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Gibault, Peter
Roman Catholic priest.
The bishop of Quebec in 1770 sent him to the territory now included in Illinois and Louisiana.
He lived a portion of the time in Vincennes, Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and St. Genevieve.
During the Revolutionary War, through his influence, the settlers in this territory, who were mostly French, became ardent advocates of the American cause, and he also induced the Indians to remain neutral.
Judge Law says: Next to Clark and Vigo, the United States are indebted more to Father Gibault for the accession of the States comprised in what was the original Northwest Territory than to any other man.
Gibbon, Edward 1737-
Historian; born in Putney, Surrey, England, April 27, 1737; was from infancy feeble in physical constitution.
His first serious attempt at authorship was when he was only a youth—a treatise on the age of Sesostris.
He was fond of Oriental research.
Reading Bossuet's Variations of Protestantism and Exposition of Catholic doctrine, he became a Roman Catholic, and at length a free-thinker.
He was a student at Oxford when he abjured Protestantism, and was expelled.
He read with avidity the Latin, Greek, and French classics, and became passionately fond of historical research.
He also studied practically the military art, as a member of the Hampshire militia, with his father.
In 1751 he published a defence of classical studies against the attacks of the French philosophers.
In 1764 he went to Rome, and studied its antiquities with delight and seriousness, and there he conceived the idea of writing his great work, The decline and fall of the Roman Empire. It
Gmeiner, John 1847-
Clergyman; born in Baernan, Bavaria, Dec. 5, 1847; came to the United States in 1849 with his parents, who settled in Milwaukee, Wis.; was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1870; became Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Homiletics in the Seminary of St. Francis of Sales, Milwaukee, in 1876.
His publications include The Church and the various nationalities of the United States, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Huguenots. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Huntington , Jedediah Vincent 1815 -1862 (search)
Huntington, Jedediah Vincent 1815-1862
Author; born in New York City, Jan. 20, 1815; graduated at the New York University in 1835; and at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1838; became a Protestant Episcopal minister in 1841, and a Roman Catholic in 1849.
His publications include Alban, or the history of a young Puritan; America discovered, etc. He also translated Franchere's Narrative of a voyage to the Northwest coast of America.
He died in Paris, France, March 10, 1862.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Keen , Gregory Bernard 1844 - (search)
Keen, Gregory Bernard 1844-
Librarian; born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 3, 1844; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1861, and at the Divinity School of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, in 1866; became a Roman Catholic in 1868; was librarian of the University of Pennsylvania in 1887-97; and became librarian of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in 1898.
He is the editor of the Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography, and the author of a number of articles on The descendants of Joran Kyn, the founder of Upland, and the chapters on New Sweden and New Albion in the Narrative and critical history of America.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), La Tour , Charles -1656 (search)