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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1 1 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays 1 1 Browse Search
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill) 1 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers 1 1 Browse Search
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Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 1 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Habersham, Joseph 1751-1775 (search)
esident of the council and acting governor in 1769-72. Joseph was a member of the first patriotic committee in Georgia in 1774, and ever afterwards took an active part in the defence of the liberties of his country. He helped to seize gunpowder in the arsenal Joseph Habersham. in 1775, and was a member of the council of safety. He was one of a company who captured a government ship (July, 1775), with munitions of war, including 15,000 lbs. of gunpowder. He led some volunteers who made the royal governor, Wright, a prisoner (Jan. 18, 1776), and confined him to his house under a guard. When Savannah was taken by the British, early in 1778, he took his family to Virginia; but in the siege of Savannah (1779) by Lincoln and D'Estaing, he held the office of colonel, which he retained till the close of the war. He was Postmaster-General in 1795-1801, and president of the Savannah branch of the United States Bank from 1802 till its charter expired. He died in Savannah, Nov. 17, 1815.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Harper, Robert Goodloe 1765-1825 (search)
Harper, Robert Goodloe 1765-1825 Senator; born in Fredericksburg, Va., in 1765; removed to North Carolina, and towards the close of the Revolutionary War served as a trooper under General Greene; graduated at Princeton in 1785; admitted to the bar in 1786; and served in Congress from 1795 to 1801. During the War of 1812 he was in active service, attaining the rank of major-general. Afterwards he was elected to the United States Senate from Maryland, to which place he had removed upon his marriage with the daughter of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, but resigned in 1816, when he was the Federal candidate for Vice-President. He published an Address on the British treaty in 1796, and a pamphlet on the Dispute between the United States and France in 1797. He died in Baltimore, Md., Jan. 15, 1825.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Harrison, William Henry 1773-1812 (search)
Wayne, and with him went through the campaign in Ohio, in 1794. After the treaty of Greenville (1794), he was placed in command of Fort Washington, on the site of Cincinnati, and was promoted to captain. While on duty at North Bend, he was married to Anna, daughter of Judge Symmes, an extensive land-owner there. In 1797 he was appointed secretary of the Northwest Territory, and left the army. In 1799 he became a delegate to Congress, and was made the first governor of Indian Territory in 1801. That office he held until 1813, and, as superintendent of Indian affairs, performed efficient service. In the course of his administration, he made thirteen important treaties with different tribes. Harrison, at the head of troops, gained a victory over the Indians, Nov. 7, 1811, at Tippecanoe (q. v.). He was in command of the Army of the Northwest in the second war for independence, in which post he was distinguished for prudence and bravery. Resigning his commission in 1814, he was em
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hazard, Rowland Gibson 1801-1888 (search)
Hazard, Rowland Gibson 1801-1888 Author; born in South Kingston, R. I., Oct. 9, 1801; brother of Thomas Robinson Haz- Ard; became prominent in the politics of his State. His publications include Lecture on the causes of the decline of political and National morality; Essays on the resources of the United States; Essays on finance and hours of labor, etc. He died in Peacedale, R. I., June 24, 1888.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Holland land Company. (search)
sed and surrendered that portion of the land to which the Indian title was unextinguished, in consideration of which the State relinquished two-thirds of the contract price. In 1796 Robert Morris purchased from the State this portion also, extinguished the Indian title, sold off several large tracts upon the east side of and along the Genesee River, and mortgaged the residue to Wilhelm Willink, of Amsterdam, and eleven associates, called the Holland Land Company. This company, by the foreclosure of the mortgage, acquired full title to the land, surveyed it, and opened their first land office in Batavia, N. Y., in 1801. It was in this land speculation that Robert Morris was involved in financial ruin, and compelled to endure the privations of a debtor's prison for a long time. The Holland Land Company having sold the larger part of the ___domain, they, in 1805, conveyed the residue of the wild lands to several companies, who finally disposed of all to bona fide purchasers and settlers.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Howe, Samuel Gridley 1801-1876 (search)
Howe, Samuel Gridley 1801-1876 Philanthropist; born in Boston, Mass., Nov. 10, 1801; graduated at Brown University in 1821; became a physician; and sympathizing with the Greeks in their struggle for independence, went there in 1824, and served as a surgeon in the army and in other capacities until 1830. In 1831 he became interested in the establishment of an institution for the blind in Boston. The Pekin Institute was the result. It was put in operation in 1832, with Dr. Howe at its head. In that institution, through the unwearied efforts of Dr. Howe, Laura Bridgman, a deaf, dumb, and blind girl, became educated. Dr. Howe, while in Europe, preparatory to opening the institution, engaged a little in politics, and was in a Prussian prison about six weeks. He was ever active in every good work. He went to Greece again in 1867, as bearer of supplies to the Cretans in their struggle with the Turks. In 1871 he was one of the commissioners sent by the government of the United Stat
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Howell, Richard 1753-1802 (search)
Howell, Richard 1753-1802 Military officer; born in Newark, Del., in 1753; was one of the number indicted for participating in firing the cargo of tea at Greenwich, N. J., in November, 1774; promoted major in 1776; governor of New Jersey in 1794-1801. He wrote a poem to welcome Washington to Trenton, N. J., when the latter passed through that city on his way to New York to be inaugurated President. He died in Trenton, N. J., April 28, 1802.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Howell, Robert Boyte Crawford 1801-1868 (search)
Howell, Robert Boyte Crawford 1801-1868 Clergyman; born in Wayne county, N. C., March 10, 1801; graduated at Columbian College, Washington, in 1826; ordained in the Baptist Church, Jan. 27, 1827; pastor at Nashville, Tenn., for many years. During the Civil War he was a strong advocate of the Confederacy. His publications include The early Baptists of Virginia, etc. He died in Nashville, Tenn., April 5, 1868.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ingersoll, Charles Jared 1782-1862 (search)
Ingersoll, Charles Jared 1782-1862 Statesman; born in Philadelphia, Oct. 3, 1782; became a lawyer, and was attached to the legation of Rufus King when he was minister to France. After travelling in Europe, he returned, and published a poem in 1800, and a tragedy in 1801. In 1810 he published a political satire, called Inchiquin the Jesuit's letters. In 1813 he was in Congress, and from 1815 to 1829 he was United States district-attorney. He was again in Congress from 1841 to 1847, when he was a Democratic leader. President Polk nominated him minister to France, but the Senate did not confirm the nomination. He wrote a history of the second war between the United States and Great Britain. He died in Philadelphia, Jan. 14, 1862.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Inman, Henry 1801-1899 (search)
Inman, Henry 1801-1899 Painter; born in Utica, N. Y., Oct. 20, 1801; was a pupil of John Wesley Jarvis, the portrait-painter, to whom he was apprenticed for seven years. He painted landscapes and historical pictures, but portraits were his chief subjects, and he introduced lithography into the United States. In 1844 he went to England, where, becoming the guest of Wordsworth, the poet, he painted his portrait. He also painted the portraits of other distinguished men while in England. He had begun painting an historical picture for the national Capitol, representing Daniel Boone in the wilds of Kentucky, at the time of his death, in New York City, Jan. 17, 1846. Author; born in New York, July 30, 1837; educated at the Brooklyn public schools and Athenian Academy, and is the author of The old Santa Fe trail; Great Salt Lake trail, tales of the trail; The ranch on the Oxhide; Pioneer from Kentucky, etc. He died in Topeka, Kan., Nov. 13, 1899.
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