Identifier: americaencyclopa00newm (find matches)
Title: America: an encyclopaedia of its history and biography
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Newman, Stephen Morrell. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Chicago, Coburn & Cook publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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had preserved. Theyfinally reached Cape Farewell, at thesouthern extremity of Greenland, andfound transportation to Europe in 1870.The other vessel pushed on up the coastof East Greenland, and found a great bayfar north, but could go no further,and therefore returned. It is supposedthat they may have struck the northernshores of Greenland. 1869. July 12. The volcano ofColima, which had shown no signs oflife for forty years, began to emit smoke.A flood of melted matter poured forthafterward, covering the country in sever-al directions. Its activity remained greatfor some years. FREKCH mSLE. 1869. July 14. Telegraphic com-munication was opened be- ^^^^ y,^,^2^tween France and theUnited States, by the com-pletion of the cable from near Brest toDuxbury, !Mass. It comes by the way ofthe island of St. Pierre, and has a lengthof 3S57 miles. 1869. Aug. 7. A total eclipse of thesun, and which was visible in portionsof the United States, occurred upon thisdate. the Irish. Churchdisestablished.
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740 1869. Aug. 16. A national laborconvention met at Philadelphia, for thepurpose of considering the position ofworkingmen. 1869. Sept. 1. A national temper-ance convention met at Chicago, hav-ing the ol)jcct of promoting the forma-tion of a national prohihitory party. WILLMM FITT FESSEKDEX. 1869. Sept. 8. This eminent ^Vmeri-can politician and statesman died, agedsixty-two years. He was born in Port-huul, Me., October i6, iSo6, and gradu-ated at Bowdoin College in 1823, twoyears before the celebrated class whichcontained Longfellow, Hawthorne, JohnS. C. Abbott, and other eminent men.After practising law from 1827 to 1S29at Hridgeton, Me., he opened an office inPortland, and gained speedy success. Itwas not long before he was called toenter political life, by an election to thestate legislature, given him by the whigs.He served a number of terms at differenttimes. l?ut his chief service was in thesenate of the United States, of which hewas a member a great part of the timeafter 1851.

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