Library of Southern Literature: Biographical dictionary of authors

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Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Kent
Martin & Hoyt Company, 1910 - American literature
 

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Page 91 - Surrounded by other more suitably exclaiming women, she belongs to the Daughters of the American Revolution and the United Daughters of the Confederacy, attending teas.
Page 131 - Description re-printed of the healthiest, pleasantest, and richest Plantation of NEW ALBION IN NORTH VIRGINIA, proved by thirteen witnesses.
Page 99 - Selections in Prose and Poetry, from the Miscellaneous Writings of the Late William Crafts, to which is Prefixed 'a Memoir of His Life
Page 457 - Lincoln had been a member of the Convention that framed the Constitution of the United States, and...
Page 245 - Digest of the Laws Respecting Real Property Generally Adopted and in Use in the United States,' in three volumes (Philadelphia. 1839), and a 'Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators Generally in Use in the United States,' in two volumes (Richmond, 1856).
Page 133 - Recollections of Ten Years Passed in the Valley of the Mississippi' (1826), but he also wrote several novels, the best being 'Francis Berrian,' a tale of Mexico. He died in 1840. FLISCH, JULIA A. Educator and author. [Ga.]. She wrote an entertaining novel entitled 'Ashes of Hopes' (New York, Funk and Wagnalls, 1886), besides minor works, including essays and sketches. FLORY, JOHN SAMUEL, educator, was born at Broadway, Va.. March 29, 1866. For several years he has been engaged in educational work...
Page 248 - During the Revolution he was president of the province and on the fall of Charleston into the hands of the British, was taken prisoner, He opposed the adoption of the Federal Constitution because it centralized too much power in the Federal Government; and, in one of his impassioned outbursts he declared: "I wish for no other epitaph than this: 'Here lies one who opposed the Federal Constitution, holding it to be fatal to the liberties of his country.
Page 358 - ... the class the name of the case, the book and page where it was to be found, which our young plumed knight always did." At that time, the full law course at Columbia covered two years. Marshall did them both in one. After leaving the Law School, he returned to Syracuse where he entered a law office, and at the age of twenty-one, he was admitted to the Bar. This formal statement of his education would be incom'plete without adding to it the branches of knowledge which he apparently taught himself,...
Page 321 - Pa. church in Lexington. At the outbreak of the Civil War he joined the Confederate Army as captain of artillery, became commander of the artillery of the Army of Northern Virginia, with the rank of brigadiergeneral, and participated in nearly every engagement from Manassas to Apppmattox. At the -close of hostilities he returned to the church at Lexington. General Lee was one of his parishioners. Dr. Pendleton published 'Science a Witness for the Bible
Page 354 - The American Revolution and the Mississippi Valley " (1884) ; " The Attempt to separate the West from the American Union (1885); and " The Purchase of the Louisiana« Territory in its Influence on the American System