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Abbott, Edward,
Fourth son of Jacob Abbott, was born July 15, 1841; was graduated at the University of the City of New York in 1860.
During 1862 and 1863 he was connected with the Sanitary Commission of the Army of the Potomac.
He was a Congregational minister from 1863 to 1878.
when he entered the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Among his published writings are Paragraph histories of the Revolution; Revolutionary times; United States, etc.
Abbott, Edward,
Fourth son of Jacob Abbott, was born July 15, 1841; was graduated at the University of the City of New York in 1860.
During 1862 and 1863 he was connected with the Sanitary Commission of the Army of the Potomac.
He was a Congregational minister from 1863 to 1878.
when he entered the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Among his published writings are Paragraph histories of the Revolution; Revolutionary times; United States, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Abert , John James , 1778 -1863 (search)
Abert, John James, 1778-1863
Military engineer; born in Shepherdstown, Va., Sept. 27, 1778: was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1811; soon afterwards resigned; studied law, and was admitted to the bar; served as a private soldier in the defence of the national capital in the War of 1812, and in 1814 was re-appointed to the army as a topographical engineer, becoming chief of the corps in 1838.
He was associated with the construction of many of the early national works of engineering, and was one of the organizers of the National Institute of Science, which was merged into the Smithsonian Institution.
He died in Washington, D. C., Dec. 27, 1863.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Adams , Charles Francis , 2nd 1835 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Alden , Henry Mills , 1836 - (search)
Alden, Henry Mills, 1836-
Editor; born in Mount Tabor, Vt., Nov. 11, 1836; was graduated at Williams College in 1857, and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1860.
In the winter of 1863-64 he delivered before the Lowell Institute of Boston a series of twelve lectures on The structure of paganism; 1863-69 he was managing editor of Harper's weekly, and in 1869 became editor of Harper's magazine.
He is the author of The ancient Lady of sorrow, a poem; God in his world; A study of death; and (1836; was graduated at Williams College in 1857, and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1860.
In the winter of 1863-64 he delivered before the Lowell Institute of Boston a series of twelve lectures on The structure of paganism; 1863-69 he was managing editor of Harper's weekly, and in 1869 became editor of Harper's magazine.
He is the author of The ancient Lady of sorrow, a poem; God in his world; A study of death; and (with A. H. Guernsey) of Harper's pictorial history of the Great rebellion.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Altgeld , John Peter , 1847 - (search)
Altgeld, John Peter, 1847-
Lawyer; born in Germany, in December, 1847; was brought to the United States in infancy by his parents, who settled near Mansfield, O.; received a public school education; entered the Union army in 1863, and served till the close of the war. In 1869 he was admitted to the Missouri bar; in 1874 was elected State attorney of Andrew county, Mo.; in the following year removed to Chicago; in 1886-91 was judge of the superior court of that city; and in 1893-97 was governor of Illinois.
His action in pardoning (June 27, 1893) Fielden, Schwab, and Neebe, who had been imprisoned for complicity in the Haymarket atrocity by alleged anarchists, excited strong and general criticism (see anarchists; Chicago). His publications include Our penal machinery and its victims; Lice questions; Oratory; Its requirements and its rewards (1901); etc.
Ames, Adelbert, 1835-
Military officer; born in Rockland, Me., Oct. 31, 1835; was graduated at West Point in 1861; and for his gallant conduct in the Battle of Bull Run (1861) was brevetted major.
He served in the campaigns on the Peninsula in 1862.
At Chancellorsville he led a brigade, also at Gettysburg, in 1863, and before Petersburg, in 1864, he commanded a division.
In the expedition against Fort Fisher, near the close of that year, he commanded a division of colored troops, and afterwards led the same in North Carolina.
In the spring of 1865 he was brevetted major-general of volunteers and brigadier-general, U. S. A. In 1871 he was a representative of Mississippi in the United States Senate; was governor in 1874; and was appointed a brigadier-general of volunteers June 20, 1898, serving through the war with Spain.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Amnesty proclamations. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Anderson , Robert , -1871 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Andrews , Charles McLean , 1863 - (search)
Andrews, Charles McLean, 1863-
Historian; born at Wethersfield, Conn., Feb. 22, 1863; was graduated at Trinity College, Hartford, in 1884; and was called to the Chair of History in Bryn Mawr College in 1889.
His publications include The River towns of Connecticut; The old English Manor; The Historical development of modern Europe; and articles in reviews and historical periodicals.