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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gay , Sydney Howard 1814 - (search)
Gay, Sydney Howard 1814-
Historian; born in Hingham, Mass., in 1814; began the study of law, but abandoned it and connected himself with the anti-slavery movement; was editor of the Anti-slavery standard in 1844-57; managing editor of the New York Tribune for some years; and subsequently was connected with the Chicago Tribune and the New York Evening post.
He wrote a History of the United States (4 volumes), to which William Cullen Bryant furnished a preface, and also many valuable suggestions.
He died on Staten Island, N. Y., June 25, 1888.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gould , Benjamin Apthorp 1824 -1896 (search)
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp 1824-1896
Astronomer; born in Boston, Mass., Sept. 27, 1824; graduated at Harvard in 1844, and went abroad for further study in 1845.
Returning to the United States in 1848 he settled in Cambridge, Mass., and early in 1849 started the Astronomical journal, in which were published the results of many original investigations.
In 1851 he took charge of the longitude operations of the United States Coast Survey.
After the Atlantic cable was laid in 1866, he went to Valencia, Ireland, and founded a station where he could determine the difference in longitude between America and Europe.
He also, by exact observations, connected the two continents.
These were the first determinations, by telegraph, of transatlantic longitude, and they resulted in founding a regular series of longitudinal measurements from Louisiana to the Ural Mountains.
In 1856-59 Dr. Gould was director of the Dudley Observatory in Albany, N. Y. In this building the normal clock was first e
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Graham , William Alexander 1804 -1875 (search)
Graham, William Alexander 1804-1875
Senator; born in Lincoln county, N. C., Sept. 5, 1804; graduated at the University of North Carolina in 1824; admitted to the bar; began practice in Hillsboro, N. C.; United States Senator in 1840-43; governor of North Carolina in 1844-48; and Secretary of the Navy in 1850-52.
He was a Senator in the Confederate Congress from 1864 until the close of the war. He died in Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Aug. 11, 1875.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Greely , Adolph Washington 1844 - (search)
Greely, Adolph Washington 1844-
Explorer; born in Newburyport, Mass., March 27, 1844; was liberally educated; and at the breaking out of the Civil War joined the volunteer army and served faithfully until the close of the strife, when he was commissioned a lieutenant in the regular army and assigned to the signal service.
In 1881 he commanded an expedition sent into the arctic regions by the government to establish a series of circumpolar stations for scientific observations, in accordance with a plan of the International Geographical Congress held at Hamburg in 1879.
He landed with his party of twenty-five at Discovery Harbor, in lat. 81° 44′ N., on Aug. 12, 1881.
They made their permanent camp at Cape Sabine in October, 1883, where they suffered intensely for want of supplies which had failed to reach them.
There all but six of the twenty-five died of starvation.
The six, of whom Lieutenant Greely was one, were rescued by a relief party under Capt. Winfield S. Schley (q. v.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Greener , Richard Theodore 1844 - (search)
Greener, Richard Theodore 1844-
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 30, 1844; was the first negro graduate at Harvard College, where he finished with a brilliant record in 1870; became a lawyer in 1877; later settled in New York.
He has made many addresses, including Charles Sumner, the Idealist, statesman, and scholar; Eulogy on the life and services of William Lloyd garrison; The intellectual position of the negro, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hale , George Silsbee 1825 -1897 (search)
Hale, George Silsbee 1825-1897
Lawyer; born in Keene, N. H., Sept. 24, 1825; graduated at Harvard College in 1844; admitted to the bar in 1850, and began practice in Boston.
His publications include Memoirs of Joel Parker and Theron Metcalf.
He also edited the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth volumes of the United States digest.
He died in Schooner Head, Me., July 28, 1897.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Halleck , Henry wager 1815 - (search)
Halleck, Henry wager 1815-
Military officer; born in Westernville, Oneida co., N. Y., Jan. 16, 1815; graduated at West Point in 1839, entering the engineer corps.
Until June, 1840, he was assistant professor at West Point, and from 1841 to 1844 was employed on the fortifications in New York Harbor.
In 1845 he visited the military establishments of Europe.
In the winter of 1845-46 he delivered at the Lowell Institute, Boston, a series of lectures on the science of war, afterwards published in book form with the title of Elements of military art and Science.
He served in California and on the Pacific coast during the war with Mexico, in which he distinguished himself.
He was on the staff of Commodore Shubrick at the capture of Mazatlan, and was made lieutenant-governor.
From Aug. 13, 1847, to Dec. 20, 1849, he was secretary of the province and Territory of California, and had a large share in preparing the State constitution.
He left the army in 1854, and began the practice
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Halsall , William Formby 1844 - (search)
Halsall, William Formby 1844-
Artist; born in Kirkdale, England, March 20, 1844; removed to Boston, where he began to study fresco-painting in 1860, but in the following year joined the navy, and served until 1863.
Later he devoted himself to marine painting in Boston.
His works include Chasing a blockade-runner in a fog; First fight of ironclads, monitor and Merrimac, which was purchased by the government and hung in the United States Senate Chamber; The Mayflower, now in Memorial Hall, Plymouth, Mass., etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hancock , Winfield Scott 1824 - (search)
Hancock, Winfield Scott 1824-
Military officer; born in Montgomery Square, Montgomery co., Pa., Feb. 14, 1824; graduated at West Point in 1844: served in the war with Mexico; and left that country
Winfield Scott Hancock. quartermaster of his regiment.
In September, 1861, he was made brigadier-general of volunteers, and served in the campaign on the Virginia peninsula in 1862. He was distinguished in the battles of South Mountain and Antietam.
Having been made major-general of volunteers in November, 1862, he led a division at Fredericksburg in December; also at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, in 1863.
Placed in command of the 2d Army Corps, he led it in the campaign of the Army of the Potomac in 1864-65.
In August, 1865, he was made a brigadier-general in the United States army, and in 1866 was brevetted major-general.
He was in command of different military departments after the war; and was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the Presidency of the United States in
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hawley , Charles 1819 -1885 (search)
Hawley, Charles 1819-1885
Author; born in Catskill, N. Y., Aug. 19, 1819; graduated at Williams College in 1840, and at the Union Theological Seminary in 1844: pastor of a Presbyterian church in Auburn, N. Y., in 1858-85; and a special United States commissioner to Denmark in 1867.
He was the author of Early chapters of Cayuga history; Early chapters of Seneca history; History of first Presbyterian Church of Auburn, N. Y.
He died in Auburn, N. Y., Nov. 26, 1885.