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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.