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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Huntington , Jedediah 1743 -1813 (search)
Huntington, Jedediah 1743-1813
Military officer; born in Norwich, Conn., Aug. 4, 1743; brother of the preceding; graduated at Harvard College in 1763; was an active Son of Liberty; joined the army at Cambridge, April 26, 1775; was made brigadier-general in May, 1777; joined the Continental army near Philadelphia in the fall of 1777; and in 1778 was on the court-martial that tried General Lee.
After the war he held several civil offices, among them collector of customs at New London, which he filled during four administrations.
General Huntington was a member of the first board of foreign missions.
He died in New London, Sept. 25, 1813.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ingersoll , Charles Jared 1782 -1862 (search)
Ingersoll, Charles Jared 1782-1862
Statesman; born in Philadelphia, Oct. 3, 1782; became a lawyer, and was attached to the legation of Rufus King when he was minister to France.
After travelling in Europe, he returned, and published a poem in 1800, and a tragedy in 1801.
In 1810 he published a political satire, called Inchiquin the Jesuit's letters.
In 1813 he was in Congress, and from 1815 to 1829 he was United States district-attorney.
He was again in Congress from 1841 to 1847, when he was a Democratic leader.
President Polk nominated him minister to France, but the Senate did not confirm the nomination.
He wrote a history of the second war between the United States and Great Britain.
He died in Philadelphia, Jan. 14, 1862.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ingham , Samuel Delucenna 1779 -1860 (search)
Ingham, Samuel Delucenna 1779-1860
Legislator; born in Pennsylvania, Sept. 16, 1779; served several years in the Pennsylvania legislature; served in Congress in 1813-18 and 1822-29. President Jackson appointed him Secretary of the Treasury, but he resigned on account of the Kitchen Cabinet.
He died in Trenton, N. J., June 5, 1860.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Inglis , Mary 1729 -1813 (search)
Inglis, Mary 1729-1813
Pioneer; born in 1729.
She, with her two children, was captured by the Shawnee Indians, who had made a successful attack upon the small settlement.
The Indians carried their captives down the Kanawha River to the Scioto.
She was thus the first white woman in Kentucky.
After a short captivity she made her escape in company with another white woman, and after a journey of nearly 400 miles in the wilderness succeeded in reaching a settlement on the Kanawha.
She died Mary 1729-1813
Pioneer; born in 1729.
She, with her two children, was captured by the Shawnee Indians, who had made a successful attack upon the small settlement.
The Indians carried their captives down the Kanawha River to the Scioto.
She was thus the first white woman in Kentucky.
After a short captivity she made her escape in company with another white woman, and after a journey of nearly 400 miles in the wilderness succeeded in reaching a settlement on the Kanawha.
She died in 1813.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jesup , Thomas Sidney 1788 -1860 (search)
Jesup, Thomas Sidney 1788-1860
Military officer; born in Virginia, in 1788; entered the army in 1808, and was Hull's adjutant-general in 1813.
For his good conduct at the battle of Chippewa, he was brevetted lieutenant-colonel; also colonel for his services in the battle of Lundy's Lane, or Niagara, in which he was severely wounded.
After the war, he was promoted to adjutant-general and quartermaster-general of the army in 1818, with the rank of brigadier-general, and was brevetted major-general in 1828.
In 1836 he was in command of the army in the Creek nation, and at the close of the year he commanded the army in Florida.
He was wounded by the Seminoles in January, 1838.
He died in Washington, D. C., June 10, 1860.
John Adams, the
The naval operations on the sea in 1814, though not so important as in the two preceding years in some respects, fully sustained the character of the American navy.
the John Adams frigate had been cut down to a corvette of twenty-eight guns in 1813, and was the first that figured after the opening of 1814.
She started on a cruise from Washington in January, and on the night of the 18th passed the British blockading squadron in Lynn Haven Bay, put to sea, and ran to the northeast to cross the track of the West India merchantmen.
She made a few prizes, and on March 25 she captured the Indiaman Woodbridge.
While taking possession of her the commander of the Adams (Capt. Charles .Morris) observed twenty-five merchant vessels, with two ships-of-war, bearing down upon her with a fair wind.
Morris abandoned his prize, and gave the Adams wings for flight from danger.
In April she entered the harbor of Savannah for supplies, and on May 5 sailed for the Manila Reef t
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Johnson , Richard Mentor 1781 -1850 (search)
Johnson, Richard Mentor 1781-1850
Vice-President of the United States; born in Bryant's Station, Ky., Oct. 17, 1781; graduated at Transylvania University; became a lawyer and State legislator, and raised a regiment of cavalry in 1812.
With them he served under Harrison, and was in the battle of the Thames in 1813, where he was dangerously wounded.
From 1807 to 1819 and 1829 to 1837 he was a member of Congress.
He was United States Senator from 1819 to 1829, and Vice-President of the United States from 1837 to 1841.
He died in Frankfort, Ky., Nov. 19, 1850.
Jones, William -1831
Born in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1760; served throughout the Revolutionary War, at first in the army and later in the navy; elected to Congress in 1801; appointed Secretary of the Navy in 1813.
He died in Bethlehem, Pa., Sept. 5, 1831.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kelley , Hall Jackson 1790 -1874 (search)
Kelley, Hall Jackson 1790-1874
Colonist; born in Northwood, N. H., Feb. 28, 1790; graduated at Middlebury College in 1813; became interested in colonizing Oregon, and influenced the Massachusetts legislature to incorporate the American Society for Encouraging the Settlement of the Oregon Territory.
Later he conducted a number of settlers thither, but they were driven away by the Hudson Bay Company.
He was the author of a Geographical memoir of Oregon; and A history of the settlement of Oregon and of the Interior of Upper California, and of persecutions and afflictions of forty years continuance endured by the author.
He died in Palmer, Mass., Jan. 17, 1874.