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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bonneville, Benjamin L. E., 1795-1878 (search)
Bonneville, Benjamin L. E., 1795-1878 Explorer; born in France about 1795; was graduated at West Point in 1815; engaged in explorations in the Rocky Mountains in 1831-36. Washington Irving edited his journal entitled Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West. He served throughout the Mexican War, and was wounded at the battle of Churubusco. In 1865 he was brevetted brigadier-general for long and faithful service. He died at Fort Smith, Ark., June 12, 1878.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 (search)
eventieth year. in 1864, his birthday was celebrated by a festival at the Century Club by prominent literary men. His translations of Homer into English blank verse were commended as the best rendering of the Epics in his native tongue ever made. His occasional speeches and more formal orations are models of stately style, sometimes enlivened by quiet humor. In prose composition Mr. Bryant was equally happy as in poetry in the choice of pure and elegant English words, with great delicacy of fancy pervading the whole. His last poem was published in the Sunday-School Times, Philadelphia, Feb. 22, 1878, on the subject of Washington, and written at the request of the editor of that paper. At the time of his death he was engaged with Sydney Howard Gay in the preparation of a History of the United States. He had also just completed, with the assistance of the late Evart A. Duykinck, a new and carefully annotated edition of Shakespeare's works. He died in New York City, June 12. 1878.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
n the House on motion of Mr. Potter to investigate alleged frauds in the Presidential election in Louisiana and Florida......May 17, 1878 Further retirement of legal-tender notes forbidden; the balance, $350,000,000, to be kept in circulation, by act......May 31, 1878 Bill to repeal the bankrupt law passed......June 7, 1878 Act providing for government of the District of Columbia by three commissioners......June 11, 1878 William Cullen Bryant, born 1794, dies at New York......June 12, 1878 It is made unlawful to employ the army as a posse comitatus to execute laws except as expressly authorized by the Constitution......June 18, 1878 Act for additional life-saving stations and for organizing the life-saving service......June 18, 1878 Second session adjourns......June 20, 1878 Yellow fever prevails in the Southern States, beginning at New Orleans about......July 10-15, 1878 Gen. B. F. Butler joins the Greenback party......Aug. 10, 1878 Repeal of bankrupt la
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, A Glossary of Important Contributors to American Literature (search)
published in 1821, included Thanatopsis and the Lines to a water-fowl. Numerous other volumes appeared between that date and 1864. The translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey were published between 1870 and 1872. In 1825 he gave up the practice of the law to become editor of The New York Review. A year later he became assistant editor of The New York evening post, and in 1829 assumed the editorship. This responsible position he held till his death, which occurred in New York City, June 12, 1878. Channing, William Ellery He was born at Newport, R. I., April 7, 1780. Here his boyhood was passed, and here he received his first strong religious impressions. Graduating from Harvard, he became an instructor in a family in Richmond, Va., where he acquired an abhorrence of slavery; later he studied theology at Cambridge, and his first and only pastoral settlement was in Boston. He became widely known as the leader of the Unitarians, and his numerous writings, published singly