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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4 34 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 15 1 Browse Search
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House 10 0 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 6 0 Browse Search
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist 4 0 Browse Search
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865 4 0 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. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 4 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 4 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.) 4 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: Introduction., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813- (search)
ndent, a weekly newspaper. From 1870 he was editor several years of the Christian Union, a weekly paper published in New York, and was a constant contributor to other publications. In 1874 Mr. Beecher was accused of criminal conduct with Mrs. Theodore Tilton. He was exonerated by the committee of Plymouth Church, but in the civil suit instituted by Mr. Tilton, which lasted more than six months, the jury failed to agree. The case attracted the attention of the entire world. The system of sMr. Tilton, which lasted more than six months, the jury failed to agree. The case attracted the attention of the entire world. The system of slavery. The following is Mr. Beecher's address in Liverpool, England, Oct. 16, 1863, the feeling of his auditors towards his subject and himself being clearly indicated parenthetically: For more than twenty-five years I have been made perfectly familiar with popular assemblies in all parts of my country, except the extreme South. There has not, for the whole of that time, been a single day of my life when it would have been safe for me to go south of Mason and Dixon's line in my own coun
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Shearman, Thomas Gaskell 1834- (search)
Shearman, Thomas Gaskell 1834- Lawyer; born in Birmingham, England, Nov. 25, 1834; was brought to New York by his parents in 1843; received a private education; was admitted to the bar in 1859. He was one of the counsel for Henry Ward Beecher in the Beecher-Tilton trial; became conspicuous as a free-trade advocate. He was the author of Natural taxation; Crooked taxation; Does protection protect? the single tax; Distribution of wealth; Who own the United States? etc, He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 29, 1900.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Tilton, Theodore 1835- (search)
Tilton, Theodore 1835- Journalist; born in New York City, Oct. 2, 1835; graduated at the College of the City of New York; employed for a year on the New York Observer; editor of the Independent in 1856-71; established the Golden age, but retired from it after two years. In 1874 he created wide-spread excitement by charging Hey Ward Beecher with unlawful intimacy with his wife. A committee of Plymouth Church, to whom the charges were referred, reported that they were groundless, but Mr. Tilton's civil suit against Mr. Beecher for $100,000 damages led to a most sensational trial and resulted in the disagreement of the jury. In 1883 Mr. Tilton went to , but Mr. Tilton's civil suit against Mr. Beecher for $100,000 damages led to a most sensational trial and resulted in the disagreement of the jury. In 1883 Mr. Tilton went to Paris, where he afterwards resided. For many years he was a popular and successful lecturer; was an opponent of slavery and an advocate of woman's rights.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Trials. (search)
s imprisonment......Nov. 19, 1873 A. Oakey Hall, ex-mayor of New York, for complicity with the Tweed ring frauds; jury disagree, March 1-21, 1872; second trial, jury disagree, Nov. 1; acquitted......Dec. 24, 1873 David Swing, for heresy before the Chicago Presbytery, April 15 et seq., in twenty-eight specifications by Prof. Francis L. Patton; acquitted after a long trial......1874 [Professor Swing withdrew from the Presbyterian Church and formed an independent congregation.] Theodore Tilton v. Henry Ward Beecher, for adultery, Brooklyn, N. Y.; jury disagree; case ended......July 2, 1875 Jesse Pomeroy, the Boston boy murderer, for killing of Horace W. Millen, April 22, 1874, supposed to be Pomeroy's fourth victim......1875 Gen. O. E. Babcock, private secretary of President Grant, tried at St. Louis for complicity in whiskey frauds; acquitted......Feb. 7, 1876 W. W. Belknap, United States Secretary of War, impeached; acquitted......Aug. 1, 1876 John D. Lee, for t
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
st session adjourns......June 23, 1874 Postmaster-Gen. A. J. Creswell resigns......June 24, 1874 Great distress in Minnesota, Kansas, and Nebraska by the grasshopper plague......July–October, 1874 Mysterious abduction of Charley Ross, aged four years, from his father's home in Germantown, Pa. (never found)......July 1, 1874 Illinois and St. Louis railroad bridge over the Mississippi at St. Louis opened......July 4, 1874 Rev. Henry Ward Beecher demands an investigation of Theodore Tilton's charges against him......July 7, 1874 Rev. Henry Ward Beecher acquitted by a committee of his church......Aug. 28, 1874 Headquarters of the United States army removed to St. Louis......Oct. 1, 1874 Lincoln monument at Springfield, Ill., dedicated......Oct. 15, 1874 National Woman's Christian Temperance Union organized at Cleveland, O.......Nov. 19, 1874 Second session opens......Dec. 7, 1874 President's message received......Dec. 7, 1874 Race riot at Vicksburg, Mi