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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hoar, Samuel 1788-1856 (search)
Hoar, Samuel 1788-1856 Lawyer; born in Lincoln, Mass., May 18, 1788; graduated at Harvard College in 1802; admitted to the of bar in 1805, and began practice in Concord. He was a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention in 1820; a member of the State Senate in 1825 and 1833; and a Whig representative in Congress in 1835-37. He was sent by the Massachusetts legislature to South Carolina in 1844 to test the constitutionality of the acts of that State, authorizing the imprisonment of free colored people who should enter it, but his appearance in Charleston caused much excitement, and he was forced to leave the city, Dec. 5, 1844. He died in Concord, Mass., Nov. 2, 1856.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wrecks. (search)
g Beach, 7 miles north of Egg Harbor light, and is wrecked; no passengers saved......April 16, 1854 Steamer Arctic, from Liverpool, struck by the Vesta, 40 miles off Cape Race, Newfoundland, in a fog, and sinks; over 350 lives lost......Sept. 27, 1854 Collins line steamer Pacific leaves Liverpool for New York with 240 persons on board and is never heard from......Sept. 23, 1856 French steamer Le Lyonnais sunk off Nantucket by collision with the bark Adriatic; 260 lives lost......Nov. 2, 1856 Steamship Tempest, Anchor line, 150 persons on board, never heard from after leaving port......Feb. 26, 1857 Steamship Louisiana, from New Orleans to Galveston, burned near Galveston; fifty-five lives lost......May 31, 1857 Steamer J. W. Harris sunk in collision with steamer Metropolis in Long Island Sound; fourteen lives lost......Aug. 8, 1857 Steamer Central America, from Havana to New York, springs a leak in a heavy storm, Sept. 8; 100 persons are taken off by a passing ves