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George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 4 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights 4 0 Browse Search
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States 4 0 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America, together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 3 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Oldport days, with ten heliotype illustrations from views taken in Newport, R. I., expressly for this work. 2 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 30, 1863., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 2 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Folger, Charles James 1818-1884 (search)
Folger, Charles James 1818-1884 Jurist; born in Nantucket, Mass., April 16, 1818; graduated at Geneva (now Hobart) College in 1836; studied law in Canandaigua, N. Y.; was admitted to the bar in Albany in 1839; and returned to Geneva to practise in 1840. He was judge of the court of common pleas in Ontario county in 1843-46, and was county judge in 1852– Charles James Folger. 56. Shortly after the formation of the Republican party he left the Democrats and joined the new organization. He served as State Senator in 1861-69; for four years of that period he was president pro tem., and during the whole period was chairman of the judiciary committee. In 1869-70 he was United States assistant treasurer in New York City; in 1871 was elected associate judge of the New York Court of Appeals; and in 1880 became chief-justice. In November of the latter year he was re-elected to the Court of Appeals, but resigned in 1881 to accept the office of Secretary of the United States Treasury.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Folger, Peter 1617-1690 (search)
Folger, Peter 1617-1690 Pioneer; born in England in 1617; emigrated to America with his father in 1635; settled in Martha's Vineyard in 1641; became a Baptist minister and was one of the commissioners to lay out Nantucket, receiving one-half of the land for his services as surveyor and interpreter. In his poem entitled A Looking-glass of the times; or, the former spirit of New England revived in this generation, he pleaded for liberty of conscience and toleration of all sects, even the Qu7; emigrated to America with his father in 1635; settled in Martha's Vineyard in 1641; became a Baptist minister and was one of the commissioners to lay out Nantucket, receiving one-half of the land for his services as surveyor and interpreter. In his poem entitled A Looking-glass of the times; or, the former spirit of New England revived in this generation, he pleaded for liberty of conscience and toleration of all sects, even the Quakers and Anabaptists. He died in Nantucket, Mass., in 1690.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Franklin, Benjamin 1706-1790 (search)
Franklin, Benjamin 1706-1790 Statesman; born in Boston, Jan. 17, 1706. His father was from England; his mother was a daughter of Peter Folger, the Quaker poet of Nantucket. He learned the art of printing with his brother; but they disagreeing, Benjamin left Boston when seventeen years of age, sought employment in New York, but, not succeeding, went to Philadelphia, and there found it. He soon attracted the attention of Governor Keith as a very bright lad, who, making him a promise of the government printing, induced young Franklin, at the age of eighteen, to go to England and purchase printing material. He was deceived, and remained there eighteen months, working as a journeyman printer in London. He returned to Philadelphia late in 1726, and in 1729 established himself there as a printer. He started the Pennsylvania gazette, and married Deborah Read, a young woman whose husband had absconded. For many years he published an almanac under the assumed name of Richard Saunder
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hanaford, Phebe Anne 1829- (search)
Hanaford, Phebe Anne 1829- Author; born in Nantucket, Mass., May 6, 1829; was ordained to the ministry of the Universalist Church in 1868, being the first woman to assume the clerical office in that Church. Her publications include Abraham Lincoln; Field, gunboat, Hospital, and prison; Women of the century; Life of George Peabody, etc. Hancock, John
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts, (search)
nd). In the intercolonial war between France and England in 1690 Massachusetts participated, and to pay the expenses the colony first issued paper money. In 1692 a new charter was given to Massachusetts, by which New Plymouth was united with it. By its terms the colony of Plymouth, the provinces of Maine and Nova Scotia, as far north as the St. Lawrence River, and all the country between them, were added to the old province of Massachusetts; also the Elizabeth Islands and the islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. The governor, lieutenant-governor, and colonial secretary were appointed by the crown. The charter gave the governor the power to convene and dissolve the General Court, and a veto of all its acts. The councillors first appointed by the crown were afterwards to be annually elected by the House of Representatives and the existing council; but of the twenty-eight thus chosen the governor might reject thirteen. The advice and consent of the council were necessary to
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mitchell, Maria 1818-1869 (search)
Mitchell, Maria 1818-1869 Astronomer; born in Nantucket, Mass., Aug. 1, 1818; inherited from her father, William Mitchell (who died in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in April, 1869), a fondness for astronomical studies and became a valuable assistant to him in the study of astronomy when she was quite young. Examining nebulae and searching for comets, her industry and efforts were rewarded when, on Oct. 1, 1847, she discovered a telescopic comet, for which she received a gold medal from the King of Denmark. She was afterwards employed in making observations connected with the United States coast survey, and for many years assisted in the compilation of the Nautical almanac. In the spring of 1865 she was appointed Professor of Astronomy and superintendent of the observatory at Vassar College, and entered upon her duties in September. She resigned in 1888. Professor Mitchell was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, being the first woman admitted to that bo
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mott, Lucretia 1793-1880 (search)
Mott, Lucretia 1793-1880 Reformer; born in Nantucket, Mass., Jan. 3, 1793. In 1818 she became a preacher among the Friends, a most earnest advocate of temperance, pleaded for the freedom of the slaves, and was one of the active founders of the American Anti-slavery Society in Philadelphia in 1833. She died in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 11, 1880.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nantucket (search)
Nantucket islands off the south coast of Massachusetts, and belonging to that State, the former containing 60, the latter 120 square miles; first noted by Captain Gosnold, 1602, and first settled by some people under Thomas Mayhew from Watertown, Mass., 1643. Both islands in earlier days were famous for their skilled seamen and large business in whale-fishery.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), O'Conor, Charles 1804-1884 (search)
O'Conor, Charles 1804-1884 Lawyer; born in New York City, Jan. 22, 1804; admitted to the bar in 1824. He was connected with many of the most prominent legal cases, the most famous of which were the suits against the Tammany ring in 1871, in which William M. Evarts, James Emmot, and Wheeler H. Peckham were associated with him. In 1872 Mr. O'Conor was nominated for Vice-President by that portion of the Democratic party which was opposed to the election of Horace Greeley. Mr. O'Conor was one of the counsel of Samuel J. Tilden before the electoral commission in 1876. He died in Nantucket, Mass., May 12, 1884.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Philip, King (search)
ad been corrupted by contact with the English—with imaginary wants—and they were so anxious to have things like the white people that they had sold off a large portion of their lands to procure such luxuries. Of Philip's life before he became sachem very little is known. He had witnessed frequent broils between the English and the Narragansets, and felt that his people were often wronged. Yet he respected the treaty made by his father and renewed by his dead brother. In 1665 he went to Nantucket to kill an Indian who had profaned the name of his father, according to an Indian law that whoever should speak evil of the dead should be put to death by the next of kin. In 1671 the English were alarmed by warlike preparations made by Philip. A conference was held with him and some of his warriors in the meeting-house at Plymouth, when he averred that his warlike preparations were not against the English, but the Narragansets. This, however, it is said, he confessed was false, and t
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