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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
ion.] First symptoms of Shays's rebellion at a convention in the county of Worcester......Aug. 15, 1786 This affair culminates at Springfield, when Shays attemyment of $400 by citizens of Boston.] College of the Holy Cross founded at Worcester......1843 Completion and dedication of Bunker Hill monument with imposing ubsequently liberated by purchase, and settled in Canada.] A convention in Worcester declares in favor of a new political organization, to be called the Republicaparty......July 20, 1854 State convention of the Republican party, held at Worcester, nominates Henry Wilson for governor and Increase Sumner for lieutenant-goverdate, being 165 days......June 12, 1868 Worcester Polytechnic Institute at Worcester, chartered 1865; opened......1868 Governor and council contract with Waltantic cables celebrated......July 27, 1869 Labor Reform party organized at Worcester......Sept. 28, 1869 Horace Mann School for the deaf at Boston opened......
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), University and College education in the United States, the trend of (search)
orations, Virgil, Sallust, Latin grammar and Latin prose, and Latin prosody. In Greek: Greek grammar and the reading of three books of the Anabasis. And in addition, arithmetic, English grammar, and geography. Still later, at Harvard, 1850: In Latin: Caesar, Virgil, Cicero's select orations, with Latin grammar and prose. In Greek: Felton's Greek reader, writing of Greek with the accents, Greek grammar. In mathematics: arithmetic, algebra, first lessons; introduction to geometry. Worcester's ancient geography and history. 4. The numbers in attendance were very small. A single case may be cited: In 1834 Harvard had 336 students in all departments; in 1840, 448 students; in 1850, 584 students; and in 1866-67, 959 students. No institution of learning up to the time of the close of the war had as large a number as 1,000 students. During Harvard's first sixty-five years of history there were graduated an average of eight students a year. During Yale's first 128 years, an
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ward, Artemas 1727-1800 (search)
fficer; born in Shrewsbury, Mass., Nov. 27, 1727; graduated at Harvard College in 1748, served as major in the Northern army from 1755 to 1758, and became lieutenant-colonel. Taking an active part against the ministerial measures, he was appointed a general officer by the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, and in May became commander-in-chief of the forces gathered at Cambridge, in which post he acted until the arrival of Washington at the beginning of July, 1775. Ward was made the first major-general under Washington; resigned in the spring of 1776 on account of ill-health; was then appointed chief-justice of the court of common pleas for Worcester county. He was president of the council in 1777, and in 1779 was chosen a delegate to Congress, but illhealth prevented his taking a seat in that body. For sixteen years he was in the Massachusetts legislature, and was speaker of the Assembly in 1785. From 1791 to 1795 he was in Congress. He died in Shrewsbury, Mass., Oct. 28, 1800.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washburn, Emory 1800-1877 (search)
Washburn, Emory 1800-1877 Jurist; born in Leicester, Mass., Feb. 14, 1800; graduated at Williams College in 1817; admitted to the bar in 1821; practised in Leicester, Mass., in 1821-28; settled in Worcester in the latter year and was there prominent in his profession for about thirty years; judge of the court of common pleas in 1844-48; elected governor of Massachusetts in 1853 and 1854; Professor of Law at Harvard University in 1856-76. He was the author of Judicial history of Massachusetts; History of Leicester; Treatise on the American law of real property; Treatise on the American law of Easements and Servitudes, etc. He died in Cambridge, Mass., March 18, 1877.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Worcester, (search)
he Blackstone River; 44 miles west of Boston. It is noted for the variety and extent of its manufactures, especially of wire, envelopes, looms, boots and shoes, and machinery for cotton and woollen mills. The city, which contains a large number of villages, was settled in 1674 under the name of the Quinsigamond Plantations. The first settlement was soon broken up by hostile Indians; as was also the second one, in 1684. A permanent one was made in 1713; the town was incorporated June 14, 1722; and a city charter was granted Feb. 29, 1848. The first church was organized in 1719. Between 1790 and 1800 Isaiah Thomas, who had moved there from Boston, carried on the most extensive publishing business in the country. The Declaration of Independence was first publicly read in Massachusetts from the steps of the Old South Church there. The development of Worcester's manufacturing interests has been rapid since 1828, when the Blackstone Canal was opened. Population in 1900, 118,421.
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 6: (search)
e law became a dead letter. But here was the Constitution, and compact still binding; here was the stipulation, as solemn as words could form it, and which every member of Congress, every officer of the General Government, every officer of the State government, from governors down to constables, is sworn to support. It has been said in the States of New York, Massachusetts, and Ohio, over and over again, that the law shall not be executed. That was the language in conventions, in Worcester, Massachusetts; in Syracuse, New York, and elsewhere. And for this they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honors. Now, gentlemen, these proceedings, I say it upon my professional reputation, are distinctly treasonable. And the act of taking Shadrick [a fugitive slave] from the public authorities, in Boston, and sending him off, was an act of clear treason. Great outcry was raised against South Carolina when she nullified the tariff law of 1830, passed in clear violation of
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 85 (search)
u into four sections. The first is the ordinary mass, rushing from mere enthusiasm to A battle whose great aim and scope They little care to know, Content like men at arms to cope, Each with his fronting foe. Behind that class stands another, whose only idea in this controversy is sovereignty and the flag. The seaboard, the wealth, the just-converted hunkerism of the country, fill that class. Next to it stands the third element, the people; the cordwainers of Lynn, the farmer of Worcester, the dwellers on the prairie--Iowa and Wisconsin, Ohio and Maine--the broad surface of the people who have no leisure for technicalities, who never studied law, who never had time to read any further into the Constitution than the first two lines--Establish Justice and secure Liberty. They have waited long enough; they have eaten dirt enough; they have apologized for bankrupt statesmen enough; they have quieted their consciences enough; they have split logic with their abolition neighbors
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
he so-called steam-engines of Baptista Porta, 1600; De Caus, 1620; Marquis of Worcester, 1655; Savery, 1698. See steam-engine. For many years past — probably a centle; it was the invention of one Caravagio of Sienna in Italy. The Marquis of Worcester, 1655, suggests that the tinder-box may form a serviceable pistol. This is aarm-bell. Euteneur's lock-alarm. A-larm′--lock. In the Marquis of Worcester's Century of inventions, No. 72, A. D. 1655, a lock is referred to which, if ed-plate from the walls, and the carriage is then withdrawn with its load. Worcester's annealing oven. In wood's patent, July 9, 1867, the sheets are compressh was square. — Don Juan. An arithmometer was suggested by the Marquis of Worcester in his Century of inventions, but was not described. It was adapted for addi form of faucets, which were turned by hand at the proper times, as we see in Worcester's, Papin's, and Savery's engines. The same plan was adopted in Newcomen's un<
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
ufacture of army shoes, appear to have fallen into disuse at the close of the war, and were never introduced into private establishments, the style of work probably not being suited to the demands of the public. A long-legged boot made in Worcester, Mass., for the Pennsylvania coal-mines, is the most durable piece of furniture ever constructed of leather and iron. The soles are about three quarters of an inch thick, projecting like the guards of a Mississippi steamer. The heel also projects associated with devices for lighting a lamp, and in one case (Powell, July 23, 1861) having an arrangement for upsetting the bed, and thereby calling the attention of the sleeper to the disturbance. The contrivance instanced by the Marquis of Worcester, with alarm, fire, tinder, and pistol, is described in his Century of inventions, and is cited ante, page 56. One device has a hinged plate on the threshold of the door, and partially concealed by the carpet. The foot of a person entering t
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
nt thickness of tallow has accumulated on the wick. The candle-dipper shown is intended to give a determinate weight to any number of candles. The wicks are suspended on rods from one end of the balance-bar, and a weight is placed in the scale at the other end. The wicks are repeatedly dipped into the tallow-vat until they acquire the desired weight. Dipping-machine. Can′dle-mold. The Sieur Le Brez of Paris is said to have been the inventor of molding candles. The Marquis of Worcester in his Century of inventions, 1655, speaks of brass candle-molds in which a man may make 500 dozen in a day. He adds an ingredient to whiten, cheapen, and render the candle more lasting. At the present day; candle-molds are usually made of pewter or tin; in some cases glass has been employed. They may be inserted in a wooden frame, the upper part of which serves as a trough; or several molds may be permanently attached to a tin trough, the whole constituting a single mold. Each mold c
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