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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Algonquian, or Algonkian, Indians , (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Folsom , George 1802 -1869 (search)
Folsom, George 1802-1869
Historian; born in Kennebunk, Me., May 23, 1802; graduated at Harvard in 1822; practised law in Massachusetts until 1837, when he removed to New York, where he became an active member of the Historical Society.
He was appointed charge d'affaires at The Hague in 1850 and held the office for four years. He collected a valuable library and was the author of Sketches of Saco and Biddeford; Dutch annals of New York; Address on the discovery of Maine.
He died in Rome, Italy, March 27, 1869.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gorges , Sir Ferdinando 1565 -1647 (search)
New Somerset.
The provinces held by Gorges after the division of the New England territory were named New Somerset.
He sent out his nephew, William Gorges, as deputy-governor of the domain, which extended from the Piscataqua to the Kennebec.
He assumed rule over the fishing hamlets there, and held a general court at Saco.
See Maine; New England.
Shepley, ether 1789-
Jurist; born in Groton, Mass., Nov. 2, 1789; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1811; practised law in Saco and Portland; was in the Massachusetts legislature in 1819; in the Maine constitutional convention in 1820; United States district attorney for Maine in 1821-23; United States Senator in 1833-36; became a justice of the Supreme Court of Maine in 1836; was chief-justice in 1848-55; and sole commissioner to prepare the Revised statutes of Maine.
He died Jan. 15, 1877.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Shepley , George Foster 1819 - (search)
Shepley, George Foster 1819-
Military officer; born in Saco, Me., Jan. 1, 1819; son of Chief-Justice Ether Shepley; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1837; studied at the Harvard Law School and at Portland; and began the practice of law at Bangor.
President Polk appointed him United States district attorney, which post he held until 1861, when he became colonel of the 12th Maine Volunteers, and took part in General Butler's expedition against New Orleans.
On the surrender of that city he was made its commandant.
In July he became a brigadier-general, and was military governor of Louisiana from July 2, 1862, until 1864.
On the surrender of Richmond (April, 1865), he was made military governor of that city.
He resigned in July, and resumed the practice of law in Portland.
In 1869 he was appointed United States circuit judge for the first circuit, and held the office till his death in Portland, Me., July 20, 1878.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Thornton , John Wingate 1818 -1878 (search)
Thornton, John Wingate 1818-1878
Historian; born in Saco, Me., Aug. 12, 1818; graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1840; was admitted to the bar and practised in Boston; was one of the originators of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society.
His publications include Lives of Isaac Heath and John Bowles, and of Rev. John Eliot, Jr.; The Landing at Cape Anne, or the charter of the first permanent colony on the Territory of the Massachusetts Company, now discovered and first publishedrst permanent colony on the Territory of the Massachusetts Company, now discovered and first published from the original manuscript; Ancient Pemaquid and historic review; Peter Oliver's Puritan commonwealth reviewed; The pulpit of the American Revolution, or the political sermons of the period of 1776, with an introduction, notes, and illustrations; Colonial schemes of Popham and Gorges; The Historical relation of New England to the English commonwealth, etc. He died in Saco, Me., June 6, 1878.