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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Coles , Edward 1786 -1868 (search)
Coles, Edward 1786-1868
Governor; born in Albemarle county, Va., Dec. 15, 1786; graduated at William and Mary College in 1807; went to Russia on a confidential diplomatic mission for the United States government in 1817.
He removed to Edwardsville, Ill., in 1819, and freed all the slaves which he had inherited, giving to the head of each family 160 acres of land.
He was governor of Illinois from 1823 to 1826, and during his term of office he prevented the slavery party from obtaining control of the State.
Later he settled in Philadelphia, Pa., and in 1856 read a History of the ordinance of 1787 before the Pennsylvania Historical Society.
He died in Philadelphia, Pa., July 7, 1868.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Curtis , George William 1824 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dahlgren , John Adolph ,1809 -1870 (search)
Dahlgren, John Adolph, 1809-1870
Naval officer; born in Philadelphia, Nov. 13, 1809; entered the navy in 1826, and was made rearadmiral in 1863.
He was the inventor of
John Adolph Dahlgren. the Dahlgren gun, which he perfected at the navy-yard at Washington, and in 1862 he was made chief of the bureau of ordnance.
In July, 1863, he took command of the South Atlantic squadron, and, with the land forces of General Gillmore, captured Morris Island and Fort Wagner, and reduced Fort Sumter to a heap of ruins.
He conducted a successful expedition up the St. John's River, in Florida, in 1864, and co-operated with General Sherman in the capture of Savannah.
After the evacuation of Charleston he moved his vessels up to that city.
Admiral Dahlgren, besides being the inventor of a cannon, introduced into the navy the highly esteemed light boathowitzer.
He was author of several works on ordnance, which became textbooks.
He died in Washington, D. C., July 12, 1870.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dalzell , Robert M. ,1873 (search)
Dalzell, Robert M., -1873
Inventor; born near Belfast, Ireland, in 1793; was driven into exile with his family by the Irish Rebellion of 1798, and came to New York.
In 1826 he settled in Rochester, N. Y., where he became a millwright.
Later he invented and introduced the elevator system for handling and storing grain.
He died in Rochester, N. Y., Jan. 22, 1873.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Daniel , William ,1826 - (search)
Daniel, William, 1826-
Prohibitionist; born in Somerset county, Md., Jan. 24, 1826; graduated at Dickinson College in 1848; admitted to the bar in 1851; elected to the Maryland legislature in 1853, and to the State Senate in 1857; was an ardent supporter of temperance measures, and in 1884 joined the National Prohibition party, which nominated him for Vice-President of the United States with William St. John for President.
The Prohibition ticket received about 150,000 votes.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Davis , Andrew Jackson ,1826 - (search)
Davis, Andrew Jackson, 1826-
Spiritualist; born in Blooming Grove, Orange co., N. Y., Aug. 11, 1826.
While a shoemaker's apprentice in Poughkeepsie, early in 1843, remarkable clairvoyant powers were developed in him by the manipulation of mesmeric influences by William Levingston.
He was quite uneducated, yet while under the influence of mesmerism or animal magnetism he would discourse fluently and in proper language on medical, psychological, and general scientific subjects.
While in a magnetic or trance state he made medical diagnoses and gave prescriptions.
In March, 1844, he fell into a trance state without any previous manipulations, during which he conversed for sixteen hours, as he alleged, with invisible beings, and received intimations and instructions concerning the position he was afterwards to occupy as a teacher from the interior state.
In 1845, while in this state, he dictated to Rev. William Fishbough his first and most considerable work, The principles of natu
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), De forest , John William ,1826 - (search)
De forest, John William, 1826-
Military officer; born in Humphreysville (now Seymour), Conn., March 31, 1826; entered the National army as captain at the beginning of the Civil War; served continuously till January, 1865; and was adjutant-general of the Veteran Reserve Corps in 1865-68.
His publications include The history of the Indians of Connecticut, from the earliest-known period to 1850, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Doniphan , Alexander William ,1808 -1887 (search)
Doniphan, Alexander William, 1808-1887
Military officer; born in Kentucky, July 9, 1808; graduated at Augusta College in 1826; admitted to the bar in 1830.
In addition to his legal studies he was interested in military matters and became brigadier-general in the Missouri State militia.
In 1838 he compelled the Mormons (q. v.)under Joseph Smith, to give up their leaders for trial, lay down their arms, and leave the State.
In 1846 he entered the United States service as colonel of the 1st Missouri Regiment; in December of that year he defeated a superior force of Mexicans at Brazito River (q. v.); two days later he occupied El Paso.
In February, 1847, with less than 1,000 men, after a march of over 200 miles through a sterile country, he met a force of 4,000 Mexicans at the pass of Sacramento.
He attacked with such vigor that the Mexicans were soon overpowered, having lost over 800 in killed and wounded, Doniphan's own loss being one man killed, eleven wounded. He subsequently
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Edwards , Ninian ,1775 -1833 (search)
Edwards, Ninian, 1775-1833
Jurist; born in Montgomery county, Md., in March, 1775.
William Wirt directed his early education, which was finished at Dickinson College, and in 1819 he settled in the Green River district of Kentucky.
Before he was twenty-one he became a member of the Kentucky legislature; was admitted to the bar in Kentucky in 1798, and to that of Tennessee the next year, and rose very rapidly in his profession.
He passed through the offices of circuit judge and judge of appeals to the bench of chief-justice of Kentucky in 1808.
The next year he was appointed the first governor of the Territory of Illinois, and retained that office until its organization as a State in 1818.
From 1818 till 1824 he was United States Senator, and from 1826 to 1830 governor of the State.
He did much, by promptness and activity, to restrain Indian hostilities in the Illinois region during the War of 1812.
He died in Belleville, Ill., July 20, 1833.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Edwards , Pierrepont ,1750 -1826 (search)
Edwards, Pierrepont, 1750-1826
Jurist; born in Northampton, Mass., April 8, 1750; the youngest son of Jonathan Edwards, Sr.; graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1768.
His youth was spent among the Stockbridge Indians, where his father was missionary, and he acquired the language perfectly.
He became an eminent lawyer; espoused the cause of the patriots, and fought for liberty in the army of the Revolution.
He was a member of the Congress of the Confederation in 1787-88, and in the Connecticut convention warmly advocated the adoption of the national Constitution.
He was judge of the United States District Court in Connecticut at the time of his father's death.
Mr. Edwards was the founder of the Toleration party in Connecticut, which made him exceedingly unpopular with the Calvinists.
He died in Bridgeport, Conn., April 5, 1826.