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Robert Augustus Toombs (American National Biography)
Michael Chesson, "Toombs, Robert Augustus," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/04/04-00991.html.
Ranking with the most important members of the Senate in the 1850s, Toombs contributed little of a positive nature to the South or the Georgia he loved so well in the Confederacy's struggle for nationhood. An army friend, Major Raphael J. Moses, recalled that his "impulses were generous and noble, his faults were bluster and a vivid imagination not always hampered by facts." Howell Cobb thought he had the finest mind of his generation "but lacked balance." According to T. C.
Potter County, PA
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Potter County, Pennsylvania (Fanning's, 1853)
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Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States.... (New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853), 300.
POTTER COUNTY, situated on the north boundary of Pennsylvania. Area, 1,110 square miles. Face of the country, an elevated table-land. Seat of justice, Coudersport. Pop. in 1810, 1,584; in 1820, 4,836; in 1830, 1,265; in 1840, 3,371; in 1850, 6,048.
Henry "Box" Brown (New Orleans Picayune)
Reference
“Running of Slaves,” New Orleans (LA) Picayune, June 13, 1849, p. 5: 4.
THE RUNNING OF SLAVES.—On the 30th ult., at the anniversary of the Anti-Slavery Society of Boston, Henry Box Brown, the fugitive slave, whose extraordinary escape from servitude in Richmond, and almost miraculous arrival at Philadelphia, created such a sensation, was introduced to the audience. He was transported three hundred miles through a slaveholding country, and by public thoroughfares, in a box, by measurement, exactly three feet one inch long, two feet wide, and two feet six inches deep. The following abstract of his story is taken from the Traveller o
Pike County, PA
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Pike County, Pennsylvania (Fanning's, 1853)
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Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States.... (New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853), 291.
PIKE COUNTY, situated on the easterly boundary of Pennsylvania, with Delaware river on the southeast and northeast. Area, 729 square miles. Face of the country, mountainous; soil, rocky and barren. Seat of justice, Milford. Pop. in 1820, 2,894; in 1830, 4,843; in 1840, 3,832; in 1850, 5,881.
Washington, DC (Hayward)
Gazetteer/Almanac
John Hayward, Gazetteer of the United States of America… (Philadelphia: James L. Gihon, 1854), 40-42.
COLUMBIA, DISTRICT OF. This tract, originally ten miles square, was ceded to the United States in 1790, by the States of Maryland and Virginia, for the purpose of being occupied as the seat of the federal government. The location was selected by President Washington, in conformity with a provision of the United States constitution. It is placed under the immediate jurisdiction of Congress, and, at the date of the cession, comprised the city of Alexandria, in Virginia, the city of Georgetown, Maryland, and the site on which now stands the city of Washington.
Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania (Fanning's, 1853)
Gazetteer/Almanac
Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States.... (New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853), 288.
PHILADELPHIA COUNTY, situated in the southeast part of Pennsylvania, with Delaware river on the southeast, and traversed by the Schuylkill. Area, 128 square miles. Face of the, undulating; soil, good. Seat of justice, Philadelphia. Pop. in 1810, 111,210; in 1820, 137,097; in 1830, 188,777; in 1840, 258,037; in 1850, 408,762.
Perry County, Pennsylvania (Fanning's, 1853)
Gazetteer/Almanac
Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States.... (New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853), 286.
PERRY COUNTY, situated in the central part of Pennsylvania, with Susquehanna river on the east and traversed by the Juniata. Area, 540 square miles. Face of the, country, generally hilly; soil, productive. Seat of justice, New Bloomfield. Pop. in 1820, 11,342; in 1830, 14,361; in 1840, 17,096; in 1850, 20,088.
Edwin Coppoc (Ohio State Historical and Archaeological Society)
Reference
The Ohio State Historical and Archaeological Society, Ohio Archaeological and Historical Publications, vol. 30 (Columbus: Fred J. Herr, 1921), 412.
At last on Sunday night, October 16, nineteen men fully armed marched from the Kennedy Farm. Edwin Coppoc was among the number. Barclay remained behind with Merriam and Owen Brown to guard arms and stores.