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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bellamy , Edward , 1850 -1898 (search)
Bellamy, Edward, 1850-1898
Author; born in Chicopee Falls, Mass., March 26, 1850; was educated at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., and also studied in Germany.
Returning home he read law, and was admitted to the bar, but never practised.
he became an editorial writer on the New York Evening post, but soon afterwards retired from journalism to devote himself to fiction.
His works include Six to one; A Nantucket Idyl; Dr. Heidenhoff's process; Miss Ludington's sister; his greatest effort.
Looking backward, or 2000-1887, a work treating of government socialism; and lastly, Equality (1897). Several communities were established on his ideal in the United States and Mexico, but all were short-lived.
He died in Chicopee Falls, Mass., May 22, 1898.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cleaveland , Moses 1754 -1806 (search)
Cleaveland, Moses 1754-1806
Pioneer: born in Canterbury.
Conn., Jan. 29, 1754; graduated at Yale College in 1777; admitted to the bar; made a brigadier-general in 1796; and the same year was selected by a land company, of which he was a shareholder, to survey the tract which had been purchased in northeastern Ohio.
He set out with fifty emigrants from Schenectady, N. Y.; reached the mouth of the Cuyahoga on July 22; and finding it a favorable site for a town decided to settle there.
His employers called the place Cleaveland in his honor.
When the first newspaper, the Cleveland Advertiser, was established, the head-line was found to be too long for the form, and the editor cut out the letter a, which revision was accepted by the public.
General Cleaveland died in Canterbury, Conn., Nov. 16, 1806.
Congress, colonial
Soon after the attack on Schenectady (1690), the government of Massachusetts addressed a circular letter to all the colonies as far south as Maryland, inviting them to send commissioners to New York, to agree upon some plan of operations for the defence of the whole.
Delegates from Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York met in the city of New York in May, 1690, and the campaign against Canada was planned.
This was the first Colonial Congress.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Duane , James Chatham , 1824 - (search)
Duane, James Chatham, 1824-
Military officer; born in Schenectady, N. Y., June 30, 1824; graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1848, and served with the corps of engineers till 1854.
He rendered excellent work during the Civil War, notably in the building of a bridge 2,000 feet long over the Chickahominy River.
He was brevetted brigadier-general in 1865; promoted brigadier-general and chief of engineers, U. S. A., in 1886; retired June 30, 1888.
From his retirement till his death, Nov. 8, 1897, he was president of the New York Aqueduct Commission.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Frontenac , Louis de Buade , Count de 1620 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Garfield , James Abram 1831 -1881 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Johnson , Sir William 1715 -1774 (search)
Johnson, Sir William 1715-1774
Military officer; born in Smithtown, County Meath, Ireland, in 1715; was educated for a merchant, but an unfortunate love affair changed the tenor of his life.
He came to
Sir William Johnson. America in 1738 to take charge of landed property of his uncle, Admiral Sir Peter Warren, in the region of the Mohawk Valley, and seated himself there, about 24 miles west of Schenectady, engaging in the Indian trade.
Dealing honestly with the Indians and learning their language, he became a great favorite with them.
He conformed to their manners, and, in time, took Mary, a sister of Brant, the famous Mohawk chief, to his home as his wife.
When the French and Indian War broke out Johnson was made sole superintendent of Indian affairs, and his great influence kept the Six Nations steadily from any favoring of the French.
He kept the frontier from injury until the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748).
In 1750 he was a member of the provincial council.
He
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Landon , Judson Stuart 1832 - (search)
Landon, Judson Stuart 1832-
Jurist; born in Connecticut in 1832; was admitted to the bar; practised in Schenectady, N. Y.; and was elected justice of the Supreme Court of the fourth district of New York.
He is the author of The constitutional history and government of the United States.