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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Logan, Benjamin 1752-1802 (search)
Logan, Benjamin 1752-1802 Pioneer; born in Augusta county, Va., about 1752; removed to the banks of the Holston when twenty-one years old, and bought a farm and married. He became a sergeant in Bouquet's expedition, and in 1774 was in Dunmore's expedition. Removing to Kentucky in 1775, in 1776 he took his family to Logan's Fort, near Harrodsburg. There he was attacked by a large force of Indians, but they were repulsed. He was second in command of an expedition against the Indians at Chillicothe, under Colonel Bowman, in July, 1779. In 1788 he conducted an expedition against the Northwestern tribes, burning their villages and destroying their crops. In 1792 he was a member of the convention that framed the first constitution for Kentucky. He died in Shelby county, Ky., Dec. 11, 1802.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lyman, Theodore 1792-1849 (search)
Lyman, Theodore 1792-1849 Author; born in Boston, Mass., Feb. 20, 1792; graduated at Harvard College in 1810; member of the Massachusetts legislature in 1820-25; mayor of Boston in 1834-35. During the latter year he saved William Lloyd Garrison from the fury of a mob, endangering his own life. He was the author of Account of the Hartford convention; The diplomacy of the United States with foreign Nations, etc. He died in Brookline, Mass., July 18, 1849.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), McPherson, William 1751- (search)
McPherson, William 1751- Military officer born in Philadelphia in 1751; was appointed a cadet in the British army at the age of thirteen; and became adjutant of a regiment. He joined the continental army on the Hudson at the close of 1779 and was made a brevet-major by washington. Serving as aide to Lafayette for a while, he was appointed to the command of a partisan corps of cavalry, which served in Virginia in 1781. President Washington appointed him surveyor of the port of Philadelphia in 1789; inspector of revenue in 1792; and naval officer late in 1793, which post he held until his death, Nov. 5, 1813. He was made brigadiergeneral of the provisional army in 1798. His brother, John, was aide to general Montgomery, and perished with him at the siege of Quebec (q. v.).
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mangum, Willie person 1792-1861 (search)
Mangum, Willie person 1792-1861 Statesman; born in Orange county, N. C., in 1792; graduated at the University of North Carolina in 1815; admitted to the bar in 1817; elected to the State legislature in 1818; judge of the Superior Court of the State in 1819; and to Congress in 1823 and 1825, when he resigned on account of his second election as judge of the Superior Court. He represented North Carolina in the United States Senate in 1831-36, when he resigned; was re-elected in 1841, and agage county, N. C., in 1792; graduated at the University of North Carolina in 1815; admitted to the bar in 1817; elected to the State legislature in 1818; judge of the Superior Court of the State in 1819; and to Congress in 1823 and 1825, when he resigned on account of his second election as judge of the Superior Court. He represented North Carolina in the United States Senate in 1831-36, when he resigned; was re-elected in 1841, and again in 1848. He died at Red Mountain, N. C., Sept. 14, 1861.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Marryat, Frederick 1792-1848 (search)
Marryat, Frederick 1792-1848 Author; born in London, England, July 10, 1792; joined the British navy in 1812, and served in the war with the United States. He won distinction by driving four vessels out of Boston Harbor, and in 1814, just prior to the battle of New Orleans, further distinguished himself in an engagement with gunboats on Lake Pontchartrain; was promoted captain in 1829. He travelled in the United States in 1839. His publications include A diary in America, with remarks on its institutions; The narrative of Monsieur violet in California, Sonora, and Western Texas, 1839; The settlers in Canada, etc. He died in Langham, England, Aug. 2, 1848.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mason, George 1725-1792 (search)
Mason, George 1725-1792 Statesman; born in Fairfax county, Va., in 1725; was a firm patriot and able statesman. In 1769 he drew up the non-importation resolutions which Washington presented to the Virginia Assembly, and which were unanimously adopted. He also wrote a powerful tract against the claim of the British Parliament to tax the colonies without their consent. At a meeting of the inhabitants of Fairfax, July 18, 1774, he offered twenty-four resolutions reviewing the whole ground of the pending controversy; recommended a general congress; and urged the non-intercourse policy. In 1775 he was a member of the Virginia committee of safety; and in 1776 he drafted the Declaration of Rights and State constitution of Virginia, which he drafted the Declaration of Rights and State constitution of Virginia, which were adopted unanimously. In 1777 he was elected to the Continental Congress, and in 1787 he was a leading member of the convention which framed the national Constitution
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mason, Lowell 1792-1872 (search)
Mason, Lowell 1792-1872 Composer; born in Medfield, Mass., Jan. 8, 1792; at an early age became a teacher and composer of music, and at the age of twenty years went to Savannah, Ga., where he gave instruction and led choirs and musical associations. In 1821 he published in Boston his Handel and Haydn collection of Church Music, which was so successful that he returned north and settled in Boston, where, in 1827, he began the instruction of classes in vocal music. He taught juvenile classes gratuitously on the Pestalozzian system, and published many collections of music, glee-books, etc. In connection with Professors Park and Phelps, he complied a Collection of Psalms and hymns for public worship, published in 1858. He died in Orange, N. J., Aug. 11, 1872.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mazzei, Philip 1730-1816 (search)
try the experiment. He persevered three years, but the war and other causes made him relinquish his undertaking. Being an intelligent and educated man, he was employed by the State of Virginia to go to Europe to solicit a loan from the Tuscan government. He left his wife in Virginia, when he finally returned to Europe, in 1783, where she soon afterwards died. He revisited the United States in 1785, and in 1788 wrote a work on the History of politics in the United States, in 4 volumes. In 1792 Mazzei was made privy councillor to the King of Poland; and in 1802 he received a pension from the Emperor Alexander, of Russia, notwithstanding he was an ardent republican. During the debates on Jay's treaty, Jefferson watched the course of events from his home at Monticello with great interest. He was opposed to the treaty, and, in his letters to his partisan friends, he commented freely upon the conduct and character of Washington, regarding him as honest but weak, the tool and dupe of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Milledge, John 1757- (search)
Milledge, John 1757- Statesman; born in Savannah, Ga., in 1757; was brought up in the office of the King's attorney of Georgia, but when the Revolutionary War approached he took the side of the colonists. He was one of the party who captured Governor Wright (see Wright, Sir James). He was active in civil and military affairs in Georgia during the war, and in 1780 was appointed attorney-general of the State. From 1792 to 1802 he was a member of Congress, excepting one term, and from 1802 to 1806 was governor of the State. He was the principal founder of the University of Georgia, and the legislature of his State evinced their profound respect for him by giving his name to the capital of Georgia. He died on the Sand Hills, near Augusta, Ga., Feb. 9. 1818.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Minot, George Richards 1758-1802 (search)
Minot, George Richards 1758-1802 Jurist; born in Boston, Mass., Dec. 22, 1758; graduated at Harvard College in 1778; began law practice in Boston; became probate judge for Suffolk county in 1792; and was secretary of the convention which adopted the national Constitution. His publications include Eulogy on Washington; History of the Insurrection in Massachusetts in 1786; and Continuation of the Hutchinson's history of Massachusetts Bay from the year 1748, with an introductory sketch of events from its original settlement. He died in Boston, Mass., Jan. 2, 1802.
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