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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Agricultural implements . (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Beecher , Lyman , 1775 -1863 (search)
Beecher, Lyman, 1775-1863
Clergyman; born in New Haven, Conn., Oct. 2, 1775; was graduated at Yale in 1797, and ordained in 1799.
In 1832 he accepted the presidency of lance Seminary.
Cincinnati, and served the seminary in that capacity twenty years. He had seven sons, all of whom became Congregational clergymen — William, Edward, George.
Henry Ward, Charles, Thomas, and James.
His daughters were Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary Beecher Perkins, and Isabella Beecher Hooker.
He died in Brooklyn, Jan. 10, 186
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Brough , John , 1811 -1865 (search)
Brough, John, 1811-1865
Journalist born in Marietta, O., in 1811; learned the printer's trade in the office of the Marietta Gazette; and was editor of Democratic newspapers in Lancaster and Cincinnati.
He held several State offices in Ohio: was a member of the joint commission to adjust the boundary line between that State and Virginia; became a popular Democratic orator; was an active war Democrat in the early part of the Civil War; and was elected governor of Ohio as the Republic-Union candidate in 1863.
He died in Cleveland, O., Aug. 29, 1865.