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Isaac O. Best, History of the 121st New York State Infantry 2 2 Browse Search
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 2 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 25, 1861., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: February 26, 1861., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 5. 1 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 1 1 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 1 1 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America, together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 1 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 5, 1864., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Union College, (search)
Union College, An institution of learning in Schenectady, N. Y.; established by several Christian sects in 1795, owing to which fact it received its corporate name. It was the first non-sectarian college founded in the United States. In 1873 the Dudley Observatory, the Albany Medical College, and the Albany Law School were united to the college, which was then renamed Union University.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
ravage Maine......January, 1690 Party of 210, including eighty Indians, surprise and burn Schenectady, then the western frontier post of New York, containing upward of forty well-built houses sur army dies at Steubenville, Oneida county......Nov. 28, 1794 Union College incorporated at Schenectady......1795 George Clinton, after eighteen years service, declines re-election as governor, e State ordered......1836 Union Theological Seminary in New York City founded......1836 Schenectady and Utica Railroad opened......1836 Aaron Burr dies at New York, aged eighty......Sept. 14,270, about 12 per cent. of the population......1865 Eliphalet Nott, born in 1773, dies at Schenectady......Jan. 29, 1866 [Made president of Union College in 1804. Over 3,700 students graduatetis elected chancellor of the board of regents of the State of New York......Jan. 30, 1890 Schenectady commemorates the 200th anniversary of the massacre by French and Indians......Feb. 9, 1890
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Villard, Henry 1835- (search)
for the Cincinnati Commercial. During the Civil War he was a Washington correspondent for Western and Eastern papers. In 1873 he purchased the Oregon and California Railroad and the Oregon steamship companies for German stockholders, and two years later became receiver, with C. S. Greeley, of the Kansas Pacific Railroad. He then organized the Oregon and Transcontinental Company, which gained control of the Northern Pacific and of the Oregon Railway and Pacific companies. He was president of the Northern Pacific in 1881-84, and chairman of the board of directors of the same company in 1889-93. He bought the Edison Lamp Company, of Newark, N. J., and the Edison Machine Works, of Schenectady, N. Y., in 1890, and from these formed the Edison General Electric Company, of which he was president for two years. He was the author of The Pike's Peak gold regions, and was a liberal promoter of educational, religious, and charitable institutions. He died in Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., Nov. 11, 1900.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Westinghouse, George 1846- (search)
Westinghouse, George 1846- Inventor; born in Central Bridge, N. Y., Oct. 6, 1846; settled in Schenectady in 1856; received a high school education; served in the National army in 1863-65. After the war he engaged in the manufacture of machinery under his various patents. His inventions include a rotary engine; several devices in railway signals; electric machinery; the Westinghouse air-brake, etc. Westminster Abbey
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Yates, Robert 1738-1801 (search)
Yates, Robert 1738-1801 Jurist; born in Schenectady, N. Y., Jan. 27, 1738; was admitted to the bar in 1760, and became eminent in his profession. During the controversies preceding the Revolutionary War he wrote several excellent essays upon the great topics of the time. He was a prominent member of the committee of safety at Albany; also chairman of the committee on military operations (1776-77), member of the Provincial Congress of New York, and of the convention that framed the first State constitution. He was judge of the Supreme Court of New York from 1777 to 1790, and chief-justice from 1790 to 1798. Judge Yates was a member of the convention that framed the national Constitution, but left the convention before its close and opposed the instrument then adopted. He kept notes of the debates while he was in the convention. He was one of the commissioners to treat with Massachusetts and Connecticut respecting boundaries and to settle difficulties between New York and Vermo
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