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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sears, Robert 1810-1892 (search)
Sears, Robert 1810-1892 Publisher; born in St. John, New Brunswick, June 28, 1810; settled in New York City in 1832; began the publication of illustrated works in 1839; and did much to develop the art of wood engraving in the United States.. Among his publications the most important is the Pictorial history of the United States. He died in Toronto, Canada, Feb. 17, 1892.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sewall, Jonathan 1728- (search)
Sewall, Jonathan 1728- Lawyer; born in Boston, Mass., Aug. 24. 1728: graduated at Harvard College in 1748, and in early life was the intimate associate and friend of John Adams. Like Adams, he was a school-teacher; became a lawyer in 1767; and was appointed attorney-general of Massachusetts. In 1769 he began a suit for the freedom of a negro slave, and was successful, two years before the settlement of the case of the negro Somerset, which Blackstone commended so highly, and Cowper commemorated in poetry. He and Adams finally differed in politics, Sewall taking sides with the crown. When the Revolutionary War broke out, he was residing in the house, at Cambridge, which Washington afterwards occupied as his headquarters, for Sewall went to England, and was among the proscribed in Massachusetts in 1779. In 1788 he removed to St. John, N. B., where he was judge of the admiralty court until his death, Sept. 26, 1796.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Upham, Charles Wentworth 1802-1875 (search)
Upham, Charles Wentworth 1802-1875 Author; born in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, May 4, 1802; graduated at Harvard College in 1821, and at its Divinity School in 1824; left the ministry on account of bronchial trouble in 1844; was president of the Massachusetts Senate in 1857-58; and member of Congress in 1853-55. His publications include Lectures on witchcraft, comprising a history of the Salem delusion, 1692; Life of John C. Fremont; Memoir of Francis Peabody; Salem witchcraft and cotton Mather, a reply; Life of Sir Henry Vane, etc. He died in Salem, Mass., June 14, 1875.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
Fort Bridger, Utah6.12 Sacramento, Cal19.56 San Francisco, Cal21.69 San Diego, Cal9.16 Meadow Valley, Cal57.03 Dalles, Oregon21.74 Fort Hoskins, Oregon66.71 Fort Vancouver, Washington Territory38.84 Fort Colville, Wash. Ter.9.83 Neah Bay, Wash. Ter123.35 Sitka, Alaska83.39 Vera Cruz, Mexico183.20 Cordova, Mexico112.08 Bermuda55.34 San Domingo107.6 Havana, Cuba91.2 Rio Janeiro, Brazil59.2 Maranham277.00 Cayenne116.00 Toronto, Canada35.17 St. Johns, Newfoundland58.30 St. John, N. B.51.12 To these may be added the following figures of foreign rainfall:— London, England24.4 Liverpool, England34.5 Manchester, England36.2 Bath, England30.0 Truro, England44.0 Cambridge, England24.9 York, England23 Borrowdale, England141.54 Dublin, Ireland29.1 Cork, Ireland40.2 Limerick, Ireland35 Armagh, Ireland36.12 Aberdeen, Scotland28.87 Glasgow, Scotland21.33 Bergen, Norway88.61 Stockholm20.4 Copenhagen18.35 Berlin23.56 Mannheim22.47 Prague14.1 Cracow13.3
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Michigan Volunteers. (search)
isbury April 12. Catawba River, near Morgantown, April 17. Blue Ridge Mountains, Howard's Gap, April 22. Hudsonville April 23. Asheville April 25. Moved to Pulaski, Tenn., June 24, and duty there till July. Consolidated with 8th Michigan Cavalry July 20, 1865. Regiment lost during service 4 Officers and 24 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 114 Enlisted men by disease. Total 142. 1st Michigan United States Lancers. Organized at Detroit, Saginaw and St. John, Michigan, November 30, 1861, to February 20, 1862. Mustered out March 20, 1862. Chandler's Horse Guard Organized at Coldwater, Michigan, September 19, 1861. Mustered out November 22, 1861. 6th Michigan Regiment Heavy Artillery See 6th Regiment Infantry. Battery a 1st Michigan Regiment Light Artillery. （Loomis' Battery, Coldwater Artillery.） Attached to State Militia. Tendered its services to the government as an organization and accepted by the government April 23, 186
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 1: the Boston mob (second stage).—1835. (search)
thin the bounds when I say that my mission has far transcended my most sanguine expectations (Geo. Thompson at Glasgow, Jan. 25, 1836, Lib. 6.69. See also Letters and Addresses by Geo. Thompson during his Mission in the United States, Boston, 1837). The moral and material alliance with England, already ensured by his own visit to that country, was now, however, to be indissolubly cemented by Mr. Thompson's expulsion from the United States. In a parting letter to Henry C. Wright, dated St. John, N. B., November 25, 1835, the fugitive laid down the programme to be faithfully carried out in his native land: In leaving America I consulted usefulness, not safety. Ms. Understand me. I believe my life was sought. I believe many were prepared to take it—many more prepared to rejoice over the deed; and I left your country under the conviction that I could not go abroad without the almost certain prospect of death. But still, had there been reason to believe that by staying and falli
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Index to volumes I. And II. (search)
for G., 518; during Boston mob, 2.12, 27, 38; rejoins her husband, 29, 37; delicacy, 50; gifts from the Fair, 68; first-born, 83, 99; visit to N. Y., 114-117; at her father's deathbed, 120; second son, 208; third son, 385; to Brooklyn with G., 409; thanks to E. Pease, 417; company of her mother, 423.—Letters from G., 1.473, 2.46, 47, 49, 50, 67, 68, 96, 98, 105, 106, 107, 117, 209, 211, 227, 294, 355, 357, 358, 359, 362, 381, 385, 395.—See Helen E. Benson. Garrison, James Holley [b. St. John, N. B., July 10, 1800; d. Cambridgeport, Mass., Oct. 14, 1842], 1.16, 18; learns shoemaking in Lynn, 27; to Baltimore with his mother, 31, apprenticed at shoemaking, 32; runs away to sea, 32, 33, 53; sails from Boston, 516; redeemed from Navy, 2.329; ill health, 357; to Brooklyn, 358, 359, 409.—Letters from his mother, 1.35, G., 2.362, 413. Garrison, Joseph [b. Aug. 14, 1734; d. Jemseg, N. B., Feb., 1783], Maugerville grantee, 1.3, marriage, 4, occupation, 4, 5, loyalty, 4, 9, 10, character<
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 59: cordiality of senators.—last appeal for the Civil-rights bill. —death of Agassiz.—guest of the New England Society in New York.—the nomination of Caleb Cushing as chief-justice.—an appointment for the Boston custom-house.— the rescinding of the legislative censure.—last effort in debate.—last day in the senate.—illness, death, funeral, and memorial tributes.—Dec. 1, 1873—March 11, 1874. (search)
ampion he had been; and bending over him was his faithful secretary, Johnson, who was with him to the last. At hand through the day, except in brief absences, and often in his room, were H. L. Pierce, Judge Hoar, Schurz, Hooper, and Poore. Many waited in the study,—among whom were observed Mr. Blaine (the Speaker), Senators Morrill of Vermont and Windom, Montgomery Blair, and Frederick Douglass; and in the same room the chaplain of the Senate read passages from the fourteenth chapter of Saint John's Gospel, and offered a prayer. To Johnson and the two colored friends, who were raising him and changing his position, the senator expressed regret for the trouble he was giving them, saying to his secretary, You must be very tired; but you can soon rest. To Judge Hoar who, while chafing his hands, said, I am trying to warm you, he answered, You never will. To several persons he spoke anxiously, in very few words, of his civil-rights bill. It was the one thought, and the last public t
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Chapter 9: in the house of labor 1896-1897; aet. 77-78 (search)
got bravely over it, and I submit to health, comfort, delightful books, young company and good friends. Edifying, ain't it? ... September 15. In the cars, reading the Duke of Argyll's fine opuscule, Our [England's] Responsibilities for Turkey, my heart was lifted up in agonized prayer. I said, O God! give me a handwriting on the wall, that I may truly know what I can do for these people. And I resolved not to go back from the purpose which prompted this prayer. Arrived at St. John [New Brunswick] and was made very welcome. Reception in the evening by the ladies of the Council. Speeches: Rev. Mr. De Wars, Anglican minister, spoke of our taking A. A.W. to England. I wondered if this was my handwriting on the wall. October 10. Wheaton Seminary Club, Vendome. Reminiscences of Longfellow and Emerson.... As I was leaving one lady said to me, Mrs. Howe, you have shocked me very much, and I think that when you go to the other world, you will be sorry that you did not stay a
James Russell Lowell, Among my books, Milton. (search)
in the processes of his investigation, instead of giving us the sifted results in their bearing on the life and character of his subject, whether for help or hindrance. We are blinded with the dust of old papers ransacked by Mr. Masson to find out that they have no relation whatever to his hero. He had been wise if he had kept constantly in view what Milton himself says of those who gathered up personal traditions concerning the Apostles: With less fervency was studied what Saint Paul or Saint John had written than was listened to one that could say, Here he taught, here he stood, this was his stature, and thus he went habited; and 0, happy this house that harbored him, and that cold stone whereon he rested, this village where he wrought such a miracle. . . . . Thus while all their thoughts were poured out upon circumstances and the gazing after such men as had sat at table with the Apostles, . . . . by this means they lost their time and truanted on the fundamental grounds of saving
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