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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Clay , Cassius Marcellus 1810 - (search)
Clay, Cassius Marcellus 1810-
Diplomatist; born in Madison county, Ky., Oct. 19, 1810; son of Green Clay; was graduated at Yale College in 1832.
He became a lawyer; was a member of the Kentucky legislature in 1835, 1837, and 1840.
In June, 1845, he issued, at Lexington, Ky., the first number of the True American, a weekly anti-slavery paper.
In August his press was seized by a mob, after which it was printed in Cincinnati and published at Lexington, and afterwards at Louisville.
Mr. Clay was a captain in the war with Mexico, and was made prisoner in January, 1847.
In 1862 he was appointed major-general of volunteers, and was United States minister to Russia from 1863 to 1869.
Cleveland
The most important port of Ohio, on Lake Erie, was named after (Gen. Moses Cleaveland, director of the Connecticut Land Company, who arrived at the present site of Cleveland, July 22, 1796, and began the settlement at the mouth of Cuyahoga River.
In 1800 the population was only 7; in 1810 it was 57; 1820, 150; 1830, 1,075; 1840, 6,071; 1850, 17,034.
In 1854, Ohio City, on the opposite bank of the river, was united with Cleveland, and in 1860 the population of the united cities was 43,838; in 1870. 92,829; 1880, 159,404; 1890, 261.353; 1900, 381,768.
Codes,
In general terms a collection of laws, the most notable of which in modern times is the Code Napoleon, which was promulgated between 1803 and 1810, and has since been adopted in large part by various countries.
In the United States the most notable codes are those prepared by Judge Stephen J. Field (q. v.) for use in California.
at the time of its admission into the Union, and the Codes of Civil and criminal procedure prepared by his brother, David Dudley field (q. v.), for the State of New York.
The latter, after completing the abovementioned work, was appointed by the legislature chairman of a commission to prepare a political code, a penal code, and a civil code, which, with the codes of procedure alluded to, were designed to take the place of the common law, and to cover the entire range of American law. A number of the States have adopted in whole or in part this last class of codes.
Mr. Field also actively urged the preparation of a code of international law, and
Collamer, Jacob
Born in Troy, N. Y., Jan. 8, 1791; graduated at the University of Vermont in 1810; admitted to the bar in 1813; elected a justice of the Vermont Supreme Court in 1833; served until his election to Congress in 1843; appointed Postmaster-General under President Taylor in March, 1849; elected United States Senator in 1854, and served until his death, in Woodstock, Vt., Nov. 9, 1865.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Croghan , George 1746 -1782 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cushing , William 1732 -1810 (search)
Cushing, William 1732-1810
Jurist; born in Scituate, Mass., March 1, 1732; graduated at Harvard University in 1751; studied law; became eminent in his profession; was attorney-general of Massachusetts; a judge of probate in 1768; judge of the Superior Court in 1772; and in 1777 succeeded his father as chief-justice of that court.
Under the Massachusetts constitution of 1788 he was made chief-justice of the State; and in 1789 President Washington appointed him a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
He offered him the chief-justiceship in 1796, as the successor of Jay, but he declined it. He administered the oath of office to Washington in his second inauguration.
He died in Scituate, Sept. 13, 1810.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dacres , James Richard ,1788 -1828 (search)
Dacres, James Richard, 1788-1828
Naval officer; born in Suffolk, England, Aug. 22, 1788;
James Richard Dacres. son of Vice-Admiral Dacres, who was a commander in the battle with Arnold on Lake Champlain in 1776.
The son entered the royal navy in 1796, and, being placed in command of the frigate Guerriere in 1811, was sent to fight the Americans.
He proudly boasted that he would send the Constitution to Davy Jones's locker when he should be so fortunate as to meet her. She had escaped him in her famous retreat, but willingly met and fought the Guerriere afterwards.
Dacres was then captain.
He attained the rank of flag-officer in 1838, and in 1845 was vice-admiral and commander-in-chief of the fleet at the Cape of Good Hope.
He was presented with a gratuity from the Patriotic fund at Lloyd's, in consideration of his wound.
He was married, in 1810, to Arabella Boyd, who died in 1828.
He died in Hampshire, England, Dec. 4, 1853.
See U. S. S. Constitution (frigate).
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dallas , George Mifflin ,1792 -1864 (search)
Dallas, George Mifflin, 1792-1864
Statesman; born in Philadelphia, July 10, 1792; a son of the preceding; graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1810, and admitted to the bar in 1813.
He went with Mr. Gallatin to Russia as private secretary, and returned in 1814, when he assisted his father in the Treasury Department.
In 1828 he was mayor of Philadelphia; United States Senator from 1832 to 1833, and declined a re-election.
He was ambassador to Russia from 1837 to 1839, and Vice-President of the United States from 1845 to 1849.
From 1856 to 1861 he was American minister in London.
Mr. Dallas was an able lawyer and statesman.
He died in Philadelphia, Dec. 31, 1864.