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Cooper, Peter 1791-
Philanthropist; born in New York City, Feb. 12, 1791.
His life was one of remarkable activity and enterprise.
First, after leaving his father, who was a hatter, he engaged in learning coach-making, then cabinet-making, then entered the grocery business, and finally, about 1828, became a manufacturer of glue and isinglass.
In 1830 he engaged quite extensively in iron-works at Canten, near Baltimore, and there he manufactured the first locomotive engine ever made in America, which worked successfully on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Then he erected a rolling-mill and ironmill in the city of New York, in which he first successfully used anthracite coal in puddling iron.
In 1845 he removed the machinery to Trenton, N. J., where he erected the largest rolling-mill then in the United States for manufacturing railroad iron.
There were rolled the first wrought-iron beams for fire-proof buildings.
He became an alderman in the city of New York about 1840.
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cornwallis , Lord Charles 1738 -1805 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Craig , Henry Knox 1791 -1868 (search)
Craig, Henry Knox 1791-1868
Military officer; born in Pittsburg, Pa., March 7, 1791; entered the army as a lieutenant of artillery in 1812; took part in the occupation of Fort George, and the assault at Stony Creek, Canada; was chief of ordnance of the Army of Occupation in Mexico in 1847, and distinguished himself in the battles of Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma, and Monterey; was chief of the ordnance bureau at Washington in 1851-61; and was retired in 1863.
He died in Washington, D. C., Dec. 7, 1868.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dallas , Alexander James , 1759 -1817 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dana , Francis , 1743 -1811 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Darke , William , 1736 -1801 (search)
Darke, William, 1736-1801
Military officer; born in Philadelphia county, Pa., in 1736; served under Braddock in 1755, and was with him at his defeat; entered the patriot army at the outbreak of the Revolution as a captain; was captured at the battle of Germantown; subsequently was promoted colonel; and commanded the Hampshire and Berkeley regiments at the capture of Cornwallis in 1791.
He served as lieutenant-colonel under General St. Clair, and was wounded in the battle with the Miami Indians, Nov. 4, 1791.
He died in Jefferson county, Va., Nov. 26, 1801.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dayton , Jonathan , 1760 -1824 (search)
Dayton, Jonathan, 1760-1824
Statesman; born in Elizabethtown, N. J., Oct. 16, 1760; son of Elias; graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1776; entered the army as paymaster of his father's regiment in August; aided in storming a redoubt at Yorktown, which was taken by Lafayette; and served faithfully until the close of the war. He was a member of the convention that framed the national Constitution in 1787, and was a representative in Congress from 1791 to 1799.
He was speaker in 1795, and was made United States Senator in 1799.
He held the seat until 1805.
He served in both branches of his State legislature.
Suspected of complicity in Burr's conspiracy, he was arrested, but was never prosecuted.
He died in Elizabethtown, Oct. 9, 1824.
District of Columbia,
The Federal District and seat of government of the United States.
In 1791 the District was erected into two counties, as divided by the Potomac, and was placed under the jurisdiction of a circuit court, composed of a chief-justice and two assessors; the judgment of this court to be final in criminal cases, but in civil cases, where the amount in dispute exceeded $100 in value, a writ of error to lie in the Supreme Court of the United States.
This arrangement was afterwards modified.
Instead of providing a homogeneous code of laws for the District, those of Maryland and Virginia were continued.
A bill to abolish slavery in the District was passed by the Congress (April 11, 1862), and became a law by the signature of the President, April 16.
It provided for the payment, out of the treasury of the United States, of an average of $300 to the master or mistress of each slave thus emancipated.
Thus emancipation began at the national capital.
In connection w
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Emmet , Thomas Addis , 1763 -1827 (search)
Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1763-1827
Patriot; born in Cork, Ireland, April 24, 1763; graduated at Trinity College, Dublin; first studied medicine, and then law, and was admitted to the Dublin bar in 1791.
He became a leader of the Association of United Irishmen, and was one of a general committee whose ultimate object was to secure the freedom of Ireland from British rule.
With many of his associates, he was arrested in 1798, and for more than two years was confined in Fort George, Scotland.
His brother Robert, afterwards engaged in the same cause, was hanged in Dublin in 1803.
Thomas was liberated and banished to France after the treaty of Amiens, the severest penalties being pronounced against him if he should return to Great Britain.
His wife was permitted to join him, on condition that she should never again set foot on British soil.
He came to the United States in 1804, and became very eminent in his profession in the city of New York.
He was made attorneygeneral of the St