In the same article in the New American Cyclopaedia, he said there was "scarcely a finished park or promenade ground deserving mention" in the United States, where, he pointed out, residents resorted to socializing in cemeteries.
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Drawing comparisons to Edgar Allen Poe's work for its supernatural flair, the book was listed as one of the most important publishing events in that year's edition of Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events.
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He was the editor-in-chief of Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia (1892–1895), and of the successor Universal Cyclopaedia (1900), sometimes referred to as Appleton's Universal Cyclopaedia.
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1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors & Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II.
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The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 14 (1917), p. 494. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography says of Barker: Barker died in Boston, Massachusetts, while sitting as a single justice.
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The 12-volume Universal Cyclopaedia was edited by Charles Kendall Adams, and was published by D. Appleton & Company in 1900. The name was changed to Universal Cyclopaedia and Atlas in 1902, with editor .
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Cyclopaedia of Malesian Collectors: Pierre Joseph Eyma. Nationaal Herbarium Nederland.
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George Ripley (ed.), The New American Cyclopaedia (1864), vol. 12, s.v. "Newspapers".
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Charles Knight (15 March 1791 – 9 March 1873) was an English publisher, editor and author. He published and contributed to works such as The Penny Magazine, The Penny Cyclopaedia, and The English Cyclopaedia, and established the Local Government Chronicle.
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The Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge Vol. III, London (1847), Charles Knight, p. 1,013.
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The 1728 Cyclopaedia compares "graphometer" to "half-theodolite".Cyclopaedia, vol. 2 p. 50 for "Semi-Circle" As late as the 19th century, the instrument for measuring horizontal angles only was called a simple theodolite and the altazimuth instrument, the plain theodolite.
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This article incorporates text from the public domain 1893 National Cyclopaedia of American Biography.
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The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Volume 22. New York: James T. White & Co., 1932.
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White, James Terry. "The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography", p. 225. Accessed December 9, 2007.
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On December 5, 1822 Israel Gregg and Phebe Kelley were married.A history and biographical cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio: ..., pp. 335-340. Israel Gregg was elected sheriff of Butler County, serving from 1835 to 1839.A history and biographical cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio: ..., pp. 104-106.
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International Motor Cyclopaedia, Year Book-March 1908 to March 1909, Page 305, Publisher: E.E. Schwarzkopf, New York.
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Tomlinson, Charles, ed., A New Edition of Tomlinson’s Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, (London & New York: circa 1866).
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The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. X, p. 214.Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. IV, p. 50.
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The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vo. X, p. 215.Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. IV, p. 51.
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The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. IX, p. 248; Hunt and Kaylor, Vol. II, pp. 245-246.
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Cyclopaedia of Malesian Collectors: Maurits Anne Lieftinck. Nationaal Herbarium Nederland. and must have collected N. spathulata during this time.
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The fruit is edible either raw or cooked.Tanaka, T. (1976). Cyclopaedia of Edible Plants of the World. Keigaku Publishing.
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He died in Bangor in 1938.James Terry White, National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 27 (1939), p. 360.
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The New American Cyclopaedia of 1867 reported Buitenzorg's population as being 320,756 including 9,530 Chinese, 650 Europeans, and 23 Arabs.
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Its name is said to come from a Choctaw language word meaning "River of Death."Johnson's (revised) Universal Cyclopaedia. 1886.
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It was also marketed as "full of good things" on its front page. In 1885 it published a Family Cyclopaedia.
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1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors In 1923, he was appointed professor of soil science, plant and seed physiology at Jena.
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Published by Titus Wilson, Kendal. then was apprenticed to a globe maker, John Senex, in London from 1714 to 1721. It was here that he developed the plan of the Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. After beginning the Cyclopaedia, he left Senex's service and devoted himself entirely to the encyclopedia project.
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The couple produced no children.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. XXXII, p. 173. New York: James T. White & Company, 1945.
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2, 1922.Jackson, George Washington, The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. XIV, Supplement 1, James T. White, 1910; Page 401.
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The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography Vol. X, p. 155. New York: James T. White & Company, 1909. Reprint of 1900 edition.
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Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. XIX, p. 412–13. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936.National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol.
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"Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge" (Google Books online) Mentions hill was formerly called Ben Chualach.
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The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. XII (1904), p. 364."Chancellor McGill Dead", The New York Times, April 22, 1900.
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M'Clintock, John and Strong, James (1880) Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. Vol. IX, s.v. "Stephens" New York: Harper & Brothers.
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With George Ripley he edited The New American Cyclopaedia (1857–1863), reissued as the American Cyclopaedia in 1873-1876. Dana had an interest in literature. His first book was a volume of stories translated from German, entitled The Black Aunt (New York and Leipzig, 1848). In 1857, he edited an anthology, The Household Book of Poetry.
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The Encyclopédie was originally conceived as a French translation of Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopaedia (1728).Magee, p. 124 Ephraim Chambers had first published his Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences in two volumes in London in 1728, following several dictionaries of arts and sciences that had emerged in Europe since the late 17th century.Lough (1971. pp.
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1, pp. 17-33.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. X, pp. 213-214. New York: James T. White & Company, 1909.
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8: 1–150.van Steenis-Kruseman, M.J., et al. 2006. Cyclopaedia of Malesian Collectors: H. A. B. Bünnemeijer. Nationaal Herbarium Nederland. :b.
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The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. X, pp. 154–155. New York: James T. White & Company, 1909. Reprint of 1900 edition.
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The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 9, p. 257 (1907)(22 January 1893). Written for Her Husband, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, p.
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The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. IX, p. 331.Noel M. Loomis, Wells Fargo, p. 43. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc.
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After the revolution, the customhouse remained on State Street.Boston Directory. 1805 Employees included Thomas Melvill (1786–1820).National cyclopaedia of American biography. 1901.
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Cyclopaedia: or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 1, London 1728: 318. It also says that the root and the recipe Lapis Contrayerva (see below) are of great efficacy in smallpox, measles, fevers and in “all Cases where either a Diaphoresis or Perspiration is required.”Chambers, Ephraim. Cyclopaedia: or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 1, London 1728: 319.
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The Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 2, by John Howard Brown, p. 557 In 1850 he became secretary of The Missionary Society, serving until 1872, when ill health led to his retirement. His several tours of Europe and the Middle East led to well received books which he authored.The Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 2, by John Howard Brown, p.
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An associated yearbook, Appletons' Annual cyclopaedia and register of important events of the year, was published from 1861 to 1875 and on to 1901.
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Pease Danks was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. He wrote over 1,000 songs.The National cyclopaedia of American biography, Vol. VIII, p.
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In addition to the works previously mentioned, he published a "Cyclopaedia of History" (Hartford, 1836), and Life Scenes from the World around Us (Boston, 1853).
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1"Curtis P. Smith Dies at Home in Dallas." The Dallas Morning News. September 21, 1919, p. 9.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol.
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Her published works include an updated edition of the 1907 Potter's Herbal Cyclopaedia (1988, C W Daniel, ). She is editor of the journal Phytotherapy Research.
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Scudder and French returned to Boston in 1886.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (1902) James T. White & Company, New York, Reprint of 1891 edition.
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Matthieu Bochart (c. 19 March 1619 — 1662) was a French Protestant minister at Alençon from 1635-1662.Matthieu BochartPenny Cyclopaedia. Vol. 5. Blo-Buf/ p.
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Ready-to-assemble furniture has roots that extend back a long way, as cabinetmakers have been making furniture that is easy to disassemble for transport for centuries. The New American Cyclopaedia of 1859 listed the assembly of furniture as an "American invention"Ripley, George; Anderson, Charles Anderson (1859). The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, Volume 8. New York: Appleton. p. 30.
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The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. XII, p. 326. New York: James T. White & Company, 1904. This volume was published only months before Alvord's death.
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He remained in practice until his death in 1907.White, James Terry (1950). The National cyclopaedia of American biography. p. 379, entry for Frank Prentiss Deering.
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The National cyclopaedia of American biography, Vol. 41, by James Terry White, page 117.The historic architecture of Bay City, Michigan, by Dale Patrick Wolicki (1998).
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Pierre Joseph Eyma (25 July 1903 – 1945) was a Dutch botanist.van Steenis- Kruseman, M.J., et al. 2006. Cyclopaedia of Malesian Collectors: Pierre Joseph Eyma. Nationaal Herbarium Nederland.
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Whaling ships called on a regular basis, for water and turtles, before continuing their voyages.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol.II,, (1847) London, Charles Kinght, p.205.
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6, No. 64, pp. 149-51 Even Mayo's son had success playing the role.Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events, p. 490 (1901)(13 Feb 1892).
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Many famous books, Harriet Martineau's Tales, Anna Brownell Jameson's Early Italian Painters and G. H. Lewes's Biographical History of Philosophy, appeared for the first time in this series. In 1853 Knight became editor of The English Cyclopaedia, essentially a revision of The Penny Cyclopaedia. Knight also launched the Local Government Chronicle in 1855, and at about the same time he began his Popular History of England (8 vols., 1856–1862).
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Another major contribution was to the Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical LiteratureAlso known as McClintock and Strong's Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature (10 vols., 1867–81; supplement, 2 vols., 1885–7). Work on this project having begun in 1853, Strong was in charge of the department of Biblical literature, while John McClintock supervised theological and ecclesiastical literature for the preparation of the first few volumes.
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Title page of Chambers' 1728 Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences Ephraim Chambers (c.1680 – 15 May 1740) was an English writer and encyclopaedist, who is primarily known for producing the Cyclopaedia, or a Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences.Robert Lewis Collison reminds us that Chambers attained the distinction of "father of the modern encyclopaedia throughout the world." (Encyclopaedias: Their History Throughout the Ages, 2d ed.
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Alexander Zippelius (1797, Würzburg – 31 December 1828, Kupang) was a Dutch horticulturalist and botanical collector in the East Indies. From 1823 he worked as an assistant curator in the botanical gardens at Buitenzorg, and in 1827 he joined the Natuurkundige Commissie (Commission for Natural Sciences).Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1 Cyclopaedia of collectors & Cyclopaedia of collectors, Addenda & Corrigenda He collected plants in the Moluccas, southwestern New Guinea and Timor.
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Nationaal Herbarium Nederland Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors); Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I) With Johannes Elias Teijsmann (1808–1882), he was co-author of "Plantae novae in Horto Bogoriensi cultae" (1862) and "Catalogus plantarum quae in Horto botanico bogoriensi coluntur" (1866).Google Search published works With Teijsmann, he described the genera Capellenia, Eusideroxylon and Gonystylus, as well as numerous botanical species.
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Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events In the 1894 election, as the "fusion" nominee of Republicans and Populists, Faircloth defeated incumbent Chief Justice James E. Shepherd.
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The sticky juice of mistletoe berries was used to make birdlime, an adhesive to trap small animals or birds. Thomas B. Johnson. 1848. The sportsman's cyclopaedia. 940 p.
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The population in 1841 was 6,846.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol. III, London (1847), Charles Knight, p. 1,013. About 500 men were employed in the collieries.
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Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Appleton & Co. (1900), Vol. IV, pp. 275-76. Jonathan Mayhew, his most famous child, became a minister at Old West Church in Boston.
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The population in 1841 was 8,001.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol.III, London, 1847, Charles Knight, p.1,015 The population of Caernarfon Community Parish in 2001 was 9,611.
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One of Greeley's requirements was that the cyclopaedia "be pre-eminently a book of facts, and to a very limited extent, if at all, a volume of discussions or of critical opinions."Johnson's new universal cyclopædia : a scientific and popular treasury of useful knowledge New York : A.J. Johnson & Son ; Pittsburgh, PA. : W.D. Cummings p.v There was some protest against the depiction of Catholic doctrine and practices in the Universal Cyclopaedia and Atlas.
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For example, the London-based Royal Society of Arts published an illustrated volume of new inventions, as well as papers about them in its annual Transactions. There were publications describing technology. Encyclopaedias such as Harris's Lexicon Technicum (1704) and Abraham Rees's Cyclopaedia (1802–1819) contain much of value. Cyclopaedia contains an enormous amount of information about the science and technology of the first half of the Industrial Revolution, very well illustrated by fine engravings.
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The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (series 2) 4: 71–76.van Steenis-Kruseman, M.J., et al. 2006. Cyclopaedia of Malesian Collectors: George Darby Haviland. Nationaal Herbarium Nederland.
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Appletons' cyclopaedia of American biography, Volume 7, edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske. She also served as a nurse for a year or two during the Civil War.
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The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol III, London, Charles Knight, 1847, p.528. A period of political and economic instability in the early-to-mid-19th century weakened Bolivia.
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Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography, 6 vols, 1888 He was a contributor to The Galaxy and The Atlantic Monthly. In 1857 he married Anna (or Hannah) M. Allen (1821-1881).
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John McClintock. Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, volume 12, p114. To his influence is credited the survival the philosophy of John Baconthorpe among the Spanish Carmelites.Jean- Yves Lacoste.
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McConnell, C. (2000) Coast to Coast by Automobile: The Pioneering Trips, 1899-1908. Stanford University Press. p. 213. Race car races were held there through 1908.(1908) International motor cyclopaedia.
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Phormio, by Albrecht Dürer. Phormio ( Phormion, gen.: Φορμίωνος), the son of Asopius, was an Athenian general and admiral before and during the Peloponnesian War.Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia: A New Edition, Volume 6.
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It would be the first of a series of tables categorizing "the sum of knowledge" into ever more complex tables used for both categorizing knowledge for libraries and to define curriculum in schools. If he had published the work, it would have predated the first comprehensive English- language encyclopedia,Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences retrieved on September 9, 2013 Ephraim Chambers's 1728 Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, by twelve years.
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Although nervous during operations, Partridge was careful during after-care of patients. He was a skilled draughtsman, having taken drawing lessons from his brother, John Partridge, and an able lecturer and teacher. He published an article on the face in The Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology (1839), edited by Robert Bentley Todd, and also wrote and illustrated a work on descriptive anatomy, which was never published.Partridge R. 'Face' in The Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology (Todd RB, ed.) (Vol.
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There are two conflicting claims of the origin of the epithet: one deriving from the Dutch monarchy and the other from the Danish monarchy.e-cyclopaedia: Bicycling monarchy. 9 April 2001. BBC News.
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Leland Stanford Sr. told his wife that "the children of California shall be our children."The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. II, p. 129. New York: James T. White & Company, 1899.
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The New International Encyclopedia was an American encyclopedia first published in 1902 by Dodd, Mead and Company. It descended from the International Cyclopaedia (1884) and was updated in 1906, 1914 and 1926.
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Brook, Richard. New Cyclopaedia of Botany and Complete Book of Herbs. London : W. M. Clark. p. 497. Oak Marble Gall extract is used in deodorants because of tannic acid's anti-bacterial properties.Deodorant.
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Henry Martyn Baird (January 17, 1832 – November 1906) was an American historian and educator. He is best known as a historian of the Huguenots.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, vol. 8, p. 171.
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Train served as president of the company; George P. Bemis, who later became mayor of Omaha, was the secretary.White, J.T. (1893) The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. J. T. White company. p 557.
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Hearst, W.H., ed. The American Almanac, Year-book, Cyclopaedia and Atlas. New York American and Journal, Hearst's Chicago American and San Francisco Examiner, 1903. (pg. 665)Wignall, Trevor C. The Story of Boxing.
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Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 3, p. 2 (1888) John Griscom correspondence 1804-1851, nypl.org, Retrieved 12 November 2013Gifford, Walter John. Historical Development of the New York State High School System, p.
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Bauer was born in Milwaukee. He obtained his B.S. from the University of Wisconsin (1915) and M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania (1917).White, James Terry. (1973). The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography.
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In 1844, he was admitted to the bar of the New York Supreme Court. For four years, Catlin practiced law in New York City.White, James T. (Ed.). The National cyclopaedia of American biography.
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Rose La Monte married California rancher Charles Austin Burcham in 1887.James Terry White, The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (J. T. White 1904): 584. She was widowed when he died in 1913.
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The advertisements for the Cyclopaedia describe the expected audience as "merchants, captains, families, [and] new-married couples".Qtd. in Kucich, "Biographer", 235. The prospectus assured its readers that "nothing will be admitted into the pages of the 'CABINET CYCLOPAEDIA' which can have the most remote tendency to offend public or private morals. To enforce the cultivation of religion and the practice of virtue should be a principal object with all who undertake to inform the public mind."Qtd. in Peckham, 41.
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Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American biography, 6 vols, 1888 In 1833 he published a quarterly, the Providence Literary Journal, but discontinued it after a year. He helped to found the Providence Athenaeum and the Rhode Island Historical Society, of which he was president from 1854 until his death. His library of 20,000 volumes included a collection of American poetry which eventually passed to Brown University, where it is known as the Harris Collection.The national cyclopaedia of American biography, 13 vols, 1898.
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The advertisements for the Cyclopaedia describe the expected audience as "merchants, captains, families, [and] new-married couples".Qtd. in Kucich, "Biographer", 235. The prospectus assured its readers that "nothing will be admitted into the pages of the 'CABINET CYCLOPAEDIA' which can have the most remote tendency to offend public or private morals. To enforce the cultivation of religion and the practice of virtue should be a principal object with all who undertake to inform the public mind."Qtd. in Peckham, 41.
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He married first in 1784 to Elizabeth Brooks, with whom he had twin daughters.White, James Terry. The national cyclopaedia of American biography. JT White, 1900, p104 Elizabeth died at age 27 in December 1787.
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Who's Who in America (Chicago: A.N. Marquis Company, 1953), Vol. 27 (1952-1953), 292. National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (New York: James T. White & Company, 1966), 49:633. Who Was Who in America, Vol.
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Talcott was born on April 20, 1797, in Glastonbury, Connecticut.Wilson, James Grand and John Fiske, ed. (1889) "Andrew Talcott" Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography vol. vi, D. Appleton and Company, New York. p.24.
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The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol III, (1847) London, Charles Knight, p.766. This had grown to 1,680 by 1901. The Town's size has not changed much since, with 2018 estimates at 1900.
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His sister Laurinda Collins "Lily" Whitney married Charles T. Barney, who became the president of the Knickerbocker Trust Company.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. II, p. 407. New York: James T. White & Company, 1899.
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Wilson and Fiske. Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 2, 1898, p. 115 Retrieved November 18, 2013 Dean lived in the West for a number of years, primarily in San Francisco and Salt Lake City.
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The card put out may not be seen. Robbing must take place before the first player on the dealer's left leads. Some players make "robbing" optional.Professor Hoffmann, The Cyclopaedia of Card and Table Games, p.
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Woods Hutchinson (January 3, 1862 – April 26, 1930)Anonymous. (1931). The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 21. New York: James T. White Company. pp. 376–377. was an English American physician and health writer.
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Klima, László: The Linguistic Affinity of the Volgaic Finno-Ugrians and Their Ethnogenesis. Studia Historica Fenno-ugrica I. Oulu, 1996. 21–33.Magyar Utazok Lexikona (cyclopaedia of Hungarian travellers). Editor: Denes Balazs,Panorama, Budapest, 1993.
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The 1841 census lists the population as 1,757.The National Cyclopaedia od Useful Knowledge, Vol.III, London (1847) Charles Knight, p.899 Before the designation of Milton Keynes in 1967, Stony was in Wolverton Urban District.
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Awilda was the daughter of a 5th-century Scandinavian king;Samuel Astley Durham, History of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, Volume 3, The cabinet cyclopaedia, p. 317 (Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans and John Taylor, 1840).
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Nicot defines the clarion as a treble instrument, which is paired with trumpets playing the tenor and bass. Nicot also specifies that the clarion was used by the Cavalry and Marines.Chamber, Ephraim. Cyclopaedia, p. 232.
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Winfield Scott Hall (January 5, 1861 - October 2, 1942)White, James Terry. (1944). The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Volume 31. New York: James T. White & Company. p. 446 was an American physiologist and writer.
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Appletons' Cyclopaedia Of American Biography, Volume IV. Lodge-Pickens. New York, D. Appleton & Company, 1888. . Page 372. Sifakis states that Montgomery's regiment was detailed to guard areas around Arlington Heights, Virginia and Fairfax Court House, Virginia.
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"Joseph Reed Whipple." National cyclopaedia of American biography, v.4. NY: J. T. White company, 1893 Guests at Young's included Mark Twain, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, William Lloyd Garrison, Charles Sumner, Rutherford B. Hayes, and numerous others.
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Dillard Eugene Bird married Mary Carmichael Andrews, daughter of James H. M. Andrews and Esther McKinley (Bender) Andrews.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 1967. p. 367 They had a son, Dillard Eugene Bird, Jr. (1941-2015).
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Principal group members included L.V.H. Crosby;Edward Le Roy Rice. Monarchs of minstrelsy, from "Daddy" Rice to date. Kenny publishing company, 1911. Marshall S. Pike (1818-1901);Appletons' annual cyclopaedia and register of important events. 1902.
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This was a two volume condensation of the Penny Cyclopaedia specifically regarding the British Empire, published 1850-51.Walsh, S. Padraig, 1922- Anglo-American general encyclopedias: a historical bibliography, 1703-1967 New York: Bowker, pp. 60-1.
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The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol.III, (1847) London, Charles Knight, p.1019 During the 1890s, the town was developed by Solomon Andrews, a Cardiff businessman. This work included the promenade, roads and houses at West End.
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She wrote the poem that same morning, and she read it in September 1861.Beers, All Quiet Along the Potomac, p. 350.Sargent, Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry, p. 818: :In a private letter Mrs.
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First edition, volume eight The New International Encyclopedia was the successor of the International Cyclopaedia (1884). Initially, The International Cyclopaedia was largely a reprint of Alden's Library of Universal Knowledge, which was a reprint of the British Chambers's Encyclopaedia. The title was changed to The New International Encyclopedia in 1902, with editors Harry Thurston Peck, Daniel Coit Gilman, and Frank Moore Colby. The encyclopedia was popular and reprints were made in 1904, 1905, 1907 (corrected and expanded to 20 volumes), 1909 and 1911. The 2nd edition appeared from 1914 to 1917 in 24 volumes.
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He was also decorated by the Korean emperor for his assistance in stamping out this uprising without loss of life.White, James Terry, ed. (1909). "Sands, William Franklin". The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Volume 10 (1909), p. 475.
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Alice Hay Wadsworth, wife of the Senator James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr., was elected president of the American Women's Legion in May 1920."A.W.L. Convenes Today." Washington Post. May 13, 1920; The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, p. 1111.
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Cyclopaedia of Political Science. New York: Maynard, Merrill, and Co., ed. John Joseph Lalor, 1899. It differs from a personal union in that a personal union is specifically under one monarch, but a dynastic union requires 2 monarchs.
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Siduho Gheo, chief of Hili Dgiono, 1886 Between 1886 and 1894, Modigliani explored Sumatra and a number of islands off its western coast.van Steenis-Kruseman MJ, et al. (2006). Cyclopaedia of Malesian Collectors: Elio Modigliani. Nationaal Herbarium Nederland.
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Upon hearing this, Matthieu Bochart published his Dialectician, a conciliatory treatise, in 1662, which he dedicated to Palatine. It contains the plan of this projected union. Matthieu's cousin is the more well-known Samuel Bochart.Penny Cyclopaedia. Vol. 5.
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Hutchins was born in New Jersey."When only sixteen years of age he went to the western country, and obtained an appointment as an ensign in the British Army."The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. NY: White & Co. 1899.
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Movable type on a composing stick on a type case. A specimen sheet issued by William Caslon, letter founder, from the 1728 edition of Cyclopaedia. sort. Typesetting is the composition of text by means of arranging physical typesDictionary.com Unabridged.
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Margaret Kerr Hosmer (December 1, 1830 – February 3, 1897) was an American writer and novelist who primarily wrote for young readers.Johnson, Deidre Margaret Hosmer (biographical sketch, readseries.com (2002), Retrieved 16 March 2017Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 3, p.
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Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. Vol. VI ‒ ME-NEV. New York: Harper and Brother Publishers, 1882. p. 914. As early as 1666 he sought to be relieved of his duties, and by 1669 Dositheos Notaras had become his successor.
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Schiff was educated in the schools of Frankfurt, and was first employed in the banking and brokerage business as an apprentice in 1861.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. XIII, p. 533. New York: James T. White & Company, 1906.
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Barrington, J M & T H Beaglehole, Maori schools in a Changing Society, Wellington 1974 pp122–160. Butchers, A G Education in New Zealand. Dunedin 1930. The Cyclopaedia of New Zealand Vol 1 Wellington 1897. Obit New Zealand Times 4 Aug 1913.
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Curiously, another cultivar called 'Glasbury' was recommended as a cider apple in a book published in 1835,C. F. Partington, The British Cyclopaedia of Natural History, Vol. 1, p.177, 1835 but this earlier apple now seems to be unknown.
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Like Ireland, France became well known for its butter, particularly in Normandy and Brittany. Butter consumption in London in the mid 1840s was estimated at 15,357 tons annually.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol.III, London (1847) Charles Knight, p.975.
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The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol. III, (1847), London, Charles Knight, p. 852 The city's population was 25,000 in 1834, but the police department comprised only 12 men on the day shift and another 12 on the night shift.
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He was associated with Thompson, Knight, Baker & Harris; Allen & Flanary, which eventually became Aldredge, Shults & Madden. During the First World War, he was stationed at Kelly Field, Texas and St. Maixent Field, France.. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Volume 38.
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31; "Andrew Carnegie," in Encyclopedia Americana, 1966, p. 633; Warren, 2000, p. 391; "Carnegie, Andrew," in Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 1887, p. 529. However, a number of authoritative sources place his date of birth in 1844. See: Swank, 1892, p.
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The National cyclopaedia of American biography. Volume 20 (1926). New York: J.T. White. p.82 Around 1911, he began contributing occasional poems to The National Rip-Saw, “America’s Greatest Socialist Monthly,” edited by Phil Wagner and based in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Nepenthes clipeata was first collected in 1894 by Johannes Gottfried Hallier, who summited Mount Kelam 5 times between 30 January and 13 February.van Steenis-Kruseman, M.J., et al. 2006. Cyclopaedia of Malesian Collectors: Johann Gottfried ('Hans') Hallier. Nationaal Herbarium Nederland.
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Appletons' annual cyclopaedia and register of important events of the year: 1862. New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1863. p. 678. In 1859, he was ordered to Louisville, Kentucky, for duty as a recruiting officer. There, he met and married Mildred Ewing.
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Longman entered into partnership with his father-in-law, Osborn, who held one-sixth of the shares in Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopaedia (1728). Longman himself was one of the six booksellers, who undertook the responsibility of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (1746–1755).
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John Joseph Lalor ( to 9 June 1899) was an American political scientist, a translator of work by Ludwig Nohl and Wilhelm Roscher, and the publisher of Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and the Political History of the United States (1895).
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She also indicated when employers offered their reasons for wage differentials based on gender. She dedicated her book "to worthy and industrious women in the United States, striving to earn a livelihood", and the book garnered much attention from reviewers and scholars across the country. She sold her rights to the book to another publisher who put it out as an encyclopedia, The Employments of Women: A Cyclopaedia of Woman's Work,The Employments of Women: A Cyclopaedia of Woman's Work in 1863. It sold better once it was re-titled again in 1870 as How Women Can Make Money, Married or Single.
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In France a member of the banking family Lambert had started translating Chambers into French,Précis de la vie du citoyen Lambert, Bibliothèque nationale, Ln. 11217; Listed in Shackleton (1970, p. 130). but in 1745 the expatriate Englishman John Mills and German Gottfried Sellius were the first to actually prepare a French edition of Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopaedia for publication, which they entitled Encyclopédie. Early in 1745 a prospectus for the EncyclopédieRecently rediscovered in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, see Prospectus pour une traduction française de la Cyclopaedia de Chambers blog.bnf.fr, Dec. 2010 was published to attract subscribers to the project.
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"Mills, John (c. 1717-1786x1796), writer on agriculture". in: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 1894/2004 Mills and Gottfried Sellius are known for being the first to prepare a French edition of Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopaedia for publication in 1745,John Lough: The Encyclopédie.
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The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, New York: James T. White & Company, 1909. Reprint of 1900 edition. Cheney was elected a director of Wells Fargo & Company in September 1854 in place of Alpheus Reynolds, who had resigned.Noel M. Loomis, Wells Fargo, p. 70.
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Frederic Thomas Somerby or F.T. Somerby (1814–1871) was a painter and "sporting writer" in Boston, Massachusetts, in the mid-19th century.Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, v.5. NY: D. Appleton and Co., 1888"A Modern Ancient-Prophecy." Historical Magazine (NY), Feb.
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National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 10: 453–54. Mills' son, Anson Cassel Mills, died of appendicitis in 1894 at the age of fifteen. On his grave marker in Arlington National Cemetery, Mills had inscribed, "A boy of sweet promise." My Story, 210.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Everett, Prof. Pierce, Josiah Quincy III, James Savage, Charles Sumner,"An oil portrait [of Charles Sumner] by Moses Wight (1856) is in the Boston Public Library." Appletons' cyclopaedia of American biography. 1888.United States art directory and yearbook. 1882.
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He is known as public utility executive and investment counselor,The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. J. T. White, 1977. p. 233 and as recipient of the Henry Laurence Gantt Medal in 1949.Spurr, Arthur Clinton - West Virginia Department of Agriculture at agriculture.wv.gov.
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Unlike other encyclopedias of the time, Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia arranged its articles topically rather than alphabetically.Peckham, 40. The series eventually contained 61 titles in 133 volumes and customers could purchase a single volume, a single cabinet, or the entire set.Crook, xx; Peckham, 37.
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Mazzeo, xliii. Of all of the volumes Shelley contributed to the Cabinet Cyclopaedia, Italian Lives is, according to editor Nora Crook, the "most overtly political".Crook, xxx. Shelley was a friend to the Italian exiles and a proponent of the Risorgimento;Mazzeo, xlvii.
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Struve was also the sole agent in Washington of the German Savings & Loan Society of San Francisco until 1896, at which time he was succeeded by his son Frederick Karl.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. IX, p. 248; Hunt and Kaylor, Vol.
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A Specimen of typefaces and styles, by William Caslon, letter founder; from the 1728 Cyclopaedia In the examination of individual scripts, the study of writing systems has developed along partially independent lines. Thus, the terminology employed differs somewhat from field to field.
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Samuel was also a disciple of Hovhannes Imastaser. According to the Penny Cyclopaedia, "Samuel of Ani wrote a concise but accurate chronological work, extending from Adam to the pontificate of Gregory Vikayaser." Samuel was born in Ani, the ancient capital of Armenia.
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These fires created The Great Conflagration of Richmond, which left a third of the city destroyed, including all of the business district.Ripley, G. et al., The American Cyclopaedia, 1883, p. 237. Ewell and his troops were then surrounded and captured at Sailor's Creek.
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Timothy Woodruff was born August 4, 1858 in New Haven, Connecticut. He was the son of a United States Congressman, Rep. John Woodruff and his wife, the former Harriet Jane Lester."Timothy L. Woodruff," The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Volume 14.
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Unlike other encyclopedias of the time, Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia arranged its articles topically rather than alphabetically.Peckham, 40. The series eventually contained 61 titles in 133 volumes and customers could purchase a single volume, a single cabinet, or the entire set.Crook, xx; Peckham, 37.
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Wilson and Fiske (1888) Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, p. 403.Fulton (1882) Caldwell died on September 28, 1841; scholars believe it may have been from cholera. His wife Masaqua died in the winter of 1843. Together they had one surviving son, Pe-y-mo.
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Henry Jackson Ellicott, from National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (1904). Henry Jackson Ellicott (June 22 or 23, 1847 in Annapolis, Maryland - February 11, 1901 in Washington, D.C.) was an American sculptor and architectural sculptor, best known for his work on American Civil War monuments.
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Cyclopaedia Hornwork The Weber Church of Zittau inside a hornworkEuropaeum Theatrum, Volume 5, plate 12. Published in 1651 in Frankfurt am Main. A hornwork is an element of the Italian bastion system of fortification. Its face is flanked with a pair of demi-bastions.
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The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. 17. New York: James T. White, 1904, 230. and it soon began the construction of the present building. Built in 1919, the bank was situated at the intersection of Main and Broad at the heart of the village.
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The population had reached 12,538 by 1841.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol.III, London, John Knight, 1847, p.960 A permanent military presence was established in the town with the completion of the Militia Barracks in 1857 and of Gibraltar Barracks in 1878.
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John I was succeeded by Pope Felix IV (526-530) with the recommendation of Theodoric and his election was confirmed by Athalaric.Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. 1842. Penny cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. C. Knight. p. 320.
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Robert Stone (March 2, 1866 – June 24, 1957) was the Speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives and a prominent attorney and civic leader in Kansas.Many of the basic biographical facts in this entry were obtained from The National Cyclopaedia, 1953, pps. 416–417.
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Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Volume IV, Lodge-Pickens. Page 27. D. Appleton and Company, 1900. Although they escaped from the valley, his party's carriage was attacked on November 5 by a band of Yavapai near Wickenburg, Arizona, while on the way to La Paz.
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Milton Kirk LaShellssometimes spelled La Shells, Lashells or LaShell was born at Wyoming, Illinois the son of Sarah Williams and James Ralph LaShells.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. XII, 1904, p. 185 Retrieved June 11, 2014James LaShells, 1870 US Census, Wyoming, Illinois, Ancestry.
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The population was 3,526 by 1841.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol.III, (1847), London, Charles Knight, p.898 The college sometimes leased small plots of land to the village as an act of charity, leading to the construction of houses near the bridge.
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This is not to be confused with the first appearance of the word which was disputed by Robert Collison who later reported that the work was poorly written, and that Joachim Sterck van Ringelbergh had used the word "cyclopaedia" to describe his work in 1541.
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S. Patent No. 1,081,758), and he founded the Universal Drafting Machine Company in Cleveland, Ohio, to manufacture and sell the instrument.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, vol.36 (1950), p.341. Drafting machines were present in the design offices of European companies since the 1920s.
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Haines was born in Medusa, Albany County, New York. His parents, David Tompkins Haines and Emma De Maugh Haines, were prominent in Albany County, and Governor Daniel Tompkins was of this family.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Published by J.T. White, 1899. Volume 9, p.
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Occitan was the vehicle for the influential poetry of the medieval troubadours (trobadors) and trobairitz: At that time, the language was understood and celebrated throughout most of educated Europe.Charles Knight, Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Vol. XXV, 1843, p.
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The Silver Pears Trophy was an award presented annually by Pears Cyclopaedia for "outstanding British achievement in any field."Current Biography Yearbook, Volume 17 (1957) The trophy was possibly awarded prior to 1953 and after 1958, but more research is needed on the subject.
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Inside Facts on Pugilism. Chicago: Laird & Lee Publishers, 1907. (pg. 144)Hearst, W.H., ed. The American Almanac, Year- book, Cyclopaedia and Atlas. New York American and Journal, Hearst's Chicago American and San Francisco Examiner, 1903. (pg. 665)Wignall, Trevor C. The Story of Boxing.
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A major improvement was spring loading that lever toward the ignition vent with a catch to hold the lever away from the vent until the catch was released by a trigger. The essential elements of a trigger and moving parts near the rear of the barrel evolved through the wheellock, snaplock, snaphance, miquelet lock, doglock, flintlock, and caplock. The term firelock was originally applied, as the name suggests, to the matchlock, but was later successively applied to the wheellock and then the flintlock as each was invented.Penny cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Penny cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Vol.
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The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography included a lengthy entry about Hayes, together with some family background, five years before his death:White, James Terry (overall editor) (1894) National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 6. New York, New York Public Library. p. 120. On his father's side he is of New England stock, being descended from George Hayes, of Windsor, Connecticut, who emigrated from Scotland to Derbyshire, England, and thence to Windsor, Connecticut, in 1680, where descendants of the family still live. Many honored names represent the family in professional and official life, 19th President of the United States Rutherford Hayes being among the number.
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Encyclopædia Britannica appeared in various editions throughout the century, and the growth of popular education and the Mechanics' Institutes, spearheaded by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge led to the production of the Penny Cyclopaedia, as its title suggests issued in weekly numbers at a penny each like a newspaper. A more commercially successful encyclopaedia then Penny Cyclopaedia aimed at the same audiences was Chambers's Encyclopaedia A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, edited by Andrew Findlanter. It was partly based on a translation into English of the 10th edition of the German-language Konversations-Lexikon, which would become the Brockhaus Enzyklopädie.
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The birds were once common and abounded on the Salisbury Plain. They had become rare by 1819 when a large male, surprised by a dog on Newmarket Heath, sold in Leadenhall Market for five guineas.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol.III, London, (1847) Charles Knight, p.
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In 1884, Bell returned to Great Britain and settled in Ealing, London as a professional writer. That same year, he published a well-received biography on Charles Whitehead entitled A Forgotten Genius (1884).Chambers, Robert and David Patrick, eds. Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature. Vol. III.
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The population of the borough and liberties of the town in 1841 was 8,671.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge Vol III (1847), London, Charles Knight, p.278. Hodgsons Tannery (1816–1979) was a major employer in the town. The tannery turned animal hides into leather.
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Lauer was born in Three Tuns, Pennsylvania in Montgomery County to Herman Lauer and Margaret Lukens (Clayton) Lauer. His grandfather John G. Lauer had settled there around 1850, having emigrated from Stuttgart, Germany.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 32. J. T. White, 1891; 1967. p.
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Little is known about his activities during this last period. He was described as a good optician and maker of telescopes. He is also said to have had poor health through much of his life.The Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol II, London, Charles Knight (1847) p.544.
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The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, p. 322. He attended Ontario Agricultural College from 1899 to 1902, but left without earning a degree. He then enrolled at Iowa State University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in agronomy in 1904.Cattell and Brimhall, p. 21.
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Of Matthisson's elegies, Elegy in the Ruins of an Old Castle () was still popular in 1911, and is praised by the 1879 American Cyclopaedia as one of his finest lyrics. He edited selections from the lyric poets of Germany under the title of Lyrische Anthologie (20 vols.
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Armstrong's reputation, however, had been damaged by a 1784 book of Michael Underwood, that both borrowed Armstrong's ideas and criticised them. In Rees's Cyclopaedia Armstrong was said to have died "in obscurity". He left three daughters (to whom their uncle had bequeathed his property) and a widow.
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He was especially close to Joseph John Gurney, his sister the prison reformer Elizabeth Fry, and their sister Hannah, whom he married in May 1807. He lived at Northrepps Hall in Norfolk. He completed his education at Trinity College Dublin.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol.
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Robert Collison later wrote that the work was poorly written, only being important today for its use of the word encyclopaedia, and that Joachim Sterck van Ringelbergh had used the word cyclopaedia to describe his work in 1541.Collison, Robert. Encyclopaedias. 2nd ed. (Hafner, 1966) p.
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Lust was born in Michelbach, Baden, Germany.Anonymous. (1945). The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 32. New York: James T. White & Company. pp. 505-506. As a youth, he became ill and was treated by Fr. Sebastian Kneipp, a famous advocate of the water cure system.
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Penny cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, p. 268 The French Navy on the contrary was now completely depleted, leaving the central government very vulnerable.Champlain, Denis Vaugeois, p.22 The Huguenot city of La Rochelle voted to join Soubise on 8 August.
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Charles, Duke of Guise organized a landing in order to re-capture the islands, using 20 borrowed Dutch warshipsPenny cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge Page 268 as well as seven English shipsChamplain by Denis Vaugeois, p.22 under the Duke of Montmorency.
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On June 6, 1865, Cheney married Elizabeth Stickney Clapp, daughter of Asahel and Elizabeth Searle (Whiting) Clapp of Dorchester, Massachusetts. The Cheneys had two sons, Benjamin Pierce Cheney Jr. and Charles P., and three daughters, Alice Steele, Mary and Elizabeth.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. X, p. 215\.
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The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol.IV, (1848), London, Charles Knight, p.19 It was one of the main ports for British travellers to Europe. The British Expeditionary Force or BEF arrived in Calais on its way to the nearby frontline cutting through Nord-Pas- de-Calais and Flanders.
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Julia Arthur (May 3, 1869 – March 28, 1950)Although 1868 is accepted as the year of her birth, both The National Cyclopaedia of National Biography and Who Was Who in America give 1869 as the year. was a Canadian-born stage and film actress.Julia Arthur: North American Theatre.
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The type specimen of N. beccariana was collected by Italian explorer Elio Modigliani during an 1886 expedition to Nias,van Steenis-Kruseman, M.J., et al. 2006. Cyclopaedia of Malesian Collectors: Elio Modigliani. Nationaal Herbarium Nederland. an island located approximately 120 km from the port town of Sibolga in Sumatra.
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Simpson continued in his writings the remainder of his life. He died in Philadelphia on August 17, 1854, at the age of 65.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 1907, p. 543 He is buried in the family vault, at Saint Paul's Church, on South Third Street in Philadelphia.
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He eventually found writing work in Chicago, wherein 1892 he married actress Carrie Wyatt Lounsbury."Charles Eugene Banks", The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography Volume XIV. New York: James T White & Company, 1910. pp99. Print. Banks returned to Iowa with his wife, and in Davenport, started a journal.
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During September and October 1925, Endert explored the hilly area around Mount Kemul, climbing the summit (1,847 m) several times, and the neighbouring valleys of the Long Mehiang, Long Kiau, and Long Petak.van Steenis-Kruseman, M.J., et al. 2006. Cyclopaedia of Malesian Collectors: Frederik Hendrik Endert. Nationaal Herbarium Nederland.
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'Grote Huis', Rijnsburg, baptism, ca. 1735 (Balthasar Bernards, after Louis Fabricius Dubourg, 1736) In Christian history, the Collegiants (; ), also called Collegians, were an association, founded in 1619 among the Arminians and Anabaptists in Holland."Collegiants"; Ephraim Chambers (ed. 1728) Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences.
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The 1919 New Teachers' and Pupils' Cyclopaedia entry for Woodrow Wilson states that "In 1912, Wilson was the Democrat Party nominee for President ..." On July 14, 1922, a newspaper in Keytesville, Missouri, posted an advertisement for its primary elections with the Democratic candidates identified as "Representing: Democrat Party".
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Jonathan Belcher, Colonial governor By Michael C. Batinski 1996Derby, George; and White, James Terry. "John B. Mason", The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 1916, pg. 51. John Mason was educated in private schools in America and overseas at the Frankfort Gymnasium, before enrolling at Columbia University in 1876.
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Beach was the editor and publisher of Youth's Cyclopedia (2 volumes, 1892) and the Student's Cyclopaedia (2 volumes, 1893), which turned into The Student's Reference Work (1901). The New Student's Reference Work was published by C. B. Beach & Company (1909,1911,1912), then by F. E. Compton & Co. from 1912.
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The central business district and the larger part of the town is located on the north-east bank of Coal Creek, a tributary of the North fork of the Skunk River.What Cheer, Johnson's (Revised) Universal Cyclopaedia, Vol. VIII, Thoriidae-Zytomierz, A. J. Johnson & Co, New York, 1886; page 521.
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The Pennsylvania Gazette for May 9, 1754 The newspaper was first published in 1728 by Samuel Keimer and was the second newspaper to be published in Pennsylvania under the name The Universal Instructor in all Arts and Sciences: and Pennsylvania Gazette, alluding to Keimer's intention to print out a page of Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences in each copy. On October 2, 1729, Benjamin Franklin and Hugh Meredith bought the paper and shortened its name, as well as dropping Keimer's grandiose plan to print out the Cyclopaedia. Franklin not only printed the paper but also often contributed pieces to the paper under aliases. His newspaper soon became the most successful in the colonies.
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He was born on October 1, 1874, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Edward Biddle II and Emily Drexel.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, v.7, 1897 He was a grandson of banker Anthony Joseph Drexel, and a great-grandson of banker Nicholas Biddle. Biddle was a graduate of Germany's Heidelberg University.
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Encyclopedia of Genealogy And Biography of the State of Pennsylvania, Volume II (1904). New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, p. 708 After the revolution he was a member of the legislature of Pennsylvania, and a member of the Society of the Cincinnati.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume IV (1895).
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Died 28 March 1877.Universal Cyclopaedia and Atlas, 1902, New York, D. Appleton & Co. He was a member of the National Constitutional Assembly from 1848 to 1849, of the Folketing from 1849 to 1853 and of the Landsting from 1853 to 1863.Skou, Kaare R. (2005). Dansk politik A-Å .
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Cauldwell married Elizabeth Dyer on October 7, 1845, and had six children. His son Leslie Giffin Cauldwell became a well-known artist and decorator.(4 June 1941). LESLIE G. CAULDWELL; American Artist, Well Known as Decorator, Dies in Paris, The New York TimesNational cyclopaedia of American biography, Volume 3, p.
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The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol.III, London, (1847) Charles Knight, p.929 Bulliard's Dictionnaire Elémentaire de Botanique (1783) contributed to the spreading and consolidation of botanical terminology and the Linné system. It was especially important in the area of the mycology, containing descriptions of 393 out of 602 table mushrooms.
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Ebenezer Fitch (September 26, 1756 - March 21, 1833) was an American Calvinist clergyman and educator. He was the first president of Williams College. Born in Norwich, Connecticut,George Ripley And Charles A. Dana, "Ebenezer Fitch", The American Cyclopaedia, Volume 7, 1873. Fitch graduated as valedictorian from Yale College in 1777.
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He published Planchette, or the Despair of Science (1869), The Proof Palpable of Immortality (1875), and The Scientific Basis of Spiritualism (1880). His monumental book, Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poets (1881), was not published until after his death. Sargent died in Boston from oral cancer on December 30, 1880.
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Under Sentence of Death: Lynching in the South, pp. 261-62 (2017)Race War in Georgoa, The Literary Digest (January 5, 1895)Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events, Volume 20, p. 313 (1896)(26 December 1894). The Brooks County War Is Ended, The New York Times(24 December 1894).
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The Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and the Political History of the United States by the Best American and European Writers was an encyclopedia edited by John Joseph Lalor, first published in New York City in 1881 by Maynard, Merrill and Co.. Its contents are in the public domain.
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The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography is a multi-volume collection of biographical articles and portraits of Americans, published since the 1890s. The primary method of data collection was by sending questionnaires to subjects or their relatives. It has over 60,000 entries, in 63 volumes. The entries are not credited.
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The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol III, (1847) Charles Knight, London, p.25. In the Scottish borders country, a system of beacon fires was at one time established to warn of incursions by the English. Hume and Eggerstone castles and Soltra Edge were part of this network.Ritchie, Leitch (1835).
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Domesday Book, England, 1086: Earliest historical record of 'county surveying' as an administrative functionTable of Surveying, from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, Volume 2.George Washington, freemason King Æthelstan and Saint Cuthbert John Smith 1624 map of Bermuda A county surveyor is a public official in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Betterton was born in August 1635 in Tothill Street, Westminster.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol.III, London, Charles Knight, 1847, p.273 He was apprenticed to John Holden, Sir William Davenant's publisher, and possibly later to a bookseller named John Rhodes, who had been wardrobe-keeper at the Blackfriars Theatre.
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Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, Volume 6Monod, Frédéric Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse From 1824 up until his death in 1863, he was principal editor of the Archives du Christianisme. His son, Théodore, (1836–1921) followed in his footsteps. Naturalist and explorer Théodore André Monod is his great-grandson.
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265 Raquel MellerSyracuse Herald April 12, 1931 p. 3 (Magazine Section) Odette Dulac,The Secrets of a Showman by Sir Charles Blake Cochran 1942 p. 97 Beatrice Herford,The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography being a multi-volume collection of biographical articles and portraits of Americans, published since the 1890s.
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The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. John Davies, Nigel Jenkins, Menna Baines and Peredur Lynch (2008) pg609 It was captured by the Welsh during the revolt of 1287–1288 and also by Owain Glyndŵr in 1403. The population in 1841 was under 1,000.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol.
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Later he moved to North Carolina where he taught school, studied law and was admitted to the bar, and served as editor of the North State Whig. His wife Mary was also a schoolteacher and supplemented their income by managing a hotel.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. XIX, p. 30.
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His fame chiefly rested upon his songs, some of which, including "Cheer Boys Cheer", were set to music by Henry Russell in 1846, and had an astonishing popularity. Some popular poems include "You have no enemies, you say?" and "Who shall be fairest?"Robert Chambers, Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature (1840).
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A hillclimb was held at Dugdale Hill, Rochester, New York, on October 13, 1906. The free-for-all class was won by William "Billy" Knipper (Thomas 60-h.p.) in a time of 51.8 sec.International Motor Cyclopaedia, Year Book-March 1908 to March 1909, Page 102, Publisher: E.E. Schwarzkopf, New York.
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Through these deeds, he was recognized as the head of the reform, and named himself "Admiral of the Protestant Church".Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, p. 268 The French Navy, by contrast, was depleted, leaving the central government very vulnerable.Champlain by Denis Vaugeois, p.
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Arysdaghes an Armenian writer, born in High Armenia in about 1178. He pursued his studies in the Monastery of Sghevra, near the castle of Lampron, in Cilicia taught rhetoric in several provinces of Armenia, died at Sis in 1239.Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature By John McClintock, p.231.
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Blackie and Son was bought out by Gresham Publishing Company in 1901 and republished as the New Popular Encyclopedia, and in 1906 as the Modern Encyclopedia of Universal Knowledge.Collison p. 305, Walsh p.146 In 1889-1890 Blackie and Son also published Blackies Modern Cyclopaedia of Universal Information, also edited by Annandale.
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A Specimen, a broadsheet with examples of typefaces and fonts available. Printed by William Caslon, letter founder; from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. A typeface is the design of lettering that can include variations, such as extra bold, bold, regular, light, italic, condensed, extended, etc. Each of these variations of the typeface is a font.
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Due to many buildings being considered to be of historic interest, a number of them have been granted 'listed building' status. In the 19th century, it was connected to the London and North Western Railway. The municipal borough had a population of 1,816 in 1841.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol.
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During the period 1827–40, Mary Shelley was busy as an editor and writer. She wrote the novels The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck (1830), Lodore (1835), and Falkner (1837). She contributed five volumes of Lives of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and French authors to Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia. She also wrote stories for ladies' magazines.
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Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature. Vol. 3. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1938. (pg. 842) included concepts involving socialism, atheism, freethought, sexual openness, and rights for women. In later novels, such as Arden Massiter (1900), a youthful English socialist becomes entangled in Italian revolutionary politics, while The Wizard's Knot (1901) criticised the Celtic Revivalism.
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Rees, A. (1819). The Cyclopaedia; or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature, vol. 27: PLA The Pisces Plagiuri included those animals then classed as fish whose tails' flat surfaces faced anatomically up and down and not sideways. Its members have now been shown to be mammals (including the whales and manatees).
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National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. New York: James T. White Company. 1950. Volume XXXVI, pp. 35-36. His 1940 publication, As I Remember Him: the Biography of R.S., won one of the early National Book Awards, the sixth and last annual award for Nonfiction voted by members of the American Booksellers Association.
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The Republicans regained their majority in the state legislature in the election of 1900, and elected Thomas Kearns to fill the seat. The election was still hotly disputed. Kearns received only 8 votes on the first ballot, and balloting continued for four more days.Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events, p. 771.
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Peter Pirsch was born in Kenosha on March 2, 1866 to Nicholas and Celia (Spielman) Pirsch.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, vol. 40. 1955. New York: James T. White, p. 10. His father was an immigrant from Luxembourg that settled in Kenosha and founded a company to build carriages and wagons in 1861.
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Engraved portrait by V. Green. Credit: Wellcome Collection John Bird (1709–1776) was a British mathematical instrument maker. He was born at Bishop Auckland. He came to London in 1740 where he worked for Jonathan Sisson and George Graham.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol III, (1847) London, Charles Knight, p.327.
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Because the Calverts were known Loyalists, the visit drew much criticism from Washington's political enemies.Duyckinck, Evert Augustus, p.372, Cyclopaedia of American Literature, Embracing Personal and Critical Notices of Authors, and Selections from Their Writings, Volume 2, Nabu Press (2010) Retrieved Feb 1 2010 Elizabeth died in 1788, at the age of 57.
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The papillae of the fish, and the taste buds found on them, are therefore located on the interior or exterior surfaces of the mouth.Robert Bentley Todd, The Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology: Volume 1 (1836), p. 532. Most typically, these are found on the floor of the mouth, or on the upper lip.
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The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol.III, (1847), London, Charles Knight, p.898 This had increased to more to 9,000 by the end of the 19th century. As a consequence the centre of the town shifted to the east as shops, workshops and cottages sprung up along the High Street and Berkhampstead Road.
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Roof shapes vary from almost flat to steeply pitched. They can be arched or domed; a single flat sheet or a complex arrangement of slopes, gables and hips; or truncated (terraced, cut)Long, George. "Roof". The Penny cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. London: Charles Knight, 18331843. 143. Print.
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Friend Smith Rutherford was the great-grandson of Doctor Daniel Rutherford, a Scottish physician, chemist and botanist who is known for the isolation of nitrogen which he described in his M.D. dissertation at the University of Edinburgh in 1772.Wilson, James Grant, and John Fiske, eds. Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography. 6 vols.
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He voted for the declaration of war with Spain in April 1898.Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year, 1898 edition, p. 161. On June 14, 1898, he delivered a speech on the House floor calling for the annexation of Hawaii and the construction of the Nicaragua Canal.
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Ironically, the Encyclopédie had begun as a French translation of the popular English encyclopedia, Cyclopaedia published by Ephraim Chambers in 1728. Although later editions of Chambers' Cyclopaedia were still popular, and despite the commercial failure of other English encyclopedias, Macfarquhar and Bell were inspired by the intellectual ferment of the Scottish Enlightenment and thought the time ripe for a new encyclopedia "compiled upon a new plan". Needing an editor, the two chose a 28-year-old scholar named William Smellie who was offered 200 pounds sterling to produce the encyclopedia in 100 parts (called "numbers" and equivalent to thick pamphlets), which were later bound into three volumes. The first number appeared on 10 December 1768 in Edinburgh, priced sixpence or 8 pence on finer paper.
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In 1832 and 1833 he started The Penny Magazine and The Penny Cyclopaedia, both of which had a large circulation. The Penny Cyclopaedia, as a result of the heavy excise duty, was only completed in 1844 at a financial loss. Besides many illustrated editions of standard works, including in 1842 an edition of the works of William Shakespeare entitled The Pictorial Shakspere, which had appeared in parts (1838–1841), Knight published a variety of illustrated works, such as Old England and The Land we Live in and The Pictorial Gallery of Arts – Useful Arts, the latter based on the Great Exhibition of 1851. He also undertook the series known as Weekly Volumes, himself contributing the first volume, a biography of William Caxton.
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When the title Public Printer of the United States was created in 1876, he continued as printer in that title for another year. In 1877, he bought the National Republican newspaper in Washington, D.C., which was a pro-Republican paper, and owned it until 1880.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. I, pp.
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The 1728 Cyclopaedia by Ephraim Chambers says it was made either of glass of antimony or of antimony prepared with saltpeter. The liquid obtained from the resultant wine or liquor left in it for 24 hours was not dissoluble by the stomach. The infused liquid containing antimony would give a cathartic or emetic effect.Chambers, p.
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In 1879 the family moved to Chicago where they had a third child. Finally in 1881 the Harveys returned to Gallipolis, where W.H. worked as an attorney for several wholesale firms in the area."William Hope ('Coin') Harvey," National Cyclopaedia of National Biography: Volume 18. n.c.: James T. White and Co., 1922; pp. 16-17.
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Today, despite its own substantial expansion, it has been completely dwarfed by the growth of Milton Keynes. There were also at one time two hospitals in Newport Pagnell, and six fairs were held for the townsfolk throughout the year. The 1841 census gave the population as 3,569.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol.
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As it became clear that the series was not going to take off, fewer review copies were sent out and advertisements became smaller. Lardner's interest in the project may also have waned, as he paid less attention to its business dealings. However, some volumes of the Cabinet Cyclopaedia remained in print until 1890.Crook, xxvi.
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The Army Distinguished Service Medal, awarded to Brig. Gen. Hugh S. Johnson He was born in Fort Scott, Kansas in 1882Hamby, For the Survival of Democracy: Franklin Roosevelt and the World Crisis of the 1930s, 2004, p. 144. to Samuel L. and Elizabeth (née Mead) Johnson.White, The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 1967, p. 5.
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Bloxham was born on a plantation in Leon County, Florida, the son of William and Martha (Williams) Bloxham.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, p. 382.Headley, p. 695.Douglas, p. 281. His great-grandfather had migrated from England to manage George Washington's plantation and his grandfather endured adversity due to the War of 1812.
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The editor of this edition was Charles Kendall Adams, president of Cornell University.Walsh p.90 In 1900 the encyclopedia was revised again by Adams and expanded to 12 volumes. As Johnson was no longer involved, this edition was published as Universal Cyclopaedia, which is described as one of the best encyclopedias of the time.
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Eickemeyer was born in Yonkers, New York, in 1862. Though widely travelled, he would live in Yonkers his entire life. Eickemeyer's father had fled to New York in the early 1850s following political upheavals in his native Bavaria, and became a noted inventor.James Terry White, "Rudolf Eickemeyer," The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol.
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The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge Vol.III, (1847) London, Charles Knight, p.362 This made it the second wealthiest diocese in Wales, after St Asaph. After a brief restoration with the Holy See during the reign of Queen Mary I, the diocese remained part of the Anglican Province of Canterbury until the early 20th century.
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The site opened as the "Eastern New York Reformatory". Its imposing main building, with medieval-style turrets and long green copper roof, was designed by architect John Rochester Thomas, who had also designed Elmira. "Thomas, John Rochester" at The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume IX (1899). New York: James T. White and Company, p.
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Indian land was guarded against further encroachment by white settlers. So successful were these policies that during the bloody battles of King Philip's War, in 1675-1676, the Vineyard Indians never stirred, although they outnumbered the English on the island by twenty to one.Wilson, James Grant, and John Fiske, eds. Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography.
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A History of American Magazines, 1850-1865, Volume 2, Supplement Sketch 6 (history of magazine) (1938, 1970) Frank Munsey, the media consolidator, purchased the magazine in 1898,(17 March 1898). Peterson's Magazine Sold, The New York Times (one sentence article) and combined it into Argosy magazine.Brown, John Howard. The Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol.
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During this time, he was constantly pursued by British forces. Over the course of the following years, he was forced to relocate his family five times.Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 1888 Later, he served continuously until February 1, 1783. McKean helped draft the Articles of Confederation and voted for their adoption on March 1, 1781.
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Couldock married Louisa Smith while still in England, and they remained married until her death in 1877. Their daughter Eliza was an actress who died in Salt Lake City at age 27.Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events, p. 52 (1899)Whitney, Horace G. The Story of the Salt Lake Theatre, pp.
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As it became clear that the series was not going to take off, fewer review copies were sent out and advertisements became smaller. Lardner's interest in the project may also have waned, as he paid less attention to its business dealings. However, some volumes of the Cabinet Cyclopaedia remained in print until 1890.Crook, xxvi.
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Wucherer was born in Nördlingen and went on to study at the University of Erlangen. After completing his studies he worked for some time as an assistant minister in Nördlingen before he was appointed as the hospital-preacher (German: Hospitalprediger) in Nördlingen in 1832.McClintock, John. Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, Volume 12.
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Although none of his works survives, he is known for his talent and skill in sculpting animals, especially horses, as opposed to the human body. He is known to have worked in marble, bronze, gold, and ivory, and was famed for statues of horses, which Pliny says were unrivalled.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol.IV, (London) Charles Knight, p.
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A later American edition was edited by Robley Dunglison.Open Library page, Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine. Contributors to the first edition included James Lomax Bardsley, Joseph Brown, Thomas Harrison Burder, Harry William Carter, John Cheyne, James Clark, Charles Locock, James Cowles Prichard, Peter Mark Roget, and Charles James Blasius Williams.Their articles in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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Encyclopédie, Conditions for Subscriber, 1745/71. Ephraim Chambers had first published his Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences in two volumes in London in 1728, following several dictionaries of arts and sciences that had emerged in Europe since the late 17th century.Lough (1971. p. 3-5)Robert Shackleton "The Encyclopedie" in: Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol.
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Graceanna Lewis was born on August 3, 1821, on a farm near West Vincent Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania."Graceanna Lewis," National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Volume 9. New York: James T. White and Company, 1899; pp. 447-448. She was the second of four daughters of a Quaker farmer named John Lewis and his wife, the former Esther Fussell.
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He nonetheless served in the Battle of Chapultepec on September 13, 1847According to Wilson and Fiske, Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography (1888), page 372, Montgomery commanded the regiment at the Battle of Chapultepec. Warner, page 330, does not mention this. and the Battle for Mexico City, resulting in the capture of Mexico City on September 13‑14, 1847.
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The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, op. cit. In 1883, through the Broadway Railroad Company, Whitney became involved in a struggle with Jacob Sharp and Thomas Fortune Ryan for the Broadway street-railway franchise. Sharp initially won the franchise by means of bribery, but in December 1884 Ryan formed an alliance with Whitney and Peter A.B. Widener.
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Canvey Cyclopaedia. (RootsWeb.com). Retrieved: 24 February 2008. , the flood defences consist of a concrete seawall, flood sirens and an internal surface storm water drainage system. The extensive sea wall, completed in 1982, is long and surrounds 75% of the island's perimeter terminating with flood barriers spanning Benfleet Creek to the north and East Haven Creek in the west.
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Of the First Fruits of Methodism, Sunday Morning StarSimpson, Matthew (ed.) Cyclopaedia of Methodism, p. 956 (5th Rev. ed. 1883) Enrollment started to decline during the 1870s, probably due in part to the opening of the Wilmington Conference Academy, a secondary school which went co- educational in 1874. By 1879, enrollment had dropped to 66 students.
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The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol.IV, (1848) London, Charles Knight, p.17 Calabria experienced a series of peasant revolts as part of the European Revolutions of 1848. This set the stage for the eventual unification with the rest of Italy in 1861, when the Kingdom of Naples was brought into the union by Giuseppe Garibaldi.
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Triumphal arch King Umberto I, better known as Bastione Saint Remy View of Via Roma and the Port The population by the 1840s had reached 29,000.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol.IV, (1848), London, Charles Knight, p.12 Starting in the 1870s, in the wake of the unification of Italy, the city experienced a century of rapid growth.
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Table of the Animal Kingdom based on Cuvier's Règne Animal in the Penny Cyclopaedia, 1828 The Penny Cyclopædia published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was a multi-volume encyclopedia edited by George Long and published by Charles Knight alongside the Penny Magazine. Twenty- seven volumes and three supplements were published from 1833 to 1843.
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Cyclopaedia of Malesian Collectors: Johann Gottfried ('Hans') Hallier. Nationaal Herbarium Nederland. He wrote the following account of the mountain: > Mount K'lamm is a unique mountain of grand beauty. It rises singly and > abruptly from a wide plain overgrown by young forest almost up to 1000 m > above sea level and stretches approximately from west to east.
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The Eyalet of Adrianople or EdirneThe English Cyclopaedia: Geography By Charles Knight or Çirmen () was constituted from parts of the eyalets of Silistra and Rumelia in 1826. It was one of the first Ottoman provinces to become a vilayet after an administrative reform in 1865, and by 1867 it had been reformed into the Vilayet of Adrianople.
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Because of the popularity of encyclopedias at the beginning of the 19th century, the Cabinet Cyclopaedia did not receive enough critical notice to make it a bestseller. Often the reviews were "perfunctory". However, some individual writers received attention. Moore, for example, was given a front-page spread in the Literary Gazette for his history of Ireland.
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Crook, xxiv–v. Shelley's volumes received 12 reviews in total—a good number—but "her name was never fully exploited" in the project; whether by her choice or Lardner's, it is unclear. Nevertheless, Peckham writes that "the Cyclopaedia on the whole was a distinguished and valuable work", and some of the individual volumes became famous.Peckham, 48.
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Although the Venetians surrounded Fort Stella, Albrecht von Wallenstein brought in reinforcements and supplies.Ripley, George & Charles Anderson Dana. (1858) The New American Cyclopaedia, D. Appleton and Company. pp. 185–189. He used his wealth, offering and commanding 200 horses for Archduke Ferdinand of Styria for the war and relieving the fortress of Gradisca from the Venetian siege.
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Struve was a member of the board of freeholders that framed a new city charter for Seattle in 1890. He soon had to decline many honors and confine his attention to his extensive private practice, acting as counsel for many railroads and lumbering and coal-mining companies. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. IX, p.
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Daviesia cordata, also known as bookleaf, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is native to the south-west of Western Australia. It forms an erect shrub, growing to between 0.5 and 2 metres in height. The species was first formally described by botanist James Edward Smith in 1808 in The Cyclopaedia.
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Raised on a farm, he was educated by his mother for several years before attending public schools."Charles Eugene Banks" The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography Volume XIV. New York: James T White & Company, 1910. pp99. Print. As a poetically-inclined traveling shoe salesman, Banks began his professional writing career with submissions to a regionally distributed trade journal.
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The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (1902) James T. White & Company, New York, Reprint of 1891 edition. French went to teach in the Normal School at New Paltz, New York. In 1887, French, together with Scudded, edited Poems by George Macdonald. The winter of 1887-88 she spent at Cornell, where she received the master's degree in the spring.
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The first headquarters of the foundation was established at St. Vincent's Hospital and included as board members Dr. Robert Chambers of New York University, Dr. Antonio Rottino, vice president of St. Vincent's Hospital, Dr. Harry Rolnick of Philadelphia, and John Finn, vice president of Fordham University.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, James Terry White. University Microfilms, 1967. p. 358.
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It was republished in 1895 () and in the 20th century by Irv Teibel (, Simulacrum Press), and in the 21st century (, Palala Press and others). Balch wrote other encyclopedias around the same time including The People's Dictionary and Every-day Encyclopedia in 1883 and Ready Reference: The Universal Cyclopaedia Containing Everything that Evertybody Wants to Know in 1901.
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According to Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia, this was the only permitted burial ground for Jews. Also nearby is St Lawrence Jewry, a Church of England guild church on Gresham Street, next to the Guildhall. Thomas Rowlandson was born on Old Jewry in 1756. For many years, the headquarters of the City of London Police was in Old Jewry.
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Ripley, George, and Dana, Charles A., The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge (Vol. II), New York: D. Appleton & Co. (1873), p. 409Board of Officers Assembled at St. Louis, Missouri, Schofield, J.M. (Maj. Gen.) President, Bayonets: Resume of the Proceedings of the Board, June 10, 1870, Ordnance Memoranda, Issue 11, United States Army Ordnance Dept.
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An example of an alidade on a circumferentor. Taken from the Table of Surveying, Cyclopaedia, Volume 2, 1728 The word in Arabic ( , "the ruler"), signifies the same device. In Greek and Latin, it is respectively called , "dioptra", and , "fiducial line". The earliest alidades consisted of a bar, rod or similar component with a vane on each end.
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The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol II, (1847) Charles Knight, London, p.646 His widow was his second wife; he left a family fully composed of six sons and three daughters. His sons Thomas Bacon and John Bacon Jr. continued his work, and one of his daughters married the artist Mr Thornton. His memoirs were edited by Rev.
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Nathaniel Peaslee Sargent was born in Methuen, Massachusetts on November 2, 1731 to Reverend Christopher Sargent and Susanna (Peaslee) Sargent. His father was descended from early settlers of Massachusetts.Appletons' cyclopaedia of American biography, Volume 5 He entered Harvard College, graduating in 1750, and receiving a master's degree in 1753. He then began practicing law in Haverhill.
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The cyclopaedia was revived under the title American Cyclopædia in 1873–6. A final edition was issued in 1883–4, which added supplements to each volume of the 1873 edition. Two analytical indexes were published separately in 1878 and 1884.Walsh, S. Padraig, 1922- Anglo-American general encyclopedias: a historical bibliography, 1703-1967 New York : Bowker, pp.
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Because of the popularity of encyclopedias at the beginning of the 19th century, the Cabinet Cyclopaedia did not receive enough critical notice to make it a bestseller. Often the reviews were "perfunctory". However, some individual writers received attention. Moore, for example, was given a front-page spread in the Literary Gazette for his history of Ireland.
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Crook, xxiv–v. Shelley's volumes received 12 reviews in total—a good number—but "her name was never fully exploited" in the project; whether by her choice or Lardner's, it is unclear. Nevertheless, Peckham writes that "the Cyclopaedia on the whole was a distinguished and valuable work", and some of the individual volumes became famous.Peckham, 48.
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Nathan Burrill and Caleb Hersey established the paper in 1821 in Haverhill; politically it supported the Federalists. In 1823 the paper absorbed the Essex Patriot. Among the Gazette's editors: Edward G. Frothingham, John H. Harris, Arthur Asa Hill, Isaac R. Howe, E.P. Rodgers, William Ellsworth Smythe, Jeremiah Spofford, Abijah W. Thayer, John Greenleaf Whittier.National cyclopaedia of American biography.
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Pears' Cyclopaedia was a one-volume encyclopaedia published in the United Kingdom. Pears' Soap launched the original Pears' Shilling Cyclopaedia in December 1897, the year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. The first edition contained an English dictionary, a medical dictionary, a gazetteer and atlas, desk information and a compendium of general knowledge entitled "A Mass of Curious and Useful Information and Things that everyone ought to know in Commerce, History, Science, Religion, Literature and the other Topics of Ordinary Conversation". Each edition traditionally featured an atlas, a gazetteer, a chronological list of events, a list of prominent people (past and present), a miniature encyclopaedia of general information and around a dozen or more other sections on various subjects such as cinema, classical mythology, current events, wine, astronomy, ideas and beliefs, gardening, medicine, etc.
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Title page from the second volume of Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of France (1838) The Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men comprised ten volumes of Dionysius Lardner's 133-volume Cabinet Cyclopaedia (1829–46). Aimed at the self-educating middle class, this encyclopedia was written during the 19th-century literary revolution in Britain that encouraged more people to read. The Lives formed part of the Cabinet of Biography in the Cabinet Cyclopaedia. Within the set of ten, the three-volume Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Italy, Spain and Portugal (1835–37) and the two-volume Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of France (1838–39) consist of biographies of important writers and thinkers of the 14th to 18th centuries.
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Henry Goodwin Smith (1860-1940) was a United States theologian, the son of Henry Boynton Smith. He was pastor of the Freehold (New Jersey) Presbyterian Church in 1886-1896, and from 1897 to 1903 was professor of systematic theology in Lane Theological Seminary. From notes of his lectures, William S Karr prepared two volumes of Dr. Smith's theological writings, Introduction to Christian Theology (1883) and System of Christian Theology (1884). Dr. Smith contributed articles on Calvin, Kant, pantheism, miracles, reformed churches, Schelling and Hegel to the American Cyclopaedia, and contributed to McClintock and Strong's Cyclopaedia; and was editor of the American Theological Review (1859 sqq.), both in its original form and after it became the American Presbyterian and Theological Review and, later, the Presbyterian Quarterly and Princeton Review.
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James B. Howell was born July 4, 1816 near Morristown, New Jersey, the son of Elias and Eliza Howell."James B. Howell," National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Volume 9. New York: James T. White and Company, 1899; pg. 450. The family moved west to Newark, Ohio, in 1819, where James attended the public schools, graduating from high school in Newark.
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U.S. Bayonet Model 1873 Trowel In 1870, the U.S. Army introduced the trowel bayonet, intended for individual soldiers as both a weapon and an entrenching tool.Ripley, George, and Dana, Charles A., The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge (Vol. II), New York: D. Appleton & Co. (1873), p. 409Board of Officers Assembled at St. Louis, Missouri, Schofield, J.M. (Maj.
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Olotoraca was the nephew of Satouriona, one of the three chiefs among whom Florida was divided in 1562. In 1565, Olotoraca served as guide to Spaniard Pedro Menéndez de Avilés's first expedition, since the French refused to help Satouriona against his enemies, the other two Florida chiefs, Outina and Potanou.Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1900). "Olotoraca." Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography.
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Robert Owen actually visited Campsall Hall, and Lankester described the event in his diary. In 1839 Lankester left the Woods and travelled to Heidelberg to take his M.D., which he got in six months. Back in London, he befriended Edward Forbes and Arthur Henfrey, the botanist. He practised medicine and wrote articles on botany, medicine and surgery for the Penny Cyclopaedia.
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The title page of Chambers's Cyclopaedia on Wikimedia Commons Later records can be found in German catalogs from the late 18th century and early 19th century. There are claims of the burr being a Chinese invention, like other classic puzzles such as the Tangram. (A page about burr puzzles in the book's website) In Kerala, India, these wooden problems are called Edakoodam.
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Cyclopaedia. Geometry (from the ; geo- "earth", -metron "measurement") arose as the field of knowledge dealing with spatial relationships. Geometry was one of the two fields of pre-modern mathematics, the other being the study of numbers (arithmetic). Classic geometry was focused in compass and straightedge constructions. Geometry was revolutionized by Euclid, who introduced mathematical rigor and the axiomatic method still in use today.
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The most famous of the derivatives of the Penny Cyclopaedia was the English Cyclopedia, which would go on to form the basis of Everyman's Encyclopaedia.Robert Collison Encyclopedias: their history throughout the ages 2nd ed. New York and London; Haffner Publishing Company 1966 p. 185.Walsh, S. Padraig, 1922- Anglo-American general encyclopedias: a historical bibliography, 1703-1967 New York : Bowker, p. 104.
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Joachim Sterck van Ringelbergh, Horoscope of the treatise De ratione studii at the very end of this treatise Joachim Sterck van Ringelbergh (Joachimus Fortius Ringelbergius) (Antwerp, c. 1499 – c. 1531) was a Flemish scholar, humanist, mathematician and astrologer. His Lucubrationes vel potius absolutissima kyklopaideia (Basileae: Westheimer, 1538) was the first work to use a version of the word "cyclopaedia" in its title.
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Devrient was born in Berlin. Prior to his acting life, he was a cavalry officer and fought with the Hussars against Napoleon at Waterloo.The American Cyclopaedia at Google Books He died in Bad Lauterberg. Devrient had his acting debut in 1819 in Braunschweig In 1821 he received an engagement at the court theatre in Dresden, where, in 1823, he married Wilhelmine.
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C. A. Creffield, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 24 Jan 2015 Hennell also wrote an entry for Ribbons in the Penny Cyclopaedia. The entry drew on the expertise she had gained from her family's involvement in the manufacture of ribbons. Her uncle, Samuel Hennell, manufactured ribbons in Coventry as did the family of Charles Bray.
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The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol.III, London, Charles Knight, 1847, p.362 This made it the third wealthiest diocese in England after Canterbury and Durham. Essex formed part of the diocese until 1846 when the county became part of the Diocese of Rochester (and later changed again to the Diocese of St Albans and is now in the Diocese of Chelmsford).
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Between 1832 and 1834, Woolsey served as Commodore in command of the Brazilian Station. His last active duty took him to the Chesapeake Bay, where he supervised surveys from 1836 until his health began to decline in 1837. Commodore Woolsey died May 18, 1838, at Utica, New York.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Being the History of the United States Vol.
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The Century Cyclopaedia of Names, coordinated by Benjamin E. Smith and published by the De Vinne Press, New York 1894 (p. 434) From the year 1797, Germersheim belonged to France, incorporated into the newly created Mont-Tonnerre department in 1798. It was conquered by Bavarian troops in 1814. After being retaken in 1814, Germersheim's Bavarian rulers started to build a fortress in 1831.
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International Motor Cyclopaedia, Year Book-March 1908 to March 1909, Page 102, Publisher: E.E. Schwarzkopf, New York. Democrat and Chronicle, 21 Oct 1906 page 4, Rochester New York At the time of his marriage in 1913 he was employed as an Engraver. And was an Automobile Dealership owner in Rochester, New York He died on September 7, 1968 in Rochester, New York.
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Engraving of the Gymnasticon in action, 1798 The Gymnasticon was an early exercise machine resembling a stationary bicycle, invented in 1796 by Francis Lowndes. Its function was to exercise the joints, either "in all parts of the body at once, or partially.""Gymnasticon," J. M. Good, O. Gregory, and N. Bosworth, Pantologia. A New (Cabinet) Cyclopaedia (London, 1819); Google Books scan.
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Appleton's Universal Cyclopaedia has the date as November 16, 1864, which is clearly wrong. The Battle of Nashville took place December 15–16, 1864 and Post's charge on Overton Hill and wounding was on December 16. Appleton's also has the date of rank of Post's brevet wrong, although this may be a typographical error that shows December 10 rather than December 16.
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The Battle of Scheveningen, 10 August 1653, painted by Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraaten. Cyclopaedia 1728, Vol 2 The Age of Sail (usually dated as 1571–1862) was a period roughly corresponding to the early modern period in which international trade and naval warfare were dominated by sailing ships and gunpowder warfare, lasting from the mid-16th to the mid-19th centuries.
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A parliamentary report of 1777 listed Bewdley as having a parish workhouse accommodating up to 80 inmates. The borough had a population in 1841 of 7,458.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge Vol III, (1847) London, Charles Knight, p.281. During the Second World War, Ribbesford House in Bewdley was used as the headquarters for the Free French officer cadets.
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After his death, Bédarride's Rite of Misraim merged with the Rite of Memphis in 1880 under Giuseppe Garibaldi to become the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraïm. The Royal Masonic Cyclopaedia (1877) by Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie (author of the Cipher Manuscripts of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn), considers the three Bédarride brothers; Marc, Michel and Joseph as "charlatans".
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Although he never left France, he collected a large number of botanical specimens from naturalists who travelled to all parts of the globe.Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors Nationaalherbarium Lenormand The algae genus Lenormandia (family Rhodomelaceae) was named in his honor by Otto Wilhelm Sonder in 1845.BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publicationsAlgaebase Lenormandia Sonder, 1845.
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"Richard Orme Campbell, National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (J.T. White, 1916), pp. 175-176. Along with mining facilities, Campbell built a commissary, an office building, workers' cottages, schools, and a hotel. Within a few years, the town had grown to several thousand residents. Campbell sold the Orme operation in 1905, and the new owners renamed the company, "Battle Creek Coal and Coke Company.
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The Report of the Commissioners appointed by his Majesty to inquire into the Ecclesiastical Revenues of England and Wales (1835) found the see had an annual net income of £6,301. This made it the wealthiest diocese in Wales and the fourth richest in Britain after Canterbury, London and Winchester.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge Vol.III, (1847), London, Charles Knight, p.
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Years later in Paris, he was to portray his younger colleague Ary Scheffer (c. 1835, Musée de la Vie romantique, Paris). A self-portrait, exhibited in 1844, was one of his last works. Phillips wrote many occasional essays on the fine arts, especially for Rees's "Cyclopaedia", and also a memoir of William Hogarth for John Nichols's edition of that artist's "Works", 1808–17.
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S. Padraig Walsh Anglo-American General Encyclopedias 1704-1967 New York: R. R. Baker and Company, 1968 pp.59, 160 In 1910 the New Teacher's and Pupil's Cyclopaedia was published in five volumes. This was expanded to six in 1913, seven in 1915 and 8 in 1927. In the latter two cases the last two volumes were "Practical Home and School Methods".
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In 1907 Hero was posted to Fort Casey, Washington, where he served as commander of the 85th Coast Artillery Company until 1908, when he was promoted to major and assigned as commander of Fort Flagler, Washington.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, vol. 43, p. 580 Hero was ordered to Washington, D.C. in 1909 to serve as assistant to the Chief of Coast Artillery.
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Front page of the earliest surviving copy on The Brecon County Times, 5 May 1866 Brecon, 1823 Brecon (; ), archaically known as Brecknock, is a market and minster town in Powys, mid-Wales. In 1841, it had a population of 5,701.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol III, (1847) London, Charles Knight, p.765. The population in 2001 was 7,901,.
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Annenkoff, M.N. Observations and Views of a Russian Officer. 1871. By 1878 he had been appointed a Lieutenant-General of the Imperial Army. During the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) General Annenkoff was placed in charge of transportation, learning the valuable skills that would later make him one of the most prominent engineers of his era.Appletons’ Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year.
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William Caslon I, letter founder; from the 1734 Cyclopaedia. It uses as filler text "Quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra?" Filler text (also placeholder text or dummy text) is text that shares some characteristics of a real written text, but is random or otherwise generated. It may be used to display a sample of fonts, generate text for testing, or to spoof an e-mail spam filter.
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On account of ill health he left his professorship and retired from business in 1880 and went to Europe. Residing chiefly in Paris and Florence, he remained abroad until 1884. For a short time after his return he was secretary of the New York Municipal Civil Service Board, but resigned out of dislike for the political complications involved in the position.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol.
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"John Jay Knox," National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Vol. 3, pg. 16. He was reappointed to a second 5-year term by President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877, and to a third term by President Chester A. Arthur in 1882. On May 1, 1884, Knox resigned his post in order to become president of the National Bank of the Republic in New York City.
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Margaret Darst Corbett (January 17, 1889 – December 5, 1962)The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume G. New York: James T. White & Company, 1946. p. 103 was an American who promoted the discredited Bates method in an attempt to improve eyesight. She became famous after her prosecution and acquittal on a charge of practicing medicine without a license. Ophthalmologists dismissed Corbett's ideas as quackery.
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His greatest commercial successes came from the Earl of Essex and his two novels, The Fool of Quality (1760-1772) and Juliet Grenville (1774), which are two of the finest sentimental novels. John Wesley was so fond of The Fool of Quality, in which Brooke declares his belief in universal salvation,John McClintock. Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. Harper & brothers (1891). p. 660.
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Falkenhausen (1994), 134. The book of Exodus in the Bible notes that small gold bells were worn as ornaments on the hem of the robe of the high priest in Jerusalem. Among the ancient Greeks, handbells were used in camps and garrisons and by patrols that went around to visit sentinals.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol III, (1847) London, Charles Knight, p.126.
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The term "burr" is first mentioned in a 1928 book by Edwin Wyatt, but the text implies that it was commonly used before. The term is attributed to the finished shape of many of these puzzles, resembling a seed burr. The origin of burr puzzles is unknown. The first known record appears in a 1698 engraving used as a title page of Chambers's Cyclopaedia.
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The folio edition of the work even included foldout engravings. The Cyclopaedia emphasized Newtonian theories, Lockean philosophy, and contained thorough examinations of technologies, such as engraving, brewing, and dyeing. "Figurative system of human knowledge", the structure that the Encyclopédie organised knowledge into. It had three main branches: memory, reason, and imagination In Germany, practical reference works intended for the uneducated majority became popular in the 18th century.
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Murphy was a historian and writer, and is perhaps best known for his research on the early Colonial history of New York. He was a founder of the Long Island Historical Society and the Brooklyn City Library."Henry Cruse Murphy" in James Grant Wilson and John Fiske (eds.), Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Volume 4. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1888; pp. 465-466.
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Bianchini explored these rooms and published a description. In 1727, he fell through the ceiling of a vault while exploring the ruins of the palace of the Cesar's on the Palatine Hill, and was severely injured.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge Vol III, (1847), London, Charles Knight, p.291. He died in Rome on 2 March 1729, and was buried in Santa Maria Maggiore.
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Taylor was born on October 13, 1869, in Washington, D.C., to Joseph Hancock and Mary Meigs Taylor."Meigs, Montgomery Taylor", in The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, p. 533. He was born in the house of his grandfather, Montgomery C. Meigs, Quartermaster General of the United States Army during the American Civil War, for whom he was also named. His grand-uncle was President Zachary Taylor.
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In the title Simple Medicaments, "simple" means non-compound: a practical medicine most often consisted of a mix of two or more "simples". The work was written for physicians and apothecaries. In the book's early part, Serapion the Younger classifies substances according to their medicinal properties, and discourses on their actions.The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1841), volume 21 page 260.
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Abbreviations have a long history, created so that spelling out a whole word could be avoided. This might be done to save time and space, and also to provide secrecy. In both Greece and Rome the reduction of words to single letters was common.The British Cyclopaedia of the Arts, Sciences, History, Geography, Literature, Natural History, and Biography, Wm. S. Orr and Company, 1838, p.5.
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William Henry Richmond was born October 23, 1821 at Marlborough, Hartford County, Connecticut. His father, William Wadsworth Richmond, claimed family roots dating back to 11th Century Brittany and an American forefather who was one of the members of Plymouth Colony that launched Taunton, Massachusetts in 1637."William Henry Richmond," National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Volume 9. New York: James T. White and Company, 1899; pp. 103-104.
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Bridport Town Hall was built in 1785–6, with its clock tower and cupola added about twenty years later. Older buildings can be found in South Street, and include the 13th-century St. Mary's parish church, the 14th-century chantry and the 16th- century Bridport Museum. The population of Bridport in 1841 was 4,787.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol III, London, 1847, Charles Knight, p.
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Upon the death of James Whitney on October 24, 1878, Henry Whitney was elected his successor as president of the steamship line. In addition, he retained the office of agent at Boston.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, op. cit. In 1884 the 2,625-toon iron propeller H.F. Dimock was built by William Cramp & Sons at Philadelphia and named for the line's New York agent.
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List of Fellows of the Royal Society 1660 – 2007 Sellius was appointed to chairs of law, at the University of Göttingen, and at the University of Halle. He taught experimental physics at Halle, but money troubles caused him to move away. A valuable library was auctioned off in 1737. In Paris Sellius took on translation work, in particular of the Cyclopaedia of Ephraim Chambers.
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Tunis' autobiography, A Measure of Independence, appeared in 1964. Ball Tales makes it "Highly recommended for anyone who aspires to be, or remain, a freelance writer". It barely mentions any of Tunis' sports books, concentrating instead on his magazine career. According to The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, some critics consider A Measure of Independence "a powerful dramatic novel written under the guise of an autobiography".
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Cyclopaedia. Hydrography is the branch of applied sciences which deals with the measurement and description of the physical features of oceans, seas, coastal areas, lakes and rivers, as well as with the prediction of their change over time, for the primary purpose of safety of navigation and in support of all other marine activities, including economic development, security and defense, scientific research, and environmental protection.
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Cyclopaedia Navigation is a field of study that focuses on the process of monitoring and controlling the movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another.Bowditch, 2003:799. The field of navigation includes four general categories: land navigation, marine navigation, aeronautic navigation, and space navigation. It is also the term of art used for the specialized knowledge used by navigators to perform navigation tasks.
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The term pudendal comes from Latin ', meaning external genitals, derived from , meaning "parts to be ashamed of". The pudendal canal is also known by the eponymous term "Alcock's canal", after Benjamin Alcock, an Irish anatomist who documented the canal in 1836. Alcock documented the existence of the canal and pudendal nerve in a contribution about iliac arteries in Robert Bentley Todd's "The Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology".
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The Supplement was published in London in 1753 in two folio volumes with 3307 pages and 12 plates. Hill was a botanist, and the botanical part, which had been weak in the Cyclopaedia, was the best. Abraham Rees, a nonconformist minister, published a revised and enlarged edition in 1778–1788, with the supplement and improvements incorporated. It was published in London, as a folio of 5 vols.
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Among the precursors of Chambers's Cyclopaedia was John Harris's Lexicon Technicum, of 1704 (later editions from 1708 through 1744). By its title and content, it was "An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Explaining not only the Terms of Art, but the Arts Themselves." While Harris's work is often classified as a technical dictionary, it also took material from Newton and Halley, among others.
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Chambers's Cyclopaedia in turn became the inspiration for the landmark Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert, which owed its inception to a proposed French translation of Chambers' work begun in 1744 by John Mills, assisted by Gottfried Sellius. The later Chambers's Encyclopaedia (1860–1868) had no connection to Ephraim Chambers’s work, but was the product of Robert Chambers and his brother William.
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In 1835, when he was only 24, Whitney was elected and commissioned brigadier general of the 2nd Brigade of the Massachusetts State Militia, which he was largely influential in reorganizing. Upon succeeding to the management of his father's manufacturing business in 1838, he moved it to Conway, Massachusetts, where he became a large manufacturer.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. X, p. 154-155.
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Bezant @ The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Difussion of Useful Knowledge, Volume 4, year 1835. Occasionally in Latin they were called "miliaresion bezants" / "miliarense bezants". Like the gold bezants, the silver bezants by definition were issuances by the Byzantine government or by an Arabic government, and not by a Latin government, and the usage of the term was confined to the Latin West.
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Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge By Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), Published by C. Knight, 1833 Charles Hamilton Smith wrote that black wolves were generally less aggressive than ordinary kinds, and interbred with dogs more readily. In Serbia (South-Eastern Europe, Balkan Peninsula) indicated that on 17 November 2012, a black wolf was killed at Stara Mountain.
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The ecclesiastical parish of Princes Risborough today has approximately the same extent as the former manor and includes various hamlets scattered over the nearby Chiltern Hills. These include Alscot, Askett, Cadsden, Flowers Bottom, Loosley Row Lower North Dean, North Dean, Redland End, Speen, and Upper North Dean. The 1841 census lists the population of the town as 926.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol.
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Green was born in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1798.Batterson, 159 He was the son of William Green, a North Carolina rice planter, and Mary (Bradley) Green, a woman of Quaker extraction.National Cyclopaedia, 326 He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1818 and was ordained deacon April 29, 1821. Two years later, on April 20, 1823, Green was ordained priest.
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Wattle bark collected in Australia in the 19th century was exported to Europe where it was used in the tanning process. One ton of wattle or mimosa bark contained about of pure tannin.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge Vol II, (1847) Charles Knight, London, p.873. In ancient Egypt, an ointment made from the ground leaves of an Acacia (senso latu) was used to treat hemorrhoids.
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He worked as literary editor of the Chicago Morning News (1884–88) and then the Chicago Evening Journal (1888–92). In 1892 he became an associate editor for The Dial. As well as writing for The Dial, Payne wrote for The Forum, The Bookman, Harper's Weekly, The Atlantic Monthly, Music, The New England Magazine, and The International Monthly.The national cyclopaedia of American biography, 1898.
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The folio edition of the work even included foldout engravings. The Cyclopaedia emphasized Newtonian theories, Lockean philosophy and contained thorough examinations of technologies, such as engraving, brewing and dyeing. "Figurative system of human knowledge", the structure that the Encyclopédie organised knowledge into—it had three main branches: memory, reason and imagination In Germany, practical reference works intended for the uneducated majority became popular in the 18th century.
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As Bishop of Delaware he represented the province of Washington in the National Council for two years; served as chairman of the Commission on the Ministry and was assessor to two Presiding Bishops, to Bishop Perry and to Bishop Tucker. He died in office on March 25, 1938. White, T. J. (1927). The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Current Volumes A-, Volume 4, p. 131.
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They conceived of the Britannica as a conservative reaction to the French Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot (published 1751–1766), which was widely viewed as heretical. The Encyclopédie had begun as a French translation of the popular English encyclopedia, Cyclopaedia published by Ephraim Chambers in 1728. Although later editions of Chambers' Cyclopaedia were still popular, and despite the commercial failure of other English encyclopedias, Macfarquhar and Bell were inspired by the intellectual ferment of the Scottish Enlightenment and thought the time ripe for a new encyclopedia "compiled upon a new plan". Needing an editor, the two chose a 28-year-old scholar named William Smellie who was offered 200 pounds sterling to produce the encyclopedia in 100 parts (called "numbers" and equivalent to thick pamphlets), which were later bound into three volumes. The first number appeared on 10 December 1768 in Edinburgh, priced sixpence or 8 pence on finer paper.
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Wilson, James Grant and Fiske, John, Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, Volume 5, D. Appleton and company, 1888.The National cyclopaedia of American biography, Volume 6, James T. White, New York, 1896.Herringshaw, Thomas William, Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States; Illustrated with Three Thousand Vignette Portraits, Volume 2, American Publishers' Association, 1909.
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Despite extensively using Sanskrit terminology in her works, many Theosophical concepts are expressed differently from in the original scriptures. To provide clarity on her intended meanings, Blavatsky's The Theosophical Glossary was published in 1892, one year after her death. According to its editor, George Robert Stowe Mead, Blavatsky wished to express her indebtedness to four works: the Sanskrit-Chinese Dictionary, the Hindu Classical Dictionary, Vishnu Purana, and The Royal Masonic Cyclopaedia.
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Diderot had just finished the translation of A Medicinal Dictionary by Robert James when the publicist André le Breton charged him, on 16 October 1747, to resume the project of translating the English Cyclopaedia that Jean Paul de Gua de Malves could not successfully complete. Diderot undertook the history of ancient philosophy, wrote the Prospectus and the System of Human Knowledge, and, with D'Alembert, revised all the articles.
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John Mills was credited for his comprehensive knowledge of agriculture, and of the cultivation and use of the ground. He authored and translated several works in these fields. He became a well known author on the subject of husbandry in the 1760s, and was elected member of the Royal Society in 1766. He had come to prominence about twenty years earlier, while working on the translation of Chambers's Cyclopaedia.
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But, in time he realised his wife's talent and helped her to develop it.Henry Gardiner, A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography, p. 214 More than 30 of her works were displayed at the Royal Academy of Art from 1781 until 1801. She soon enhanced her reputation as an artist, especially when her portrait of the Duchess of Devonshire in the character of Cynthia from The Faerie Queene was exhibited.
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Mason was born in 1808 in Mystic, Connecticut, the son of a blacksmith. As a boy, Mason spent time in his father's shops. He left home at the age of thirteen and worked as an operator in the spinning room of a small cotton factory in Canterbury, Connecticut.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography He was a born mechanical genius and could repair the most complicated machine in the mill.
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It is not known if he had a grave marker or if time and vandalism have taken it. Amanda died March 19, 1865, her son, Milton died shortly after.Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events (1900) D. Appleton and Co., New York. Lillian was employed for several terms as teacher in both Emporium and Shippen and considered to be a scholar with an energetic and pleasing disposition.
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Pillsbury was born in Sutton, New Hampshire, of English descent, the son of John and Susan (Wadleigh) Pillsbury. He was a descendant of William Pillsbury, who emigrated from England to Newburyport, Massachusetts, in 1640.The National cyclopaedia of American biography: Volume 10 – Page 65 In 1851, he opened a store in Warner, New Hampshire, partnering with Walter Harriman, a future Governor of New Hampshire and Civil War general.
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Holyoke was an American automobile company started in Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1899.100 Years of the American Auto Millennium Edition, Copyright 1999 Publications International, Ltd. The first car had a two-cylinder, 7 hp motor. The cars were designed by Charles Robert Greuter, born Philadelphia, PA, March 26, 1861, and educated St. Gallen and Winterthur, Switzerland.International Motor Cyclopaedia, Year Book-March 1908 to March 1909, Page 221, Publisher: E.E. Schwarzkopf, New York.
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In London, Woodford settled into a busy career as a writer and researcher. Contributing essays to several publications and periodicals, he also edited the Freemason and the Masonic Magazine, frequently contributing most of the copy himself. He compiled Kenning's Masonic Cyclopaedia for the publisher of the two magazines. Woodford used the Freemason in 1879 to oppose a move in Grand Lodge to enforce uniformity of ritual on its lodges.
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Born on 22 June 1804,"Obituaries: Scherr, Gregor von". Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events, D. Appleton, 1884, p. 610 Neunburg vorm Wald, he was ordained on 4 August 1829, aged 25 as a priest of Regensburg, Germany by Cardinal Antonio Saverio De Luca. On 29 December 1833, aged 29, he joined the Order of Saint Benedict (OSB) and later became Abbot of St. Michael's Abbey at Metten.
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British History online – Olney Park Farm, Accessed 1 August 2014A Vision of History Through Time Olney Park Farm, Accessed 1 August 2014 The 1841 census gave the population as 2,362.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol.III, London (1847) Charles Knight, p.898 Olney formerly had its own railway station on the Bedford-Northampton line and the Stratford-upon- Avon and Midland Junction Railway, but passenger services were withdrawn in 1962.
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Harriett Lothrop was an American author also known by her pseudonym Margaret Sidney (June 22, 1844 – August 2, 1924). In addition to writing popular children's stories, she ran her husband Daniel Lothrop's publishing company after his death. After they bought The Wayside country house, they worked hard to make it a center of literary life.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol 8 (1898) James T. White & Co., New York.
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According to Mazzeo, "Brewster's pious religiosity infuses the work and his opinions". Ninety-eight review copies of the first two volumes were distributed, eliciting five reviews. Some of these were simply short advertisements for the Cabinet Cyclopaedia. Mazzeo writes that the "commentary on both volumes was mixed and often contradictory, but on balance positive; prose style, organisation and use of source materials were the three most often identified points of discussion".
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His first publication was a translation of Theophrastus's History of Stones (1746). From this time forward he was an indefatigable writer. He edited The British Magazine (1746–1750), and for two years (1751–1753) he wrote a daily letter, "The Inspector," for the London Advertiser and Literary Gazette. He also produced novels, plays and scientific works; and was a major contributor to the supplement of Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopaedia.
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She displayed such remarkable ability for her age that a brilliant future for her was predicted. She made her first professional appearance in 1880 with the Daniel E. Bandmann repertoire company as the Prince of Wales in Richard III, and thenceforth she was before the public as Julia Arthur, using the first name of Julia and her mother's maiden name.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. X, p. 455.
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Melvin Spencer Newman (March 10, 1908 - May 30, 1993) was an American chemist, Ohio State University professor, best known for inventing the Newman projection. Newman was born in New York City in a Jewish family, the youngest of Mae (née Polack) and Jacob K. Newman's four children."Newman, Jacob K.," in: James Terry White, The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, v. 33, New York: J. T. White, 1947, p. 183.
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Moduin's early career in the church was spent at Saint-Georges in Lyon. He is first recorded in the diocese of Autun in 815, but it is not certain when he was elected or consecrated. He supported Louis the Pious and Charles the Bald during the civil wars of the 830s.There is an obscure reference in "Moduin," Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, John McClintock and James Strong, edd.
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An early institution for the blind was the Hospital Royal des Quinze Vingts established by the French monarch for soldiers who had lost their sight.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol III, (1847), London, Charles Knight, p.426. Applicantas had to be both blind and poor and they received 24 sous a day for their food and clothing. Some of the residents produced craft work but they received no formal instruction.
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Before publishing an encyclopedia, Chambers produced a smaller publication, Chambers's Information for the People. This began as a serial publication in 1835. Like the Penny Cyclopaedia, and others of the time it was meant to be a cheap reference work that was targeted at the middle and working classes. Hence, it focused only on subjects that would be of interest to the common man and pertinent to his self education.
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James Topham Brady (April 9, 1815February 9, 1869) was an American lawyer. Called "one of the most brilliant of all the members of the New York bar","Brady, James T.", The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 3, J. T. White Company, 1893, p. 387 he was born in New York City. Brady studied law in his father's practice before being admitted to the New York bar himself.
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In the years leading up to the tax act, it was in common use in the United States, "smoked like tobacco", and called "ganjah", or "ganja".The American Agriculturist Family Cyclopaedia, 751 Broadway, New York, copyright:1888, by A. L. BurtWebster's New International Dictionary, 1921, published by G.& C. Merriam Co., Springfield Massachusetts After the enactment, illegal immigrants and US citizens could be arrested for possession of cannabis.
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William Henry Richmond as he appeared in the National Cyclopaedia of American Biography in 1899. William Henry Richmond (1821-1922) was an American coal mine operator. He is reckoned as one of the key actors in the expansion of the Lackawanna Coal Mine district of Scranton, Pennsylvania during the second half of the 19th Century. Richmond is best remembered today as the namesake of Richmond Memorial Library in Marlborough, Connecticut.
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Milanés 's writings received an immediate and undivided attention from critics and the public nationwide. The popularity of his first poems, and the warm reception which it received, made other magazines in Matanzas like El álbum, El plantel in the year 1838, and the Yumurí, publish the poems right after.Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 4 edited by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (1888). D. Appleton and company. p.
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It became known as the "yellow mill", and had capacity for about 1,500 spindles. Dexter Wheeler built much of the machinery for the new mill, with some of it being transferred from his Rehoboth factory.A centennial history of Fall River, Mass, Atlantic Pub. and Engraving Co., 1877, page 13The National cyclopaedia of American biography, Volume 12, J.T. White, 1904 Dexter Wheeler served as the company's first president, from 1813 to 1824.
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Hudnut's father Alexander (1830–1900) was a pharmacist with a store at Broadway and Ann Street in New York City. His mother was Margaret (née Parker). The name Hudnut derives from Hodnet, Shropshire.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (1910) James T. White and Company, New York After graduating from Princeton University, Richard Hudnut toured France and returned with the idea of introducing French-style perfumes and cosmetics to American women.
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Rees's Cyclopaedia has 3789 biographical articles half a page (350 words) and longer, as well as numerous briefer ones. They range in time from Antiquity to the eighteenth century. Benjamin Heath Malkin, and Thomas Rees are noted as having written biographical articles, but there is no information about which. The rest of the authors cannot be positively identified except for William Tooke, who wrote about Catherine the Great.
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Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 4, pg 445, Digitized by Google Besides being an accomplished architect and designer, Jacob Wrey Mould was an avid pianist and organist, and employed his talent for language in translating numerous foreign opera librettos into English.James Stevens Curl (2006) A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Oxford University Press, Oxford Reference Online. He is interred at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz argued that Creationism guards the dignity and spirituality of the rational soul, and is the proper seat of the image of God.McClintock, John and Strong, James. "Creationism", Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, Vol. 2, Harper, 1894 Hermann Lotze, however, who may be taken as representing the believers in the immanence of the divine Being, puts forth – but as a "dim conjecture" – something very like creationism.
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Köln, Weimar, Wien 2003, S. 508f. Due to the city being located at the second main railway line between Leipzig and Dresden (via Meissen), the city developed well in the 19th century. By 1890 the population had reached 8,957.The Century Cyclopaedia of Names, coordinated by Benjamin E Smith and published by the De Vinne Press, New York 1894 The city was affected by heavy flooding in 2013.
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Cyclopaedia Circumferentor with Gunter's chain at Campus Martius Museum in Marietta, Ohio A circumferentor, or surveyor's compass, is an instrument used in surveying to measure horizontal angles. It was superseded by the theodolite in the early 19th century. A circumferentor consists of a circular brass box containing a magnetic needle, which moves freely over a brass circle, or compass divided into 360 degrees. The needle is protected by a glass covering.
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"Walter Elmer Schofield - Awards and Appointments," from James A. Michener Art Museum. The Society of American Artists awarded him its 1900 Webb Prize of $300 (best landscape exhibited by an American artist under 40) for Autumn in Brittany.Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events (D. Appleton & Company, 1901), p. 231. The Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh awarded him its 1900 honorable mention (4th prize) for January Woods;The Sketch Book, vol.
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For some time, he was on the editorial staff of the American Whig Review, and in 1853 succeeded Whitman as editor of a newspaper at Huntington, Long Island. He acted as proofreader, contributor, and associate editor on the different editions of the American Cyclopaedia, and noted the pronunciation of the titles in the volume of index to the second edition and in the text of the condensed edition.
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James Strong, ed. Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, s.v. "Nut". Pliny the Elder writes in his Natural History that pistacia, "well known among us", was one of the trees unique to Syria, and that the seed was introduced into Italy by the Roman Proconsul in Syria, Lucius Vitellius the Elder (in office in 35 CE) and into Hispania at the same time by Flaccus Pompeius.Pliny's Natural History, xiii.
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The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol.IV, (1848), London, Charles Knight, p.16 The county began to be used as a unit of local administration, and in 1890 was given an elected county council under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889. Although officially within the county, the burghs of Wick and Thurso retained their status as autonomous local government areas; they were already well established as autonomous burghs with their own burgh councils.
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John Jay Knox Jr. was born March 19, 1828, in Knoxboro, New York, today a part of the city of Augusta. He was a son of Sarah Ann (née Curtis) Knox (1794–1875) and John J. Knox Sr. (1791–1876), a prominent merchant and bank president and was himself the namesake of Knoxboro."John Jay Knox," National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Volume 3. New York: James T. White & Co., 1893; pg. 15.
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Nihon Ōdai Ichiran, 1834 French translation title page , ''''', is a 17th- century chronicle of the serial reigns of Japanese emperors with brief notes about some of the noteworthy events or other happenings.Nussbaum, Louis- Frédéric. (2005). "Nihon-ō dai ichi ran" in According to the 1871 edition of the American Cyclopaedia, the 1834 French translation of Nihon Ōdai Ichiran was one of very few books about Japan available in the Western world.Ripley, George. (1871).
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He is known mainly from churches associated with him, which are on Anglesey (Wales), Lancaut in Chepstow (Wales/England border),Charles Knight, The English Cyclopaedia: Division. Geography. 4v.(Bradbury, Evans, 1867) page 132. Cusop (Wales/England border), Kewstoke (Somerset, England), Steynton in Rhos (Pembrokeshire, Wales), Aberedw (Radnorshire, Wales],Church of St Cewydd, Aberedw (British Listed Buildings). Disserth yn Elfael (Radnorshire, Wales), Llangewydd and Laleston (Bridgend, Wales),John Davies (historian) & Nigel Jenkins Menna, Baines et al.
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Orr, "Introduction", xli. Shelley was the only contributor to Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia to give such pride of place to female biographical subjects.Morrison, 131. In these volumes, "she stretched the definition of 'Eminent Literary Men' not just by including two more women but by her choice of a quartet of French revolutionary personalities who were political actors more than, or as much as writers: Condorcet and Mirabeau, Mme Roland and Mme de Staël".
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Aside from his public commissions, his work consisted mostly of portrait busts. In 1893 eleven of his works were displayed at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, according to the official catalog of the Fine Arts Building at the fair, where he exhibited sculptures of Alexander Hamilton and William ShakespeareThe Shakespeare remained in Lincoln Park, Chicago. (Appleton's Cyclopaedia) as well as portraits. In this same catalog Partridge was listed as living in Milton, Massachusetts.
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Although the term finds its primary utility in the latter half of the 20th century, it has been used with different meanings and eras, such as the post-Civil War era in North America,Lalor, John J., Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political History of the United States. Chicago: Rand, McNally, 1884. "The Union", p. 959. and regionally in the Americas at the start of the 20th century.
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Georges Ripley and Charles A. Dana (eds.) The New American Cyclopaedia : A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, New York & London, 1858, vol. 3, pp.194-195. At the end of March 1719, the young widow became critically "ill", shut up in a little chamber of her Luxembourg Palace. In fact, she was deep in the pangs of childbirth and as she seemed close to dying, Languet was called upon to administer her the sacraments.
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She chose this trade publication as the outlet for her scholarship because at the time American art journals were not receptive to scholarly research on the decorative arts. She also contributed to Keramic Studio, a ceramics magazine published by her Syracuse University colleague Adelaïde Alsop Robineau. Sargent contributed articles on fine arts to two encyclopedias, A Cyclopaedia of Education and the Lincoln Library of Essential Information. She was also in demand as a public speaker.
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New York, Hafner, 1966, p. 108. Publication began in April 1765 with the issuance of the first of what were eventually 150 three-page sheets that were eventually collected into a folio dated 1764–1766. Other contributors included Thomas Williams who provided articles on medicine, anatomy and chemistry, and Samuel Clark who provided articles on mathematics. Nevertheless, the work was largely a plagiarization of Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia, or a Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences.
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Tables of natural history, from Ephraim Chambers's 1728 Cyclopaedia Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study. A person who studies natural history is called a naturalist or natural historian. Natural history encompasses scientific research but is not limited to it.With "natural history" articles more often published today in science magazines than in academic journals.
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The younger Cheney prepared for college at English High School in Boston and with a private tutor. He received his BA degree from Harvard University in 1890. Until the death of his father in 1895 Cheney aided him in the management of his interests, which included the largest portfolio of railroad securities held in the Boston area.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. XXXII, p. 173. New York: James T. White & Company, 1945.
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Mary Chace Peckham in The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (1899) Mary Chace Peckham (or Chase; 1839–1893) was an American author and reformer. Born at Nantucket on July 15, 1839, she was the daughter of Charles Miller and Adriana (Fisher) Peck. She attended high school in Providence, graduating with high honors and selected as the poet of the alumni association. She was a teacher in that city from 1857 until 1865.
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Harold Augustin Calahan (November 7, 1889 – November 25, 1965) or H. A. Calahan was a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy and an author on sailing."Harold Augustin Calahan, 76, Yachtsman and Author, Dead", New York Times, November 27, 1965.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 50 (New York: James T. White & Co., 1968). He was born in Brooklyn and attended Columbia University for his B.S., M.S. and his law degree.
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He settled in Reading's Springs, now Shasta, California, and once again became an attorney. In 1852, he was elected to the California State Senate representing the 18th District, and in 1855 served as its President pro tempore. In 1867, Sprague was elected to the Supreme Court of California as a Democrat;Appleton's annual Cyclopaedia (1867), Volume 7, 1869. he was chosen to be Chief Justice in January 1872 and died the next month.
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The Bishop of Bangor is the ordinary of the Church in Wales Diocese of Bangor. The see is based in the city of Bangor where the bishop's seat (cathedra) is at Cathedral Church of Saint Deiniol. The Report of the Commissioners appointed by his Majesty to inquire into the Ecclesiastical Revenues of England and Wales (1835) found the see had an annual net income of £4,464.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge Vol.
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Barnard and Arnold Henry Guyot were Editors-in-Chief of the 1876 Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia. Barnard wrote Treatise on Arithmetic (1830); an Analytical Grammar with Symbolic Illustration (1836); Letters on Collegiate Government (1855); History of the United States Coast Survey (1857); Recent Progress in Science (1869); and The Metric System (1871). He died in New York City on April 27, 1889. He left the bulk of his property to Columbia College.
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George Leonard Vose (19 April 1831 – 30 March 1910) was a United States civil engineer and Professor of Civil Engineering at Bowdoin College and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, known as educator in the field of railroads,"Vose, George Leonard," in: The universal cyclopaedia, 1900. p. 604 and from his "Manual for railroad engineers and engineering students" (1873).Cleveland, Frederick Albert, and Fred Wilbur Powell. Railroad promotion and capitalization in the United States.
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In August 1895 Rev. Roland Grant of the American Protective Association spoke at the First Baptist Church in Portland. Among other claims, members of the A.P.A. maintained that the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church had instigated the Civil War, during which they said Catholics made up large numbers of deserters, and that both Grover Cleveland and William McKinley were controlled by the Church.Stevens, Albert C., The Cyclopaedia of Fraternities,, New York City.
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Historically, the substance has been prepared in various ways, and from various materials. In South Africa, birdlime (called voëlent in Afrikaans) is prepared from local mistletoe fruits. A handful of ripe fruits is chewed until sticky, and the mass is then rubbed between the palms of the hands to form long and extremely sticky strands which are then coiled around small thin tree branches where birds perch.Johnson, Thomas B. (1848) The sportsman's cyclopaedia, p.56.
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In 1779, Wilmer was rector of Shrewsbury Church, South Sassafras, Kent County. In 1780, the rectors of the local parishes gathered at Emmanuel’s Parish Hall (Chestertown, Maryland). Wilmer proposed renaming the church to the Protestant Episcopal Church, which was adopted as the name of the American branch of the Anglican Church.The National Cyclopaedia of American biography, Volume 11, p. 342The History of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883, Volume 2, by William Stevens Perry, p.
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September 26, 1882 Charlotte Elizabeth Clay, b. May 31, 1889James T. White & Company, The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume XIV Supplement 1, 1910, pages 442-443 His other family relationships included: nephew of Brutus Junius Clay; grandson of Green Clay; grandnephew of Matthew Clay (1754-1815); second cousin once removed of Henry Clay; third cousin of James Brown Clay; third cousin once removed of Clement Comer Clay; and fourth cousin of Clement Claiborne Clay.
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Vernet-Les-Bains, France, December 14, 1936), graduated the University of Rochester with an Accelerated bachelor's degree (A.B.) in 1875, and a year later started work as secretary to Enos M. Barton, a co-founder of Western Electric. Barton had earlier sent him to Australia and New Zealand to help with operations there, and Welles was then transferred to Brussels.White, James Terry. "Francis Raymond Welles", National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Volume 37, University Microfilms, 1967.
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The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol.III, London, Charles Knight, 1847, p.967 In 1918 the constituency was combined with the Ayrshire North constituency to form the Bute and Northern Ayrshire constituency, a constituency which straddled the boundary between the local government counties of Bute and Ayrshire. In 1983, eight years after Scottish local government counties had been abolished, the Bute and Northern Ayrshire constituency was divided between the Argyll and Bute constituency and the Cunninghame North constituency.
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Victor was born in Sandusky, Ohio to Henry Clay Victor and Gertrude Nash Victor, and had seven siblings; his father operated a hotel in Sandusky.Orville James Victor, Author and Editor, Sandusky Library He studied in the Norwalk Seminary and graduated in 1847. He decided to pursue writing as a profession and in 1852 was hired as an assistant-editor of the Sandusky Daily Register.Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 6, edited by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske, p. 287.
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This was his Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy, prefixed to the seventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. The dissertation, written mostly in ill-health and in snatches of time taken from his parliamentary engagements, was published in 1831. It was severely attacked in 1835 by James Mill in his Fragment on Mackintosh. About the same time he wrote for the Cabinet Cyclopaedia a History of England from the Earliest Times to the Final Establishment of the Reformation.
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He also helped organize memorial services for Ulysses S. Grant in 1885 and William McKinley in 1901. He was president of the American Forestry Association in 1890-91, president of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in 1898, and also served as president of the California Academy of Schools.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, op. cit. Alvord remained president of the Bank of California until his death in San Francisco of heart failure due to bronchial troubles.
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Between 1891 and 1925, Pears issued its now-famous annuals, which are highly collectible. From the early 20th century, Pears was famous for the annual "Miss Pears" competition, in which parents entered their children into the high-profile hunt for a young brand ambassador to be used on packaging and in consumer promotions. Many Miss Pears subsequently entered acting or modelling. Pears' Cyclopaedia is a one volume encyclopaedia, continuously published in the United Kingdom since December 1897.
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According to the Bosniak entry in the Oxford English Dictionary, the first preserved use of "Bosniak" in English was by British diplomat and historian Paul Rycaut in 1680 as Bosnack, cognate with post-classical Latin Bosniacus (1682 or earlier), French Bosniaque (1695 or earlier) or German Bosniak (1737 or earlier). The modern spelling is contained in the 1836 Penny Cyclopaedia V. 231/1: "The inhabitants of Bosnia are composed of Bosniaks, a race of Sclavonian origin".
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In 1864, Brough became editor of an edition of Cooley's Cyclopaedia of Practical Receipts, and around that time the self-trained chemist was elected a Fellow of the Chemical Society. In April 1867, Brough published the science journal Laboratory. While well received among chemists and scientists, the journal was unable to attract enough subscribers to be profitable. In 1869 Brough published, along with two friends, a humorous brochure entitled Exeter Change during a meeting of the British Association.
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The Comte de Mirabeau wrote a scathing indictment of lettres de cachet while imprisoned in the dungeon of Vincennes (by lettre de cachet obtained by his father). The treatise was published after his liberation in 1782 under the title Les Lettres de cachet et des prisons d'etat and was widely read throughout Europe. Besides the Bastille, there were thirty prisons in Paris by 1779 in which a person could be detained without trial.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol.
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International Motor Cyclopaedia, Year Book-March 1908 to March 1909, Page 241, Publisher: E.E. Schwarzkopf, New York. The brothers then concentrated on the manufacturing of carburetors and ignition systems. As a result of the Motorette Henry Ford commissioned the brothers to produce a carburetor for his Model T. "The carburetor they built for Ford was an immediate success and the brothers founded Holley Carburetor Co., which became one of Ford's biggest suppliers." Plain Dealer, December 7, 1958, Page 25.
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National Cyclopaedia of American Biography vol. 11 (New York: James T. White & Co., 1901), p. 330. There he met James Monroe Hewlett, with whom he formed a partnership which was to endure until Lord’s death in 1922. Among the architects who worked at the firm were Washington Hull (1895–1909), Electus D. Litchfield (1901–08) and Hugh Tallant (who had been a partner with Henry Beaumont Herts since 1897 before joined Lord and Hewlett in 1911).
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Cyclopaedia of Malesian Collectors: Iris Sheila Darnton Collenette. Nationaal Herbarium Nederland. This plant bore several pitchers, each with a well- developed peristome and long bristles on the underside of the lid. The confusion resulted from the fact that the peristome in upper pitchers of N. lowii is usually present only as a series of ridges and that N. macfarlanei also has bristles on the underside of the lid (although they are much shorter than those of N. lowii).
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It produced corn of all kinds, hemp, flax, tobacco, and great quantities of liquorice.Mariann Nagy – Croatia in the Economic Structure of the Habsburg Empire in the Light of the 1857 Census, p. 88Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge: The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, vol 22, p. 100-101 The first steps towards industrialization began in the 1830s and in the following decades the construction of big industrial enterprises took place.
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1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors In 1932 he was appointed professor of botany and director of the botanical garden at the University of Halle, and in 1946, he became a professor of botany and general biology at the University of Mainz.Thibaut - Zycha, Volume 10 by K. G. Saur Verlag GmbH & Company, Walter De Gruyter Incorporated Some plants with the specific epithet of trollii honor his name,Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names by Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton.
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Dionysius Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia, published between 1829 and 1846, was one of the most successful of these enterprises, which also included John Murray's Family Library and the publications of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.Crook, xix; Kucich, "Biographer", 227; Peckham, 37. Although intended for the "general reader", the series was aimed specifically at the middle class rather than the masses: each volume cost six shillings, prohibiting purchase by the poor.Crook, xx; Kucich, "Biographer", 235; Peckham, 42.
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There she became a popular attraction throughout the Western United States and British Columbia. She eventually returned east not long after the close of the American Civil War in tours that at times would find success elusive. Her final noteworthy roles were Ann Catherick and Laura Fairlie, in a dramatization of Wilkie Collins' novel The Woman in White. Of her forte, Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography said in 1898, She excelled in juvenile tragedy and high comedy parts.
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Cauldwell was born in New York City on October 12, 1824, to Andrew and Margaret Ann Cauldwell.The National cyclopaedia of American biography, Vol I, p.237-38 (1891) At age 11, he left home to live with an uncle in St. Martinville, Louisiana and attended Jefferson College for three years. He then returned to New York, and after working for two years in a dry- goods store, got a job in the printing business under Samuel Adams.
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Corn rent is a type of variable money rent that follows fluctuations in the price of corn. The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge The principle underlying the concept of corn-rent is that a tenant farmer pays a portion of the produce of a farm to the landlord as rent. However, the price of produce varies and so the money value of this allotted portion varies based on the price.
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Murphy contributed other mathematical papers to the Cambridge Philosophical Transactions (1831–1836), Philosophical Magazine (1833–1842), and the Philosophical Transactions (1837). Encouraged by Augustus De Morgan, Murphy wrote articles for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge and for the Penny Cyclopaedia. His final works were Remark on Primitive Radices (1841), Calculations of Logarithms by Means of Algebraic Fractions (1841), and On Atmospheric Refraction (1842). De Morgan claimed "He had a true genius for mathematical invention".
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A. [nderson] N. [elson] Ellis, "Sketch of the Life of William Nelson, Maj.-Gen. U.S.A." in The Biographical Cyclopaedia and Portrait Gallery with a Historical Sketch of the State of Ohio 6 vols. (Cincinnati, 1883–95); also see 37 page extract at Cincinnati Historical Society, p. 6 ("warm-hearted"); Robert M. Kelly, "Holding Kentucky," Kelly, Robert M. "Holding Kentucky for the Union" in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence C. Buel, eds.
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The status of women in the patristic age, as defined by the Church Fathers, is a contentious issue within Christianity because some people believe that the patristic writers clearly sought to restrict the influence of women in civil society as well as in the life of the Church. However, others believe that the early fathers actually tried to increase the dignity of women. Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature 1895 ed. John McClintock and James Strong. "Women".
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He said on a plain near Constantinople pillars were located that commemorate distances of 800 yards achieved with Turkish bows and arrows in ancient times.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol II, London, Charles Knight, 1847, p.16. After the death of Mahmud II in 1839, archery resumed its decline. The living art of Turkish bowyery was lost in the 1930s with the death of the last bowyer and famous calligrapher, Neçmeddin Okyay; it has since been revived.
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André François le Breton (2 September 1708 – 5 October 1779) was a French publisher. He was one of the four publishers of the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert, along with Michel-Antoine David, Laurent Durand, and Antoine- Claude Briasson. Le Breton contributed some articles to the Encyclopédie (see External links, below), but acted primarily as publisher and editor, often against Diderot's will. In 1745, le Breton set out to publish a translation of Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia of 1728.
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Visible are Bergen Cathedral (Domkirken) in the bottom left corner, Holy Cross Church in the middle, the bay (Vågen) with its many boats and the Bergenhus Fortress to the right of the opening of Vågen. In 1349, the Black Death was brought to Norway by an English ship arriving in Bergen. Later outbreaks occurred in 1618, 1629 and 1637, on each occasion taking about 3,000 lives.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol III, (1847) Charles Knight, London, p.211.
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John McNeil Jr. (March 25, 1784 – February 23, 1850) was an officer in the United States Army. He distinguished himself in leading the bayonet charge which secured victory in the Battle of Chippewa. For his conduct in this battle, and in that of the Battle of Bridgewater, where he was severely wounded, he was successively brevetted as lieutenant colonel and colonel.Godwin, Parke, The cyclopaedia of biography: a record of the lives of eminent persons, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1880.
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The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol.III, London (1847), Charles Knight, p.915 The village of Buffalo was part of and the seat of Niagara County until the legislature passed an act separating the two on April 2, 1861. On October 26, 1825, the Erie Canal was completed, formed from part of Buffalo Creek, with Buffalo a port-of-call for settlers heading westward. At the time, the population was about 2,400. By 1826, the 130 sq.
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Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and ..., Volume 2; Volume 12 by James StrongADB:Zimmermann, Karl In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 45, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1900, S. 280–283. From 1847 onward, he served as a member of the consistory, a prelate and ecclesiastical superintendent at the Schlosskirche in Darmstadt.Zimmermann, Karl Stadtlexikon Darmstadt He was a catalyst towards the development and promotion of the Gustav-Adolf-Verein, a society that is presently known as the "Gustav-Adolf-Werk".
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The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England was incorporated by an ordinance of parliament in 1649, and reincorporated in 1661, after the Restoration.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol III, (1847), London, Charles Knight, p.295. The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK) was founded 1698. It published the King James Version of the English Bible, and translated and published editions of the Bible in other British languages such as Welsh and Manx.
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" Mackenzie corrected the last of the Cyclopaedia proofs early in 1877. In 1881, Mackenzie edited the early issues of the Masonic periodical Kneph. He planned a book called The Game of Tarot: Archaeologically and Symbolically Considered, which was announced but not published. Another new order, the "Order of Light", was launched in 1882, followed by Mackenzie’s creation of an even more esoteric Masonic organization called the "Society of Eight," formed especially "for the study of Alchemy.
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Stand develops shadows while preserving highlights Stand development is a photographic development process where film is left in a very dilute developing solution for an extended period of time, with little or no agitation. The technique dates back to at least the 1880s,Stand Development, Cassell's Cyclopaedia of Photography, Bernard E Jones (1911) and results in fine grain, increased perceived sharpness, and smooth tonality, but is time- intensive and runs the risk of producing certain processing defects.
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On Java, along with his artistic duties, he collected regional botanical specimens and conducted investigations of the island's mosses. During his time spent in the Dutch East Indies, he also learned the technique of creating batik prints from vegetable dyes.JSTOR Global Plants (biography)Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors After several years on Java, he traveled to New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, Australia, New Zealand and South America, prior to returning to Germany in 1903.
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Jacob Crowninshield was born March 31, 1770, in Salem in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. As a young man, he went into partnership with three of his brothers commanding trade ships between the United States and India."Jacob Crowninshield", National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Volume 3. New York: James T. White & Co., 1893; p. 7. In 1796, Crowninshield married Sarah Gardner, daughter of John (a direct descendant of an old planter) and Sarah (Derby, daughter of Richard (1712–1783)).
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He entered Harvard, but left before graduation to accompany his father, Anson Burlingame, to China as his private secretary. He studied at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, in 1867-1869, taking the degree of Ph.D., and afterward studied at Berlin. He traveled extensively in Japan and China in 1866, and afterward in Europe. He was on the editorial staff of the New York Tribune in 1871, and on that for the revision of the American Cyclopaedia in 1872-1876.
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Dionysius Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia, published between 1829 and 1846, was one of the most successful of these enterprises, which also included John Murray's Family Library and the publications of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.Crook, xix; Kucich, "Biographer", 227; Peckham, 37. Although intended for the "general reader", the series was aimed specifically at the middle class rather than the masses: each volume cost six shillings, prohibiting purchase by the poor.Crook, xx; Kucich, "Biographer", 235; Peckham, 42.
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He was born in New York City, New York, the only child of Count François de Beaumont (died 1918), a French nobleman, and his American wife, the former Aedita Stuart (1889–1985), a daughter of U. S. diplomat Richard Stuart.Aedita Stuart's father's name is stated in the Bud Fisher entry of The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 43 (University Microfilms, 1967). Her birthdate, 5 August 1889, is cited in the U. S. Social Security Death Index, as is her death date, October 1985; accessed on familysearch.org on 23 March 2011. The Beaumonts were divorced shortly after their son's birth, and the father was killed in action during World War I.Aedita Stuart's divorce from François de Beaumont is stated in the Bud Fisher entry of The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 43 (University Microfilms, 1967). The divorce is further noted in The Art Digest, 1 December 1931, page 12 Mother and son moved to the United States in 1919, where the mother pursued a brief career as a stage actress, using the name Gypsy Norman.
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Born in Livingston, New York, Holmes was the son of Edwin Holmes, an eminent minister of the Reformed church,James Grant Wilson, John Fiske, eds., Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Grinnell–Lockwood (1898), p. 242. and Sarah McClellan Holmes.Calvin Durfee, Williams Biographical Annals, Part 4 (1871), p. 609. Holmes graduated from Williams College in 1853, and from the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Dutch Church at New Brunswick, N.J. in 1857.The New York Observer (June 29, 1911), Volume 90, p. 836.
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On April 28, 1874, he affiliated with DeWitt Clinton Commandery No. 27 Knights Templar, where his membership continued for 20 years. He received the Scottish Rite degrees sometime prior to December 9, 1850, for on that date he received the 33rd Degree, Sovereign Grand Inspector General. In 1869 Macoy published A Dictionary of Freemasonry, which comprised his own work ("General History of Freemasonry" and "Cyclopaedia of Freemasonry") as well as George Oliver's Dictionary of Symbolical Masonry of 1853. It has been reprinted.
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The legislature adjourned without having chosen a senator."Utah With One Senator." New York Times. March 11, 1899. Utah's U.S. Senate seat remained vacant until January 1901. The Republicans regained their majority in the state legislature in the election of 1900, and elected Thomas Kearns to fill the seat. The election was still hotly disputed. Kearns received only 8 votes on the first ballot, and balloting continued for four more days.Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events, p. 771.
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At the age of sixteen he moved to New York City to be employed by his brother Ebenezer, an importer of glass and china, at 171 Broadway, with a residence near St. John's Park. In 1842 he established his own business, at 595 Broadway.Henry Whittemore, The Founders and Builders of the Oranges 1896:341ff; The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, "Cullamore, Davis". GILMAN COLLAMORE, 5th Ave & 30th St His brother Gilman Collamore (1834—1888) came to join him in 1854.
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He also wrote a novel, Glenfergus (1820), considered by Andrew Murray Scott to bear comparison with the gentle social satires of his Ayrshire contemporary, John Galt.Scott, Andrew Murray (2003), Dundee's Literary, Lives, Volume 1: Fifteenth to Nineteenth Century, Abertay Historical Society, pp. 52-53 He furnished the letter-press to Gilbert's Modern Atlas, the "Natural History" to the British Cyclopaedia, and numerous other contributions to periodical works. He was editor of the Caledonian Quarterly Magazine, as well as its illustrator and chief contributor.
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Until the late 19th century, the horse was scoured every seven years as part of a more general local fair held on the hill. Francis Wise wrote in 1736: "The ceremony of scouring the Horse, from time immemorial, has been solemnized by a numerous concourse of people from all the villages roundabout." After the work was done a rural festival was held sponsored by “the lord of the manor.”The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol III (1847) Charles Knight, London, p.225.
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Realising that he was unlikely to recoup much of it, the project was abandoned, and he died in the 1780s. An account of the operation of one of the inclined planes was published in A. Rees's Cyclopaedia in 1805. It described a steep inclined plane covered in planks. The square tub-boats were brought to the end of the canal, where the front end of the boat was attached to a hinge, and the back end was attached to ropes.
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Bernhard Pick (Kempen 19 December 1842 – 1917) was a German-American Lutheran pastor and scholar. He studied at Union Theological Seminary in New York City and after became a pastor. As a scholar he contributed many articles to the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopaedia of Religious Knowledge and McClintock and James Strong's Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. He also provided the index to Johann Peter Lange's Commentary on the Old Testament 1882 and an "Index to the Ante-Nicene Fathers" (1887).
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After a brief study for the ministry (1837) at Wabash College, Indiana, William began his preparations for medicine at the Ohio College of Medicine; He graduated from Kemper’s Medical College, St. Louis, and Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia.Juettner, Otto. Daniel Drake and his Followers: Harvey Publishing Company, 1909 (pg. 311). After graduation, Dr. William P Thornton spent five years in Houston, Mississippi, where he began to specialize in diseases of the trachea and larynx.Appleton’s Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events.
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He attended local schools and was tutored by his uncle Rev. John J. Bulfinch, esq. for college and he attained degrees from Amherst College in 1882 and 1889. Lovell taught school in Nobleboro and Norridgewock, Maine,The National cyclopaedia of American biography: being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time.
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The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge (1847) Vol III, London, Charles Knight, p.76. The first recorded almshouse was founded in York by King Athelstan; the oldest still in existence is the Hospital of St. Cross in Winchester, dating to about 1132. In the Middle Ages, the majority of European hospitals functioned as almshouses. Many of the medieval almshouses in England were established with the aim of benefiting the soul of the founder or their family, and they usually incorporated a chapel.
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Brodhead was appointed (1841)"John Romeyn Brodhead", The American Cyclopaedia, (George Riplay and Charles A. Dana, eds.), vol. 6, D. Appleton and Company, 1873 by Governor William H Seward to undertake the work, and in four years gathered from England, France and the Netherlands some eighty manuscript volumes of transcriptions, largely of documents which had not hitherto been used by historians. According to historian J. Franklin Jameson, "[n}ever did an American state send out a better record-agent." Little escaped his search.
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The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol III, (1847), London, Charles Knight, p. 809. Photochrom of Brighton aquarium, 1890–1900 The arrival of the London and Brighton Railway in 1841 brought Brighton within the reach of day-trippers from London. The population grew from around 7,000 in 1801 to more than 120,000 by 1901. Many of the major attractions were built during the Victorian era, such as the Grand Hotel (1864), the West Pier (1866), and the Palace Pier (1899).
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The Cyclopaedia of New Zealand (Taranaki, Hawke's Bay & Wellington Provincial Districts) 1908 From 1902 he served briefly as Mayor of Napier while he steered through a new loan to help develop the town. That done he resigned from the mayoralty in 1904 returning to his commercial interests but retaining his community involvement in the local harbour board between 1889 and 1919 together with the Hawke's Bay A & P Society as chairman and giving eight years service on the Hawke's Bay Education Board. .
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The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol III, (1847), London, Charles Knight, p.804 More than 255 men from the Bridgnorth area volunteered in the first months of the First World War. Their names were published in the Bridgnorth Journal on 26 December 1914 and several of those killed in action are remembered on the war memorial in the castle grounds. Until 1961 the Royal Air Force's initial recruit training unit was at RAF Bridgnorth, a station opened in 1939.
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Attilio Regolo is an Italian-language opera seria by Johann Adolph Hasse based on the story of Marcus Atilius Regulus, a Roman general taken prisoner in Carthage, who elects death rather than ransom. Metastasio wrote the libretto in 1740 for the birthday of the emperor Charles VI but the illness, then death, of the emperor prevented the libretto being set to music at the time. Hasse's opera premiered on 12 January 1750 at the Opernhaus am Zwinger in Dresden.Abraham Rees The Cyclopaedia (1819).
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Harvey E. Brown was born in Bridgetown (part of present-day Rahway, New Jersey). He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York on July 24, 1818,Adams, Charles Kendall, ed. "Harvey Brown." Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia. 4th ed. Vol. I. New York: A.J. Johnson Company, 1894. 800+ as a second lieutenant of light artillery.Powell, William H. List of Officers of the Army of the United States from 1779 to 1900. New York: L.R. Hammersly & Co., 1900. (pg.
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The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge , Vol III, (1847) London, Charles Knight, p.86. They claimed, or were assumed, to have been former inmates at the Bethlem Royal Hospital (Bedlam). It was commonly thought that inmates were released with authority to make their way by begging, though this is probably untrue. If it happened at all the numbers were certainly small, though there were probably large numbers of mentally ill travellers who turned to begging, but had never been near Bedlam.
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Gilman was married to Deborah (Folsom) Gilman, the daughter of Major General Nathaniel Folsom of Exeter. He died in Exeter on September 1, 1828.Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States He is the first governor of New Hampshire not to have a place in the state named after him. The town of Gilmanton, settled by 24 members of the extended Gilman clan, was named for the family as a whole and not for the Governor.
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Johann Franz Buddeus was a descendant of the French scholar Guillaume Budé (also known by the Latinized name Budaeus); the Huguenot family fled France after the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, and those who emigrated to Pomerania Germanized their name as Budde, the Latin equivalent of which was Buddeus.George Ripley and Charles Anderson Dana, The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, Volume 3 (Appleton, 1873), pp. 393, 404. Johann Franz was born at Anklam, Swedish Pomerania, where his father was pastor.
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Charles Burney commented that Malcolm's work had considerable merit, but was too scientific for an elementary textbook and too superficial in the rules for practical harmony. Nevertheless, Ephraim Chambers used Malcolm extensively when writing the first edition of his Cyclopaedia. Malcolm migrated to America, and in 1734 became the master of a grammar school in New York. He was appointed rector of St Michael's Church, Marblehead, Massachusetts in 1740, and in 1749 became rector of St Anne's Church, Annapolis, Maryland.
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Upon receiving his degree in theology in 1882, Babcock became pastor of a church at Lockport, New York. He was described as having "an unusually brilliant intellect and stirring oratorical powers that commanded admiration, [that] won for him a foremost place among the favorites of his denomination".Maltbie Davenport Babcock, The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Supplement I. New York: James T. White (1910 edition). From 1887 to 1900, Babcock was senior minister of the prestigious Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Silk, corn and grass are some of the most important agricultural products of the province. The 1840 version of the Penny Cyclopaedia records that Perugia supplied almost half of the butcher's meat required in the city of Rome. The large number of cattle was fed on grass growing on the plain areas irrigated by the water of Tiber and its tributaries. After the province of Rome, Viterbo and Spoleto e Rieti the Perugian province was the fourth most important of the Papal States.
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Arthur Edward Holland Grey Egerton, 3rd Earl of Wilton (25 November 1833 – 18 January 1885), styled Viscount Grey de Wilton from 1833 to 1882, was a British peer and Conservative Member of Parliament from the Egerton family. Wilton was the third but eldest surviving son of Thomas Egerton, 2nd Earl of Wilton and his first wife Lady Mary Stanley, daughter of Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, OxfordHazell's Annual Cyclopaedia. Hazell, Watson and Viney, 1886 p.
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The Troops being few and harassed no work this night. > This morning cold and white frost. Moncrief was briefly captured by an American raid on the Flatlands Jans Martense Schenck house as part of the Whaleboat War in 1788. He later became Chief Engineer responsible for the defenses during the Siege of Savannah by combined American and French forces in 1779 Benson, John Lossing. Harpers' Popular Cyclopaedia of United States History from the Aboriginal Period: Containing Brief Sketches of Important Events and Conspicuous Actors, Volume 2.
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The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, op. cit. He designed the First Baptist Church at Tarrytown, New York about 1875. During the Exposition Universelle of 1878, Sturgis spent some months in France, and upon his return accepted the chair of architecture and the arts of design at the College of the City of New York. He was the co-author, with Charles Eliot Norton, of a Catalogue of Ancient and Modern Engravings, Woodcuts and Illustrated Books, Parts of the Collections of C.E. Norton and R. Sturgis (1879).
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Joseph Howard Jr. was born in Brooklyn, New York on June 3, 1833. His family emigrated from England to Salem, Massachusetts in 1700 and remained there for generations before his grandfather Joseph Howard and father John Tasker Howard, both prominent religious leaders, moved to New York City in 1820.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. XV. New York: James T. White & Company, 1895. (pg. 213-214) His father was one of the founders of Plymouth Church and responsible for bringing Henry Ward Beecher to its ministry.
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The authors enter at some length on the sidereal period, or Yugas of the Hindus, which became known to the Arabs by a translation of the Siddhanta." # Love of the soul for the Creator. # Resurrection and immortality of the soul; this risala has especial emphasis on the ascension of the soul, and Davidson says: "In this the whole system laid down in the Cyclopaedia culminates." # On motion, and on the Cosmological argument # On cause and effect # "On the nature of simple and compound bodies.
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Krebs was born on June 27, 1847, in Lolland, Denmark, to Hans Peter Tholstrup Krebs and Johanne Louise (Wichfled) Krebs.Derby, George (1967). The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women Who Are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time. New York City: James T. White & Co.. pp. 14–15. . He emigrated to the United States in 1879.
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Coal output continued to expand, reaching a peak in 1868 when Bradford contributed a quarter of all the coal and iron produced in Yorkshire.Richardson "A Geography of Bradford" pages 61-67 The population of the township in 1841 was 34,560.The National Cyclopaedia of useful knowledge, Vol III, London, Charles Knight, 1847, p.713 In 1825 the wool-combers union called a strike that lasted five-months but workers were forced to return to work through hardship leading to the introduction of machine-combing.
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He was born on October 17, 1823 in New York City; his sibling was Evert Augustus Duyckinck. He attended Geneva College and then entered New York University, and graduated in 1843. He studied law and was admitted to the bar, but never practiced. After the completion of his legal studies he traveled extensively in Europe in 1847–1848, and on his return became joint editor with his brother Evert of The Literary World, afterward becoming joint author with his brother of the Cyclopaedia of American Literature.
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"Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography IV (New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1888), p. 637 He travelled and lectured extensively and was known to the Transcendentalists and other early utopian socialist experimenters. On October 14, 1838, Palmer visited with Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Emerson made several entries in his journal about Palmer's ideas and his experiences. Emerson described Palmer as "a gentle, faithful, sensible, well-balanced man for an enthusiast," and wrote: "He has renounced since a year ago last April the use of money.
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Pirnie was born in 1889 in New York City as son of George Pirnie and Florence Augusta (Pomeroy) Pirnie. He studied civil engineering at Harvard University, where he obtained his BSc in 1910, and his MA in 1911.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Current volume, J.T. White, 1952, p. 216 After graduation in 1911 he started his career as assistant engineer at the New York City consulting firm Hazen and Whipple, where in 1916 he became partner and the company was renamed Hazen, Everett & Pirnie.
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He fought in the First Carlist War, after entering as a volunteer in the service of Don Carlos in 1834. Henningsen rose to be captain of bodyguard to the Carlist general Tomás de Zumalacárregui. After the signing of the Lord Eliot Convention in April 1835, at which he was present, 19th Century´s military history in the Basque Country, Zumalakarregi Museum, archived on 4 September 2006 from the original Henningsen returned to England.George Ripley, The New American Cyclopaedia (1860: D. Appleton and Company), 79.
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John Mills and Gottfried Sellius later translated Chambers's Cyclopaedia into French. Their translation was appropriated by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert as the starting point for their Encyclopédie. In particular, the article on définition (1754) in the Encyclopédie can be traced through this chain of writers, editors, translators, and compilers to the Port-Royal Logique through the Logica of Jean Le Clerc. In 1693 his series of Biblical commentaries began with that on the Book of Genesis; the series was not completed until 1731.
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After retiring from teaching, Ford wrote on cricket, publishing A Cricketer on Cricket (1900); Middlesex County Cricket Club 1864–1899 (1900); and A History of the Cambridge University Cricket Club 1820–1901 (1902). He compiled the articles on "Public School Cricket" for Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack from 1896 to 1904 and in Prince Ranjitsinhji's Jubilee Book of Cricket (1897). He also contributed articles to the Cyclopaedia of Sport and to the Encyclopædia Britannica, and the chapter on "Pyramids and Pool" to the Badminton Library volume Billiards.
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The muscles of the face. From an article by Partridge in Bentley's Cyclopaedia (1839) Partridge was apprenticed to his uncle, W.H. Partridge, in Birmingham in 1821, where he acted as dresser to the well-known surgeon Joseph Hodgson, who was later another President of the Royal College of Surgeons. He studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London from 1827, attending lectures by John Abernethy. The same year, he became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons and a licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries.
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He is best known for his Historia Plantarum Rariorum (1728–1737, illustrated by Jacob van Huysum), and his translation, with valuable agricultural and botanical notes, of the Eclogues (1749) and Georgics (1741) of Virgil. Editions continued to be issued after his death. With Ephraim Chambers, author of the famous Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, he abridged and translated the Philosophical History and Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, which was published in 1742.Académie royale des sciences.
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Union General Jefferson C. Davis at the Galt House in Louisville, Kentucky, on September 29, 1862 He was the third and youngest son of Dr. Thomas W. Nelson (1796–1849) and Frances Doniphan (1795–1845) of Maysville, Kentucky. He attended Maysville Academy (Seminary) and was enrolled in Norwich University at 13.A. [nderson] N. [elson] Ellis, "Sketch of the Life of William Nelson, Maj.-Gen. U.S.A" in The Biographical Cyclopaedia and Portrait Gallery with a Historical Sketch of the State of Ohio 6 vols.
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Appletons Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Pickering-Sumter, 1898, p. 133 His subsequent charge averted a disastrous defeat of the Continental Army cavalry,Kazimierz Pulaski Granted U.S. Citizenship Posthumously, 2009 earning him fame in America and saving the life of George Washington.111th Congress Public Law 94 As a result, on September 15, 1777, on the orders of Congress, Washington made Pulaski a brigadier general in the Continental Army cavalry. At that point, the cavalry was only a few hundred men strong organized into four regiments.
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Sky blue is a colour that resembles the colour of the unclouded sky at noon (azure) reflecting off a metallic surface. The entry for "sky-blue" in Murray's New English Dictionary (1919) reports a first sighting of the term in the article on "silver" in Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopaedia of 1728. However, many writers had used the term "sky blue" to name a colour before Chambers. For example, we find "sky blue" in A Collection of Voyages and Travels (London: Awnsham and John Churchill, 1704), vol.
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"The Beggar's Petition" (or "The Beggar") is a poem written by Thomas Moss and published anonymously in 1769 which "contains much pathetic and natural sentiment finely expressed."Cyclopaedia of English Literature (1844) The poem is referenced in the opening pages of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey as an example of a poem commonly memorized by young women of the day. It is also mentioned in Nicholas Nickleby as the little boy rubs his eyes with it while being boxed on the ears by the schoolmaster Mr. Squeers.
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Most of the members were drawn from Presbyterian churches in Hamilton, Springdale, and Ross, so the congregation was founded in the locality known as Symmes Corners in order to be convenient for all of the members. Shortly after the organization of the congregation, the original church building was constructed at a cost of $1,180 on land donated by Benjamin Symmes,A History and Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio: With Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers. Cincinnati: Western Biographical, 1882, 475. seemingly in 1843.
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In 1819 William Sharp Macleay had published his ideas of the Quinarian system of biological classification, and Swainson soon became a noted and outspoken proponent. The Quinarian System fell out of favour, giving way to the rising popularity of the geographical theory of Hugh Edwin Strickland. Swainson was overworked by Dionysius Lardner, the publisher of the Cabinet Cyclopaedia and both Swainson and Macleay were derided for their support of the Quinarian system. Both proponents left Britain; Swainson emigrated to New Zealand and Macleay to Australia.
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The South Sligo by-election, 1887 was a parliamentary by-election held for the United Kingdom House of Commons constituency of South Sligo on 7 February 1887. The sitting member, Thomas Sexton of the Irish Parliamentary Party had been re-elected in the general election of 1886, but having been elected also in the constituency of Belfast West, he chose to sit for the latter. In the ensuing by-election another Irish Parliamentary Party candidate, Edward Joseph Kennedy, was elected unopposed.Hazell's Annual Cyclopaedia, 1888, page 203.
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During her stay in New York, Mother Gallitzin was a guest of the Parmentier family, noted New York philanthropists, at their Bridge Street mansion in Brooklyn."The Parmentier Family Memorial", The Bridge, Saint Joseph's High School In 1842 Mme. Gallitzin founded establishments in the Pottawattamie missions, and at McSherrystown, Maryland.Ripley, George and Dana, Charles A., "Ladies Of The Sacred Heart", The American Cyclopaedia, D. Appleton and Company, 1873 Mother Elizabeth died of yellow fever, at the age of 47, on 26 November 1844 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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He edited the single volume Appletons' Cyclopaedia of Biography (1856), which added American biographies to the volume edited by Elihu Rich and published in 1854 by Richard Griffin & Company (London). Hawks' church history works remain important today. After being named the Episcopal Church's historiographer in 1835, Hawks traveled to England and collected materials afterwards utilized in his Contributions to the Ecclesiastical History of U.S.A. (New York, 1836–1839). The first two volumes dealt with Maryland and Virginia, while two later ones (1863, 1864) were devoted to Connecticut.
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Cyclopaedia Single lenses have a variety of applications including photographic lenses, corrective lenses, and magnifying glasses while single mirrors are used in parabolic reflectors and rear-view mirrors. Combining a number of mirrors, prisms, and lenses produces compound optical instruments which have practical uses. For example, a periscope is simply two plane mirrors aligned to allow for viewing around obstructions. The most famous compound optical instruments in science are the microscope and the telescope which were both invented by the Dutch in the late 16th century.
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The first edition of the Cyclopaedia appeared by subscription in 1728 and was dedicated to George II, King of Great Britain. When he died in 1740, he left materials for a Supplement; edited by George Lewis Scott, this was published in 1753. He also wrote for, and possibly edited, the Literary Magazine (1735–1736), which mainly published book reviews. Chambers worked on translating other works in French on perspective and chemistry from 1726 to 1727, including the Practice of Perspective from the French of Jean Dubreuil.
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The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol III, London, Charles Knight, 1847, p.802 In 1896, the trade unionists of Bridgwater's brick and tile industry were involved a number of strikes. The Salisbury government sent troops to the town to clear the barricades by force after the reading of the Riot Act. A map of Bridgwater in 1946 A by-election in 1938 enabled the town to send a message to the government and Hitler, when an Independent anti-appeasement candidate, journalist Vernon Bartlett was elected.
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James Grant Wilson, John Fiske, editors (1888) Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography Nevertheless, his many professional friends and colleagues flocked to his funeral in St. Agnes' Catholic church which was filled to capacity. A funeral march was specially composed for the occasion and played by the entire Seventh Regiment Band at Everett House, where the tenor died. The coffin was surrounded with white roses and other flowers, white doves, a broken column and a crucifix. The pall-bearers included Max Maretzek and several male opera singers.
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The music articles in Rees's Cyclopaedia were Charles Burney's (1726-1814) final literary production, and form in effect the Dictionary of Music he never wrote.Lonsdale, 1979, p 159 There were additional articles by John Farey, Sr. (1766-1826), and John Farey, Jr. (1791-1851). The listings show there are 1971 articles in total: Burney, 1752 (996 general music plus 756 biographies), Farey Sr. 215, and Farey Jr. 4. The complete texts and plates are available on the website of the Burney Centre at McGill University.
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Thomas was born in Rochester, New York on June 18, 1848, where he was educated in the city's schools until 1862, when his father's business failure obliged him to seek employment."Thomas, John Rochester" at The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume IX (1899). New York: James T. White and Company, p. 329 He decided to become an architect and entered the office of Merwin Austin of Rochester, subsequently pursuing a university course under the direction of Dr. Martin Brewer Anderson, president of the University of Rochester.
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Stanislas Laugier Stanislas Laugier (28 January 1799 – 15 February 1872) was a French surgeon and doctor. He was the brother of astronomer Paul Auguste Ernest Laugier (1812-1872).The American cyclopaedia: a popular dictionary of general knowledge, Volume 10 edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana He was associated with the Hôtel-Dieu in Paris, a member of the Institut and of the Académie des Sciences, president and professor of the Académie de Médecine de Paris. He was buried in the cimetière du Père-Lachaise (57ème division).
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"The queen of the meadow and the crown imperial", lines 33-8 Turning to The Country Justice, Robert Chambers accounts it to be "the only poem of Langhorne's which has a cast of originality…He seems to have anticipated George Crabbe in painting the rural life of England in true colours."Robert Chambers, Cyclopaedia of English Literature, New York 1830, vol.4, p.156 William Wordsworth also praised the poem enthusiastically for the way it "brought the Muse into the company of common life".
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But in 1533, Henry VIII of England raised the rank of the Bishop of London and the Bishop of Durham, relegating Winchester to third (but still above other remaining diocesan bishops). The Report of the Commissioners appointed by his Majesty to inquire into the Ecclesiastical Revenues of England and Wales (1835) found the Winchester see was the third wealthiest in England, after Canterbury and London, with an annual net income of £11,151.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge Vol.III, London, Charles Knight, 1847, p.
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See also "Liquid pixels" photographs of bronze medal. See also List of Congressional Gold Medal recipients. See also Loubat, J. F. and Jacquemart, Jules, Illustrator, The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776–1876. N. Flayderman & Co. Macomb and his men were also formally given the thanks of Congress.Brown, John Howard, The Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Comprising the Men and Women of the United States Who Have Been Identified with the Growth of the Nation V5 (Published by Kessinger Publishing, 2006) 700 pages, Alexander Macomb, p. 305.
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The census of 1801 recorded only 101 residents to Brighton's 7,339. By 1821, the year the Prince Regent was crowned George IV, the population had risen to 312 Middleton J. (1983) Hove in old picture postcards, introduction, Brighton's too had trebled to 24,429 The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol III, (1847), London, Charles Knight, p. 809. with the dwellings still clustered on Hove Street, surrounded by an otherwise empty landscape of open farmland. This relative isolated location of Hove, compared to Brighton, was ideal for smuggling and there was considerable illicit activity.
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Two children have been born by this marriage, Margaret Ely and George Ely.Tract, Issues 96-97, Western Reserve Historical Society, Western Reserve Historical Society, 1916.Memorial record of the county of Cuyahoga and city of Cleveland, Ohio, Lewis Publishing Company, 1894.The National cyclopaedia of American biography: being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, Volume 21, J. T. White & company, 1894.
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Abram Edward Fitkin (born September 18, 1878, in Brooklyn, New York; died March 18, 1933, in New York city),Also listed as Abraham Edward Fitkin, see James Terry White, The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography Vol. 27 (James T. White & Co., 1939.):142. and three of their children, were living nearby at 271 Brooklyn Avenue at this time.US Federal Census: January 7–8, 1920; Source Citation: Year: 1920;Census Place: Brooklyn Assembly District 18, Kings, New York; Roll T625_1172; Page: 7B; Enumeration District: 1103; Image: 1010, page 14.
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Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, Volume 3, 1887, page 224 In 1865 Hodges testified during the trial of the Lincoln Assassination conspirators, giving evidence supporting Marcus P. Norton's reputation for veracity. Norton had testified that in March, 1865 a man he later recognized as Samuel Mudd had burst into his room at the National Hotel. Norton claimed the man apologized, saying that he thought the room belonged to a man named Booth. John Wilkes Booth had actually rented the room directly above Norton's.
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Wilkins was the son of John Wilkins Sr. (1733 - 1810), a Captain in the American Revolution.James T. White & Co., The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 18, 1922, page 81 He was the brother of Senator William Wilkins.US Government Printing Office, Senate Documents, Volume 6, 1917, page 106 He was the father of Judge Ross Wilkins.David Gardner Chardavoyne, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, 2012, pages 17 to 19 His nephew Wilkins F. Tannehill (1787-1858), served as the Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee from 1825 to 1827.
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In the 19th century, the notion of a single "brown people" was sometimes superseded by multiple "brown peoples." Cust mentions Grammar in 1852 denying that there was one single "brown race", but in fact, several races speaking distinct languages. The 1858 Cyclopaedia of India and of eastern and southern Asia notes that Keane was dividing the "brown people" into quaternion: a western branch that he termed the Malay, a north-western group that he termed the Micronesian, and the peoples of the eastern archipelagos that he termed the Maori and the Polynesian.
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92 In 1849, George Long writes that Wallachia and Moldavia are separated only by a political boundary and that their history is closely connected. About the latter he says that it is inhabited mainly by Wallachians who call themselves Roomoon (Romanian).George Long, Penny Cyclopaedia, volume XV, London, 1849, published by Charles Knight, pg. 304 Ethnologist Robert Gordon Latham, writes in 1854, that the name by which a Wallachian, Moldavian or a Bessarabian designates himself is Roman or Rumanyo (Romanian), a name the author also applies to the Romance speakers of Macedonia.
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Borges and his friend and collaborator, Adolfo Bioy Casares, are developing their next book in a country house near Buenos Aires, in 1940. In an observation, Bioy quotes that "mirrors and copulation are abominable because they increase the number of men" from a heresiarch of a land named Uqbar. Borges, impressed with the "memorable" sentence, asks for its source. Bioy replies that he had read it in the chapter about Uqbar of the Anglo-American Cyclopaedia, "a literal if inadequate reprint" of the 1902 edition of Encyclopædia Britannica.
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Herbert Bailey Gregory (April 10, 1884 – March 9, 1951) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia from 1930 until his death in 1951. Born in Westmoreland County, Virginia to Werter Hancock and Sallie James (Payne) Gregory, he was raised in Eastern Virginia and received his early education in private schools, later attending Randolph Macon Academy at Bedford, Virginia and Pungoteague Academy in Accomack County, Virginia.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (1967), p. 183.Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Virginia State Bar Association, Vol.
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Born to Edward and Elizabeth (Paine) Lord on July 20, 1838 in Dover, Delaware,The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography Lord was partially deaf, and had limited speaking ability. He received his primary education at a Quaker school and through private tutoring. He subsequently studied law at Fairfield College, graduating in 1860. Before he could continue further into his studies, Lord volunteered for military service in the American Civil War, advancing to the rank of Major in the 1st Delaware Cavalry in the Union Army of the Potomac.
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The New York Times November 2, 1889The New York Times October 9, 1897 When Dannat was around the age of twelve his parents decided to send him to Germany to further his education.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 12 1904 He would later study architecture at Hanover and Stuttgart before choosing instead to become an artist. Dannat attended art classes at the Munich Royal Academy of Fine Arts and later under Mihály Munkácsy in Paris. Dannat became an accomplished draughtsman and a distinguished figure and portrait painter.
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161; archive.org. for "raising flowers, figures and other ornaments on muslins, lawns, silks, woollens, or mixed cloths".Quoted in Harte, N. B., "On Rees's Cyclopaedia as a source for the History of the Textile Industries in the early Nineteenth Century", Textile History, Vol 5, 1974 pp 119-127 Duncan may have used the chain stitch, which was employed for tambour lace, as was later done by Barthélemy Thimonnier. Sometimes Duncan's invention has been described as the first embroidering machine; as with other pioneering machines of the period, it was unsuccessful.
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Those who admire or enjoy Shirley's work can specify The Lady of Pleasure as displaying his "ornate and profuse fancy to the greatest advantage."Chamber's Cyclopaedia of English Literature, 1902; p. 485. But critics with serious moral and ethical preoccupations tend to be uncomfortable with the poet's portraits of amorality and immorality, and judge his plays more stringently. The Lady of Pleasure was singled out by C. S. Lewis, in his Rehabilitations and Other Essays (1939), as representative of Shirley's comedies -- to which Lewis gives a firmly negative evaluation.
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The canal there consumed water at the rate of 1800 cubic feet per minute (850 L/s) (per Morrow's History) or 2000 cubic feet per minute (940 L/s) (per the Historical and Biographical Cyclopaedia). From Middletown, the canal went southeast, through the gentle country the Middletown and Cincinnati Railroad would follow decades later, land filled with sand and gravel deposited by the Wisconsinan Glaciation 14,000 to 24,000 years ago. This geology meant the canal leaked considerably. It proceeded through Lemon Township north of the place later called Oakland.
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Through the Observer Simpson also voiced his support for the policies of Andrew Jackson.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography . . ., 1907, p. 543 Even before Jackson was nominated a presidential candidate by the Tennessee legislature, Simpson, along with Stephen Duane, editor of the Aurora, had already begun lending their support for Jackson as a presidential candidate. Some historians have assumed Simpson's support of General Jackson was based on their mutual distrust of banks, as well as his admiration for a man and a general which he served under during the War of 1812.
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Both names for the wood, Great Ridge and Chicklade, are old. The Penny Cyclopaedia of 1843 says: The 'Great Ridge Wood' is referred to in W. H. Hudson's A Shepherd's Life (1910), in which he reports that in the 19th century the old people of Fonthill Bishop and other villages were allowed to take from it as much dead wood as they could find.W. H. Hudson, A Shepherd's Life (BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2008 edition), p. 148 As with most land in Great Britain, the Great Ridge is owned by people or organisations.
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In 1887 he was named Professor of Zoology at the University of Indiana and two years later accepted the chair of Biology at the University of Nebraska. He resigned in 1891 to take a year off to study in Europe, primarily at the University of Freiburg under Dr. Robert Wiedersheim. Upon his return in 1892, Kingsley was offered the chair of Biology at Tufts College where he would write nearly all the biological articles for Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia. From 1913 to 1921 Kingsley served as professor of zoology at the University of Illinois.
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Date accessed: 14 April 2011 In 1654 he was tasked by the government to give protection to fisheries by building wharfs, docks, and storehouses, drawing on the salt duties and other customs, and excise duties which were remitted to him. Penny cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of UsefulKnowledge (Great Britain) Volumes 9-10 In 1655 Andrews sold Little Berkhamsted to George Nevill and in 1658 acquired the manor of Denton, Kent from John Percival. 'Parishes: Denton', The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 9 (1800), pp. 358-364.
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Besides his directorships with Wells Fargo and the Santa Fe system, Cheney was a director of Manchester Mills, Manchester, Massachusetts, and of numerous Boston banks and trust companies. He also served as president of the San Diego Land & Town Company, one of his father's old ventures. At one time he was a member of the Algonquin, Union, Boston Amateur Athletic and University clubs of Boston, the Metropolitan, Players and Harvard clubs of New York City, and the University Club of San Diego California.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, op. cit.
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Ripley, George, The American Cyclopaedia a Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, D. Appleton and Company, 1875. In 1824 he received the brevet rank of brigadier general in recognition of his superior service as a brevet colonel for 10 years. He later received appointment as Surveyor of the Port of Boston, a post he held from 1830 to 1841. The husband of Elizabeth Andrews Pierce, son-in-law of Governor Benjamin Pierce, and brother-in-law of President Franklin Pierce, after retiring McNeil lived at the Pierce family home in Hillsborough, New Hampshire.
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Jean-Jacques-Joseph Leroy d'Etiolles Jean-Jacques-Joseph Leroy d'Etiolles (5 April 1798 in Paris – 25 August 1860) American Cyclopaedia (biographical information) was a French surgeon who studied and practiced medicine in Paris. He is credited with the invention of numerous medical devices, including a lithotriptic instrument (1822), that was improved upon and put to successful use by Jean Civiale (1792–1867) soon afterwards. Nezhat's History of Endoscopy: A Historical Analysis of Endoscopy Nezhat's History of Endoscopy – Chapter 7. Post-Bozzini He is also known for pioneer experiments involving barotrauma produced by mechanical ventilation.
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Bayley participated in her church's social ministry, and often took young Elizabeth with her on charitable rounds, as she visited the poor in their homes to distribute food and needed items. Elizabeth Ann Seton, from Appleton's Cyclopaedia The couple had five children, but the marriage ended in separation. During the breakup, their stepmother rejected Elizabeth and her older sister. Their father then traveled to London for further medical studies, so the sisters lived temporarily in New Rochelle with their paternal uncle, William Bayley, and his wife, Sarah Pell Bayley.
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Pigache, Poulaine and Pigage are types of shoe with a long pointed turned up toe that was worn during the Romanesque and Byzantine period. The plural form of the word is pigaciae.The Complete Costume Dictionary by Elizabeth J. Lewandowski page 229 A Cyclopaedia of Costume Or Dictionary of Dress, Including Notices of Contemporaneous Fashions on the Continent: The dictionary, James Robinson - Planché Chatto and Windus, 1876 - Clothing and dress page459 The shoes were sometimes stuffed with moss, wool, or horsehair to make the extension erect. The protrusion was sometimes flesh colored.
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After stepping down from Columbia professorship, MacDowell fell into depression and his health rapidly deteriorated. E. Douglas Bomberger's biography notes that MacDowell suffered from seasonal affective disorder throughout his life, and often made decisions with negative implications in the darkest months of the year. Bomberger advances a new theory for the sudden decline of MacDowell's health: bromide poisoning, which was sometimes mistaken for paresis at the time,J. Madison Taylor, A.M., M.D. Bromide Poisoning Mistaken for Paresis, in: Monthly Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine, volume 9 (5), May 1906, p. 193-195.
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Title page of the Encyclopédie André le Breton, a bookseller and printer, approached Diderot with a project for the publication of a translation of Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences into French, first undertaken by the Englishman John Mills, and followed by the German Gottfried Sellius. Diderot accepted the proposal, and transformed it. He persuaded Le Breton to publish a new work, which would consolidate ideas and knowledge from the Republic of Letters. The publishers found capital for a larger enterprise than they had first planned.
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Among Ancient Romans, bestiarii (singular bestiarius) were those who went into combat with beasts, or were exposed to them. It is conventionalEntry on Bestiarii at Chambers, Ephraim, Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, c. 1680-1740 to distinguish two categories of bestiarii: the first were those condemned to death via the beasts (see damnatio ad bestias) and the second were those who faced them voluntarily, for pay or glory (see venatio).William Smith, "Bestiarii" from A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, John Murray: London, 1875.
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Balsam of Tolu and Balsam of Peru (Myroxylon balsamum) are sometimes called opobalsamum and are sometimes substituted for it, however they are not the true C. opobalsamum.Penny cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Volumes 15-16 By Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) pg.40 The balsams have a sweet, aromatic, resinous scent with an odour resembling vanilla or benzoin.Margaret Graves, A Modern Herbal, 1931 Both Balsam of Tolu and Balsam of Peru come from the same tree, Myroxylon, but each differs in production.
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He studied science at Union College and received his Ph.D. in 1877. Before completing his doctorate he was assistant editor of Scientific American (1872–78) and then editor-in-chief of Appleton's Cyclopaedia of Applied Mechanics (1879–96). By the time Benjamin began working at Scientific American it had become more associated with the commercial side of science and patenting of inventions. He was editor when Thomas Edison brought in his phonograph to the patent agency, and its uses were for the first time described in an 1877 issue.
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Ian Jeremiah (born 1970) is a Welsh racing cyclist and co-owner of Cyclopaedia cycle shop since 1994. Jeremiah was born in Cardiff and was the Welsh National Cross Country MTB Champion in 1999 and 2001. He represented Wales at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester where he was disqualified for refusing a request for all lapped riders to pull out of the race in the final lap. Jeremiah has also represented Wales at many international stage races such as the 'Tour of Rhodes' in Greece and the 'Tour de Serbie' in Yugoslavia in 2002.
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Two abridged versions were published in 1911 - the two volume Practical American Encyclopedia and the one volume Unrivaled Encyclopedia. These were published under the imprint of W. B. Cockey, the printer of the usual publisher, Holst Publishing Company.Walsh p.128 In 1923 the same encyclopedia was published as the International Reference Work in 10 volumes, which was sold simultaneously with New Teacher's and Pupil's Cyclopaedia. This is brought the publishers into conflict with the Federal Trade Commission, and they were eventually served the above-mentioned Cease and Desist (Docket #1331).
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At that time the diocese contained one archdeaconry, sixteen deaneries and one hundred and twenty-one parishes. The bishop at this time had five episcopal residences, four of which were assumed by the Church of England bishop under Edward VI. The Report of the Commissioners appointed by his Majesty to inquire into the Ecclesiastical Revenues of England and Wales (1835) found the see had an annual net income of £6,301. This made it the wealthiest diocese in Wales and the fourth richest in Britain after Canterbury, London and Winchester.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge Vol.
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As well as being important in analytical chemistry, the precipitation of silver phosphate is also used in silver staining of biological materials (after reduction to silver metal) - as a magnifying agent for phosphate. Free version Silver phosphate also found use in early photography as a light sensitive agent.Cassell's cyclopaedia of photography , Bernard Edward Jones , Ayer Publishing , 1973 , p.401 'Phosphate plates and papers' , googlebooks link In 2010, silver phosphate was reported as having a high (90%) quantum yield as a photocatalyst for the visible light photochemical splitting of water, and for production of activated oxygen by the same method.
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Todd was the first to lay down definite principles for the treatment of serious cases of fever. In his Lumleian lectures he discussed the nature and treatment of various forms of delirium, and showed the significant role that exhaustion played in patient deterioration, and how bleeding and lowering remedies contributed to deterioration, while supporting treatment was followed by relief. Todd was a prolific contributor to medical publications, including The Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology. He immediately integrated newly available technology, particularly the microscope, into the study and practice of medicine, and was a driving force in raising the standards of medical knowledge.
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At the outset of the American Civil War, Montgomery organized and briefly was colonel of the 1st Regiment New Jersey Volunteer Infantry. The regiment was held in reserve at the First Battle of Bull Run. Montgomery's biographical sketch in Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography (1888) states that Montgomery's regiment "aided in covering [the Union Army's] retreat from Bull Run." Sifakis, on the other hand, states that the regiment was detailed to guard areas around Arlington Heights, Virginia and Fairfax Court House, Virginia. In June 1861, near Trenton, New Jersey, Montgomery suffered rib injuries when his horse fell.
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Register of the Department of State, published by U.S. Department of State, 1917, page 96 From 1912 to 1917 Hale was Consul in Huddersfield, England.Who's Who in New York City and State, published by L.R. Hamersly Co., New York, Volume 8, 1924, page 554 Hale was also a poet, and authored 1929's Reveries of Vermont.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, published by J.T. White & Co., New York, 1963, Volume 46, page 475Foreign Service Journal, published by American Foreign Service Association, Washington, D.C., 1931, Volume 8, page 225 Hale died in Lyndon Center, Vermont on April 21, 1940.
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On 14 October 1654 she married Francesco I d'Este, Duke of ModenaPapal Genealogy: The Families And Descendants of the Popes by George L. Williams (McFarland, 2004) and was the mother of Rinaldo d'Este who succeeded his father as Duke of Modena. The couple married in Loreto, Marche at the Basilica della Santa Casa. In many ways the marriage represented a long-overdue truce between the House of Este and the Barberini who had taken sides against each other during the First War of Castro.Penny cyclopaedia of the Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge, Volume 3 (C.
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Cyclopaedia Abel Foullon described a plane table in 1551, but it is thought that the instrument was in use earlier as his description is of a developed instrument. Gunter's chain was introduced in 1620 by English mathematician Edmund Gunter. It enabled plots of land to be accurately surveyed and plotted for legal and commercial purposes. Leonard Digges described a theodolite that measured horizontal angles in his book A geometric practice named Pantometria (1571). Joshua Habermel (Erasmus Habermehl) created a theodolite with a compass and tripod in 1576. Johnathon Sission was the first to incorporate a telescope on a theodolite in 1725.
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Between 1832 and 1839, Mary Shelley wrote many biographies of notable Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and French men and a few women for Dionysius Lardner's Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men. These formed part of Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia, one of the best of many such series produced in the 1820s and 1830s in response to growing middle-class demand for self- education.Nora Crook, "General Editor's Introduction", Mary Shelley's Literary Lives, Vol. 1, xix; see also Kucich, "Biographer" (CC), 227. Until the republication of these essays in 2002, their significance within her body of work was not appreciated.Kucich, "Biographer" (CC), 227–28.
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On June 25, 1816, Monteith disembarked at Detroit from the schooner he had boarded forty hours earlier at Buffalo. In addition to the fifteen hundred soldiers housed at Fort Shelby, his new home had a population of about nine hundred souls, over half of whom were French Catholics.Silas Farmer, The history of Detroit and Michigan, or, The metropolis illustrated : chronological cyclopaedia of the past and present, 1884 p. 224 Monteith had been called to serve the Protestant portion of the population and five days after his arrival, he preached his first sermon at the Council House.
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Charles Gould Treat was born in Dexter, Maine on December 30, 1859, and was a direct descendant of Governor Robert Treat.James Terry White, The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 42, 1967, page 173 He was raised in Monroe, Wisconsin, and graduated from Monroe High School in 1878. His father, Joseph B. Treat, was a member of the Wisconsin State Senate and Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee and his grandfather, Nathaniel Treat, was a member of the Maine House of Representatives. Treat graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1882, and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant of Artillery.
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Under Price's leadership its sales increased to almost $10 million by 1919, when he was then promoted, succeeding George A. Grimsley as its president. The Board of Directors remarked The record is a success unparalleled in the history of southern life insurance companies and one beyond our most sanguine expectations. Jefferson-Pilot Corporation - Company Profile Information Price continued in that position until 1946 and thereafter was chairman of the board of directors until his death.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, page 431 In 1923 Jefferson Standard Life Insurance built the Jefferson Standard Building, a 17-story skyscraper.
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A warrant, dated 11 June 1594, granted to the corporation the right of, By 1847, revenue collected from this source was £11,000 to £12,000 per year.The National Cyclopaedia ... P.934 In 1836, Trinity House accepted powers to levy out the last private lighthouse owners and began refurbishing and upgrading its lighthouse estate. In 1803, the Corporation established the Blackwall Depot as a buoy workshop, and six district depots were later established at Harwich, Great Yarmouth, East Cowes, Penzance, Holyhead and Swansea. In December 2002, Trinity House announced that the Great Yarmouth, Penzance and East Cowes depots would close.
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His publications were connected with biblical criticism and interpretation, some of them being for popular use and others more strictly scientific. To the former class belong the Biblical Cyclopaedia, his edition of Alexander Cruden's Concordance, his Early Oriental History, and his discourses on the Divine Love and on Paul the Preacher; to the latter his commentaries on the Greek text of St Paul's epistles to the Ephesians, Colossians, Philippians and Galatians, published at intervals in four volumes. His last work was the History of the English Bible (2 vols, 1876). He rendered service as one of the revisers of the authorized version.
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Kodaikanal could mean "the end of the forest" which makes poetic and geographical sense — Kodaikanal is at the crown of the Palani Hills and is effectively surrounded and protected by thick forests. By pronouncing Kodai with the short Tamil 'o' (as in Kodi), it means "creepers" or vines. Kodaikanal could mean "forest of creepers" or the forest of vines. "The forest of creepers" is thought to be the English language meaning given in 1885 during the early western habitation of the place The Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia by Edward Balfour, Published by B. Quaritch, 1885, Item notes: vol.
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That the Ayrshire poet Burns actually saw and was influenced by Mayne's composition is apparent, as he appears to communicate with Mayne's work, and also echoes some of his imagery.Robert Chambers The life and works of Robert Burns, Volume 1 Lippincott, Grambo & co., 1854 Thomas Crawford Burns: a study of the poems and songs Stanford University Press, 1960 According to Burns, Halloween is "thought to be a night when witches, devils, and other mischief- making beings are all abroad on their baneful midnight errands".Charles Knight (1833) The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Difussion of Useful Knowledge, Volume 1 p.342.
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He practiced law in New Hampshire, first with George B. Upham, and later with David Hale. From 1828 to 1830 he practiced in Binghamton, New York, after which he returned to New Hampshire to open an office in Claremont.Bell, Bench and Bar of New Hampshire In 1831 Metcalf was elected secretary state.James T. White & Company, The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume XI, 1901, page 130 He held this post until 1838, when he moved to Washington, D.C. to accept a position in the Department of the Treasury while Levi Woodbury of New Hampshire was serving as Secretary.
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The craft of fermenting and distilling beverages dates back centuries, but the actual term "master distiller" has not been around for nearly as long. The 1867 edition of The English Cyclopaedia (Arts and Sciences section) offers a clear definition of the original meaning of the term: Originally, master distiller was a term most commonly used in relation to bourbon, both before and after Prohibition in the U.S., and its historical usage was typically limited to only those who had truly mastered the craft of distilling. In particular, Kentucky bourbon makers often had a hierarchy that consisted of distiller, head distiller, and master distiller.
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Perry (standing) after abandoning Lawrence in a 1911 painting by Edward Percy Moran On September 10, 1813, Perry's command fought a successful fleet action against a squadron of the Royal Navy in the Battle of Lake Erie. It was at the outset of this battle that Perry famously said, "If a victory is to be gained, I will gain it." Farmer, Silas. (1884) (Jul 1969) The history of Detroit and Michigan, or, The metropolis illustrated: a bepis cyclopaedia of the past and present: including a full record of territorial days in Michigan, and the annuals of Wayne County, p.
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Retrieved 14 July 2009. Code of letters and symbols for Chappe telegraph (Rees's Cyclopaedia) During the Middle Ages, chains of beacons were commonly used on hilltops as a means of relaying a signal. Beacon chains suffered the drawback that they could only pass a single bit of information, so the meaning of the message such as "the enemy has been sighted" had to be agreed upon in advance. One notable instance of their use was during the Spanish Armada, when a beacon chain relayed a signal from Plymouth to London that signaled the arrival of the Spanish warships.
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Charles Boyle received several additional honours in the reign of George I; but having had the misfortune to fall under the suspicion of the government for playing a part in the Jacobite Atterbury Plot, he was committed to the Tower in 1722, where he remained six months, and was then admitted to bail. On a subsequent inquiry he was discharged. Boyle wrote a comedy, As You Find It, printed in 1703 and later published together with the plays of the first earl. In 1728, he was listed as one of the subscribers to the Cyclopaedia of Ephraim Chambers.
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He contributed to The True Sun, The Morning Chronicle and The Examiner, of which he was literary and dramatic critic; and the influence of his powerful individuality soon made itself felt. Lives of the Statesmen of the Commonwealth (1836–1839) appeared partly in Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia. Forster published the work separately in 1840 with a Treatise on the Popular Progress in English History. It obtained immediate recognition, making Forster a prominent figure in a distinguished circle of literary men which included Leigh Hunt, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Thomas Noon Talfourd, Albany Fonblanque, Walter Savage Landor, Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle and Charles Dickens.
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As proprietor of The Art Journal, J.S. embarked upon the illustrations of the great galleries: the Royal, the Sheepshanks, the Vernon, and the Turner, making it famous. Among other works published by the firm were illustrated editions of the Holy Bible, 1861–5, three volumes, and Tomlinson's Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, 1854. In 1862, in conjunction with his older brother, George Henry Virtue he organised another business at 1 Amen Corner, under the name of Virtue Brothers & Company. In 1865, his younger brother, William Alexander Virtue, became a partner in the family's City Road and Ivy Lane businesses.
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A crownwork outside a bastion Cyclopaedia A crownwork is an element of the trace italienne system of fortification and is effectively an expanded hornwork (a type of outwork). It consists of a full bastion with the walls on either side ending in half bastions from which longer flank walls run back towards the main fortress. The crownwork was used to extend the fortified area in a particular direction, often in order to defend a bridge, prevent the enemy occupying an area of high ground, or simply strengthen the overall fortifications in the expected direction of attack.
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Bearing compass (18th century) A bearing compass is a magnetic compass mounted in such a way that it allows the taking of bearings of objects by aligning them with the lubber line of the bearing compass. A surveyor's compass is a specialized compass made to accurately measure heading of landmarks and measure horizontal angles to help with map making. These were already in common use by the early 18th century and are described in the 1728 Cyclopaedia. The bearing compass was steadily reduced in size and weight to increase portability, resulting in a model that could be carried and operated in one hand.
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In it he wrote on a great variety of subjects, including chess and whist. He was also the author of the articles on astronomy in the American Cyclopaedia and the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, and was well known as a popular lecturer on astronomy in England, America and Australia. Proctor's map of Mars Elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1866, he became honorary secretary in 1872, and contributed eighty-three separate papers to its Monthly Notices. Of these the more noteworthy dealt with the distribution of stars, star clusters and nebulae, and the construction of the sidereal universe.
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In the early 19th century, the romantic medieval gothic style appeared, partially as a reaction against the symmetry of Palladianism, and can be seen in buildings such as the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, the Royal West of England Academy, and The Victoria Rooms. Riots broke out in 1793 and 1831; the first over the renewal of tolls on Bristol Bridge, and the second against the rejection of the second Reform Bill by the House of Lords. The population by 1841 had reached 140,158.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol III, (1847), London, Charles Knight, p.
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Stephens was born in Boonville, Missouri to Joseph L. and Martha (Gibson) Stephens. His father was descended from Scotch ancestry, which founded families in Virginia and North Carolina in the Colonial era, and his paternal grandparents came to Missouri from Virginia during that period, settling in Cooper County. Joseph Stephens, who was born there, became distinguished as a lawyer, financier and railroad builder Stephens studied first in the public schools of Boonville, and then for three years at the Cooper Institute, and three years at the Kemper Family school of the same town.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol.
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Samuel Joseph 1822 Henry Mackenzie Mackenzie's house at 6 Heriot Row, Edinburgh The grave of Henry MacKenzie, Greyfriars Kirkyard Henry Mackenzie FRSE (August 1745 – 14 January 1831, born and died in Edinburgh)The Century Cyclopaedia of Names (1894). p. 637. was a Scottish lawyer, novelist and writer. He was sometimes described as the Addison of the North. While Mackenzie is now remembered mostly as an author, his main income came from legal roles, which led in 1804–1831 to a lucrative post as Comptroller of Taxes for Scotland, whose possession allowing him to indulge his interest in writing.
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The Teacher's and Pupil's Cyclopaedia was the original name of an encyclopedia set that was published in the United States in different forms for nearly 60 years. It was supposed first published in 1895 in three volumes, according to the Federal Trade Commission (Docket #1331), however the earliest reference in the standard bibliographical works are four volume published 1904-5. This was re-issued in 1905, 1906 and 1907 the latter in 5 volumes. In 1906 Encyclopedic Current Reference was published in two volumes and is thought to be an abridged edition of the earlier work.
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While he was able to avoid punishment for a little while he was eventually tried and pled guilty to heresy in 1633. Although this came at some expense, his book was banned, and he was put under house arrest until he died in 1642.Cyclopaedia Sir Isaac Newton developed further ties between physics and astronomy through his law of universal gravitation. Realizing that the same force that attracts objects to the surface of the Earth held the Moon in orbit around the Earth, Newton was able to explain – in one theoretical framework – all known gravitational phenomena.
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Nevertheless, after giving some belts to Canadian troops headed for the Boer War, Mills soon received orders from the British government, and his success was assured. Having made a small fortune by 1905, Mills sold his interest.Dictionary of American Biography, 7: 1. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography notes that Mills' belt was a "great improvement upon the leather badnolier, which in damp or warm climates becomes stiff and almost useless." (10: 454) For a detailed discussion of Mills' creation of the cartridge belt, see Douglas C. McChristian, Uniforms, Arms, and Equipment: the U. S. Army on the Western Frontier (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007), 93–100.
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The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol III, (1847), London, Charles Knight, p.808 At this time, Briggs obtained a copy of Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio, in which Napier introduced the idea of logarithms. It has also been suggested that he knew of the method outlined in Fundamentum Astronomiae published by the Swiss clockmaker Jost Bürgi, through John Dee. Napier's formulation was awkward to work with, but the book fired Briggs' imagination – in his lectures at Gresham College he proposed the idea of base 10 logarithms in which the logarithm of 10 would be 1; and soon afterwards he wrote to the inventor on the subject.
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Born on his father's estate of Bonhard, Scone, Perthshire, Macduff was the second of the six sons of Captain Alexander Macduff of Bonhard and Springfield and Margaret Catherine Ross, youngest daughter of John Ross of Balgersho. Macduff was educated at the High School of Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh,Appletons' annual cyclopaedia and register of important events (1896), Volume 20, p. 613. and was ordained as minister of Kettins, a parish in Forfarshire close to his maternal grandfather's estate, in 1843. He was transmitted to St Madoes, a parish in Perthshire centred around the Pitfour estate owned by his mother's cousin, Sir John Stewart-Richardson, in 1849.
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Godwin's mother came from a wealthy family but due to her uncle's frivolities the family wealth was squandered. Fortunately for the family her father was a successful merchant involved in the Baltic Sea trade. Godwin's father, a Nonconformist minister in Guestwick in Norfolk, died young, and never inspired love or much regret in his son; but in spite of wide differences of opinion, tender affection always subsisted between William Godwin and his mother, until her death at an advanced age. William Godwin was educated for his father's profession at Hoxton Academy, where he studied under Andrew Kippis the biographer, and Dr. Abraham Rees of the Cyclopaedia.
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As described in the 1728 edition of Cyclopaedia, the following method was used to distill brandy: > A cucurbit was filled half full of the liquor from which brandy was to be > drawn and then raised with a little fire until about one-sixth part was > distilled, or until that which falls into the receiver was entirely > flammable. This liquor, distilled only once, was called spirit of wine or > brandy. Purified by another distillation (or several more), this was then > called spirit of wine rectified. The second distillation was made in balneo > mariae and in a glass cucurbit, and the liquor was distilled to about one > half the quantity.
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Which said, on that level it is full of interest. To the very great credit of Dr. Chris Cook, who has been annually (and manually) updating the Cyclopaedia since 1977, it has done a semi- successful job of its madly quixotic project of keeping up with the times." The final page of the final edition summarizes "The Story of Pears, 1897–2017" and concludes: "The single most important factor in the Pears success story, and the key to its truly unique publishing phenomenon, is that it is [was] the only book of its kind to be fully revised and updated by a team of experts every year.
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34 Henry & S. G. Lindeman obtained an interest in the soundboard calibration device patented in 1909 by piano dealer and inventor Frank B. Long, of Los Angeles. Marketed as the "Melodigrand", this was a method for maintaining or restoring the slight crowning of a soundboard through a series of screws pressed against blocks applied directly to the panel, like Steinway & Sons' lapsed and disused systemGeorge H. Benjamin, "Pianoforte" Appleton's Cyclopaedia of Applied Mechanics vol.II, D. Appleton and Company, New York 1884 p.537 and similar to the Mason & Hamlin "tension resonator", then in force and which is still manufactured and promoted by that firm.
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Then, he began the study of Arabic in the École spéciale des Langues orientales of Paris under Silvestre de Sacy. After a visit to Britain, where he married, he obtained a post in the Spanish treasury, and was transferred to the foreign office as translator in 1833. In 1837 he returned to Britain, wrote extensively in British periodicals, like The Athenaeum, and in publications of the SDUK, like The Penny Cyclopaedia for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge and The Biographical Dictionary. In these years he completed his magnum opus as an arabist: the translation, for the Royal Asiatic Society, of the first part of Al Makkari's biography of Ibn al- Khatib.
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Reverend Dr. Dionysius Lardner, a science lecturer at University College London, started the Cabinet Cyclopaedia in 1827 or 1828. The authors who contributed to the volumes spanned the political spectrum and included many luminaries of the day. James Mackintosh, Walter Scott, Thomas Moore, and Connop Thirlwall wrote histories; Robert Southey wrote naval biographies; Henry Roscoe wrote legal biographies; John Herschel wrote on astronomy and the philosophy of science; August de Morgan wrote on mathematics; David Brewster wrote on optics; and Lardner himself wrote on mathematics and physics.Peckham, 43–44. Authors were usually paid about £200 for each volume, though some contracts were much higher or lower.
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The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol II (1847), London, Charles Knight, p.593. He was also an able and active diplomat, took a lead part in the difficult and hazardous task of the expulsion of the Jesuits from Spain, and was instrumental in securing the election of Pope Pius VI. Azara was the Pope's representative during the negotiations with France for the Armistice of Bologna. He withdrew to Florence when the French took possession of Rome in 1798, but acted on behalf of the pope during his exile and after his death at Valence in 1799. He was afterwards Spanish ambassador in Paris.
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He was born in Boston in 1823, and little is known about his early years. He started his literary career by writing patriotic poems that were published by newspapers. In 1844 they were collected and republished as "Hand Poems " (Boston, 1844) to a critical acclaim.DUGANNE, Augustine Joseph Hickey. In Appletons’ Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 1888, Vol. II, p. 249. In 1843, he published his first novel, The Two Clerks; or, The Orphan's Gratitude.The Two Clerks, or, the Orphan's Gratitude: Being the Adventures of Henry Fowler and Richard Martin, by Augustine J. H. Duganne. Boston: Brainard & Co., 1843 He moved to Philadelphia in the early 1840s.
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Cover of the first of the three volume 1885 (third) edition Balfour's collations on a variety of aspects of life in India led to the publication of The Encyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial, and Scientific, first published in 1857 with subsequent editions titled as the Cyclopaedia of India. The original work was derived from notes that he had made for the Great Exhibition of 1851. Subsequent editions incorporated research by others including Sir Dietrich Brandis and it grew into a five volume work in 1871-83. The work also was used by William Theobald in his major revision of Mason's Burmah.
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Natural History Publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu. The hill is located "on a remote stretch of the Karangan River"Hansen, E. 2001. Where rocks sing, ants swim, and plants eat animals: finding members of the Nepenthes carnivorous plant family in Borneo. Discover 22(10): 60–68. and its base lies at an altitude of around 300 m.Clarke, C.M. 1997. Nepenthes of Borneo. Natural History Publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu. Botanist A. J. G. Kostermans explored Mount Ilas Bungaan between September 8 and September 19, 1957, as part of an expedition to northeastern Borneo.van Steenis-Kruseman, M.J., et al. 2006. Cyclopaedia of Malesian Collectors: André Joseph Guillaume Henri Kostermans.
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He was born in Potsdam, New York on June 10, 1836.The American National Biography uses the year 1832. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography uses 1834. His passport applications consistently use the date June 10, 1836. The 1880 US Census uses 1836. The Virtual International Authority File uses 1842. Keeley graduated at the Rush Medical College, Chicago, in 1863, and later entered the Union Army as a surgeon. At the end of the war he moved to Dwight, Illinois, where he began his private medical practice. There, in 1880, he opened a sanatorium for persons addicted to the immoderate use of alcohol and opium.
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When machinery was introduced into the process, the dough was thoroughly mixed and rolled into sheets about two yards long and one yard wide, which were then stamped in one stroke into about sixty hexagonal shaped biscuits. The hexagonal shape meant a saving in material and time and made them easier to pack than the traditional circular shaped biscuit.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge Vol III (1847), London, Charles Knight, p.354. Hardtack remained an important part of the Royal Navy sailor's diet until the introduction of canned foods; canned meat was first marketed in 1814, and preserved beef in tins was officially introduced to the Royal Navy rations in 1847.
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His most important work is the seven-volume Della storia e della ragione di ogni poesia (Bologna/Milan, 1739–1752), "an elaborate history of poetry, which," according to the 1863 Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography, "bears the stamp of conscientiousness and unsparing industry, but has been judged inaccurate, and as regards English literature is singularly jejune and inadequate." The 1819 Cyclopaedia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature writes: "The author seems a mere compiler, without selection, taste, or accuracy. It is a heavy work, hardly interesting enough to stimulate a regular perusal; and from the disorder of arrangement, very difficult to consult."Rees 1819, vol.
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German full text The accordion was introduced from Germany into Britain in about the year 1828.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol I, A–Arcesilaus, London, George Woodfall and Son, 1847, p.107. The instrument was noted in The Times in 1831 as one new to British audiencesThe Times, Thursday 9 June 1831; pg. 5; Issue 14560; col A: (Review of a performance by a flautist, Mr. Sedlatzek) "At the close of the concert Mr. Sedlatzek performed on a new instrument called the Accordion or Aeolian, which, however, has little beside its novelty to recommend it." and was not favourably reviewed, but nevertheless it soon became popular.
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Thomas Blood Colonel Thomas Blood (1618 – 24 August 1680) was an Anglo-Irish officer and self-styled colonel best known for his attempt to steal the Crown Jewels of England and Scotland from the Tower of London in 1671.The official British Monarchy website, archived from the original on 27 January 1998 Described in an American source as a "noted bravo and desperado,"The New American Cyclopaedia: A popular dictionary of general knowledge, Volume 3, George Ripley, Charles A. Dana, 1859 (D Appleton & Company) pages 372 to 373 he was known for his attempt to kidnap and, later, to kill, his enemy, James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond.
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For example, according to Douglas (1927), the ox, mentioned by Samus, Philippus of Thessalonica and Antipater, killed by Philip V of Macedon on the foothills of mountain Orvilos, was actually an aurochs; Philip offered the horns which were 105 cm long and the skin to a temple of Hercules.Douglas, N. 1927: Birds and Beasts of the Greek Anthology. Florence. They survived in the wild in Europe till late in the Roman Empire and in 1847 were believed to be occasionally captured and exhibited in shows (venationes) in Roman amphitheatres such as the colosseum.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol III, (1847), London, Charles Knight, p.368.
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Beatrice Herford, from a 1921 publication. Beatrice Herford (1868-1952) was an American actress, diseuse The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, Volume 2 byJames Terry White - 1967 and vaudeville performer born in England. The daughter of Brooke Herford, a Unitarian minister, Herford spent her youth moving between England and the United States, following her father's changing jobs. In her twenties, she participated avidly in private theatricals, writing her own monologues.
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The Cyclopaedia of 1728 referred to shanks or cheeks as branches and described them as outlined in the paragraph below. Although the language is archaic, the underlying classicical principles are still applicable today: :The branches of a bridle, in the manage (i.e. a training arena-ed) of horses, are two crooked pieces of iron which support the mouth bit, the chain, and the curb, and which are fastened, on one side to the headstall, on the other to the reins, serving to keep the horse's head under command. Whichever way the branches of the bit incline, the horse's mouth always goes to the contrary.
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Thomas Young's article on Egypt, which included the translation of the hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone (pictured). In the first era (1st–6th editions, 1768–1826), the Britannica was managed and published by its founders, Colin Macfarquhar and Andrew Bell, by Archibald Constable, and by others. The Britannica was first published between December 1768 and 1771 in Edinburgh as the Encyclopædia Britannica, or, A Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, compiled upon a New Plan. In part, it was conceived in reaction to the French Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert (published 1751–72), which had been inspired by Chambers's Cyclopaedia (first edition 1728).
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The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol.IV, (1848), London, Charles Knight, p.16 Following the passage into law of the 1845 Poor Law Act, a combination poorhouse was constructed; work commenced in 1854 and was completed by 1856. The building, which had a capacity to house 149 inmates, was on a site to the west of Thurso Road and provided poor relief for Thurso and the parishes of Bower, Canisbay, Dunnet, Halkirk, Olrig, Reay and Watten. Many of the poorhouses in Scotland were under used, and by 1924 the building had been unoccupied for several years so was sold; it was later utilised as housing but by 2001 was again abandoned.
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The layout and type of the Konstantin engine was probably similar to the pair of direct-acting engines displayed at the 1862 International Exhibition, reputedly intended for HMS North Star.The exhibited machinery of 1862: a cyclopaedia of the machinery represented at the International exhibition, D.K. Clark, 1862, p343-344 These were twin-cylinder non-compound horizontal engines with 64 inch cylinders and just 32 inches of stroke, allowing relatively short connecting rods. The crankshaft, of 13.5 inches diameter, was supported in 3 main bearings, each 25 inches long, on a single cast bedplate. Condenser air pumps were provided on the opposite side from the cylinders.
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He was editor in chief of Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities and editor of the Students' Series of Latin Classics and Columbia University Studies in Classical Philology. He served as the first editor in chief of The Bookman magazine, worked on its staff from 1895 to 1906, and created America's first best-seller list for its pages in 1895. He was also editor in chief of the International Cyclopaedia from 1890 to 1901 and co-editor of the first edition of the New International Encyclopedia (1902–1904). In 1910, various newspapers reported that Peck was being sued by a former secretary for breach of promise of marriage.
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Entry for Blain from Ephraim Chambers' 1728 Cyclopædia Blain was an animal disease of unknown etiology that was well known in the eighteenth- and nineteenth centuries. It is unclear whether it is still extant, or what modern disease it corresponds to. According to Ephraim Chambers' eighteenth-century Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, blain was "a distemper" (in the archaic eighteenth-century sense of the word, meaning "disease") occurring in animals, consisting of a "Bladder growing on the Root of the Tongue against the Wind-Pipe", which "at length swelling, stops the Wind". It was thought to occur "by great chafing, and heating of the Stomach".
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Reverend Dr. Dionysius Lardner, a science lecturer at University College London, started the Cabinet Cyclopaedia in 1827 or 1828. The authors who contributed to the volumes spanned the political spectrum and included many luminaries of the day. James Mackintosh, Walter Scott, Thomas Moore, and Connop Thirlwall wrote histories; Robert Southey wrote naval biographies; Henry Roscoe wrote legal biographies; John Herschel wrote on astronomy and the philosophy of science; August de Morgan wrote on mathematics; David Brewster wrote on optics; and Lardner himself wrote on mathematics and physics.Peckham, 43–44. Authors were usually paid about £200 for each volume, though some contracts were much higher or lower.
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Many English families settled here after the Treaty of Paris (1814).The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol II (1847), London, Charles Knight, p.569. A literal description of the town in the 19th century is recorded in Guy de Maupassant's novel Notre Cœur, when the main character Mariolle meets his lover and sets up for Mont Saint-Michel: The houses crowning the heights gave to the place from a distance the appearance of a fortification. Seen close at hand, it was an ancient and pretty Norman city, with small dwellings of regular and almost similar appearance built closely adjoining one another, giving an aspect of ancient pride and modern comfort, a feudal yet peasant-like air.
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Julius Zeller was born in Spring Bay, Illinois in 1871, the son of Dr. John G. Zeller, a well-known physician in central Illinois, and Caroline Winkler Zeller. Zeller's father came to America from Bavaria, Germany about 1851.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time, Volume 47, J.T. White, 1891 Zeller had one brother, Dr. George A. Zeller, who became known for his work as the superintendent of the Peoria State Hospital.Rice, James Montgomery.
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Davis Collamore & Co. was a high-end New York City importer of porcelain and glass, headed by Davis Collamore (7 October 1820 — 13 August 1887Funeral notice, The New York Times, 16 August 1887). The firm, rivals to Tiffany & Co. and Black, Starr & Frost, commissioned designs from Copeland Spode and Thomas Minton Sons, that featured hand-painted details over transfer-printed outlines and often rich gilding. Porcelain by Haviland, Royal Worcester, and Villeroy & Boch also appear with the firm's stamped underglaze marks integrated with the manufacturer's. Davis Collamore was among the first to recognize the beauty and value of American-made cut glass and also offered Rookwood Pottery,The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, "Cullamore, Davis".
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Cyclopaedia The history of science during the Age of Enlightenment traces developments in science and technology during the Age of Reason, when Enlightenment ideas and ideals were being disseminated across Europe and North America. Generally, the period spans from the final days of the 16th and 17th- century Scientific Revolution until roughly the 19th century, after the French Revolution (1789) and the Napoleonic era (1799–1815). The scientific revolution saw the creation of the first scientific societies, the rise of Copernicanism, and the displacement of Aristotelian natural philosophy and Galen's ancient medical doctrine. By the 18th century, scientific authority began to displace religious authority, and the disciplines of alchemy and astrology lost scientific credibility.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Technology Review, Volume 23, 1921, page 82J.T. White, Inc., The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 20, 1927, page 123 In 1898 Weaver was appointed to the temporary grade of Lieutenant Colonel of the 5th Massachusetts Infantry, a volunteer regiment raised during the Spanish–American War. Initially the organization's mustering officer, he subsequently commanded its 1st Battalion.Massachusetts Secretary of State, Public Documents of Massachusetts, Volume 10, 1899, page 155George Washington Cullum, Edward Singleton Holden, Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy, Volume 4, page 254 From 1908 to 1911 Weaver served as head of the Army's Militia Bureau, the first person to hold the position.
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Church Street – now renamed Church Lane – in 1907 Navenby Methodist Church When the market closed in the early 19th century Navenby lost its status as a market town, and once again became an agricultural village. The Penny Cyclopaedia of 1839, published by The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, described the village in this way: Many buildings were erected in Navenby during the 19th century, including a small Wesleyan Methodist chapel in about 1830, which was completely rebuilt in 1840. A Temperance Hall was built in 1852, later used as a second base by the Wesleyan Reformers. A Volunteer Fire Brigade was founded in 1844, comprising five men and a manual engine.
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The selection of subjects varied slightly over the years, and in later years the world atlas section was dropped, leaving a world and European map inside the front and rear covers and with the Gazetteer limited to the British Isles. From 1953 it was published annually. It was published by Pelham Books from 1959 to 1988, and from then until the final, 2017 edition by Penguin Books. Dr. Chris Cook was the editor from 1977 until the final edition. During the 1950s, Pears' awarded the Silver Pears' Trophy annually to a prominent person for "outstanding British achievement in any field." Pears' Cyclopaedia, The Final Edition The 2017–2018 edition, released on 31 August 2017, is subtitled "THE FINAL EDITION".
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" Over its history, Pears' had "produced sales over 3 million copies by the 1930s and at least as many since" . The Guardian's article on the final edition cites total sales over the last decade (2007–2017) of "more than 120,000", adding that, "according to Penguin, it did particularly well in election years". Sam Leith writes in The Times Literary Supplement: "Now, rendered quite redundant in that respect by Wikipedia (among many, many other things), Pears’ is more a curiosity than a serious reference resource." But he continues: "You’re more likely, as I did, to open this Cyclopaedia to see whether something’s in it than in the hopes of finding out about that something.
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"Baker, [Samuel] Burtis," The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume B, New York: James T. White & Company, 1927. Interior with Figure Oil on canvas, 50" x 40", 1920 Corcoran Gallery of Art After moving to Washington, DC in 1921, Baker regularly exhibited with the Arts Club of Washington and the Society of Washington Artists. He was elected to the Guild of Boston Artists in 1925. A Boston Globe review of a 1925 solo show at the Guild of Boston Artists Gallery praised the Guild for recognizing Baker as one of the foremost painters in the US.AJ Philpott, Review, Boston Daily Globe, April 9, 1925, p. A7. Interior with Figure (1920) is considered to be Baker's most famous work.
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Balfour took a special interest in languages and spent a lot of time learning local languages. In 1850 he published Gul- Dastah or The Bunch of Roses, a lithographed series of works by Persian and Hindustani poets. He also set up a Mohammedan Public Library in Madras and translated many works from Persian to English as well as English works (such as on astronomy) into Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. Based on his studies, he was sceptical of the state of indigenous scientific knowledge particularly in relation to health and in his Cyclopaedia suggested that Indians were so close to subsistence that they did not have the time or means to reflect accurately on their surroundings.
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René de Knyff in 1912 Chevalier René de Knyff (December 10, 1865 in Antwerp, Belgium International Motor Cyclopaedia, Year Book-March 1908 to March 1909, Page 274, Publisher: E.E. Schwarzkopf, New York. - 1954 in France) was a French pioneer of car racing and later a president of Commission Sportive Internationale (CSI), now known as FIA. Between 1897 and 1903 he took part in 18 car races, 5 of which he won (Paris-Bordeaux 1898, Spa-Bastogne-Spa 1899, Tour de France 1899, Circuit du Sud-Ouest Pau 1899, and Nice-Marseille-Nice, 1900).Grand Prix Winners 1895 - 1916 He drove all the races in a Panhard & Levassor, wearing a captain cap which he always lost right after start.
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Woolsey was the first son of Commodore Melancthon Taylor Woolsey and Susan C. Treadwell;The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Being the History of the United States Vol. VIII, p. 99. James T White & Co, 1898 (digitized by Google 22 Jun 2007, from original held by New York Public Library) he was born at Sacketts Harbor, New York. His brother James Treadwell Woolsey was born about 1820."Died: Woolsey, James Treadwell", New York Times, 5 May 1894, accessed 24 Aug 2010 M.B. Woolsey entered the Navy as a midshipman on 24 September 1832. After duty at sea and a tour at the Naval School, Woolsey became a midshipman on 16 July 1840.
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View of Frangokastello plain and Libyan Sea from Crete. Gavdos is barely seen on the horizon at the right Ionian Sea borders Relief Map of Mediterranean Sea Libyan Sea The Libyan Sea (Greek , Latin Libycum Mare, Arabic البحر الليبي) is the portion of the Mediterranean Sea north of the African coast of ancient Libya, i.e. Cyrenaica, and Marmarica (the coast of what is now eastern Libya and western Egypt, between Tobruk and Alexandria).George Ripley and Charles Anderson Dana, The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, 1861, D. Appleton and Co. This designation was used by ancient Geographers describing the southern Mediterranean, but the term is also used by modern travel Writers and cartographers.
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While at Yale, he served the State of Connecticut as Adjutant General from 1872 to 1876, Commissioner of the building of the Connecticut State Capitol and as Commissioner for establishing harbor lines at New Haven. In 1877 he accepted a position as chair of the Engineering Department at the School of Mines at Columbia College, where he remained until his death in 1892. While serving at Columbia College, Professor Trowbridge took charge of the Tenth Census of the department of power and machinery employed in manufactures. He was associate editor with Johnson’s Universal Cyclopaedia and author of “Heat and Heat-Engines” (1874) as well as numerous contributions to the Academy of Sciences of New York.
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Hawk was born in East Branch, New York. He studied at Wesleyan University, where he obtained his B.S. degree in 1898.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume C. New York: James T. White & Company. pp. 216-217 He worked as an assistant to Wilbur Olin Atwater in nutrition research at Wesleyan University (1898–1900). Hawk studied physiological chemistry at Sheffield Scientific School and obtained his M.S. in 1902 and Ph.D. from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1903.Rosenfeld, Louis. (1999). Four Centuries of Clinical Chemistry. Routledge. p. 448. He taught at physiological chemistry the University of Illinois and toxicology at Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College.May, Hal; Evory, Ann. (1986). Contemporary Authors, Volume 116.
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Born in Paris, William Allchin was the eldest son of a physician from Bayswater and entered University College, London to study medicine. He served as chief surgeon of the SS Great Eastern for 5 years when the ship was laying cable. He graduated from University College, London as M.B. in 1871. At Westminster Hospital he became an assistant physician in 1873 and a physician in 1877 and dean from 1878 to 1883 and again from 1890 to 1893; he retired from the hospital staff in 1905. Allchin was the editor of the Manual of Medicine and a contributor to Quain’s Dictionary of Medicine, Allbutt’s System of Medicine, and Keating's Cyclopaedia of the Diseases of Children.
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The interior of a typical British pub There was regulation of public drinking spaces in England from at least the 15th century. In 1496, under, Henry VII, an act was passed, "against vagabonds and beggers" (11 Hen. VII c2), that included a clause empowering two justices of the peace, "to rejecte and put awey comen ale-selling in tounes and places where they shall think convenyent, and to take suertie of the keepers of ale-houses in their gode behavyng by the discrecion of the seid justices, and in the same to be avysed and aggreed at the tyme of their sessions."The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol 1, London, Charles Knight, 1847, pp. 410–1.
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71Bálint Ila, József Kovacsics, Veszprém megye helytörténeti lexikona (Cyclopaedia of Local History of Veszprém county), Volume 2, Volume 2, Akadémiai Kiadó, 1988, p. 169 In the 17th and 18th century, due to the large number of Serbs who lived in Bačka, this region was called »Raczorszag« (Hungarian name, which means "the Serb country" in English)."U XVII i XVIII veku u Bačkoj je već toliko Srba da putnici ovaj kraj nazivaju »Raczorszag«" Sometimes, the Hungarians used name Délvidék ("the southern or lower country") for a wider imprecisely defined geographical area, which, according to 19th century view also included Bačka. However, according to other Hungarian sources, Bačka was rather seen as part of Alföld.
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Paccard's grave at the Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris Alexis Paccard (12 June 1813 – 18 August 1867) was a French architect. Paccard entered the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1830 in the workshops of Louis-Hippolyte Lebas and Jean-Nicolas Huyot. He won the Second Grand Prix in 1835 for a medical school, and won the Prix de Rome in 1841 for a "Palace of an ambassador in a foreign country."The American cyclopaedia: a popular dictionary of general knowledge, Volume 12, edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana, page 779 His work includes a study of the Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens, which also earned him a medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1855.
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After being admitted to the Bar, Butler practiced law and eventually headed the firm of Butler, Stillman & Hubbard. He served as president of the American Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He contributed travel writing and comic writing to The Literary World, a series on 'The Cities of Art and the Early Artists' to the Art Union Bulletin and also wrote for the Democratic Review.Duyckinck, E. A. & Duyckinck, G. L., Cyclopaedia of American Literature, 2 vols, 1856 His most famous satirical poem, Nothing to Wear, was first published anonymously in Harper's Weekly in 1857 (see 1857 in poetry), though Butler was forced to reveal his name after someone else claimed authorship.
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Cannibalism among "the savages" in Brazil, as described and pictured by André Thévet Cyclopaedia Another candidate for one of the first scholars to carry out comparative ethnographic-type studies in person was the medieval Persian scholar Abu Rayhan al-Biruni of the Islamic Golden Age, who wrote about the peoples, customs, and religions of the Indian subcontinent. According to Akbar S. Ahmed, like modern anthropologists, he engaged in extensive participant observation with a given group of people, learnt their language and studied their primary texts, and presented his findings with objectivity and neutrality using cross-cultural comparisons. Others argue, however, that he hardly can be considered an anthropologist in the conventional sense.Richard Tapper (1995).
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Dale then studied law with his father, was admitted to the bar in 1896, and practiced in Island Pond.William Hartley Jeffrey, Successful Vermonters: a modern gazetteer of Caledonia, Essex, and Orleans Counties, Vermont, 1904, pages 12-13 After the death of his father, Dale practiced in partnership with Harry B. Amey. Dale served as chief deputy collector of customs at Island Pond from 1897 to 1910, when he resigned and was appointed judge of the Brighton municipal court.James Terry White, The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 44, 1967, page 371 He also served in the state militia as colonel on the staff Governor Josiah Grout, and he was also involved in the lumber, electric, and banking businesses.
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John McClintock and James Strong (1883) Cyclopaedia of Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical literature, Volume 8, Red Sea, p. 966. The Nile delta at the time of Herodotus, according to James Rennell (1800). More conjecturally, it has also been suggested that suph may be related to the Hebrew suphah ("storm") or soph ("end"), referring to the events of the Reed/Red Sea escape itself: > The crossing of the sea signaled the end of the sojourn in Egypt and it > certainly was the end of the Egyptian army that pursued the fleeing Hebrews > (Ex 14:23-29; 15:4-5). After this event at Yam Suph, perhaps the verb Soph, > meaning "destroy" and "come to an end," originated (cf.
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Cyclopaedia Though his name would come to be identified with an enduring style of Latin alphabet, Caslon's first typefaces were what contemporary typefounders called "exotics." His first design was an Arabic made at the English size (14pt), commissioned by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge before 1725, followed by a Hebrew created for William Bowyer in 1726, and a Coptic for Wilkins first used in 1731. His first Latin typefaces were a roman and italic cut in the pica size (12pt), of a style that was fully realized by the publication of his foundry's specimen sheet in 1734. Caslon's typefaces were inspired by the Dutch Baroque types, the most commonly used types in England before Caslon's faces.
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The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, published by James T. White & Company, New York, Volume 9, 1899, page 249 A Captain at the end of the war, Flagler was a brevet Lieutenant Colonel, having received three honorary promotions—one for valor at New Bern, one for meritorious service at Fort Macon, and one for distinguished service to the Ordnance Department throughout the war.Register of the Commandery of the State of Pennsylvania, April 15, 1865 to September 1, 1902, published by the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, 1902, page 183 Though he received three brevets for his Civil War service, he was not promoted to the permanent rank of Major until June 1874.
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Along with growth in numbers, dictionaries and encyclopedias also grew in length, often having multiple print runs that sometimes included in supplemented editions. The first technical dictionary was drafted by John Harris and entitled Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Harris' book avoided theological and biographical entries and instead it concentrated on science and technology. Published in 1704, the Lexicon technicum was the first book to be written in English that took a methodical approach to describing mathematics and commercial arithmetic along with the physical sciences and navigation. Other technical dictionaries followed Harris' model, including Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia (1728), which included five editions and was a substantially larger work than Harris'.
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The New York Times has described Weems as one of the "early hagiographers" of American literature "who elevated the Swamp Fox, Francis Marion, into the American pantheon and helped secure a place there for George Washington". Weems' name would probably be forgotten today were it not for the tension between the liveliness of his narratives and what Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography (1889) called "this charge of a want of veracity [that] is brought against all Weems's writings," adding that "it is probable he would have accounted it excusable to tell any good story to the credit of his heroes." The cherry-tree anecdote illustrates this point. Another dubious anecdote found in the Weems biography is that of Washington's prayer during the winter at Valley Forge.
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Truce/Treaty of VilnaRobert I. Frost, After the deluge: Poland-Lithuania and the Second Northern War, 1655-1660, Cambridge University Press, 2004, , Google Print, p. 81-82Charles Knight, Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1841, Google Print, p.260As used in various publications or Truce/Treaty of Niemieża ()As used in various publicationsEdward Henry Lewinski Corwin, The Political History of Poland, Polish Book Importing Co, 1917, p. 253-254 was a treaty signed at Niemieża (modern Nemėžis) near Vilnius (also known as Vilna) on 3 November 1656 between Tsardom of Russia and Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, introducing a truce during the Russo-Polish War (1654–67) and an anti-Swedish alliance in the contemporaneous Second Northern War.
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In 1906 Deavitt was the successful candidate for State Treasurer, and served until 1915.Who's Who in Finance and Banking, by John William Leonard, 1922, page 179 In the mid-1920s Deavitt served as an aide to Governor Franklin S. Billings before resigning to become the state Commissioner of Finance.Newspaper article, Executive Clerk Named, Christian Science Monitor, July 18, 1925Newspaper column, It happened in New England, Providence County Times and Olneyville Times, June 19, 1925 Deavitt served as a member of Montpelier's City Council from 1923 to 1926, and Mayor of Montpelier from 1926 to 1930.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, by James Terry White, Volume 44, 1967, page 245 In 1928 Deavitt ran unsuccessfully in the Republican primary election for Governor of Vermont.
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The son of Rev David Webster and Isabella McKinnon, Hugh Webster was born in Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire, and educated first privately by his father and later at Edinburgh University (1878–80). He became a teacher at Merchiston Castle Academy and later Librarian at the University. He was a member of a group of encyclopaedists working in Edinburgh in the late 19th century including William Robertson Smith (editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica and contributor to the Encyclopaedia Biblica); David Patrick (editor of Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Chambers's Biographical Dictionary, and Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature); J Sutherland Black (editor of Encyclopaedia Biblica); George Sandeman, (editor in chief of Nelson's Encyclopaedia) and Patrick Geddes. Hugh Webster was fluent in fourteen languages which allowed him to access sources from European and Asian writers.
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Dobson's Encyclopædia encountered significant competition from his rival printer, Thomas Bradford of Philadelphia, who proposed in 1805 to reprint Abraham Rees' New Cyclopaedia with American amendments. The 44-volume British original first began to appear in London in January 1803, but was not completed until 1820; the 47-volume American reprint was not completed until 1822. Not only did the project drive Bradford bankrupt, it also drove his successor bankrupt, the firm of Murray, Draper, Fairman and Company. Dobson was vulnerable to competition due to two factors: his encyclopedia was beginning to be outdated, and it had relatively few biographies of Americans. Dobson and his son Judah eventually went out of business in 1822; Dobson died on 9 March 1823.
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Norman Williams was born October 6, 1791 in Woodstock, Vermont son of Jesse Willams (1761-1842) and Hannah Palmer (1769-1837) and graduated from the University of Vermont in 1810. He then studied law, attained admission to the bar in 1814 and established a practice in Woodstock.History of Woodstock, Vermont, by Henry Swan Dana, 1889, page 475 Williams served in the War of 1812 and afterwards continued his military service as a member of the militia.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, published by J.T. White and Company, New York, 1967, page 22 Following his military service Williams resumed practicing law, and served as Register of Probate for the Hartford district in 1814 and from 1820 to 1822 and 1834 to 1835.
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Until the 1970s, Shelley was known mainly for her efforts to publish her husband's works and for her novel Frankenstein, which remains widely read and has inspired many theatrical and film adaptations. Recent scholarship has yielded a more comprehensive view of Shelley's achievements. Scholars have shown increasing interest in her literary output, particularly in her novels, which include the historical novels Valperga (1823) and Perkin Warbeck (1830), the apocalyptic novel The Last Man (1826) and her final two novels, Lodore (1835) and Falkner (1837). Studies of her lesser-known works, such as the travel book Rambles in Germany and Italy (1844) and the biographical articles for Dionysius Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia (1829–1846), support the growing view that Shelley remained a political radical throughout her life.
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The order forbade discussion of religion, politics, or social issues.Nadel, pp. 111-12. The word harugari refers to worshipers in a sacred grove, or haruc, and demonstrates the founders' inspiration in Germanic paganism. It was also identified with the ancient Germanic tribe, the Cherusci; the order's first lodge, Arminia #1, was named for their leader Arminius, who defeated Publius Quinctilius Varus and destroyed three Roman legions in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.Albert C. Stevens, The Cyclopaedia of Fraternities: A Compilation of Existing Authentic Information and the Results of Original Investigation as to the Origin, Derivation, Founders, Development, Aims, Emblems, Character, and Personnel of More Than Six Hundred Secret Societies in the United States, New York: Treat, 1899, , p. 235.
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Following the Battle of Plattsburgh and the end of the War of 1812, a Congressional Gold Medal honoring Alexander Macomb and his men was struck by Act of Congress (3 Stat. 247), to wit:Picture of Alexander Macomb medal. See also "Liquid pixels" photographs of bronze medal. See also List of Congressional Gold Medal recipients. See also Loubat, J. F. and Jacquemart, Jules, Illustrator, The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776–1876. N. Flayderman & Co. :Resolved, That the thanks of CongressBrown, John Howard, The Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Comprising the Men and Women of the United States Who Have Been Identified with the Growth of the Nation V5 (Published by Kessinger Publishing, 2006) 700 pages, Alexander Macomb, p. 305.
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J. F. W. Herschel's A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy During the first quarter of the 19th century, self-improvement literature became an important portion of the book market: "it was the age of the 'Family Library' edition".Crook, xix. In his article on the Cabinet Cyclopaedia, Morse Peckham writes that this "revolution in literacy, [was] partly the result of the spread of liberal ideas by the French Revolution, [and] partly of the desire to combat those ideas by teaching the poor to read the Bible and religious tracts [... It] was to have an effect on modern society almost as profound as the industrial and agricultural revolutions".Peckham, 38; for a longer explanation of this phenomenon, see Smith, 128–31.
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Mackenzie's two earliest works, One Thousand Experiments in ChemistryColin Mackenzie, One Thousand Experiments in Chemistry, Sir Richard Phillips and Co, London, 1821 (1821) and Five Thousand Receipts in all the Useful and Domestic ArtsColin Mackenzie, Five thousand receipts in all the useful and domestic arts: constituting a complete and universal practical library and operative cyclopaedia, Sir Richard Phillips and Co, 1823. (1823) were by far and away his greatest successes. The accuracy of the information in One Thousand Experiments in Chemistry and the practicality and safety of the experiments were called into question in some book reviews in the journals of the time The Medical Intelligencer, London, Burgess and Hill, 1822, pp. 45. The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts, Vol.
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The American almanac, year-book, cyclopaedia and atlas, New York American and Journal, Hearst's Chicago American and San Francisco Examiner,1902 In 1814, and then again in 1890, the VCASNY amended their regulations to include descendants of both the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. This was most likely due to their decreasing numbers and the advanced age of its members. > The Military Society of the War of 1812 was formed 03 January 1826 by > officers of the War of 1812 to press for pensions and bounty land > legislation. The Military Society of the War of 1812 and the Veteran Corps > of Artillery of the State of New York on 08 January 1848 merged as a sole > organization.
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Party politics in England began to favour moderate positions, marginalising other movements into more politically aggressive factions. As open advocacy of republicanism was illegal in France following the Napoleonic Wars, Radicals emerged under similar reformist ideals as their British counterparts, though they later branched out to form the Radical-Socialist movement with a focus on proletarian solidarity. With the rise of Marxism, the notion of radical politics shifted away from reformism and became more associated with revolutionary politics. In United States politics, the term came to be used pejoratively among conservatives and moderates to denote political extremism, with the 19th-century Cyclopaedia of Political Science describing it as "characterized less by its principles than by the manner of their application".
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A Specimen of typeset fonts and languages, by William Caslon, letter founder; from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. The first pure alphabets (properly, "abjads", mapping single symbols to single phonemes, but not necessarily each phoneme to a symbol) emerged around 2000 BC in Ancient Egypt, but by then alphabetic principles had already been incorporated into Egyptian hieroglyphs for a millennium (see Middle Bronze Age alphabets). By 2700 BC, Egyptian writing had a set of some 22 hieroglyphs to represent syllables that begin with a single consonant of their language, plus a vowel (or no vowel) to be supplied by the native speaker. These glyphs were used as pronunciation guides for logograms, to write grammatical inflections, and, later, to transcribe loan words and foreign names.
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Dwight was particularly interested in prison reform; he collaborated on A Report on Prisons and Reformatories in the United States and Canada (1867), served as president of the New York Prison Association, and was a delegate to the International Prison Congress at Stockholm in 1878. He helped draw up the bill for the establishment of the Elmira Reformatory and wrote an early report that helped lead to the organization the State Charities Aid Association. Dwight edited Sir Henry Maine's Ancient Law;The first American edition was published in 1864 with an introduction by Theodore William Dwight. See was associate editor of the American Law Register and legal editor of Johnson's Cyclopaedia; and published Charitable Uses: Argument in the Rose Will Case (1863).
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These machines and the block mills attracted an enormous amount of interest from the time of their erection, ranging from Admiral Lord Nelson on the morning of the day he embarked from Portsmouth for the Battle of Trafalgar on 1805, to the Princess Victoria at the age of 12, as part of her education. Even during the time of the Napoleonic Wars, until 1815 there was a stream of foreign dignitaries and military men wishing to learn. The machines were fully described and illustrated in the Edinburgh Encyclopædia (1811), Rees's Cyclopædia, (1812), the supplement to the 4th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica (1817) and the Encyclopædia Metropolitana. Later encyclopaedias such as Tomlinson's Encyclopaedia and the Penny Cyclopaedia derived their accounts from these earlier publications.
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The son of Isaac Taylor (1730–1807) by his wife Sarah, daughter of Josiah Jefferys of Shenfield, Essex, he was born in London on 30 January 1759. With his elder brother Charles Taylor, after some education at Brentford grammar school, he was brought up as an engraver in the studio of his father, and worked both in landscape and portraiture. During his apprenticeship the plates for Abraham Rees's edition of Chambers's Cyclopaedia were executed under his superintendence at his father's establishment, and he met Rees. In 1781 he commissioned Richard Smirke to paint four small circular subjects representing morning, noon, evening, and night, which he engraved and published; and two years later he painted and engraved a set of views on the Thames near London.
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James Terry White, The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 25, 1967, page 337 Among the prospective attorneys who studied under Sargent and Stickney were Julius A. Willcox, who later served as an Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, and Joseph F. Radigan, who served as Vermont's United States Attorney from 1961 to 1969. In addition to practicing law, Sargent was active in the insurance business, served as President of the Ludlow Savings Bank, and was a member of the board of directors of several railroads and other corporations.Vexler, The Vice- Presidents and Cabinet MembersStandard Publishing, The StandardBoston and Maine Railroad, Annual Report, 1919, page 4 A Republican, he served as Windsor County State's Attorney from 1898 to 1900.
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Scholars have shown increasing interest in her literary output, particularly in her novels, which include the historical novels Valperga (1823) and Perkin Warbeck (1830), the apocalyptic novel The Last Man (1826), and her final two novels, Lodore (1835) and Falkner (1837). Studies of her lesser-known works such as the travel book Rambles in Germany and Italy (1844) and the biographical articles for Dionysius Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia (1829–46) support the growing view that Mary Shelley remained a political radical throughout her life. Mary Shelley's works often argue that cooperation and sympathy, particularly as practised by women in the family, were the ways to reform civil society. This view was a direct challenge to the individualistic Romantic ethos promoted by Percy Shelley and Enlightenment political theories.
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The Lancet London: A Journal of British and Foreign Medicine, Volume 2, Elsevier, (1840) When someone died within the prescribed limits of London a message was sent to a searcher by an undertaker or relative or friend with the name, age and cause of death of the deceased. The searcher would then proceed to the place of death for an inspection to authenticate the information. For this service they were entitled to ask a fee of one shilling from the family or friends of the deceased in the 19th century. The searchers were generally elderly women, some of whom were “notorious for their habits of drinking.”The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol III, (1847) London, Charles Knight, p.318.
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Yelverton was returned as knight of the shire for Northamptonshire in 1593. He was subsequently returned as MP for Brackley, Northamptonshire, in 1563, for Northampton in 1571, 1572 and 1597 - in which year his son Henry was also returned for the same constituency. On 24 October 1597, Christopher Yelverton was elected Speaker of the House of Commons during the reign of Elizabeth I at a Parliament summoned to deal with "the exhaustion of the Queen's exchequer".Lardner, "History of England" in Cabinet Cyclopaedia, quoted in M[aria Baldwin], Miscellaneous Extracts and Fragments Or Interesting and Instructive Subjects, Chiefly from Works at Present Out of Print; Including Some Account of the Colleges of Oxford and Cambridge (London: Whittaker, Treacher & Company, 1839), p.355.
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216 and later, editors of early editions of Grove, claimed that most of the articles in Rees were 'extracted without alteration from his History of Music.' This is certainty true in some instances but Burney also re-wrote material from his earlier writings for the Rees articles and expanded it there. There is much completely new information covering the musical events of the last quarter of the eighteenth century and the first years of the nineteenth. The lists of articles have been annotated to show where the information had previously appeared from Mercer's edition of his History and Scholes's edition of his Musical Tours, and these also serve to indicate which of the articles were completely new to the Cyclopaedia.
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Eriocaulon scariosum, commonly named common, rough or pale pipewort, is a species of tufted grass-like herbaceous plants, constituting part of the plant family Eriocaulaceae. Common pipewort plants grow naturally in wetlands, bogs and drainage areas, from central and eastern Victoria, through eastern New South Wales, including the Australian Capital Territory, to eastern and north Queensland, Australia. This species has obtained listing as "rare in Victoria" in the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment's current Advisory List of Rare or Threatened Plants in Victoria – 2005. Based on specimen information "communicated from New South Wales in 1792, by John White, M. D.", this species was formally described using this name and in 1819 that was published scientifically by James E. Smith, London, in The Cyclopaedia.
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Because of the masculine gender of Eunectes, the feminine Latin specific name murina was changed to murinus. Linnaeus almost certainly chose the scientific name Boa murina based on the original Latin description given by Albertus Seba in 1735: "Serpens testudinea americana, murium insidiator" [tortoise-patterned (spotted) American snake, a predator that lies in wait for mice (and rats)]. The Latin adjective murinus (murina) in this case would mean "of mice" or "connected with mice," understood in context as "preying on mice", and not as "mouse-gray-colored" (another possible meaning of Latin murinus) as now often wrongly indicated for E. murinus. Early English-language sources, such as George Shaw, referred to the Boa murina as the "rat boa" and the Penny Cyclopaedia (Vol.
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Americus built both harpsichords and pianofortes. He is described by composer, musician and chronicler Charles Burney in Rees's Cyclopaedia for 1772 as "a harpsichord maker of second rank, who constructed several pianofortes, and improved the mechanism in some particulars, but the tone, with all the delicacy of Schroeter's (see below) touch, lost the spirit of the harpsichord and gained nothing in sweetness". Nevertheless, one of his harpsichords was owned and played by the naturalized English castrato, Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci, an intimate friend of Johann Christian Bach and an associate of world-renowned castrato Gaspare Pacchierotti, a regular visitor to London between 1778 and 1791. Tenducci published a set of sonatas for the harpsichord or pianoforte not heard since the 18th century.
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Moses King, in his 1893 edition of King’s Handbook of New York, referred to 305 Broadway as "one of the finest office buildings in the city", describing the building as "a masterpiece of architecture". The same year, the New-York Tribune wrote that the Mutual Reserve Building's design "has aroused the admiration of all who have seen it." The building's fireproof features were inspected in a 1895 visit led by William Hume and managing director G. H. Wooster, leading The New York Times to state that "Modern scientific construction can go no further". In the 1897 National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, the Mutual Reserve Building was characterized as "an imperishable monument to the sound judgement and business abilities of" Mutual Reserve president Edward B. Harper.
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Illustration from the first volume of Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia, the History of Scotland by Walter Scott During the first quarter of the 19th century, self-improvement literature became an important portion of the book market: "it was the age of the 'Family Library' edition".Crook, xix. In his article on the Cabinet Cyclopaedia, Morse Peckham writes that this "revolution in literacy, [was] partly the result of the spread of liberal ideas by the French Revolution, [and] partly of the desire to combat those ideas by teaching the poor to read the Bible and religious tracts [... It] was to have an effect on modern society almost as profound as the industrial and agricultural revolutions".Peckham, 38; for a longer explanation of this phenomenon, see Smith, 128–31.
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Ford died of tuberculosis in January 1849 and in 1851 Ford married Mary Molesworth (1816–1910) of Pencarrow, Cornwall. In 1843 Ford had published a life of Velázquez in the Penny Cyclopaedia and in 1851 on a tour of the north of England and Scotland with Mrs Ford 'rediscovered' the Rokeby Venus in North Yorkshire then in the possession of William J. S. Morritt (1813–1874), (now in the National Gallery). It had been known previously to very few people and had its first public display at the 1857 Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition. In 1855 Ford published the third edition of the Handbook, restored to two volumes and containing much new material, but by this time his health was failing.
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Retrieved on 1 August 2011 Pilgrimages later fell out of favour due to practices such as the selling of indulgences, and the income from them faded away. By the 19th century, the city of St Davids was isolated and neglected, as described in the Penny Cyclopaedia: > At present its appearance is that of a poor village, the houses, excepting > those of the clergy, being in a ruinous state. The locality is lonely, and > the neighbouring district wild and unimproved; but it is still an > interesting place as the seat of a large episcopal see, with a fine > cathedral and the remains of other magnificent religious edifices. Since then, better transport and the advent of tourism have helped the city prosper again.
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James Terry White (July 3, 1845 in Newburyport, Massachusetts - April 3, 1920 in Manhattan, New York) was an American publisher and poet. Given his wide range of interests and involvement in various businesses and cultural activities, he was reputed to be a Renaissance man.James Terry White Dies — Publisher and Poet Was Noted For His Great Versatility, New York Times, April 6, 1920 In 1862, he joined the San Francisco publishing firm H.H. Bancroft & Co. In 1869, White founded a publishing company bearing his name, James T. White Co. in San Francisco; and in 1886, with his son George Derby White, moved its headquarters to New York City. The firm published the first edition of The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography in 1891. At the death of his son in 1939,G.
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John Page, Jr. was born in Haverhill, New Hampshire on May 21, 1787, the son of John Page (1741–1823) and Hannah Rice Green(e) (1757–1827).James T. White and Company, The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 11, 1901, page 128Ezra S. Stearns, History of the Town of Rindge, New Hampshire, 1875, page 615 He attended the local schools and became a farmer. During the War of 1812 Page served as lieutenant in a local militia company which performed duty on the border with Canada to prevent contraband trade and deter the threat of a British invasion.Emma C. Watts, The Granite Monthly magazine, New Hampshire in the War of 1812, June 1901, page 359 While the war was ongoing and immediately afterwards Page held the federal office of tax assessor.
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Piez was born in Mainz, Germany as son of Jacob Piez and Katherine (Liebig) Piez, both naturalized American citizens.James Terry White (1967). The National cyclopaedia of American biography. p. 17 He emigrated with his parents to the United States, and attended public schools in Manhattan, New York City.Iron Age, Vol. 132. 1933. p. 53 He entered the School of Mines of Columbia University in the class of 1888. Due to financial reverses in the family he worked for a year, and graduated with the class of 1889.The Iron Trade Review. 1918. p. 1565 After graduation Piez started his career in the industry as engineer draftsman at the Link-Belt Engineering Corporation in Philadelphia under James Mapes Dodge. He worked his way up chief engineer, general manager, and eventually vice-president until 1906.
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He graduated from Yale in 1886, was a graduate student there for three years, and studied at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens (1887-1889) and in Leipzig (1889-1892). In 1892 he became professor of Sanskrit and Indo-European comparative philology at the University of Chicago, and was later named Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Comparative Philology. In his early career, he concentrated on the Italic dialects, including among his published work, Der Vocalismus der oskischen Sprache (1892), The Oscan-Umbrian Verb-System (1895), and Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian, with a collection of inscriptions and a glossary (1904), and a précis of the Italic languages in Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia. He collaborated with W.G. Hale in the preparation of A Latin Grammar (1903).
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Inspired by his meetings with Kit Carson and Captain Jack Crawford (the "Poet Scout") in New York, he became restless to explore and by age 20 was travelling across America, ranging from Kansas to Canada. Eventually he made a home in Deer Lodge, Montana with his wife Laura MIllicent and child Loren.The Cyclopaedia of American Biography (NY: 1918), 8:285–286 Once settled in Deer Lodge, Paxson began to take work painting signage, and then painting stage sets for the Cottonwood Theater in Deer Lodge. He lived comfortably in Deer Lodge, still relatively obscure as an artist, raising his four children with Laura, until the Spanish–American War in 1898, when at age 46 he led Company "G"of the Butte Volunteers into battle in the jungles of Manila.
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The work gained him considerable fame and respect and he was appointed Professor at the École Polytechnique in 1841, then he was awarded a chair at the Sorbonne in 1846. A second edition of this book was published in 1875. In 1839, Ludwig Adolph Sohncke (the father of Leonhard Sohncke) translated the original into German as Geschichte der geometrie, haupts achlich mit bezug auf die neueren methoden.The American Cyclopaedia: "Sohncke" chasles translationADB: Sohncke, Leonhard Wikisource, the free source collection [in German]Geschichte der geometrie, hauptsachlich mit bezug auf die neueren methoden 1839 by L. A. Sohncke, ASIN: B07R33B9TZ Shortly thereafter, in 1841, Charles Graves published an English version as Two Geometrical Memoirs on the General Properties of Cones of the Second Degree and on the Spherical Conics, adding a significant amount of original material.
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Like the larger Notes issued under the February 24, 1815 Act, this issue was also supported by the government's promise to receive them at face value for purchasing bonds at par, but in the case of the Small Notes the bonds were to yield 7% interest. Before the notes could be issued, however, the war had ended – an occasion which led to the 7% bonds being worth more than par, and the Small Treasury Notes, of which $3,392,994 were originally issued, were rapidly exchanged for the bonds.United States Notes, John Joseph Lalor, "Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political History of the United States", Rand McNally & Co, Chicago, 1881. In witness to the limited circulation achieved by these notes, only two issued uncancelled examples of the Small Treasury Notes are known today.
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Licensed to preach by the Methodist church, Durbin went to Ohio in 1819 in order to begin his ministry. His first church was in Hamilton, Ohio (1821), he entered classes at Miami University while serving there. After another relocation, Durbin continued his college education at Cincinnati College, from which he earned a bachelor's degree and a Master of Arts degree (1825). He then was appointed professor of languages at Augusta College in Kentucky.Dickinson College: The History of One Hundred and Fifty Years, 1783-1933, by James Henry Morgan, p. 248Dickinson College: A History, by Charles Coleman Sellers, p. 204 He then served as professor of natural science at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut.The Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 2, by John Howard Brown, p. 557 In 1831, Durbin was elected Chaplain of the Senate.
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The strife between Catholics and Protestants divided Edward's family, and on 18 November 1589 he hosted a colloquy in the Town Hall at Baden to discuss the relative claims of Catholicism (represented by Johann Pistorius), Lutheranism (represented by Andreä and Jacob Heerbrand), and Calvinism, represented by Schyrius, but it caused only a hardening of viewpoints.Charles Francis Coghlan, The Beauties of Baden-Baden and Its Environs, London: F. Coghlan, 1858, p. 14 (wrongly stating 1569).John M'Clintock and James Strong, Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, Volume 8, New York: Harper, 1894, p. 237 On 13 March 1591 in Brussels he made a non-church marriage with Maria van Eicken (1569 – 21 April 1636), daughter of Joos vander Eycken, the Governor of Breda, which he regularised only on 14 May 1593,Eugen von Chrismar, Genealogie des Gesammthauses Baden: vom 16.
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Gibson was born on March 6, 1901 in Brattleboro, Vermont, the son of Grace Fullerton Hadley and Ernest W. Gibson, who later served in the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate.J.T. White, The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 1952, page 214 He attended the public schools and graduated from Norwich University with an Artium Baccalaureus degree in 1923,Cavendish Historical Society, Families of Cavendish: Families of Cavendish, Vt., 2008, page 431 where he was a member of the Alpha chapter of Theta Chi International Fraternity.Theta Chi Fraternity, The Rattle of Theta Chi, 1949 He attended The George Washington University Law School and read law in his father's office, and was admitted to the bar in 1926.H.W. Wilson Company, Current Biography, 1949, page 222 While studying law he also taught at the New York Military Academy in Cornwall, New YorkJ.
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Later the diocese found it difficult to prevent unlawful, nefarious subletting of some of its buildings, for morally dubious purposes such as connected with the numerous British Empire wharves involved in the slave trade often due to the distance, physically and legally from the perpetrators in ownership/operating structure of diocesan clergy and administrators as chief landlords. In the early 19th century office holders lobbied hard with other bishops to bring to an end the trade in the House of Lords, through its missionaries, and in the messages preached across the diocese itself. The Report of the Commissioners appointed by his Majesty to inquire into the Ecclesiastical Revenues of England and Wales (1835) found the Winchester see was the third wealthiest in England, after Canterbury and London, with an annual net income of £11,151.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge Vol.
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The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol.III, London (1847), Charles Knight, p.915 The canal area was mature by 1847, with passenger and cargo ship activity leading to congestion in the harbor. On 1 June 1843, the world's first steam-powered grain elevator was put into service by a local merchant, Joseph Dart, Jr., and an engineer, Robert Dunbar. The "Dart Elevator" would remain standing until 1862, when it burned down. During the 1840s and 1850s, more than a dozen grain elevators were built in Buffalo's harbor, most of them designed by Dunbar.American Colossus: the Grain Elevator 1843-1943 (Colossus Books, 2009) www.american-colossus.com As the anti-slavery movement grew in the U.S., Buffalo also emerged as a gathering place for abolitionists. In 1843, the city served as the site of the Liberty PartyLiberty Party convention and the National Convention of Colored Citizens.
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The New York Supplement, West Publishing Company, page.748 Early steamboats shuttled individuals between New York City and the Neptune House dock John H. Starin, a former United States Congressman and descendant of the Huguenots, purchased five islands off of Davenport Neck in 1879 which he transformed into one of the earliest and most extravagant amusement areas in the country - Starin's Glen Island Resort. Starin owned the largest fleet of steamboats in Manhattan and utilized his fleet to carry thousands of New Yorkers to the park each year.National Cyclopaedia of American Biography Features of the park included beaches and bathing pavilions, gardens, German beer garden, Grand Cafe, Chinese pagoda, bridle paths, a miniature steam train, natural history museum,Natural History Museums of the United States and Canada aviary, and a zoo of exotic animals which included lions, elephants and trained seals.
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However, arson damage to the wooden gate in the 1970s, and the difficult method of dropping it (by breaking a large chain link) prompted the city to use a more modern steel-beam bulkhead in its place in 2006. For his efforts in saving the city from great disaster Mr. Francis was awarded a massive silver pitcher and a salver by the City of Lowell.Appletons' annual cyclopaedia and register of important events, Volume 17 In 1886, James B. Francis teamed up with two other civil engineers; Eliot C. Clarke and Clemens Herschel to study and publish their findings in the "Prevention of Floods in the Valley of Stony Brook" which laid out a flood prevention system for the city of Boston. The intense study reviewed the Forest Hills, Hyde Park, Franklin park and Roslindale sections of the city that were subject to flooding.
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From 1891 and into the 20th century besides chairman Williams and Nathaniel Kettle the board of directors was a list of prominent regional run-holders. They were: :J H Coleman (1834–1928) :William Nelson (1843–1932) :Rechab Harding (1844-1897) :A S G Carlyon (1859–1927) :J B Chambers (1859–1931) :Sir W R Russell (1859–1931) :L H McHardy (1863–1927)The Cyclopaedia of New Zealand (Taranaki, Hawke's Bay & Wellington Provincial Districts), 1908 The founders survived until 1940 but the other directors listed above, except for Harding, all died between 1927 and 1932. F W Williams retired from the post of chairman, and left active management to Nathaniel Kettle, at the end of the First World War but remained a Williams & Kettle director and chairman of Richardson & Co. Nathaniel Kettle handed over day-to- day top management to Leslie Rolls in 1933.
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A Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature: Ibz-Zuz edited by John Kitto pg 211 Due to its high quality and rarity at the time in Ancient Rome, the imported cinnamon was typically deposited in the Romans' Royal Treasury. According to classical writers such as Pliny, the inhabitants of Mosylon imported flint glass and glass vessels from Ancient Egypt, unripe grapes from Diospolis, unmilled cloths for the Berberi markets, including tunics and cloths manufactured at Arsinoe, as well as wine and tin. The main export items were gums, tortoise shells, incense and ivory.A System of Geography, popular and scientific, or a Physical , Political and Statistical Account of the World and Its Various divisions Volume 6 By James Bell pg 434 Pliny also indicated that, en route to the cinnamon hub of Mosylon, the Egyptian Pharaoh Sesostris led his forces passed the Port of Isis.
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He served in France throughout the war, working at the U.S. embassy as the officer in charge of cable traffic between Europe and the U.S., including censoring messages to ensure that secrets were not unintentionally revealed.John William Leonard, Who's Who in Finance, Banking, and Insurance, 1922, page 684 After the war Tobin remained in Europe, serving as an assistant to the U.S. Naval attaché and a member of the staff supporting the U.S. Commission which took part in negotiating the Treaty of Versailles.James Terry White, The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 41, 1967, page 155 He received the Legion of Honor from France in recognition of his military service.History of Music Project, Fifty Local Prodigies, 1906-1940, 1940, page 194 In 1923, Tobin was appointed U.S. Minister to the Netherlands, and he served until 1929.
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The last fire coincided with the start of the growth of the city into a large production center of textiles, originally as a cottage industry, but since the start of the 19th century on an industrial scale, especially the manufacture of bombazijn (a mixture of cotton and linen) proved a successful export. One such factory to have produced textiles in the late 19th century is the Hardick & Seckel Factory. The industrialisation stimulated a large increase in population, which by 1894 had reached an estimated 18,267:The Century Cyclopaedia of Names, coordinated by Benjamin E Smith and published by the De Vinne Press, New York 1894 (Page 363) nineteenth-century urban growth was at first rather chaotic. The names of the slums (like De Krim and Sebastopol) are still notorious, although they have long since been torn down.
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On September 13, 1865 Flagler married Mary McCalla Finley, the daughter of Brigadier General Clement Alexander Finley. Their children included a daughter, Elizabeth (1866–1939) and a son, Clement (1867–1922).The Cyclopaedia of American Biography, published by James H. Lamb Company, Boston, Volume 3, 1900, page 117 Clement Arthur Finley Flagler was a career Army officer who attained the rank of Major General as a division commander in World War I."Maj. Gen. Flagler, War Hero, Son of Former Rock Island Commandant, Dead," Davenport Democrat, May 9, 1922"Major General Flagler Dies at Johns Hopkins," Salt Lake Tribune, May 9, 1922 In 1895 Elizabeth Flagler was found guilty of manslaughter after she shot and killed a 15-year-old African American boy, one of several who she fired a pistol at when she observed them stealing pears from her father's garden.
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By 1898, he had written, amongst a mass of journalism by this time, a number of fictional and dramatic works: The Morning after the Play: A Comedy in One Act (1889), Mortal Lips (1890) a story of contemporary life in Harlem,American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events, Vol.15 (1891) Appleton and Co., New York In Seville, & Three Toledo Days – a series of Spanish sketches (1894), and The Fifth Commandment A Play in One Act (1898). He had also written poetry, and a long poem about Christopher Columbus called The Death of The Discoverer appeared in book form in Philadelphia in 1892. In 1909 he published Walt Whitman’s Early Life on Long Island. In March and April 1914 he held a series of ‘Conferences’ at the Waldorf Hotel in New York on Prosper Mérimée, Guy de Maupassant, and Maurice Maeterlinck.
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As selling the same product as two different works was prohibited the two were merged into the Progressive Reference Library, in 10 volumes, which clearly stated that it was an amalgamation of International Reference Work and New Teacher's and Pupil's Cyclopaedia. Notably, both works claimed that Ruric Neval Roark was an editor as late as 1927, despite the fact that he had died in 1909.Walsh pp.88, 162-3 Under the Progressive Reference Library moniker the encyclopedias quality improved and it was considered "relatively respectible, despite its mediocre quality". Further editions were published in 1935 and 1939, this last enlarged to 11 volumes. 1939 was also the year that Paul Holst died.Walsh p.149 By 1945 the set had been bought out by the Universal Educational Guild and published in 20 volumes in 1945 as the World Scope Encyclopedia.
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Cyclopaedia, 1728 In modern usage, architecture is the art and discipline of creating, or inferring an implied or apparent plan of, a complex object or system. The term can be used to connote the implied architecture of abstract things such as music or mathematics, the apparent architecture of natural things, such as geological formations or the structure of biological cells, or explicitly planned architectures of human-made things such as software, computers, enterprises, and databases, in addition to buildings. In every usage, an architecture may be seen as a subjective mapping from a human perspective (that of the user in the case of abstract or physical artifacts) to the elements or components of some kind of structure or system, which preserves the relationships among the elements or components. Planned architecture manipulates space, volume, texture, light, shadow, or abstract elements in order to achieve pleasing aesthetics.
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James Terry White, The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography In 1910 he ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor.Prentiss Cutler Dodge, Encyclopedia of Vermont Biography Gibson became a leader of the Progressive movement in Vermont, which ultimately led to creation of a recognized faction within the Vermont Republican Party, the Aiken-Gibson Wing. The Aiken-Gibson Wing was more liberal than the party establishment, which had been led for years by conservative business interests including the Smith family of St. Albans, the Fairbanks family of St. Johnsbury, and the Proctor family of Proctor.Samuel B. Hand, The Star That Set: The Vermont Republican Party, 1854-1974, 2003, page 133Richard Munson Judd, The New Deal in Vermont: Its Impact and Aftermath, 1979, pages 64, 160, 303 Despite his Progressive views, Gibson remained loyal to the Republicans and worked to keep Vermonters with similar views in the party.
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Ironically, Fairbairn's criticism concluded that it was the presence of an active God that was missing from both concepts, rather than the rational explanation of God's motives and appearance of absence. In 1838, Italian phrenologist Luigi Ferrarese in Memorie Riguardanti la Dottrina Frenologica ("Thoughts Regarding the Doctrine of Phrenology") attacked the philosophy of Victor Cousin as a doctrine which "locates reason outside the human person, declaring man a fragment of God, introducing a sort of spiritual Pandeism, absurd for us, and injurious to the Supreme Being." Cousin had often been identified as a pantheist, but it was said that he repudiated that label on the basis that unlike Spinoza, Cousin asserted that "he does not hold with Spinoza and the Eleatics that God is a pure substance, and not a cause." James Strong, Cyclopaedia of Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical literature, Volume 7, 1894, page 622.
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The Faux Namti Bridge on the Yunnan–Vietnam Railway was built by France in 1906. A train on South Manchuria Railway Qing China's defeat in the First Sino- Japanese War greatly stimulated the railway development as the government both recognized the importance of modernization and was compelled by foreign powers to grant concessions to build railways along with settlement and mineral rights. The imperial powers then took to building railways in their spheres of influence. The railroads already built in 1900 had a total length of only 292 miles. Another 4000 miles were in the planning stage.Appletons' annual cyclopaedia and register of important events of the year 1901 (1902) p 151. The British built the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway (1905-1908) and Kowloon-Canton Railway (completed 1911). The French built the Sino-Vietnamese Railway (1904–10), an 855 km line to connect Kunming with Vietnam, then a colony of French Indochina.
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After his discharge Wing returned to Rutland and established a law practice. From 1919 to 1921 he served as Rutland City Attorney, and he was Rutland's City Judge from 1921 to 1925.Volume 129 (1925), Atlantic Reporter: Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, published by West Publishing Company, St. Paul, MN Wing was active in Republican party politics, and served on the state Republican Committee, of which he was Chairman from 1925 to 1929. He also attended numerous state and national party conventions, including serving as a delegate to the 1940 Republican national convention.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 35 (1967), page 190 In 1919 Wing joined the Vermont National Guard's 172nd Infantry Regiment as a Second Lieutenant. He rose through the ranks and in 1933 received promotion to Colonel as the 172nd's commander.
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Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work (called an opera), which combines a text (called a libretto) and a musical score.Some definitions of opera: dramatic performance or composition of which music is an essential part, branch of art concerned with this (Concise Oxford English Dictionary); any dramatic work that can be sung (or at times declaimed or spoken) in a place for performance, set to original music for singers (usually in costume) and instrumentalists (Amanda Holden, Viking Opera Guide); musical work for the stage with singing characters, originated in early years of 17th century (Pears' Cyclopaedia, 1983 ed.). Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition. While the scale of opera can be larger or smaller—there are many different genres of opera—performance typically involves different types of artist (singers, instrumentalists and often dancers and actors) and technical staff.
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The biographies are of sufficient fullness to include all facts deserving mention, and taken together, they will afford a complete record of that branch of history referring to American women of the 19th century. It is intended to make each character-sketch a likeness which the world will immediately recognize; and will give the underlying motive to the individual endeavor, the secret of her success, the methods and means of her progress, and the aim and aspiration of her thought. It has been the aim, moreover, to render the Cyclopaedia educational, as well as entertaining and instructive, by making those articles treating of important women and measures constitute noteworthy eras of national history. Each sketch was placed in hands selected from the whole country as best fitted for the task, and then it was revised and arranged by the editors to make one harmonious whole.
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Encyclopédie, 1773 The beginnings of the modern idea of the general-purpose, widely distributed printed encyclopedia precede the 18th century encyclopedists. However, Chambers' Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1728), and the Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1751 onwards), as well as Encyclopædia Britannica and the Conversations-Lexikon, were the first to realize the form we would recognize today, with a comprehensive scope of topics, discussed in depth and organized in an accessible, systematic method. Chambers, in 1728, followed the earlier lead of John Harris's Lexicon Technicum of 1704 and later editions (see also below); this work was by its title and content "A Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Explaining not only the Terms of Art, but the Arts Themselves". Popular and affordable encyclopedias such as Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopaedia and the Children's Encyclopaedia appeared in the early 1920s.
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Another was the use of a safety fuse. This consisted of small train of gunpowder inserted in a water-proof cord, which burns at a steady and uniform rate. This in turn was later replaced by a long piece of wire that was used to deliver an electric charge to ignite the explosive. The first to use this method for underwater blasting was Charles Pasley who employed it in 1839 to break up the wreck of the British warship HMS Royal George which had become a shipping hazard at Spithead.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol III, (1847) London, Charles Knight, p.414. An early major use of blasting to remove rock occurred in 1843 when the British civil engineer William Cubitt used 18,000 lbs of gunpowder to remove a 400 foot high chalk cliff near Dover as part of the construction of the South Eastern Railway.
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"Harold J. Arthur entry," The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, by James Terry White, Volume 57, 1977, page 135 When Arthur unexpectedly became governor in 1950 after Gibson resigned to accept a federal judgeship, Arthur served out Gibson's term but declined to run for a full term himself, clearing the way for Emerson's comeback."The Vermont Political Tradition," by William T. Doyle, 1987, page 288 Emerson was elected Governor in 1950 and reelected in 1952, serving from 1951 to 1955."Vermont Archives" , Vermont Governors, Terms of Service (Arthur instead ran for the U.S. House and lost the Republican primary to Winston Prouty, who went on to win the general election.)"Vermont Archives" , Primary Election Results, 1950 Republican Party As Governor, he recommended that Vermont citizens serving in the Korean War be paid a bonus by the state. He supported studies of the feasibility of building a natural gas pipeline for Vermont and of possible racial discrimination in the state.
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Abram Edward FitkinAlso listed as Abraham Edward Fitkin, see James Terry White, The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography Vol. 27 (James T. White & Co., 1939.):142. (September 18, 1878 – March 18, 1933) was an American minister, investment banker, businessman, public utilities operator, and philanthropist, who founded and ran dozens of companies, including A.E. Fitkin & Co.; the National Public Service Corporation; the United States Engineering Corporation; and the General Engineering and Management Corporation, which by 1926 managed 178 utility companies in 18 US states and over 1,000 local communities. As a philanthropist Fitkin donated in excess of $3,000,000 to finance the construction of the Raleigh Fitkin Memorial Hospital in Manzini, Swaziland; the Raleigh Fitkin Memorial Institution in Scobeyville, New Jersey; the Raleigh Fitkin Memorial Pavilion for Children at the New Haven Hospital in Yale; and the Jersey Shore University Medical Center (formerly Raleigh Fitkin and Paul Morgan Memorial Hospital) at Neptune Township, New Jersey.
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London Metropolitan Archives - the collection of personal papers of Valens Comyn, dating from 1734 to 1747 In 1745 Comyn was a member of a group who subsidised a fleet of the privateers and over the next two years amassed a large fortune privateering.Richard B. Sheridan, Roderick Alexander McDonald, Association of Caribbean Historians West Indies accounts: essays on the history of the British Caribbean and the Atlantic economy in honour of Richard Sheridan University of the West Indies, 1996 Comyn was credited with developing life assurance tables based on life expectancy.The Insurance Cyclopaedia 1871 Twickenham Meadows, engraving by John Landseer after John Webber (detail) In the 1747 British general election, Comyn was elected Member of Parliament for Hindon a rotten borough in Hampshire as a government supporter in the interest of Sir Henry Calthorpe.History of Parliament Online - Valens Comyn In 1749 Comyn was living at Eversley, Hampshire as well as an estate at Twickenham Meadows.
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From 1879 to 1880, he was associated with Sydney Howard Gay in the preparation of the last two volumes of Gay's History of the United States. In 1883 he became editor of the Annual Cyclopaedia, and from 1886 to 1888 was managing editor of Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. From 1891 to 1894, he was on the editorial staff of the Standard Dictionary. For six years, he was secretary of the New York Authors Club, whose sumptuous and unique Liber Scriptorum (1893) he prepared with J. D. Champlin and G. C. Eggleston. He devised and edited the series of Little Classics (16 vols., Boston, 1874-1875; two additional vols., 1880; 25th ed., 1887), and has also edited Works of the British Poets, with Biographical Sketches (3 vols., New York, 1876), Famous Single and Fugitive Poems (1877), Play-Day Poems (1878), Fifty Perfect Poems (with Charles A. Dana, 1882), A History of the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893 (4 vols.
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Long owned a slave named Jacob while he was at the University. In 1842 he succeeded T. H. Key as Professor of Latin at University College; in 1846–1849 he was reader in jurisprudence and civil law in the Middle Temple, and finally (1849–1871) classical lecturer at Brighton College. Subsequently, he lived in retirement at Portfield, Chichester, in receipt (from 1873) of a Civil List pension of £100 a year obtained for him by Gladstone. He was one of the founders (1830), and for twenty years an officer, of the Royal Geographical Society; an active member of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, for which he edited the quarterly Journal of Education (1831–1835) as well as many of its text-books; the editor (at first with Charles Knight, afterwards alone) of the Penny Cyclopaedia and of Knight's Political Dictionary; and a member of the Society for Central Education instituted in London in 1837.
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In 1810 he published a set of designs for villas, preceded by a long introduction in which he criticised the use of the Gothic style in domestic architecture, proposing instead the use of a kind of eastern, or Islamic style, inspired by the buildings shown in Thomas Daniell's Views in India. In 1812 he presented his Essay on the Doric Order to the London Architectural Society. He also wrote an account of St. Paul's Cathedral to accompany a set of drawings by James Elmes, articles about architecture for Abraham Rees Cyclopaedia, and a section on architecture for his sister Lucy's book about the reign of Elizabeth I. He exhibited designs at the Royal Academy between 1804 and 1814. He worked as an assistant to Sir Samuel Bentham, the architect of the Millbank Penitentiary, who was then engaged on works in progress at the Royal Navy's dockyards at Sheerness and Portsmouth, and published designs, made in collaboration with Bentham, for a bridge over the River Swale.
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Whilst compiling the lists, three copies of the Cyclopaedia were used 1) The writer's personal copy, 2)The University of Toronto's copy which is digitised on the Internet Archive, and 3) The University of Michigan's copy which is digitised on the Hathi Trust's site. Whilst working on the texts of the biographies it was found that a few were not common across all these versions. Charles Burney was well known as the author of A General History of Music, 4 vol, 1776–1789 and two travel diaries recording his Musical Tours collecting information in France and Italy, and later Germany, 1+2 vol, 1771 and 1773, as well as the Commoration of Handel, 1785 and his Musical Memoirs of Metastasio, 1796. Burney wrote the articles for Rees between 1801 and 1805, and continued to revise them as they were due for publication until about 1808.Lonsdale (1965) p 430 Burney died in 1814, and the articles continued to appear posthumously until the final volume, in 1819.
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After his admittance to the New York Bar, Barlow became managing clerk for his father's law firm, Shipman, Barlow, Larocque & Choate.The Harvard graduates' magazine, Volume 30 By William Roscoe Thayer, William Richards Castle, Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, Arthur Stanwood Pier, Bernard Augustine De Voto, Theodore Morrison (1922)The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: (1893) Barlow left the firm not long after the death of his father in 1889.America's successful men of affairs: An encyclopedia of contemporaneous ... edited by Henry Hall (1895) In 1895, Barlow was elected to the Board of Directors of the Sterling Mountain Railway Co. and in 1902 was chosen by New York Mayor Seth Low to fill out the term of City Magistrate Willard H. Olmstead after the latter’s appointed to the Court of Special Sessions. Though he still had some years left on his appointment, the following year, Mayor Low named Barlow to a full ten-year term as magistrate.
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Founded by the Romans as Antunnacum in 12 BC on the site of an old Celtic settlement probably called Antunnuac, Andernach is one of the oldest towns in Germany which as such held its "Bimillenary feast" in 1988. Both the Roman and the Celtic names mean "village or farm of Antunnos/us"—a man not yet identified. It was the southernmost outpost of the Electorate of Cologne from the 12th to the 19th century. In addition to the touristically appealing medieval remnants of the old town fortifications, the city of Andernach is the location of several old industrial plants such as a huge malt mill (the last one of more than ten mills and breweries from the 19th and 20th centuries dismantled in 2008). In the 19th century the town was noted for the production of millstones, bricks and clay for making tobacco pipes.The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol I, London, Charles Knight, 1846, pp.702-3.
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The hill's name translates from the Scottish Gaelic language as “Hill of the Herding” and this refers to the fact that it lies on the route of one of the main north-south ancient drovers' roads of Scotland, the area around the mountain was used as a gathering point for the cattle."The Call Of The Corbetts", Irvine Butterfield, Page 128 Gives details of name translation and meaning. The western corrie of the hill could well have been the collecting point as it is a huge gentle bowl which is ideal for summer grazing and the concealing of cattle."Climbing The Corbetts", Hamish Brown, Page 124 Suggests the western corrie could have been where cattle were grazed and geographical info. James Stobie's map of 1770 refers to the hill as Ben Chualach, Charles Knight’s Penny Cyclopaedia of the 1840s also uses this name and the hill seems to have been designated as Beinn a’ Chuallaich by Victorian cartographers in the second half of the 19th century.
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Thomas Norton Longman was born in England, son of Thomas Longman (1730–1797),Thomas Longman (1730–1797) was a nephew of Thomas Longman (1699–1755). "He was taken, at twenty-three, into partnership by his uncle, at whose death he succeeded to the business. He greatly extended it in the provinces, and became a very large exporter of books to the American colonies. He promoted the issue of a much enlarged and lucrative edition of Chamber's Cyclopaedia" () and his wife, Elizabeth Harris (1740-1808). He was also the great nephew of Thomas Longman (1699-1755) who founded the Longman publishing house in 1724. Longman was the eldest of twelve siblings and the third generation Longman to run the family’s lucrative publishing business. It was Longman who in 1799 purchased a major share in the copyright of Lindley Murray’s English Grammar, which had an annual sale of about 50,000 copies. This and other works by Murray added to a sizeable backlist of widely used Longman educational books – soon to appear regularly in separate catalogues – most of them regarded as textbooks.
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The Courland Governorate, also known as the Province of Courland,The English Cyclopaedia By Charles Knigh Governorate of KurlandThe Baltic States from 1914 to 1923 By LtCol Andrew Parrott (; ; ) was one of the Baltic governorates of the Russian Empire, that is now part of the Republic of Latvia. German and Russian map of the Courland Governorate The governorate was created in 1795 out of the territory of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia that was incorporated into the Russian Empire as the province of Courland with its capital at Mitau (now Jelgava), following the third partition of the Polish- Lithuanian Commonwealth. Until the late 19th century the governorate was not ruled by Russia but was administered independently by the local Baltic German nobility through a feudal Regional Council (). The governorate was bounded in the north by the Baltic Sea, the Gulf of Riga and the Governorate of Livonia; west by the Baltic Sea; south by the Vilna Governorate and Prussia and east by the Vitebsk Governorate and Minsk Governorate.
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Among his political and other activities, he served as a member of the American Defense Society's Board of Trustees. He was also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; past president and vice-president of the Society of Wireless Telegraph Engineers; vice-president of the Wireless Telegraph Association of America; member of the American Electrochemical Society; Associate of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers; member of the Society of Arts of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; member of the Mathematical and Physical Club; the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity,"The Johns Hopkins Chapter", Catalogue of the Alpha Delta Phi Society (1899), page 641. the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association of New England and a hereditary member of the Aztec Club of 1847. He was also a member of the St. Botolph, Technology and Papyrus clubs of Boston, the National Arts Club of New York, the Army and Navy Club, and Cosmos Club of Washington, D.C.National cyclopaedia of American biography. (1892).
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La Scala of Milan Palais Garnier of the Paris Opéra Macbeth at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in St. Olaf's Castle, Savonlinna, Finland, in 2007 Opera is a form of theatre in which music has a leading role and the parts are taken by singers, but is distinct from musical theatre.Some definitions of opera: "dramatic performance or composition of which music is an essential part, branch of art concerned with this" (Concise Oxford English Dictionary); "any dramatic work that can be sung (or at times declaimed or spoken) in a place for performance, set to original music for singers (usually in costume) and instrumentalists" (Amanda Holden, Viking Opera Guide); "musical work for the stage with singing characters, originated in early years of 17th century" (Pears' Cyclopaedia, 1983 ed.). Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a librettistRichard Wagner and Arrigo Boito are notable creators who combined both roles. and incorporates a number of the performing arts, such as acting, scenery, costume, and sometimes dance or ballet.
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Flagler's first Civil War assignment was to teach drill and ceremony and other basic skills to newly raised volunteers in Washington, D.C. He served as aide to David Hunter in the Manassas Campaign, and fought during the First Battle of Bull Run.Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy, by George Washington Cullum, published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York, Volume 2, 1891, page 814 He next served as aide to Irvin McDowell in the defense of Washington.Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events, published by D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1900, page 601 After serving at the Allegheny Arsenal, he participated in Ambrose Burnside's North Carolina expedition. Flagler took part in the capture of Roanoke Island, the attack of New Bern, and the capture of Fort Macon.Obituary, Daniel W. Flagler, General Order Number 59, April 1, 1899, printed in General Orders and Circulars, published by U.S. Department of War, 1900, page 69 Next assigned to the Army of the Potomac, Flagler took part in the Maryland Campaign, including the Battle of South Mountain.
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John Mills was a person of considerable eminence in the 18th century, though little definite is known because no record exists of his life.William White (1889) Notes and Queries. p. 456 From his manner of expression, it is possible he may have lived his early life in foreign countries a long time, possibly in France, but he was not born there. In 1741 he was staying in London, where he had made preparations to go to Jamaica. He cancelled those plans because, as he wrote "having met with something more advantageous which engages me to stay in England"Mills (1741), cited Dix-huitième siècle. Nr. 1-2, 1969. p. 274: And cited in John Lough (1971) Mills married a French woman, and they had two children; one baptised in Paris on 27 April 1742 and another born in May 1743. In 1743 Mills was in Paris for the purpose of bringing out, in concert with Gottfried Sellius, a German historian, a French edition of Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopaedia; but Lebreton, the printer commissioned by him to manage the undertaking, cheated him out of the subscription money, assaulted him, and ultimately obtained a license in his own name.
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Porter, (2003), pp. 249-50. Encyclopedias and dictionaries also became more popular during the Age of Reason as the number of educated consumers who could afford such texts began to multiply.Headrick, (2000), p. 144 In the later half of the 18th century, the number of dictionaries and encyclopedias published by decade increased from 63 between 1760 and 1769 to approximately 148 in the decade proceeding the French Revolution (1780–1789).Headrick, (2000), p. 168) Along with growth in numbers, dictionaries and encyclopedias also grew in length, often having multiple print runs that sometimes included in supplemented editions.Headrick, (2000), p. 172 The first technical dictionary was drafted by John Harris and entitled Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Harris’ book avoided theological and biographical entries; instead it concentrated on science and technology. Published in 1704, the Lexicon technicum was the first book to be written in English that took a methodical approach to describing mathematics and commercial arithmetic along with the physical sciences and navigation. Other technical dictionaries followed Harris’ model, including Ephraim Chambers’ Cyclopaedia (1728), which included five editions, and was a substantially larger work than Harris’.
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He was also the author of books on natural philosophy, mental and moral philosophy, China, India, copyright, and the seasons of the year. Mudie wrote the greater part of the natural history section of the British Cyclopaedia (1834), the text to Gilbert's Modern Atlas of the Earth (1840), and a topographical account of Selborne prefixed to Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne (new edn, 1850). Mudie died at Pentonville on 29 April 1842, leaving destitute the widow of his second marriage, Frances Wallace Urquhart, second daughter of Captain John Urquhart, a sea captain of the East India Company with four daughters and one son. He wrote and compiled altogether about 90 volumes according to the Cyclopædia of English Literature (1844), including Babylon the Great – A Picture of Men and Things in London; Modern Athens, a sketch of Edinburgh society; The British Naturalist; The Feathered Tribes of Great Britain; A Popular Guide to the Observation of Nature; two series of four volumes each, entitled The Heavens, the Earth, the Sea, and the Air; and Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter; Man: Physical, Moral, Social, and Intellectual; Man, as a Moral and Accountable Being; The World Described; The Picture of Australia.
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Charles Elliott Fitch, Official New York, from Cleveland to Hughes, Volume 4, 1911, page 120 Culkin was also active in the United Spanish War Veterans.Maurice Simmons, Ernest W. Larkin, Proceedings of the United Spanish War Veterans, 1911, page 108 Culkin studied law, passed the bar, and began a practice in 1902 while also serving as Secretary of the Oswego Civil Service Commission.New York State Department of Civil Service, New York State Service, Volume 20, 1903, page 599Georgina Pell Curtis, Benedict Elder, The American Catholic Who's Who, Volume 5, 1939, page 85 A Republican, he was City Attorney of Oswego from 1906 to 1910, and Oswego County District Attorney from 1911 until 1921.James Terry White, The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 35, 1967, page 251 In 1921 he became a Judge on the Oswego County Court, where he served until his election to Congress.James Clark Fifield, The American Bar, Volume 25, 1937, page 698 Culkin was elected in 1928 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thaddeus Campbell Sweet and served from November 6, 1928 until his death in Oswego, New York on August 4, 1943.
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These included: arguments against the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch; his views as to the manner in which the five books were composed; and his opinions on the subject of divine inspiration in general, in particular on the Book of Job, Book of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Canticles. Simon's Réponse (1686) drew from Le Clerc a Defence des sentimens in the same year, which was followed by a new Réponse (1687). In 1692 appeared his Logica sive Ars Ratiocinandi, and also Ontologia et Pneumatologia; these, with the Physica sive de rebus corporeis (1696), are incorporated with the Opera Philosophica, which have passed through several editions. In his Logica, Le Clerc rewrites the Catholic Port-Royal Logique from a protestant Remonstrant perspective and supplements the Logique with analyses taken from Essay of his friend, John Locke. In turn, Charles Gildon published a partial and unattributed translation of Le Clerc's Logica as the treatise "Logic; or, The Art of Reasoning" in the second (1712) and subsequent editions of John Brightland's Grammar of the English Tongue. In 1728, Ephraim Chambers used Gildon's translation of Le Clerc's version of the Port-Royal Logique as one of his sources when he compiled his Cyclopaedia.
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Ransom volunteered to serve in the Mexican War and, on February 16, 1847, was appointed as the Major of the newly formed 9th Infantry Regiment under the command of Colonel Franklin Pierce. He was quickly promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and second in command, and when Pierce was promoted to Brigadier General and took command of a brigade, Ransom was promoted to Colonel on March 16 and given command of the regiment (which was officially organized on April 9).James T. White & Company, The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 18, 1922, pages 323 to 324John S. D. Eisenhower, So Far From God: The U.S. War With Mexico, 1846-1848, 2000, page 323United States War Department, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, Volume 1, 1903, page 99 The regiment served in the Mexico City campaign and was in the Battle of Contreras, Battle of Churubusco, and Battle of Molino del Rey.New York Times, The New Regiments: The Appointments Completed, March 21, 1855 Ransom fell at the head of the regiment on September 13, 1847, shot through the head while storming the works at Chapultepec on the outskirts of Mexico City.
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Innes was educated at Heriot's, Edinburgh, and Kelso Grammar School in Kelso. On leaving school he was employed by his uncle, manager of estates for his relation, the Duke of Roxburghe. In 1836, Innes emigrated to Tasmania where he arrived in Hobart in 1837, joining the Hobart Town Courier. A few years later he returned to Great Britain, and contributed to the press in London, and to the Penny Cyclopaedia. Innes again went to Tasmania in 1843 and was associated with the Observer and other papers at Hobart. In about the year 1846 he was working as a journalist at Launceston and later took up farming. With the introduction of responsible government he was elected in September 1856 as the member for Morven in the Tasmanian House of Assembly. He was colonial treasurer in four successive ministries, the first William Weston, the Francis Smith, the second Weston, and the Thomas Chapman, from 25 April 1857 to 1 November 1862, and colonial secretary from 1 November 1862 to 20 January 1863. He had now become a member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council, in 1864 was elected chairman of committees, and from 1868 to 1872 president of the council.
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He was born at Matamoros, Mexico, on May 1, 1826. His parents were immigrants from Ireland, who settled in Mexico, where his father became a merchant. After his father's death, his mother relocated to Brooklyn. McCue graduated from Columbia College in 1845, studied law with the Brooklyn firm of John Greenwood and Harmanus B. Duryea, was admitted to the bar, and began a practice in Brooklyn. From 1851 to 1852 he served as an Assistant District Attorney in Kings County.Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1889, published by D. Appleton and Company, New York, Volume 29, 1890, page 639 In 1861 to 1862 and 1867 to 1868 he was Brooklyn's Corporation Counsel, and from 1870 to 1885 was a Judge of the City Court.Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States, by Charles Lanman, revised by Joseph M. Morrison, 1887, page 330 From 1885 to 1888 McCue served as Solicitor of the Treasury.Magazine column, This Month's News, March 18 to April 14, The United Service magazine, Volume 12, 1885, page 585 In 1887 McCue was named to an unpaid position on the United States Fish Commission.
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Wharfside at St. Johns. The shedlike structure behind the reservists is a drill hall erected atop Calypso's gunwale. Boat davits are shown on port side of vessel (upper left) and at stern (far right); the aft port gun is sponsoned out from the hull (right of top rows of sailors). On 3 September 1902 Calypso was placed back into commission under the command of Commander Frederick Murray Walker, and was sent across the Atlantic to become a training ship for the Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve (RNR), which trained men for service in the Royal Navy."Newfoundland", entry in Appletons' annual cyclopaedia and register of important events (1902), Volume 6, p. 384. The Reserve had been founded in 1900 as an experiment to assist the Admiralty in the manning of ships, and to enable the Newfoundlanders to assist in the defence of the empire, training their seafarers in the winter months when the fishery was not worked.Hunter, p. 36. As the result of this trial, the Admiralty agreed to provide a vessel, and the colony agreed to pay for the refit, as well as an annual subvention to support the training programme.
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Herman Benjamin Baruch was born in Camden, South Carolina on April 28, 1872. The son of Simon Baruch and brother of Bernard Baruch, he graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1892, attended the University of Virginia, and received his medical degree from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1895.J. T. White, The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 1935, page 170Alumni Council of Columbia University, Columbia Alumni News, Volume 38, Issue 8, 1947, page 28Associated Press, Dr. Herman Baruch succumbs at 80, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, March 16, 1953 Baruch practiced medicine in New York City, and later became a partner with his brothers Bernard, Hartwig and SailingJames L. Grant, Bernard M. Baruch: The Adventures of a Wall Street Legend, 1997, page 4 in Baruch Brothers, an investment bank and stock brokerage.Edwin C. Hill, Bernard M. Baruch, Munsey's magazine, Volume 61, September, 1917, pages 595 to 601 The Baruchs were supporters of the Democratic party, with Bernard advising both Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt during their presidencies, and all the brothers and their company providing financial support to the party and its candidates.
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After leaving the Army as a colonel Poletti became the senior partner in a Manhattan law firm, which was reorganized as Poletti, Diamond, Rabin, Freidin & MacKay, and later became known as Poletti, Freidin, Prashker, Feldman and GartnerJ. T. White, The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 55, 1974, page 559 From May 1946 to June 1947 he carried out an appointment as an arbitrator assigned to resolve labor disputes in New York City's clothing industry.Newspaper article, Poletti Discharged From Army, New York Times, November 15, 1945Newspaper article, Coat, Suit Trade Chooses Poletti; Named as Arbiter, New York Times, March 20, 1946Newspaper article, Poletti Quits Post here, New York Times, June 3, 1947 In 1955 Poletti was appointed to the New York State Power Authority, serving until 1960, the period in which the St. Lawrence Project and Niagara Project were built.Newspaper article, Poletti is Named to Power Board, New York Times, March 2, 1955Newspaper article, Governor to Fill Job; May Name Westchester Man to Power Authority, New York Times, March 19, 1960 From 1960 to 1965 he was the executive responsible for foreign exhibits at the 1964 New York World's Fair.
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J.T. White & Co., The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 57, 1977, page 135New York Times, Gov. Arthur in Uniform; Joins Vermont National Guard in Training at Pine Camp, July 25, 1950 Arthur was the successful Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in 1948, and served from 1949 to 1950.Christian Science Monitor, Governor Wins 2d Nomination In Vermont Vote, September 25, 1948Kendall Wild, When GOP Ruled the Roost, Rutland Herald, November 16, 2006New York Times, Prouty Is Vermont Victor, September 13, 1950 Arthur became governor when Ernest W. Gibson Jr. resigned to become a federal judge. He did not seek election to a full term in 1950, running unsuccessfully for the United States House of Representatives and losing the Republican primary to Winston L. Prouty, whom Arthur had defeated for the lieutenant governor nomination in 1948.Christian Science Monitor, Two GOP Leaders Win Comeback in Vermont, September 13, 1950New York Times, To Run for Governor; Attorney Seeks the Republican Nomination in Vermont, May 23, 1950Christian Science Monitor, State of New England GOP Replays '48 Contest in Vermont, September 7, 1950 In 1954, Arthur ran unsuccessfully to be the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, losing the primary to Consuelo N. Bailey.
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The rapid growth of St Helens at the epicentre of the townships is attested to by several authors. The Penny Cyclopaedia states in 1839 that "Saint Helen's, Lancashire, is in the township of Windle, in the chapelry of St Helen's, Prescott parish. The township contains 3,540 acres, and had in 1831 a population of 5,825'. The town has risen into importance of late years" In contrast by 1854, 20 years before the establishment of the Borough of St Helens, George Routledge stated a reversal of the roles, "St Helens, originally an inconsiderable village, is now a very thriving town" and later states that the town "... may be said to contain the four townships of Sutton, Parr, Windle and Eccleston". The composition of the town described by Routledge largely mirrors those observations made by Samuel Lewis in 1848 and later still in 1874 by John Marius Wilson and John Bartholemew in 1887. Census figures from 1801 suggest the population of the district of St Helens was 12,500 which by 1861 had reached between 37,631 and 55,523 (John Marius Wilson placing populace at the lower number, with total households at the specific figure of 6,539) in the wider area with St Helens itself comprising a population of 20,176 in 3,577 households.
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He later became Commissioner of Inland Customs which made him responsible for the control of of coast from near Peshawar in the northwest to Cuttack on the Bay of Bengal. He travelled on horseback and camel in areas of Rajasthan to negotiate treaties with various local maharajas to control the export of salt and during these travels he took note of the birdlife: Hume appears to have planned a comprehensive work on the birds of India around 1870 and a "forthcoming comprehensive work" finds mention in the second edition of The Cyclopaedia of India (1871) by his cousin Edward Balfour. His systematic plan to survey and document the birds of the Indian Subcontinent began in earnest after he started accumulating the largest collection of Asiatic birds in his personal museum and library at home in Rothney Castle on Jakko Hill, Simla. Rothney Castle, originally Rothney House was built by Colonel Octavius Edward Rothney and later belonged to P. Mitchell, C.I.E from whom Hume bought it and converted it into a palatial house with some hope that it might be bought by the Government as a Viceregal residence since the Governor-General then occupied Peterhoff, a building too small for large parties.
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