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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Pennsylvania, (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Perry , Matthew Calbraith 1794 -1858 (search)
Perry, Matthew Calbraith 1794-1858
Naval officer; born in Newport, R. I., April 10, 1794; was a brother of Commodore Oliver 11.
Perry, and entered the navy as midshipman in 1809.
In command of the Cyane, in 1819, he fixed the locality of the settlement of Liberia.
He captured several pirate vessels in the West Indies from 1821 to 1824, and was employed on shore from 1833 to 1841, when he again, as commodore, went to sea in command of squadrons for several years, engaging in the siege of Vera Cruz in 1847.
From 1852 to 1854 he commanded the expedition to Japan, and negotiated a very important treaty with the rulers of that empire, which has led to wonderful results in the social and religious condition of that people, and secured great advantages to America.
A monument commemorating Commodore Perry's visit to Japan was erected at Kurihama, Japan, in 1901.
In a circular sent out by the American Association of Japan, of which the Japanese Minister of Justice is president, the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pinckney , Charles 1758 -1824 (search)
Pinckney, Charles 1758-1824
Statesman; born in Charleston, S. C., in 1758; was made prisoner at the capture of Charleston (1780), and sent to St. Augustine; was a member of Congress from 1784 to 1787; and a member of the convention that framed the national Constitution in tile latter year.
He was governor of South Carolina (1789-92, 1796-98, and 1806-8); United States Senator from 1798 to 1801, and minister to Spain from 1802 to 1805, when he negotiated a release from that power of all claims to the territory purchased by the United States from France.
In Congress, from 1819 to 1821, he was an opponent of the Missouri Compromise.
He died in Charleston, S. C., Oct. 29, 1824.
See Louisiana.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Poinsett , Joel Roberts 1779 -1851 (search)
Poinsett, Joel Roberts 1779-1851
Legislator; born in Charleston, S. C., March 2, 1779; educated at Timothy Dwight's school, Greenfield, Conn., at Edinburgh University, and the Woolwich Academy, England.
In 1809 he was sent to the South American states by the President for the purpose of inquiring into the prospects of the Spanish colonies winning their independence.
While on this mission he was notified that the Spanish authorities in Peru had seized a number of American vessels.
Appealing to the republican government for assistance, he was authorized to use force in the recapture of the ships, which he successfully accomplished.
He was a member of Congress in 1821-25, and in the latter year was appointed United States minister to Mexico.
President Van Buren appointed him Secretary of War in 1837.
He published his notes on Mexico, made in 1822, with a historical sketch of the revolution.
He died in Statesburg, S. C., Dec. 12, 1851.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Poole , William Frederick 1821 -1894 (search)
Poole, William Frederick 1821-1894
Librarian; born in Salem, Mass., Dec. 24, 1821; graduated at Yale College in 1849; librarian of the Boston Athenaeum in 1856-69; organized the public library of Cincinnati, O., in 1869, and that of Chicago in 1874.
His publications include Cotton Mather and Salem witchcraft; The Popham colony; The ordinance of 1787; Anti-slavery opinions before 1800; the chapter on Witchcraft in the Memorial history of Boston; Index to periodic Literature; and The battle of dictionaries.
He died in Evanston, Ill., March 1, 1894.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Presidential administrations. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Quincy , Josiah 1709 -1784 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Rhode Island, (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Richardson , William Adams 1821 - (search)
Richardson, William Adams 1821-
Jurist; born in Tyngsboro, Mass., Nov. 2, 1821; graduated at Harvard in 1843; admitted to the bar in 1846; appointed to revise the statutes of Massachusetts in 1855; judge of probate in 1866-72; Secretary of the United States Treasury in 1873-74; resigning to accept the appointment of judge in the United States court of claims, of which he was chief-justice from 1885 till his death, in Washington, D. C., Oct. 19, 1896.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Russell , Jonathan 1771 -1832 (search)
Russell, Jonathan 1771-1832
Diplomatist; born in Providence, R. I., in 1771; graduated at Brown University in 1791; studied law; but became a merchant, and his taste led him into political life, though he never sought office.
He was one of the commissioners who negotiated the treaty at Ghent, in 1814; and after that was United States minister at Stockholm, Sweden, for several years.
On his return to the United States, he settled at Mendon, Mass., which district he represented in Congress in 1821-23.
Although he was a forcible and elegant writer, little is known of his literary productions excepting an oration delivered in Providence on July 4, 1800, and his published correspondence while in Europe.
He died in Milton, Mass., Feb. 19, 1832.