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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dickson , John ,1783 -1852 (search)
Dickson, John, 1783-1852
Statesman; born in Keene, N. H., in 1783; graduated at Middlebury College in 1808; practised law in Rochester, N. Y., in 1813-25; member of Congress in 1831-35.
He is credited with having delivered the first important anti-slavery speech ever made in Congress.
He published Remarks on the presentation of several petitions for the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia.
He died in West Bloomfield, N. Y., Feb. 22, 1852.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hale , George Silsbee 1825 -1897 (search)
Hale, George Silsbee 1825-1897
Lawyer; born in Keene, N. H., Sept. 24, 1825; graduated at Harvard College in 1844; admitted to the bar in 1850, and began practice in Boston.
His publications include Memoirs of Joel Parker and Theron Metcalf.
He also edited the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth volumes of the United States digest.
He died in Schooner Head, Me., July 28, 1897.
Hale, Salma 1787-1866
Historian; born in Alstead, N. H., March 7, 1787; was elected to Congress in 1816; appointed clerk of the Supreme Court in 1817; and admitted to the bar in 1834.
He is the author of a History of the United States; The administration of John Quincy Adams; Annals of the town of Keene, etc. He died in Somerville, Mass., Nov. 19, 1866.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Parker , Joel 1795 -1875 (search)
Parker, Joel 1795-1875
Jurist; born in Jaffrey N. H., Jan. 25, 1795; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1811; admitted to the bar and began practice in Keene, N. H., in 1815; became chief-justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire in 1836; was Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in Dartmouth College in 1847-57.
His publications include Daniel Webster as a jurist; The non-extension of slavery; Personal liberty laws and slavery in the Territories; The right of secession; Constitutional law; The War powers of Congress and the President; Revolution and construction; The three powers of government; Conflict of decisions, etc. He died in Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 17, 1875.