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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Government, instrument of. (search)
Lee, Ann 1736-1784
Founder of the American Society of Shakers; born in Manchester, England, Feb. 29, 1736; was a cook in a public institution when she married a blacksmith named Stanley.
In 1758 she joined the Shakers in England.
The society had just been formed by James and Jane Wardley, Quakers.
About 1770 she began to prophesy against the wickedness of marriage as the root of all human depravity, and resumed her maiden name of Lee. She came to America with some followers in 1774, and in 1776 they established themselves at Niskayuna, near Watervliet, where she was the recognized leader of the sect.
Being opposed to war, she was suspected of being a British emissary, and, being charged with high treason, was imprisoned at Albany and Poughkeepsie until released by Governor Clinton in 1777, when she returned to Watervliet, and there her followers greatly increased.
During a religious revival in New Lebanon (since in Columbia county, N. Y.) in 1780 many persons were converted
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Moody , Dwight Lyman 1837 -1899 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Odd-fellows, (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Phillips , Wendell 1811 -1884 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Protection. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Southern Independence Association . (search)
Thomson, Elihu 1853-
Electrician; born in Manchester, England, March 29, 1853; graduated at Central High School in 1870; appointed Professor of Chemistry in Central High School in 1870; connected with the Thomson-Houston and General Electric companies for the past twenty years. Mr. Thomson has patented many hundreds of inventions bearing upon electric welding, lighting, heating, and power.
He was made an officer of the Legion of Honor by the French government in 1889.
See electricity.