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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Algonquian, or Algonkian, Indians , (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), America, discoverers of. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Edwards , Ninian , 1775 -1833 (search)
Edwards, Ninian, 1775-1833
Jurist; born in Montgomery county, Md., in March, 1775.
William Wirt directed his early education, which was finished at Dickinson College, and in 1819 he settled in the Green River district of Kentucky.
Before he was twenty-one he became a member of the Kentucky legislature; was admitted to the bar in Kentucky in 1798, and to that of Tennessee the next year, and rose very rapidly in his profession.
He passed through the offices of circuit judge and judge of appeals to the bench of chief-justice of Kentucky in 1808.
The next year he was appointed the first governor of the Territory of Illinois, and retained that office until its organization as a State in 1818.
From 1818 till 1824 he was United States Senator, and from 1826 to 1830 governor of the State.
He did much, by promptness and activity, to restrain Indian hostilities in the Illinois region during the War of 1812.
He died in Belleville, Ill., July 20, 1833.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Engineering. (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), Internal improvements. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Marquette , Jacques 1637 - (search)