Portrait and Biographical Album of Osceola County [Mich.] Containing ... Biographical Sketches of Prominent ... Citizens ... Also ... a Complete History of the County, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present TimeChapman brothers, 1884 - 5 sivua |
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80 acres acres of land army became Big Rapids born April born Aug born Dec born Feb born Jan born Oct born Sept bought building Charles Church Congress D. A. Blodgett daughter deceased Detroit died District elected engaged enlisted established Evart Evart Township farm farmer father four George Gooch Grand Rapids Hartwick Township Hersey Township homestead Indians interest Jackson James John June labor Lake later Le Roy Township Lincoln Lincoln Township living located on section lumber marriage married Mary Mecosta County ment miles mill mother was born Muskegon River native Ohio operated organized Orient Township OSCEOLA COUNTY Osceola Township parents party political purchased Railroad Reed City regiment removed Republican resident Richmond Township Rose Lake Township settled settlers shingles sketch spring Supervisor thence tion took town Treasurer village wife William York
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Sivu 27 - July; and at the same time, it was voted that a committee be appointed to prepare a Declaration to the effect of the resolution. This committee was elected by ballot, on the following day, and consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston.
Sivu 23 - The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward, forevermore.
Sivu 24 - You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil, and blood and treasure, that it will cost to maintain this declaration, and support and defend these States; yet, through all the gloom, I can see the rays of light and glory. I can see that the end is worth more than all the means; and that posterity will triumph, although you and I may rue, which I hope we shall not.
Sivu 146 - I recommend you at an early day to make manifest to the gentlemen who represent this State in the two Houses of Congress, and to the country, that Michigan is loyal to the Union, the Constitution, and the laws and will defend them to the uttermost ; and to proffer to the President of the United States, the whole military power of the State for that purpose. Oh, for the firm, steady hand of a Washington, or a Jackson, to guide the ship of State in this perilous storm ! Let us hope that we will find...
Sivu 24 - In the course of the day he said, " It is a great and glorious day." The last words he uttered were, "Jefferson survives.
Sivu 40 - Massachusetts, from Boston, and then was elected Senator of the United States for six years, from the 4th of March, 1804.
Sivu 353 - All these works, though many of them costly in the extreme, give but a faint idea of the lives and characters of those whose memory they were intended to perpetuate, and scarcely anything of the masses of the people that then lived. The great pyramids and . some of the obelisks remain objects only of curiosity; the mausoleums, monuments and statues are crumbling into dust.
Sivu 23 - school of affliction," from which he endeavored to gain relief by devoting himself, in addition, to the study of law. For this purpose he placed himself under the tuition of the only lawyer in the town. He had thought seriously of the clerical profession but seems to have been turned from this by what he termed " the frightful engines of ecclesiastical counjils, of diabolical malice, and Calvanistic good nature,'' of the operations of which he had been a witness in his native town.
Sivu 83 - His parents, belonging to the class of the "poor whites " of the South, were in such circumstances, that they could not confer even the slightest advantages of education upon their child. When Andrew was five years of age, his father accidentally lost his life while herorically endeavoring to save a friend from drowning. Until ten years of age, Andrew was a ragged boy about the streets, supported by the labor of his mother, who obtained her living with her own hands.
Sivu 19 - George was 1 4 years old he had a desire to go to sea, and a midshipman's warrant was secured for him, but through the opposition of his mother the idea was abandoned. Two years later he was appointed surveyor to the immense estate of Lord Fairfax. In this business he spent three years in a rough frontier life...