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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Shields, James 1810-1879 (search)
ates in 1826, and began the practice of law in Kaskaskia, Ill., in 1832. He held a seat in the legislature in 1836; was State auditor in 1839, and judge of the Supreme Court in 1843. In 1845 he was commissioner of the general land office; and when the war with Mexico began President Polk commissioned him a brigadier-general, United States army (1847). In two battles he was severely wounded. He was appointed governor of Oregon Territory in 1848. This office he soon resigned, and from 1849 to 1855 he represented Illinois in the United States Senate. He aferwards resided in Minnesota, and was United States Senator from that State from 1858 to 1860, and then went to California. In August, 1861, he was made brigadier-general of volunteers, and performed gallant services in the Shenandoah Valley, receiving a severe wound in the battle of Kernstown. He resigned his commission in March, 1863, and afterwards held several public offices in Missouri. He died in Ottumwa, Ia., June 1, 1879.
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 9: organization: New-England Anti-slavery Society.—Thoughts on colonization.—1832. (search)
ful classes in this country—editors of newspapers and the clergy. It is not a light matter for either of them to propagate false doctrines and excite delusive hopes on the subject of politics or religion. One Elizur Wright, Jr., the first Corresponding Secretary of the American Anti-Slavery Society (Lib. 3.1). The extract is taken from remarks made at a memorial service in honor of Mr. Garrison, held, just after his death, in the church of the Rev. Wm. C. Gannett, at St. Paul, Minn., June 1, 1879. They were afterwards published in the Chicago Unity. to whom the book came as a revelation has described its effect in the following graphic passage: Fifty years ago, it is no exaggeration to say, this nation, in church and state, from President to bootblack—I mean the white bootblack—was thoroughly pro-slavery. In the Sodom there might have been a Lot or two here and there—some profound thinker—who wished justice to be done though the heavens should fall, but he was desponden
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 7 (search)
George Warren. See General Officers. Wetherbee, George Coolidge. Born at Harvard, Mass., July 27, 1840. Private, 23d Mass. Infantry, Oct. 17, 1861. First Lieutenant, Regimental Quartermaster, May 2, 1863. Captain, Commissary of Subsistence, U. S. Volunteers, Aug. 19, 1863. Brevet Major, June 24, 1865. Mustered out, June 26, 1865. Wetherell, Hiram B. Born in Massachusetts. Captain, Assistant Quartermaster, U. S. Volunteers, Nov. 27, 1861. Resigned, Apr. 27, 1863. Died, June 1, 1879. Wetherell, Horace R. Born in Massachusetts. Captain, Commissary of Subsistence, U. S. Volunteers, Sept. 9, 1861. Resigned, July 16, 1863. Died, Apr. 8, 1886. Wetherell, Robert Whitney, Born in Massachusetts. First Lieutenant, Regimental Quartermaster, 19th Ill. Infantry, Aug. 10, 1861. Captain, Assistant Quartermaster, U. S. Volunteers, Feb. 29, 1864. Mustered out, June 6, 1865. Wheaton, Charles. Born in Rhode Island. First Lieutenant, 2d Mass. Infantry, May 28, 18
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order, Boston events. (search)
above zero, at 2 o'clock, P. M., July 18, 1870 100 degrees above zero, at 2 o'clock, P. M., July 4, 1872 At zero, at sunrise, Dec. 31, 1874 5 degrees below zero at sunrise, Nov. 30, 1875 100 degrees above zero at 1 o'clock, P. M., June 1, 1879 80 degrees above zero at midnight, June 1, 1879 100 degrees above zero at 2 o'clock, P. M., June 28, 1879 80 degrees above zero at midnight, July 14, 1879 100 degrees above zero at 2 o'clock, P. M., June 27, 1880 100 degrees aboJune 1, 1879 100 degrees above zero at 2 o'clock, P. M., June 28, 1879 80 degrees above zero at midnight, July 14, 1879 100 degrees above zero at 2 o'clock, P. M., June 27, 1880 100 degrees above zero at 2 o'clock, P. M., July 10, 1880 Thorn Apple a poisonous shrub, grows plentifully in Boston, Oct., 1793 Three-Card Monte began to be played on countrymen, 1856 Thorndike Block on Summer street, completed, Aug., 1850 Tile Floor laid in City Hall corridors, July, 1870 Times Block on State street, completed, Nov., 1850 Tobacco Chewers fined one penny each (if caught), 1632 Tom Thumb Mr. Stratton, a dwarf, on exhibition, May 22, 1843 And wife, o
Historic leaves, volume 7, April, 1908 - January, 1909, chapter 3 (search)
an thirty years. When I say that she was associated with me as head assistant (having charge of the English) for twenty years in the Putnam Grammar School, it will not be deemed inappropriate that I speak of her more at length. Miss Sarah M. Burham, having taught for two or three years in what was known as the Eastern Primary School (where she went after leaving Somerville), was appointed during the year 1848 a teacher in the Putnam School, which position she held till her resignation, June 1, 1879. She was a conscientious teacher. She did not allow, as is too often the case, outside attractions to engross her mind, or tax her strength, so as to unfit her for the daily work of the school. During all these years, except when abroad in Europe, by permission of the School Committee, she was almost without exception at her post, efficiently discharging her duties. Not content with doing the ordinary daily work of the school, though she did this most thoroughly, she sought to awake