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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Levermore, Charles Herbert 1856- (search)
Levermore, Charles Herbert 1856- Educator; born in Mansfield, Conn., Oct. 15, 1856; graduated at Yale College in 1879; became Professor of History in the University of California in 1886, and held the same chair in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1888-93. He was made president of Adelphi College, Brooklyn, in 1896. His publications include The republic of New Haven; Syllabus of lectures upon political history since 1815, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Silk culture and manufacture. (search)
e in which she appeared at a Court levee on her husband's birthday. The business became considerable, but finally declined, and the last lot of Georgia silk offered for sale was in 1790. Before the Revolution, silk was grown and manufactured in New England. Governor Law, of Connecticut, wore a silk coat and stockings of New England production in 1747, and three years afterwards his daughter wore the first silk dress of New England manufacture. A silk manufactory was established at Mansfield, Conn., in 1776, where the manufacture is yet carried on. The legislature incorporated a silk manufacturing company in 1788, and the same year President Stiles, of Yale College, appeared at commencement in a gown woven from Connecticut silk. After that the silk culture and silk manufacture were carried on in different parts of the Northern and Eastern States, and were fostered by legislative action. About 1836 to 1839 there was a mania for the cultivation of silk and of the Morus multicaulis
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Welch, Moses Cook 1754- (search)
Welch, Moses Cook 1754- Clergyman; born in Mansfield, Conn., Feb. 22, 1754; graduated at Yale College in 1772; taught school; studied law and medicine; taught again: then studied theology; was ordained in 1784, and succeeded his father as pastor of a church in Mansfield, which he held till his death, April 21, 1824. He wrote Eulogy on Benjamin Chaplin; The addresser addressed, etc.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
d a shipwright's tool. It formerly had a curved, sharpened end, and a concavity to hold the chips; this was a pod auger. To this a lip was subsequently added for some kinds of boring, and in course of time the depression grew into a spiral, which allows the chips to escape while the boring proceeds, instead of withdrawing the tool as the pod becomes filled. L'hommedieu's auger. Shetter's American auger. The Twisted Auger is an American invention, and was made by Lilley, of Mansfield, Connecticut, about the beginning of the present century, and afterwards by Gurley, of the same place. Augers may be classified as augers; hollow augers; annular augers; taper augers; augers with secondary borers, reamers, or countersinks, or having expansive cutters. Auger-gages, auger-handles, and machines for making augers, will be considered separately. Cook's auger. L'Hommedieu's Auger, 1809 (Fig. 423), has two pods, two cutting-lips, a central screw, and a twisted shank. It is
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1861. (search)
will of Him whom he rejoiced to call Master and Saviour. Thus as he looked forward into the future, the tomb was no barrier to real success; death was no disappointment, but rather the entrance upon the consummation of his soul's highest hopes. John Lyman Fenton. Private 9th Mass. Battery, August 5, 1862; Sergeant; died at Baltimore, July 28, 1863, of a wound received at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2. John Lyman Fenton, son of Orrin and Mehitable J (White) Fenton, was born in Mansfield, Connecticut, March 5, 1835. He was the youngest of a family of four. When he was about a year old, his father removed to Dixfield, Maine, and died four years later. The widowed mother, being dependent on her own exertions for support, came to Cambridge, Massachusetts, leaving John with his grandmother, in Dixfield, till he was ten years of age; when he also was brought to Cambridge, where he attended Mr. Mansfield's school. Shortly afterward, however, his knowledge of his mother's circumstan
The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
A flock of sheep in Mansfield, Connecticut, have been seized with hydrophobia from the bite of a mad dog.