"The Tragedy at Christiana"

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Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, June 11, 2008
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The Tragedy at Christiana
Source citation
William Still, The Underground Railroad (Philadelphia:Porter & Coats, 1872), 351

The Year in Review: 1857

After a contentious presidential election during the previous year, many Americans hoped that 1857 would finally bring political calm. They were sorely disappointed. Two days after James Buchanan (Class of 1809) was inaugurated president, Chief Justice Roger Taney (Class of 1795) announced the Supreme Court's controversial verdict in the Dred Scott Case. The result was more outrage and greater division over slavery.

"Divided We Fall," Lowell (MA) Citizen & News, October 25, 1858

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Cropped, edited, and prepared for use here by Russell Toris, Dickinson College, June 11, 2008.
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Divided We Fall
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"Divided We Fall," Lowell (MA) Citizen & News, October 25, 1858, p. 2: 1.
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Original image has been adjusted here for presentation purposes.

Henry Marriott (Dickinson Alumni Record)

Reference
George Leffingwell Reed, ed., Alumni Record: Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA: Dickinson College, 1905), 178.
*Marriot, Henry – Born July 12, 1838, at West River, Ann Arundel County, Md.; A. B., 1858; studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania; 1861-5, in Confederate States army; 1866. Druggist in Baltimore, Md.; 1868, removed to California and practiced medicine in San Francisco; surgeon, Pacific mail steamship line; B. L. society. Died October 7, 1879 in San Francisco, Cal.
Alumni Record: Dickinson College

Henry Robinson Torbert (Dickinson Alumni Record)

Reference
George Leffingwell Reed, ed., Alumni Record: Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA: Dickinson College, 1905), 161.
Torbert, Henry Robinson – Born July 17, 1834, Elkton, Md.; p., William and Adeline M. Torbert; prep., Elkton academy; entered 1851; A. B., 1855; lawyer; for many years editor “Cecil Whig;” U.P. society; married, December 24, 1867, Mary R. Wilmer of Wilmington, Del.; children, Victor Megrady; Florence E. Address, Elkton, Md.
Alumni Record: Dickinson College

Elijah C. Wadhams (Dickinson Alumni Record)

Reference
George Leffingwell Reed, ed., Alumni Record: Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA:Dickinson College, 1905), 125.
*Wadhams, Elijah C. – Born July 17, 1825, Plymouth Pa.; prep., Dickinson grammar school; entered 1842; A. B., University of City of New York, 1847; lawyer; engaged in business in Plymouth, Pa., until 1873, when removed to Wilkesbarre; state senator, 1877-80; U.P. society. Died January 18, 1889, in Willkesbarre, Pa.
Alumni Record: Dickinson College

The Year in Review: 1861

Kansas finally won admittance to the union at the beginning of the year, as the nation's 34th state and as a free state, but the end of the long stalemate over Kansas came as several other states were seceding from the federal government. Seven Deep South or Gulf states formed the Confederate States of America in February, raising the stakes of Abraham Lincoln's inauguration as president in March.

The Year in Review: 1859

Though the stalemate over Kansas statehood continued, the year began with the relatively uncontroversial admittance of Oregon as the nation's 33d state. It was also a year of discoveries. Prospectors reported a massive deposit of silver in Nevada known as the Comstock Lode, and in northwestern Pennsylvania, Edwin Drake drilled the first commercial oil well in the U.S.
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