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... leaving his impress upon the community at large . Mr. Sloo seems to have taken up his residence in Illinois during the spring of 1820 , when he was in his thirtieth year . Although a com- paratively young man his previous career had ...
... leaving his impress upon the community at large . Mr. Sloo seems to have taken up his residence in Illinois during the spring of 1820 , when he was in his thirtieth year . Although a com- paratively young man his previous career had ...
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... leaving Illinois as in any sense a desertion of the field of combat in the hour of political defeat . His correspondence shows that his prospects for future success in the political arena were good and the success obtained by his ...
... leaving Illinois as in any sense a desertion of the field of combat in the hour of political defeat . His correspondence shows that his prospects for future success in the political arena were good and the success obtained by his ...
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... leaving Birkbeck estranged at his English prairie home , piloted the little party of new comers to the rude log cabin built by young Fordham himself for the reception of the Flower family and Miss Fordham . A little later Charles , the ...
... leaving Birkbeck estranged at his English prairie home , piloted the little party of new comers to the rude log cabin built by young Fordham himself for the reception of the Flower family and Miss Fordham . A little later Charles , the ...
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... leaving a family of three small sons . One of these sons , Charles , has been for 45 years a member of a prominent New York business house . During the War of the Rebellion he distinguished himself in both the army and the navy ; and ...
... leaving a family of three small sons . One of these sons , Charles , has been for 45 years a member of a prominent New York business house . During the War of the Rebellion he distinguished himself in both the army and the navy ; and ...
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... leaving New York . I mentioned in my last letter that cholera was making much headway in the city , so much that the board of health thought it most prudent to report only the hospital cases . When I had fixed the day for departure I ...
... leaving New York . I mentioned in my last letter that cholera was making much headway in the city , so much that the board of health thought it most prudent to report only the hospital cases . When I had fixed the day for departure I ...
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Page 71 - The pains of death are past; Labor and sorrow cease ; And, life's long warfare closed at last, His soul is found in peace. Soldier of Christ, well done ! Praise be thy new employ ; And, while eternal ages run, Rest in thy Saviour's joy.
Page 15 - History of the first New Hampshire Regiment in the War of the Revolution.
Page 69 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last — far off — at last, to all, And every winter change to spring.
Page 71 - The voice at midnight came; He started up to hear ; A mortal arrow pierced his frame — He fell, but felt no fear.
Page 51 - Huguenot family which had fled from France at the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes and settled in Guernsey.
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Page 15 - The Siege of Charleston by the British fleet and army under the Command of Admiral Arbuthnot and Sir Henry Clinton, which terminated with the Surrender of that Place on the 12th of May, 1780.
Page 71 - For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
Page 70 - Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord." They rest from their labors and their works do follow them.
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