George Washington Bethune (Dickinson Chronicles)

Scholarship
John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “George Washington Bethune,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/b/ed_bethuneGW.htm.
George Washington Bethune was born into the devout and wealthy family of Divie and Joanna Graham Bethune of New York City on March 18, 1805.  His father was a highly successful merchant of Huguenot extraction and both his parents had been born in Scotland.  George was privately tutored at home, attended school in Salem, New York, and entered Columbia College in 1819.  In January 1822, upon the re-opening of Dickinson College under President John Mason, Bethune came to Carlisle and enrolled and graduated in June 1823.  He then studied theology at Princeton and served br
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James Gadsden dies in Charleston, South Carolina

James Gadsden, who as Franklin Pierce's minister to Mexico engineered the 1853 "Gadsden Purchase" from Mexico, died at his home in South Carolina, aged seventy. The purchase had brought more than thirty thousand square miles to the United States along what became the Arizona and New Mexico borders with Mexico and included Yuma and Tucson. (By John Osborne)
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Progressive Men of Iowa: Leaders in Business, Politics, and the Professions

Edwin Coppoc (Gue, 1899)
Type: Description
Citation:
B. F. Gue, Progressive Men of Iowa: Leaders in Business, Politics, and the Professions (Des Moines: Conway & Shaw, 1899), 80.
Body Summary:
We hear of Edwin Coppoc standing at his post at the armory gates, while balls rained around him like hailstones. Soon after he joined Brown at the engine house and the siege began. Watson and Oliver, eons of the leader, were mortally wounded, but the heroic Watson fought on to the last. John Brown, his son Watson, Jerry Anderson, Edwin Coppoc, Dauphin A. Thompson, Steward Taylor and Shields Green were now the only survivors left on the Virginia side. Escape was impossible, and they determined to die fighting, knowing that no mercy would be shown them as prisoners. Col. Robert E. Lee, who was now in command of their assailants, sent a message to Brown demanding his surrender.

"No!" said Brown, "we prefer to die here."

Firing began again on both sides, while Lee formed a column for assault.
When the shock of the final charge came, Brown, Anderson and Thompson went down beneath the savage thrusts of sabres and bayonets. Edwin Coppoc fired the last shot, and he and Green alone were left unhurt to surrender. The fight was ended. Ten of the little band were slain. Brown and Stevens were desperately wounded, and, with Coppoc, Green and Copeland, were prisoners.

John Anthony Nicholson (Congressional Biographical Directory)

Reference
“Nicholson, John Anthony,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000099.
NICHOLSON, John Anthony, a Representative from Delaware; born in Laurel, Sussex County, Del., November 17, 1827; completed preparatory studies and was graduated from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1847; superintendent of free schools for Kent County in 1851; studied law in Dover, Del.; was admitted to the bar in 1850 and commenced practice in Dover; brigadier general of militia in Kent County in 1861; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1869); was not a candidate for renomination in 1868; resumed the practice of
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present
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