Textbook
Panic of 1857 (McPherson, 2001)
James M. McPherson, Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction, 3rd ed. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001), 122-123.
The minimal impact of the Panic of 1857 in the South underscored Southern boasts about the superiority of their system. While many Northern businesses failed, banks closed, and factories shut down during the depression, causing unemployment and suffering among Northern workers during the winter of 1857-1858, cotton prices held firm and cotton crops set new records. This led Senator James Hammond to deliver his famous “King Cotton” speech in the Senate on March 4, 1858.
Frederick Douglass, Obituary (New York Times)
Obituary
"Death of Fred Douglass," New York Times, February 21, 1895, p. 1: 3.
WASHINGTON, Feb, 20, - Frederick Douglass dropped dead in the hallway of his residence on Anacostia Heights this evening at 7 o’clock. He had been in the highest spirits, and apparently in the best of health, despite his seventy-eight years, when death overtook him.
August Belmont (New York Times)
Obituary
“August Belmont,” New York Times, November 25, 1890, p. 4: 4.
The death of Mr. AUGUST BELMONT, following at no great interval that of Mr. JOHN JACOB ASTOR, removes another of the conspicuous figures that have connected the modern city of New-York with the era of the stage coach and packet boat. Although Mr.
Charles Albright (New York Times)
Obituary
“Charles Albright,” New York Times, September 29, 1880, p. 5: 2.
Gen. Charles Albright, a leading lawyer of Mauch Chunk, Penn., died yesterday morning of paralysis. He was born in Berks County, Penn., Dec. 13, 1830, and received his education at Dickinson College. After preliminary legal studies, he admitted to the Bar in 1852. He spent a year or two in Kansas, and returned to Pennsylvania in 1856. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1860. Soon after the breaking out of the war he entered the Army, and was commissioned as Colonel, commanding the Third Brigade, at Chancellorsville.
Richard McAllister (McAllister, 1898)
Reference
Mary Catharine McAllister, Descendants of Archibald McAllister, of West Pennsboro Township, Cumberland County, Pa. (Harrisburg, PA: Scheffer’s Printing/Bookbinding House, 1898), 79.
32—RICHARD MCALLISTER,5, b. 1819; d. 1887. Was born at Fort Hunter, Pa. Graduated at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., and went to Georgia to enter the law office of Matthew Hall McAllister, 4. While south he met and married his first wife, and came to Harrisburg to live. He finished his law studies with the Hon. Hamilton Alricks, and was admitted to the Dauphin County bar, November, 1841. Was Deputy Attorney General under Governor Shunk. During the war he was General Grant's Chief Commissary in the Department of the Mississippi. Removed to Washington, D.
Nantucket, Massachusetts (Hayward)
Gazetteer/Almanac
John Hayward, Gazetteer of the United States of America… (Philadelphia: James L. Gihon, 1854), 465-466.
Nantucket, Ms., county and town. On an island of the same name in the Atlantic Ocean, about 30 miles S. of Cape Cod. This island is about 15 miles in length from E. to W., and about 4 miles in average breadth, containing about 50 square miles. It is mostly a plain, varying from 25 to 40 feet above the level of the sea, entirely destitute of trees and shrubbery, or any sign of them, although it was once covered with forest. The highest point of elevation on the island is 80 feet above the sea.
James William Marshall (New York Times)
Obituary
“James William Marshall,” New York Times, February 6, 1910, p. 11: 5.
James William Marshall.
Lexington, Kentucky (Fanning's, 1853)
Gazetteer/Almanac
Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States.... (New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853), 343.
LEXINGTON, city, seat of justice of Fayette co., Ky., 24 ms. S. E. of Frankfort, situated on a branch of Elkhorn river, 70 miles from Louisville, and 515 from Washington. It is the oldest town in the state, and was formerly the capital. It has many handsome, paved streets. Main street being 75 feet wide, and 1 1/2 miles in length. The noble shade-trees that border the streets, give it a pleasing appearance. A large public square adorns the centre of the place, which is surrounded by stately private mansions.
August Belmont (National Cyclopaedia)
Reference
“Belmont, August,” The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (New York: James T. White & Company, 1901), 2: 499.
BELMONT, August, banker and diplomat, was born at Alzei in the Palatinate, Rhenish Prussia, Dec. 8, 1816, son of a wealthy landed proprietor, who gave to his son every opportunity of self-improvement in the best schools of the locality, and under the most thorough instructors. When the son was fourteen years of age, he was placed in the Frankfort house of the great banking firm of Rothschild Bros. , in order that he should become a thorough master of the principles of financiering.
James William Marshall (Directory of Executive Branch)
Reference
Robert Sobel, ed., “Marshall, James William,” Biographical Directory of the United States Executive Branch, 1774-1989, (New York: Greenwood Press, 1990), 243.
MARSHALL James William. Born in Clarke County, Va., August 14, 1822; never married; spent early years in Mount Sterling Ky.; attended local schools of Clarke County; graduated Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1848; became professor at Dickinson College, 1848-1850, and was made full professor of foreign languages, 1850-1861; appointed U.S.