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Ford, Paul Leicester
Author; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1865; has published the The true George Washington; The many-sided Franklin; the political novels, The honorable Peter Sterling, and Janice Meredith; and has edited the writings of Christopher Columbus, .Thomas Jefferson, and John Dickinson; Bibliography of works written by and relating to Alexander Hamilton, and Essays on the Constitution of the United States.
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Franking privilege, the (search)
Franking privilege, the
Was a privilege of sending and receiving letters post free given to members of the British Parliament and of the Congress of the United States, and to certain public functionaries.
This privilege was abused, and it was abolished in Great Britain in 1840.
Congress bestowed upon Washington, on his retirement from the office of President of the republic, the privilege of free postage for the remainder of his life.
This privilege has been extended to all subsequent Presidents, and also to their widows.
The franking privilege was abolished in the United States in 1873, and each of the executive departments was supplied with a special set of postage-stamps for its official communications.
This plan also was abolished, and now official communications are sent by the departments in unstamped penalty envelopes, and Senators and Representatives are permitted to have mail packages forwarded simply bearing their name or frank.
Letters of soldiers and sailors in
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Freemasonry, (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Frelinghuysen , Frederick 1753 - (search)
Frelinghuysen, Frederick 1753-
Lawyer; born in Somerset county, N. J., April 13, 1753; graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1770, and became an eminent lawyer.
He was a member of the Continental Congress much of the time during the Revolutionary War, and served
Theodore Frelinghuysen. as a captain in the army.
Afterwards he filled various State and county offices, and in 1790 was appointed by Washington to lead an expedition against the western Indians, with the rank of major-general.
In 1793 he was chosen United States-Senator, and served three years. He died April 13, 1804.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fremont , John Charles 1813 -1890 (search)
Fry, Joshua 1754-1754
Military officer; born in Somersetshire, England; educated at Oxford, and was professor of mathematics in the College of William and Mary, in Virginia.
He served in public civil life in Virginia, and in 1754 was intrusted with the command of an expedition against the French on the head-waters of the Ohio.
He died at a place at the mouth of Will's Creek (now Cumberland), Md., while conducting the expedition, May 31, 1754.
He had been colonel of the militia (1750) and a member of the governor's council.
When Frye died, the command of the expedition to the Ohio was assumed by George Washington, who had been second in command.