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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Barrows , John Henry , 1847 - (search)
Barrows, John Henry, 1847-
Clergyman; born in Medina, Mich., July 11, 1847; was graduated at Olivet College, Mich., in 1867, and studied at Yale, Union, and Andover theological seminaries, and at Gottingen, Germany.
After two short pastorates in Lawrence and Boston, Mass., he became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Chicago, and remained there more than fourteen years. In 1893 he organized and was the president of the World's Parliament of Religions.
In 1896 he resigned his Chicago pastorate and went to India, where he lectured in an institution endowed by Mrs. Caroline E. Haskell.
Returning to the United States, he lectured in the Union Theological Seminary in 1898, and in November of that year became president of Oberlin College.
He is author of History of the Parliament of religions; Life of Henry Ward Beecher; Christianity the world religion; The world pilgrimage, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Motley , John Lothrop 1814 - (search)
Motley, John Lothrop 1814-
Historian and diplomatist; born in Dorchester, Mass., April 15, 1814; graduated at Harvard University in 1831, and afterwards spent a year at the universities of Gottingen and Berlin; travelled in Italy, and, returning, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1836.
He wrote two historical novels—
John Lothrop Motley. Master's hope (1839) and Merry Mount (1849). In 1840 he was secretary to the American legation in Russia; in 1861-67 minister to Austria; and in 1869-70 minister to Great Britain.
He became interested in the history of Holland, and embarked for Europe in 1851 to gather materials for his great work, The history of the rise of the Dutch republic, which was published in London and New York in 1856.
In 1861 he published The United Netherlands (2 volumes, enlarged to 4 volumes in 1867). This work was followed, in 1874, by The life and death of John of Barneveld, advocate of Holland, with a view of the Primary causes of the thirty year
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 67 : France and Germany ; Convention of young men's Christian Association , Berlin , 1884 (search)
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 68 : French army maneuvers, 1884 ; promotion to Major General , United States army , San Francisco 1886 -88 (search)
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 70 : D. L. Moody on board the Spree ; Spanish War, 1898 ; Lincoln Memorial University ; conclusion (search)