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acres of land active America appointed April army Atlanta Atlanta township attended August became born Broadwell Charles Chicago church citizens College command common schools congress Corwin township coun daughter deceased December Democratic dollars early East Lincoln township eighty acres elected Elkhart Elkhart township Eminence township engaged in farming farmer father February George Germany graduated Henry home farm honored hundred and sixty Illinois interests James January John July June Kentucky Laenna township later living located Logan county March married Miss Mary Menard county mother Mount Pulaski namely native October Ohio Oran township Orvil township parents Pennsylvania political Prairie Creek township prominent purchased re-elected removed resides retired Sangamon county Sarah September served settled sixty acres spent Springfield success Tazewell county Thomas tion took town union united in marriage United States senate Virginia West wife William York
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Page 75 - ... may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
Page 164 - G. HARRIS, famous as Confed1 erate war governor of Tennessee, and distinguished by his twenty years of service in the senate of the United States, was born in Franklin county, Tennessee, and educated at the Academy of Winchester. He then took up the study of law, was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at Paris, Tennessee, in 1841. He was elected to the state legislature in 1847, was a candidate for presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1848, and the next year was elected to congress...
Page 313 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can...
Page 54 - English Traits;" "The Conduct of Life;" "May-Day and other Poems " and " Society and Solitude;" besides many others. He was a prominent member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the American Philosophical Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society and other kindred associations.
Page 111 - ... at New York, April 13, 1894. HENRY M. TELLER, a celebrated American politician, and secretary of the interior under President Arthur, was born May 23, 1830, in Allegany county, New York. He was of Hollandish ancestry and received an excellent education, after which he took up the study of law and was admitted to the bar in the state of New York.
Page 135 - Machinery and Processes of the Industrial Arts and Apparatus of the Exact Sciences...
Page 157 - The Iron Gate and Other Poems," "Ralph Waldo Emerson," "A Moral Antipathy." Dr. Holmes visited England for the second time, and while there the degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by the University of Edinburgh.
Page 98 - Point, from which he graduated in 1845 an d entered the army as second lieutenant of infantry. During the Mexican war he was made first lieutenant and captain for gallant conduct at Cerro Gordo and Contreras. From 1849 to 1852 he was assistant professor of mathematics at West Point.
Page 137 - January 23, 1842; was educated in the common schools of his native town, and at...
Page 37 - in 1851, "The Song of Hiawatha " in 1855, "The Courtship of Miles. Standish " in 1858, " Tales of a Wayside Inn " in 1863;