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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Correspondence of Governor George W. Campbell (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Adams , John Quincy 1767 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bartlett , John Russell 1805 -1886 (search)
Bartlett, John Russell, 1805-1886
Author; born in Providence, R. I., Oct. 23, 1805.
He was for six years cashier of the Globe Bank in Providence, and an active member of the Franklin Society for the Cultivation of Science.
He was also one of the projectors of the Athenaeum in Providence, and for some time corresponding secretary of the New York Historical Society. Mr. Bartlett was associated with Albert Gallatin as a projector and founder of the American Ethnological Society.
In 1850 he was appointed by President Taylor a commissioner, under the treaty of peace with Mexico in 1848, to settle the boundary-line between that country and the United States.
He was engaged in that service until Jan. 7, 1853, making extensive surveys and explorations, with elaborate scientific observations; but, owing to a failure of Congress to make the necessary appropriations, he did not complete his work.
He published a personal narrative of his experience in that region in 1854.
In May, 1855,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Coast and Geodetic survey , United States (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dallas , George Mifflin ,1792 -1864 (search)
Dallas, George Mifflin, 1792-1864
Statesman; born in Philadelphia, July 10, 1792; a son of the preceding; graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1810, and admitted to the bar in 1813.
He went with Mr. Gallatin to Russia as private secretary, and returned in 1814, when he assisted his father in the Treasury Department.
In 1828 he was mayor of Philadelphia; United States Senator from 1832 to 1833, and declined a re-election.
He was ambassador to Russia from 1837 to 1839, and Vice-President of the United States from 1845 to 1849.
From 1856 to 1861 he was American minister in London.
Mr. Dallas was an able lawyer and statesman.
He died in Philadelphia, Dec. 31, 1864.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gallatin , Albert 1761 - (search)
Gallatin, Albert 1761-
Financier; born in Geneva, Switzerland, Jan. 29, 1761; was a graduate of the University of Geneva.
Both of his parents were of distinguished families, and died while he was an infant.
Feeling great sympathy for the Americans
Albert Gallatin. struggling for liberty, he came to Massachusetts in 1780, entered the military service, and for a few months commanded the post at Passamaquoddy.
At the close of the war he taught French in Harvard University.
Having receialists.
He was a leader of the Democrats in the House, and directed his attention particularly to financial matters.
Mr. Gallatin remained in Congress until 1801, when President Jefferson appointed him Secretary of the Treasury, which office he hrk Historical Society from 1843 until his death, in Astoria, N. Y., Aug. 12, 1849.
Although strictly in private life, Mr. Gallatin took special interest in the progress of the country, and wrote much on the subject.
As early as 1823 he wrote an ess
Ghent, treaty of
The treaty between the United States and Great Britain, which terminated the War of 1812.
The American commissioners were John Quincy Adams, James Bayard, Henry Clay, Jonathan Russell, and Albert Gallatin; the British commissioners were Lord Gambier, Henry Goulburn, and William Adams.
The American commissioners assembled in the city of Ghent, Belgium, in July, 1814; the British commissioners early in the following month.
The terms of the treaty were concluded Dec. 24, following, and the ratifications were exchanged Feb. 17, 1815.
While the negotiations were in progress the leading citizens of Ghent took great interest in the matter.
Their sympathies were with the Americans, and they mingled their rejoicings with the commissioners when the work was done.
On Oct. 27 the Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts at Ghent invited the American commissioners to attend their exercises, when they were all elected honorary members of the academy.
A sumptuous dinner was giv
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hassler , Ferdinand Rudolph 1770 - (search)
Hassler, Ferdinand Rudolph 1770-
Scientist; born at Aernen, Switzerland, Oct. 6, 1770; was engaged in a trigonometrical survey of his native country, and was induced to come to America about 1807 by Albert Gallatin, then Secretary of the Navy.
He was employed as Professor of Mathematics at West Point from 1807 to 1810, and in 1811 was sent by the government to Europe as scientific ambassador to London and Paris, to procure necessary implements and standards of measure for use in the projected coast survey (see coast and Geodetic survey, United States). He began that survey in July, 1816, and left it in April, 1818, but resumed it in 1832, and continued its superintendent until his death, in Philadelphia, Nov. 20, 1843, when he was succeeded by Prof. Alexander D. Bache (q. v.). Professor Hassler made valuable contributions to the American Philosophical transactions on the subject of the coast survey, and in 1832 a report to the United States Senate on weights and measures.
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