Hunt (GAILLARD an American leans La)
GAILLARD, an American leans, La., in 1862. He was educated at Haven and the Emerson Institute in the Hopkins Grammar School in New Washington. From 1900 to 1909 he served as chief of the Bureau of Citizenship at the Department of State, and from 1909 was chief of the Division of Manuscripts , Library of Congress. He was a member of many committees apship. He was a lecturer on nationality pointed to investigate matters of citizenin George Washington University and also lecturer at Johns Hopkins University. He was a member of many his torical societies. His published writings include a history of "The Seal of the United States" (1909); "The Department of State: Its History and Functions" (1914); "Life in America One Hundred Years Ago" (1914). He also wrote the lives of Calhoun and Madison, and other American statesmen. He edited "The Writings of James Madison" and "The Journals of the Continental Congress." He also edited James Madison's "Journal of Debates in the Constitutional Convention" (1917).
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RICHARD MORRIS, an American architect; born in Brattleboro, Vt., Oct. 31, 1828; finished the study of his profession in Paris; and was employed on the extension of the National Capitol. Among the structures designed by him are the Presbyterian Hospital, Lenox Library, the William K. Vanderbilt mansion, the "Tribune" Building, etc., in New York City; the Yorktown Monument, Va.; the pedestal of the "Statue of Liberty," on Bedloe's Island, New York harbor; etc. He died in Newport, R. I., July 31, 1895.
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THOMAS STERRY, an American chemist and geologist; born in Norwich, Conn., Sept. 5, 1826. He was for a period assistant to the elder Silliman at Yale College; 1847 to 1872 was chemist and minera mineralogist t mineralogist to the Canadian Professor of Chem- Geological Survey: istry at Laval University (1856-1862) ) and at McGill University (1862-1868 ; 1872-1878 Professor of Geology in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In organic chemistry his name is identified with a system essentially his own, and his researches into the composition of rocks were of great importance. In 1859 he invented the green ink with which greenbacks are printed. He was made an officer of the Legion of Honor in 1867, and received a fellowship of the Royal Society (1859), and the degree of LL.D. from Cambridge (1881). He published several works on chemistry and mineralogy. He died in New York City, Feb. 12, 1892.
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WILLIAM HOLMAN, an English painter; born in London, England, in 1827. He was trained in the Royal Academy school, and began to exhibit in 1846. He belongs to the socalled PRE-RAPHAELITE (q. v.) school of English artists. In 1853 his "Claudio and Isabella" first attracted public attention, followed next year by the "Light of the World." He then made a journey to the East, the fruits of which are observable in his succeeding pictures: "The Scapegoat" (1856); "The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple" (1860); "Shadow of the Cross" (1873); "Plains of Esdraelon" (1877); "Triumph of the Innocents" (1885). Outside of Biblical subjects Mr. Hunt painted: "Isabella and the Pot of Basil"; "After-Glow"; "Festival of St. Swithin"; etc. He died Sept. 7, 1910.
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FORT, a defensive work at the confluence of the Mohawk river and Schoharie creek, N. Y., where many severe conflicts took place during the Revolutionary and the French-Indian Wars.
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Hunter (DAVID an American military)
2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) DAVID, an American military officer; born in Washington, D. C., July 21, 1802; was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1822; assigned to frontier duty; promoted captain in 1833; resigned from the army in Chicago; rein 1836 and settled entered the army in 1842 as paymaster with the rank of major. On May 17, 1861, he was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers and a few months later major-general. He was given command of the Department of the South in March, 1862, and recruited and organized in South Carolina the first negro regiment in the Union army. He was transferred to the Department of West Virginia in May, 1864; defeated the Confederates at Piedmont, June 5, 1864; was chairman of the commission which tried the conspirators against the life of President Lincoln; brevetted major-general, U. S. A., March 13, 1865, and was retired on account of age, July 31, 1866. He died in Washington, D. C., Feb. 2, 1886.
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Hunter (JOHN a British surgeon)
JOHN, a British surgeon and physiologist; born in Long Calderwood, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Feb. 13, brother William, a prosperous surgeon in London. In 1756 he was appointed house-surgeon at St. George's Hospital. In 1760 he became staffsurgeon and went with the army to Portugal. In 1768 he was appointed surgeon to St. George's Hospital; in 1790 surgeongeneral to the army, and inspectorgeneral of hospitals. Hunter contributed greatly to the development of English surgery, as well as to the advance of anatomy and physiology. One of his chief works was "The Blood, Inflammation and Gunshot Wounds" (1794). His museum was purchased by the Government and presented to the Royal College of Surgeons. He died in London, England, Oct. 16, 1793.
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Hunter (WILLIAM a British anatomist)
WILLIAM, a British anatomist and obstetrician, elder brother of cipal one being at Bath. She died June John Hunter; born in Long Calderwood, Lanarkshire, Scotland, May 23, 1718. Originally educated for the Church at Glasgow University, he studied medicine for one session (1740-1741) at Edinburgh, and went through a long training in anatomy at St. George's Hospital, London. In 1747 he was admitted a member of the Corporation of Surgeons, ultimately confining his practice to midwifery. In 1764 he was appointed physician-extraordinary to Queen Charlotte. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, he in 1768 became Professor of Anatomy to the Royal Academy. His museum was bequeathed to his brother-in-law, Dr. Baillie, and after him, with an endowment of $400,000, to Glasgow University. He wrote: "An Anatomical Description of the Human Gravid Uterus and Its Contents." He died in London, England, March 30, 1783.
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