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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 3 3 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 2 2 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 1 1 Browse Search
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Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lockwood, Henry Hayes 1814- (search)
Lockwood, Henry Hayes 1814- Educator; born in Kent county, Del., Aug. 17, 1814; graduated at the United States Military Academy and assigned to the artillery in 1836, and after serving in the. Seminole War resigned and engaged in farming till 1841. Subsequently he was appointed Professor of Mathematics at the United States Naval Academy; served on the frigate United States at the capture of Monterey, Cal., in October, 1842. Returning, he served at the naval asylum in Philadelphia until 1845, when he became Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy in the Naval Academy; was transferred to the chair of Field Artillery and Infantry Tactics in 1851, and occupied the chair of Astronomy and Gunnery till 1866. During the Civil War he served both on land and sea, entering the Union army as colonel of the 1st Delaware Regiment and rising to brigadier-general of volunteers. In 1864 he commanded the Middle Department, with . headquarters at Baltimore. He was mustered out of th
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
ancis S. Key, author of Star-Spangled banner, dies at Baltimore, Md., aged sixty-four......Jan. 11, 1843 Com. Isaac Hull dies at Philadelphia, Pa., aged sixty-eight......Feb. 13, 1843 Dr. Marcus Whitman, learning of the intention of the British government to permanently occupy the Oregon Territory, and desirous of a personal interview with the United States government, to give warning and also to announce the practicability of overland emigration to that region, leaves Walla Walla, October, 1842, and reaches Washington, D. C.......March 3, 1843 Bankruptcy act of 1841 repealed......March 3, 1843 Congress appropriates $30,000 to build Morse's electric telegraph from Washington to Baltimore......March 3, 1843 Twenty-seventh Congress adjourns......March 3, 1843 John Armstrong, Secretary of War, 1812, dies at Red Hook, N. Y., aged eighty-five......April 1, 1843 Col. John C. Fremont starts on his second exploring expedition with thirty-nine men......May, 1843 [Reache
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Winder, John Henry 1800-1865 (search)
Winder, John Henry 1800-1865 Military officer; born in Maryland in 1800; graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1820; promoted captain of the 1st Artillery in October, 1842; served in the Mexican War, winning distinction at Contreras, Churubusco, Chapultepec, and the fall of the city of Mexico; promoted major in November, 1860; resigned in the following April and joined the Confederate army, in which he was appointed a brigadiergeneral and given command of Richmond, having under his charge Belle Isle and Libby prison. Later he was placed in command of the Andersonville prison, Ga. He died in Branchville, S. C., Feb. 9, 1865. See Confederate prisons.
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 8: early professional life.—September, 1834, to December, 1837.—Age, 23-26. (search)
affected by his association with Dr. Channing at this time. In Sept. 1842, Sumner wrote to his brother George then in Europe: I know the latter [Dr. Channing] intimately, and my admiration of him grows constantly. When I was younger than I am now, I was presumptuous enough to question his power. I did not find in him the forms of logical discussion, and the close, continuous chain of reasoning,— and I complained. I am glad that I am wise enough to see him in a different light. In October, 1842, he wrote in relation to Dr. Channing's death: He has been my friend, and I may almost say my idol, for nearly ten years. For this period I have enjoyed his confidence in no common way. To this reformer, to his character, his great arguments for freedom, Dr. Channing's book on Slavery was published in 1835. and his moral inspiration, the world will ever pay deserved homage; and Sumner's tribute to his memory glows with the grateful enthusiasm of one who in youth had sat at his feet.
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 24: Slavery and the law of nations.—1842.—Age, 31. (search)
a great sorrow,—not so much for his friends as for truth, humanity, and benevolence. He died Oct. 2, at Bennington, and was buried at Mount Auburn. I passed last evening with his daughter, and conversed freely about her father and his last days. I love his memory very much. He had been for years a very kind friend of mine. It is after midnight; so I will to bed, wishing you a thousand blessings. Ever affectionately yours, Charles Sumner. To his brother George, he wrote, in October, 1842:— You will see that Dr. Channing is dead. So passed away one of the purest, brightest, greatest minds of this age. He has been my friend, and, I may almost say, idol for nearly ten years. For this period I have enjoyed his confidence in no common way. Both his last treatises he read to me in manuscript, and asked my advice with regard to their publication, and my criticism. In him there was less pride of authorship than in any person I have ever known. When he had once written h
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Genealogical Register (search)
ned at Beverly 29 Oct. 1701, m. Emma Woodbury, and had Pyam, grad. H. C. 1721, merchant, d. in Boston 18 Mar. 1739; Emma; Thomas: John; Elizabeth; Andrew. Thomas the f. d. 17 June 1729. His w. and six children survived him. 3. John, s. of Thomas (2), resided in Boston, and m. Sarah, dau. of Samson Salter, 25 Nov. 1735. One of their sons was Samson Salter Blowers, b. 10 Mar. 1741-2, grad. H. C. 1763, m. a dau. of, Benjamin Kent, was Ch. Justice of the Sup. Court in Nova Scotia, and d. Oct. 1842, having lived more than half a year beyond a full century. Bonner, John, came here from Boston about 1690. By second w. Mary Clark, who d. here 20 April 1697, he had Jane, b. 2 May 1691, m. John Ellery of Boston, 31–Aug. 1710; John, b. 6 Dec. 1693, m. Sarah, dau. of Samuel Marsh, 17 Nov. 1715; Thomas, b. 6 Jan. 1695-6, and d. 3 June 1719; buried in South Carolina. John the f. sold his house 1705, returned to Bos., and d. 30 Jan. 1725-6, a. 83 years. An obituary represents him as a ge
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, B. (search)
ned at Beverly 29 Oct. 1701, m. Emma Woodbury, and had Pyam, grad. H. C. 1721, merchant, d. in Boston 18 Mar. 1739; Emma; Thomas: John; Elizabeth; Andrew. Thomas the f. d. 17 June 1729. His w. and six children survived him. 3. John, s. of Thomas (2), resided in Boston, and m. Sarah, dau. of Samson Salter, 25 Nov. 1735. One of their sons was Samson Salter Blowers, b. 10 Mar. 1741-2, grad. H. C. 1763, m. a dau. of, Benjamin Kent, was Ch. Justice of the Sup. Court in Nova Scotia, and d. Oct. 1842, having lived more than half a year beyond a full century. Bonner, John, came here from Boston about 1690. By second w. Mary Clark, who d. here 20 April 1697, he had Jane, b. 2 May 1691, m. John Ellery of Boston, 31–Aug. 1710; John, b. 6 Dec. 1693, m. Sarah, dau. of Samuel Marsh, 17 Nov. 1715; Thomas, b. 6 Jan. 1695-6, and d. 3 June 1719; buried in South Carolina. John the f. sold his house 1705, returned to Bos., and d. 30 Jan. 1725-6, a. 83 years. An obituary represents him as a ge
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing), VI. Jamaica Plain. (search)
to the Puritan in his steeple hat. Of course this implies that our meeting is partial. I present to him the many forms of nature and solicit with music; he melts them all into spirit and reproves performance with prayer. When I am with God alone, I adore in silence. With nature I am filled and grow only. With most men I bring words of now past life, and do actions suggested by the wants of their natures rather than my own. But he stops me from doing anything, and makes me think. October, 1842. To me, individually, Dr. Channing's kindness was great; his trust and esteem were steady, though limited, and I owe him a large debt of gratitude. His private character was gentle, simple, and perfectly harmonious, though somewhat rigid and restricted in its operations. It was easy to love, and a happiness to know him, though never, I think, a source of the highest social pleasure to be with him. His department was ethics; and as a literary companion, he did not throw himself hearti
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 10: 1840-1842: Aet. 33-35. (search)
have been so many fiords and estuaries. To Agassiz, these parallel terraces explained themselves as the shores of a glacial lake, held back in its bed for a time by neighboring glaciers descending from more sheltered valleys. The terraces marked the successively lower levels at which the water stood, as these barriers yielded, and allowed its gradual escape. For details, see a paper by Agassiz on The Glacial Theory and its Recent Progress in the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, October, 1842, accompanied by a map of the Glen Roy region, and also an article entitled Parallel Roads of Glen Roy, in Scotland, in the second volume of Agassiz's Geological Sketches. The glacial action in the whole neighborhood was such as to leave no doubt in the mind of Agassiz that Glen Roy and the adjoining glens, or valleys, had been the drainage-bed for the many glaciers formerly occupying the western ranges of the Grampian Hills. He returned from his tour satisfied that the mountainous dist