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Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir 24 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Johnson, Eastman 1824- (search)
Johnson, Eastman 1824- Artist; born in Lovell, Me., July 29, 1824; was educated in the public schools of Augusta, Me.; studied in the Royal Academy of Dusseldorf for two years, and was elected an academician of the National Academy of Design in 1860. He has painted many notable pictures, including The Kentucky home; Husking bee; The stage coach; Pension agent; Prisoner of State, etc. His portraits include Two men, ex-Presidents Arthur, Cleveland, and Harrison, Commodore Vanderbilt, W. H. Vanderbilt, Daniel Webster, John Quincy Adams, John D. Rockefeller, Mrs. Dolly Madison, Mrs. August Belmont, Mrs. Hamilton Fish, and many others.
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 49: (search)
all that was his. The story of the debt to Mr. Vanderbilt into which he was inveigled is pitiful. Fcomb, who was not at home, and then to William H. Vanderbilt, who at once agreed to let General Gras. Ward had assured him, and he repeated to Vanderbilt, that there were securities for more than a to make over all his individual property to Vanderbilt. In this act Mrs. Grant afterwards joined, nts of the house were, however, made over to Vanderbilt. But this was not all. The Trust Fund of entates and cities. In order to save them Mr. Vanderbilt proposed to enforce his prior claim. Talkwere to be subscribed to pay off the debt to Vanderbilt, who it was supposed would compromise his clublic or private charity, and wrote now to Mr. Vanderbilt, informing him of the well-meant efforts i his other friends without the sanction of Mr. Vanderbilt, as their efforts would enable him to canc to the world: first the munificent offer of Vanderbilt to make over all the property to Mrs. Grant,[2 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 21 (search)
of these United States, and complimented abroad with tokens of respect and distinguished consideration never before accorded to a living American; Thomas A. Hendricks—vice-president of this puissant Republic, of exalted statesmanship and manly qualities, a citizen of national fame and a Christian gentleman; Cardinal McCloskey—supreme prelate, in this land, of the Roman Catholic Church, venerated for his professional attainments, his charitable ministrations, and his saintly virtues; William H. Vanderbilt—the richest man in America, fostering commercial schemes of gigantic proportions, and the controlling spirit of immense corporations; Horace B. Claflin—the greatest shop-keeper on this continent; Richardson—the wealthiest and most successful planter in the South; George B. McClellan—erstwhile the organizer of the grand Army of the Potomac, a captain of lofty impulses, and a civilian of high repute; John McCullough—possessing a fine conception of, and manifesting a conscientio