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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Patch, Samuel 1807- (search)
Patch, Samuel 1807- Diver; born in Rhode Island in 1807. As an athlete he became known as a diver, making his first celebrated leap from the bridge over the Passaic River at Paterson, N. J. He met his death Nov. 13, 1829, in jumping from a bridge over the Genesee River at Rochester, N. Y., at a height of 125 feet above the water.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pomeroy, John Norton 1828-1885 (search)
Pomeroy, John Norton 1828-1885 Lawyer; born in Rochester, N. Y., April 12, 1828; graduated at Hamilton College in 1847; admitted to the bar in 1851; became Professor of Law in the New York University in 1864-69; practised in Rochester in 1869-78; and was Professor of Law in the University of California in 1878-85. He was the author of An introduction to municipal law; An introduction to the constitutional law of the United States; Remedies and remedial rights according to the Reformed Amer York University in 1864-69; practised in Rochester in 1869-78; and was Professor of Law in the University of California in 1878-85. He was the author of An introduction to municipal law; An introduction to the constitutional law of the United States; Remedies and remedial rights according to the Reformed American procedure; A treatise on the specific performance of Contract; A treatise on equity Jurisprudence; and a Treatise on riparian rights. He died in San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 15, 1885.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Schoonmaker, Martinus 1737-1824 (search)
Schoonmaker, Martinus 1737-1824 Clergyman; born in Rochester, N. Y., in 1737; licensed to preach in 1765; held several pastorates till 1784, when he took charge of the six congregations in Kings county; was among the last ministers who preached in Dutch. During the Revolutionary War he was an active and influential Whig. He died in Flatbush, N. Y., in 1824.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Seward, Theodore Frelinghuysen 1835- (search)
Seward, Theodore Frelinghuysen 1835- Musician; born in Florida, N. Y., Jan. 25, 1835: studied music; organist of a church in New London, Conn., in 1857-59; in Rochester, N. Y., in 1859-62, and in New York City since 1862; taught vocal music; edited and compiled many sacred musicbooks, edited several music periodicals; introduced the tonic sol-fa system of instruction in the United States in 1880; founded the Brotherhood of Christian Unity in 1891; and the Don't Worry circles in 1897-98; and is author of Hadesian theology; A plea for the Christian year, etc. Seward, William Henry
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Spiritualism, or spiritism, (search)
mposture by scientific tests. Emmanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) asserted his intelligent communion with departed spirits and his direct knowledge of a spiritual world, reciting at length his detailed personal experience. The more recent forms of spiritualism may be said to have begun in Hydeville, Wayne co., N. Y., in 1848, when the daughters of John D. Fox, Margaret (1834-93) and Kate (1836-92), first practised what is known as spirit-rappings. From Hydeville, Fox soon after removed to Rochester. The excitement aroused by the rappings soon spread far and wide. Many mediums arose professing similar powers. Andrew Jackson Davis published Principles of nature, etc., 1845, said to have been dictated to the Rev. William Fishbough in New York City, while the author was in a clairvoyant or trance state; many other works since on a variety of subjects, all ascribed to spirit dictation, but of no scientific value. Judge John W. Edmonds, of New York (1799-1874), adopted the belief in 18
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stanton, Henry Brewster 1805-1887 (search)
Stanton, Henry Brewster 1805-1887 Journalist; born in Griswold, Conn., June 29, 1805; settled in Rochester, N. Y., in 1826, and became a writer for The Monroe Telegraph; was a strong abolitionist. In 1834, while speaking at the anniversary celebration of the American Anti-slavery Society in New York, he encountered the, first of numerous mobs that he met in his tour through the country. He married Elizabeth Cady in 1840, and with her travelled in England and France, where they worked for the relief of the slaves. Returning to the United States, he was admitted to the bar, and practised in Boston. In 1847 he settled in Seneca Falls, N. Y., which he represented in the State Senate. In 1868-87 he was an editor on the New York Sun. He was the author of Sketches of reforms and Reformers in Great Britain and Ireland; and Random recollections. He died in New York City, Jan. 4, 1887.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stewart, Austin (search)
Stewart, Austin Author; born of slave parents, in Prince William county, Va., about 1793; escaped and went to Rochester, N. Y., in 1817, and was there successful in business; was vice-president of the national convention of negroes in Philadelphia in 1830; became an agent for the Anti-slavery standard in 1839. He was the author of Twenty-two years a slave and forty years a Freeman. He died after 1860.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Telescope. (search)
y made elsewhere in the world. He and his sons went on making large and larger instruments, till they ground the 36-inch telescope for the Lick Observatory, in California, and the son, Alvan G., made the 40-inch Yerkes telescope for the observatory of the University of Chicago, erected at Williams Bay, Wis. The movable part of the latter, which turns on the polar axis, weighs about 12 tons, and the clock weighs 1 1/2 tons. The refracting telescopes of the Naval Observatory, at Washington, 33 feet long, and at the Leander McCormick Observatory, University of Virginia, both made by Alvan Clark & Sons, have a 26-inch aperture. The largest reflecting telescope in the United States is at Harvard University, 28-inch mirror. Other notable telescopes are at Princeton University (Clark, 23-inch); Rochester, N. Y. (Clark, 16-inch); Madison, Wis. (Clark, 15.5-inch); Dudley, at Albany, N. Y. (Fitz, 13-inch); University of Michigan (Fitz, 12.5-inch); and Middletown University (Clark, 12-inch).
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
..Nov. 5, 1872 Great fire in Boston; loss $80,000,000......Nov. 9-10, 1872 Susan B. Anthony and fourteen other females prosecuted for illegal voting in Rochester, N. Y.......Nov. 18, 1872 Modoc war in California......Nov. 29, 1872 Horace Greeley, born 1811, dies at Pleasantville, N. Y.......Nov. 29, 1872 Nicaragua e 1873 Nearly all the Modocs surrender, May 22; Captain Jack and the remainder surrender......June 1, 1873 Susan B. Anthony fined $100 for illegal voting at Rochester......June 18, 1873 Ravenscraig, of Kirkcaldy, Scotland, in lat. 75° 38′ N., and long. 65° 35′ W., rescues the remainder of the crew of the Polaris......June, N. Y., aged ninety-two......May 10, 1893 Locomotive engine No. 999 of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad runs a mile in thirty-two seconds between Rochester and Buffalo, N. Y.......May 11, 1893 Geary Chinese exclusion act upheld as constitutional by the Supreme Court in special session; arguments begun, May 10; de<
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Minnesota, (search)
iquor law so as to allow local option......1870 Minneapolis and St. Anthony incorporated as one city......1872 Act passes legislature establishing a State board of health......1872 Act passed to create a fund for an inebriate asylum at Rochester, by tax upon saloon-keepers......1873 State Treasurer William Seeger impeached by the House of Representatives, Feb. 26; pleads guilty, May 22, without any corrupt or wilful intent, and is removed from office......1873 Amendment to the cosuperintend the books and financial accounts of public educational, charitable, penal, and reformatory institutions of the State......1878 Minnesota Amber-cane Growers' Association organized at Minneapolis......1878 State insane asylum at Rochester, provided for by act of legislature in 1878, opened......Jan. 1, 1879 Minnesota school for the feeble-minded opened at Faribault......1879 Act of legislature creating farmers' board of trade, to assume supervision over the agricultural in
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