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The result was a Newtonian of exquisite definition, with an aperture of two, and a focal length of twenty feet, provided by a novel artifice with the equatoreal mounting, previously regarded as available only for refractors. This beautiful instrument afforded to its maker, October 10, 1846, a cursory view of a Neptunian attendant.
So, not unnaturally, being a friend of the family, I came to know a good many of them very well. For another set of them you may choose the names to please yourselves the history of my relationship goes back to the Sunday school of the Church of the Unity in Worcester. The first time I ever preached in that church, namely, May 3, 1846, there was but one person in it who had gray hair.
In 1846 he returned to Russia to accept the trust of Commercial Counsellor in the head office of the Company in St. Petersburg.
There is another city on the shore of a tideless sea, and it will be the joyful morning of eternal life, when, earthly journeys ended, we walk over its golden streets! San Francisco Her Hills Her Landscapes Population of Different Decades The Flag on the Plaza in 1846 Yerba Buena its Earliest Name First Englishman and First American to Build Here The Palace Hotel The Story of the Discovery of.
J. McCune Smith, three Negroes of New York City, known to be representative of the best of the race. Upon their recommendations he deeded unconditionally to black men in 1846 three hundred small farms in Franklin, Essex, Hamilton, Fulton, Oneida, Delaware, Madison and Ulster counties, giving to each settler beside $10.00 to enable him to visit his farm.
AGASSIZ, JEAN LOUIS RUDOLPHE. Born at Motier, canton of Fribourg, Switzerland, May 28, 1807; professor of natural history at Neuchâtel, 1832; studied Aar glacier, 1840-41; came to United States, 1846; professor of zoölogy and geology at Cambridge, 1848; curator of Cambridge Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, 1859; travelled in Brazil, 1865-66; around Cape Horn, 1871-72; died at Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 14, 1873.
Strange that in thirty years' residence of the sly Muscovites at Fort Ross, in the long, idle leisure of the employees of the Hudson Bay station at Yerba Buena Cove from 1836 to 1846, even with the astute Swiss Captain Sutter at New Helvetia, all capacities of the fruitful land have been so strangely ignored. The slumber of two hundred and fifty years is over.
"Yes; being summoned by all the boys to see that nothing would teach a Scotchman cricket." "Ah! you have got the last word, for here comes Ailie." "Of course," said Alison, coming in; "Ermine has had the pith of the story, so I had better ask at once what it is." "That the Beauchamp Eleven beat Her Majesty's th Foot on Midsummer Day, 1846, is the pith of what I have as yet heard," said Ermine.
Before Kearny could cross the mountains, Larkin and Sloat had taken possession of California, almost unresisted. In September, 1846, General Taylor won a brilliant victory at Monterey, twenty miles south of the Rio Grande, and his forces were being augmented every day for the march overland to the City of Mexico.
From 1842 to 1846 he was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives, and was, from 1850 to 1852, a member of the State Senate. He was Major of the Thirty-First Illinois Infantry, but resigned on account of ill health in the early part of the war. In 1864 he was elected a Representative to Congress from Illinois, and was succeeded in the Fortieth Congress by Green B. Raum.
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