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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stedman, Edmund Clarence 1833- (search)
Stedman, Edmund Clarence 1833- Author; born in Hartford, Conn., Oct. 8, 1833; was a member of the class of 1853 of Yale College; on the editorial staff of the New York Tribune in 1859-61; war correspondent of the New York World in 1861-63; and has been an active member of the New York Stock Exchange since 1869. He is best known as a poet and critic. Among his notable critical works are Victorian poets (1875); Poets of America (1885); A Victorian Anthology (1895) ; and An American Anthology (1900). He was associated with Ellen M. Hutchinson in the editorship of A Library of American Literature (11 volumes, 1888-89), and with Prof. D. E. Woodbury in that of The works of Edgar Allan Poe (10 volumes, 1895).
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
, 1833 President Jackson directs the Secretary of the Treasury to withdraw the deposits, about $10,000,000, from the National Bank......Sept. 26, 1833 Indian chief Black Hawk is taken through the principal Eastern cities......autumn of 1833 Bank deposits removed from the National Bank......Oct. 1, 1833 Anti-slavery Society organized in New York City......Oct. 2, 1833 First severe railway accident in the United States on the Amboy and Bordentown Railroad; several killed......Oct. 8, 1833 Great display of shooting-stars......morning of Nov. 13, 1833 Twenty-third Congress, first session, convenes......Dec. 2, 1833 American Anti-slavery Society organized at Philadelphia; Beriah Green president, and John G. Whittier one of the secretaries......Dec. 6, 1833 Mr. Clay offers a resolution, Dec. 10, inquiring of the President whether a paper read to heads of departments under date of Sept. 18, 1833, relative to the deposits of the public money, was genuine, and reques
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 12 (search)
XI. Edmund Clarence Stedman. The sudden death of Edmund Clarence Stedman at New York on January 18, 1908, came with a strange pathos upon the readers of his many writings, especially as following so soon upon that of his life-long friend and compeer, Aldrich. Stedman had been for some years an invalid, and had received, in his own phrase, his three calls, that life would soon be ended. He was born at Hartford, Connecticut, on October 8, 1833, and was the second son of Colonel Edmund Burke Stedman and his wife Elizabeth Clement (Dodge) Stedman. His great-grandfather was the Reverend Aaron Cleveland, Jr., a Harvard graduate of 1735, and a man of great influence in his day, who died in middle life under the hospitable roof of Benjamin Franklin. Stedman's mother was a woman of much literary talent, and had great ultimate influence in the training of her son, although she was early married again to the Honorable William B. Kinney, who was afterwards the United States Minister to