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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bayard , George Dashiell , 1835 - (search)
Bayard, George Dashiell, 1835-
Military officer; born in Seneca Falls, N. Y., Dec. 18, 1835; was graduated at West Point in 1856, and entered the cavalry corps.
Early in April, 1861, he was made brigadier-general of volunteer cavalry, and was attached to the Pennsylvania Reserves.
He participated in the battles fought by that body; served under McDowell and Pope in Virginia; and, after the battle of Antietam Creek, commanded a cavalry brigade.
He was chief of cavalry of the 3d Army Corps, and was engaged in the battles of Cedar Mountain, Manassas, and in the defence of Washington, D). C. In the battle of Fredericksburg, where he fell, Dec. 14, 1862, he was attached to Franklin's corps.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stanton , Elizabeth Cady 1815 - (search)
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady 1815-
Reformer; born in Johnstown, N. Y., Nov. 12, 1815; received an academic education.
In July, 1848, she called the first woman's rights.
convention, which met in Seneca Falls, N. Y., and succeeded, after much opposition, in having the first demand for woman suffrage adopted.
She was president of the Woman's Loyal League in 1861, and held the same office in the Woman's Suffrage Association in 1865-93.
She annually addressed Congress for over twenty-five years in advocacy of a sixteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States establishing woman suffrage.
She is the author of The history of woman suffrage (with Susan B.. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage); Eighty years and more; The woman's Bible, etc. See divorce laws, uniform.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stanton , Henry Brewster 1805 -1887 (search)
Stanton, Henry Brewster 1805-1887
Journalist; born in Griswold, Conn., June 29, 1805; settled in Rochester, N. Y., in 1826, and became a writer for The Monroe Telegraph; was a strong abolitionist.
In 1834, while speaking at the anniversary celebration of the American Anti-slavery Society in New York, he encountered the, first of numerous mobs that he met in his tour through the country.
He married Elizabeth Cady in 1840, and with her travelled in England and France, where they worked for the relief of the slaves.
Returning to the United States, he was admitted to the bar, and practised in Boston.
In 1847 he settled in Seneca Falls, N. Y., which he represented in the State Senate.
In 1868-87 he was an editor on the New York Sun.
He was the author of Sketches of reforms and Reformers in Great Britain and Ireland; and Random recollections.
He died in New York City, Jan. 4, 1887.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Zalinski , Edmund Louis Gray 1849 - (search)
Zalinski, Edmund Louis Gray 1849-
Military officer; born in Kurnich, Prussian Poland, Dec. 13, 1849; came to the United States with his parents in 1853, and settled in Seneca Falls, N. Y. He was appointed an aide on the staff of Gen. Nelson A. Miles in 1864, and served till the close of the war, being promoted second lieutenant of volunteers in 1865 for gallantry at the battle of Hatcher's Run.
In February, 1866, he was appointed a second lieutenant in the 5th United States Artillery; was promoted first lieutenant in January, 1867, and captain in December, 1887; was Professor of Military Science in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1872-76; graduated at the United States Artillery School at Fort Monroe, Va., and at the School of Submarine Mining at Willett's Point, N. Y., in 1880; invented and was engaged in developing and perfecting the pneumatic dynamite torpedo gun bearing his name in 1883-89; travelled in Europe to obtain military information in 1889-90; was on garr