Annual Obituary Notices of Eminent Persons who Have Died in the United States. For 1857[-1858]Phillips, Sampson, 1858 |
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... period of about twenty years , and was often chosen without any opposition . BUCK , Rachael , York , Pa . , May 18 , æ . 49 , wife of the late Rev. Thomas Buck . BUCKLEY , Elizabeth , Dec. 9 , æ . 85 , formerly of Wethersfield , Conn ...
... period of about twenty years , and was often chosen without any opposition . BUCK , Rachael , York , Pa . , May 18 , æ . 49 , wife of the late Rev. Thomas Buck . BUCKLEY , Elizabeth , Dec. 9 , æ . 85 , formerly of Wethersfield , Conn ...
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... period was large- ly engaged in various honorable pur- suits ; yet in his protracted and active life , spent for 80 years at the very place where it terminated , he did no act to fix a stain upon his name ; no act which , when dying ...
... period was large- ly engaged in various honorable pur- suits ; yet in his protracted and active life , spent for 80 years at the very place where it terminated , he did no act to fix a stain upon his name ; no act which , when dying ...
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... period Mr. B. possessed a hand- some fortune , which he sacrificed in un- availing efforts to sustain a ten dollar daily " in competition with the penny papers of N. Y. Although " The Mer- cantile " closed its long and useful career ...
... period Mr. B. possessed a hand- some fortune , which he sacrificed in un- availing efforts to sustain a ten dollar daily " in competition with the penny papers of N. Y. Although " The Mer- cantile " closed its long and useful career ...
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... period of their wedded life , leaving one daughter , who survives to mourn her beloved and gifted parent . " We copy from the Congressional Globe of December 17 the proceedings of the House of Representatives , on a message from the ...
... period of their wedded life , leaving one daughter , who survives to mourn her beloved and gifted parent . " We copy from the Congressional Globe of December 17 the proceedings of the House of Representatives , on a message from the ...
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... period he became known to the people of the United States , his reputa- tion previously having been confined to his own state . His services in the Sen- ate were active and important . His position as chairman of the judiciary committee ...
... period he became known to the people of the United States , his reputa- tion previously having been confined to his own state . His services in the Sen- ate were active and important . His position as chairman of the judiciary committee ...
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