carolina regiment, taken at Centreville; W. M. Javins, Columbia, S. C., same regiment, taken at Fairfax Court-House; W. M. T. Thompson, Pontotoc, Miss.; J. H. Wingfield, Amherst county, 19th Va. regiment, taken at Centreville; John E Ledbetter, Hanover county, Va., Radford's Regiment, taken at t