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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), African Methodist Episcopal Church ,
African Methodist Episcopal Church,
A religious sect established in Philadelphia in 1816, by colored members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
The first bishop chosen by the convention that founded the Church was the Rev. Richard Allen.
In 1794, under his direction, the first church for colored Methodists in the United States was built in Philadelphia.
The government and doctrine of the Church is substantially the same as that of the body from which it withdrew.
Its territory is divided into two annual conferences, and it has a general conference which meets once every four years. In 1900 it reported as follows: Ministers, 5,559; churches, 5,775; and members, 673,504.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Allibone , Samuel Austin 1816 - (search)
Allibone, Samuel Austin, 1816-
Bibliographer: born in Philadelphia.
April 17, 1816.
He was the author of A critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American authors, living and deceased, from the earliest accounts to the latter half of the nineteenth century.
This work is in 3 volumes royal octavo.
and exhibits evidence of great care, industry, good judgment, most extensive research, and immense labor in its preparation.
Dr. Allibone spent many years in gathering and arranging his materials.
The volumes were published in 1859, 1870, and 1871.
The work contains notices of 47,000 authors, with forty classified indexes of subjects.
Dr. Allibone contributed articles to the North American review, the Evangelical review, and other periodicals, and was the author of some religious controversial essays.
He also privately printed and circulated a number of tracts.
He was librarian of the Lenox Library in New York City at the time of his death, Sept. 2, 1889.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Asbury , Francis 1745 -1816 (search)
Asbury, Francis, 1745-1816
First bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America; born at Handsworth, Staffordshire, England. Aug. 26, 1745.
In his twenty-third year he became an itinerant preacher under the guidance of John Wesley, and came to the United States in 1771.
The next year Wesley appointed him general superintendent of the Methodist churches in America, and he held that office until the close of the Revolution, when the Methodists here organized as a body separate from the Church in England. Mr. Asbury was consecrated bishop by Dr. Coke in 1784.
After that, for thirty-two years, he travelled yearly through the United States, ordaining not less than 3,000 ministers, and preaching not less than 17.000 sermons.
He died in Spottsylvania, Va., March 31, 1816.
Ashmun, Jehudi, 1794-
Missionary; born in Champlain, N. Y., in April, 1794; was graduated at Bowdoin College in 1816, and prepared for the ministry.
He was sent with a reinforcement to the colony of Liberia in 1822, where he acted as legislator, soldier, and engineer in constructing fortifications.
He had a force of only thirty-five men and boys, with which he repulsed an attack of 800 natives.
His wife died, and he, weakened by fevers, was compelled by broken health, to sail for home.
A fortnight after his arrival in Boston, Mass., he died, Aug. 25, 1828.
He had made the settlement in Liberia orderly and permanent during the six years he was there.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bank of the United States . (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Banks , Nathaniel Prentiss 1816 -1894 (search)
Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894
Military officer; born in Waltham, Mass., Jan. 30, 1816.
His early education was obtained at a common school.
He became a lawyer and Democratic orator; edited a newspaper in Waltham and Lowell; and during the administration of President Polk held office in the Boston Custom-house.
In 1849 he was a member of the Massachusetts legislature, and speaker of the Lower House in 1851-52.
He was president of the State Constitutional Convention in 1853, and a member of Congress in 1853-57, separating from the Democratic party on the question of slavery; and, after a long contest, was elected speaker of the House of Representatives in 1855. Mr. Banks was chosen governor of Massachusetts in 1858, and served until 1861.
When the Civil War broke out he
Nathaniel Prentiss Banks. was president of the Illinois Central Railroad.
Offering his services to President Lincoln, he was made a major-general of volunteers May 16, 1861, and appointed to command t
Bates, Edward, 1793-
Statesman; born in Belmont, Va., Sept. 4, 1793; served in the Virginia militia in 1813; removed to Missouri in 1814; and began practising law in 1816.
He was a prominent anti-slavery man, and during the National Republican Convention of 1860( he received 48 votes on the first ballot for President.
Mr. Lincoln after his election appointed Mr. Bates Attorney-General.
He resigned in 1864, and returned to his home in St. Louis, where he died.
March 25, 1869.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Benjamin , Judah Philip 1811 -1884 (search)
Benjamin, Judah Philip, 1811-1884
Lawyer; was born in St. Croix, West Indies, Aug. 11,
Judah Philip Henjamin. 1811; was of Jewish parentage, and in 1816 his family settled in Savannah, Ga. Judah entered Yale College, but left it, in 1827, without graduating, and became a lawyer in New Orleans.
He taught school for a while, married one of his pupils, and became a leader of his profession in Louisiana.
From 1853 to 1861 he was United States Senator.
He was regarded for several years as leader of the Southern wing of the Democratic party; and, when the question of secession divided the people, he withdrew from the Senate, and, with his coadjutor, John Slidell, he promoted the great insurrection.
He became Attorney-General of the Southern Confederacy, acting Secretary of War, and Secretary of State.
After the war he went to London, where he practised his profession with success.
He died in Paris, May 8, 1884.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bible Society ,
Bible Society, American.
The first Bible Society in the United States was formed in Philadelphia in 1802.
When, in 1816, the American Bible Society was organized, there were between fifty and sixty societies in the Union.
Delegates from these met in New York in May, 1816, and founded the American Bible Society.
Elias BO<*>INOT (q. v.) was chosen president, and thirty-six managers were appointed, all of whom were laymen of seven different denominations.
The avowed object of the society was to encourage a wider circulation of the Holy Seriptures without note or comment.
In the first year of its existence it issued 6,410 copies of the Seriptures.
In 1898-99 the issues aggregated 1,380,892 copies, and, in the eighty-three years of its existence then closed, 65,962,505 copies.
In 1836 the Baptists seceded from the American Bible Society, and founded the American and foreign Bible Society, conducted entirely by that denomination.
A secession from this Baptist Bible Society occur