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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fanning, Edmund -1818 (search)
763) and clerk of the Supreme Court (1765). He was also a member of the legislature, and married the daughter of Governor Tryon. He became rapacious, and by his exorbitant legal fees made himself very obnoxious to the people. Their hatred was increased by his energetic exertions in suppressing the Regulator movement (see Regulators). He fled to New York with Governor Tryon to avoid the consequences of popular indignation. He was appointed surveyor-general of North Carolina in 1774. In 1776 he raised and led a force called the King's American Regiment of Foot. After the Revolution he went to Nova Scotia, where he became a councillor and lieutenant-governor in September, Edmund Fanning. 1783, and from 1786 to 1805 was governor of Prince Edward's Island. He rose to the rank of general in the British army in 1808. Fanning was an able jurist, and always regretted his later career in North Carolina. He was greatly influenced by his father-in-law. He died in London, Feb. 28, 1818.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Werden, Reed 1818-1886 (search)
Werden, Reed 1818-1886 Naval officer; born in Delaware county, Pa., Feb. 28, 1818; entered the navy as midshipman in 1834 and the Naval School at Philadelphia in 1840, and served in the war against Mexico. At the capture of Roanoke Island he commanded the steamer Stars and Stripes; was fleet captain of the East Gulf Squadron in 1864-65; and was promoted commodore in 1871, and rear-admiral in 1875. He died in Newport, R. I., July 13, 1886.