Word: nathaniel
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Missouri the untiring efforts of Francis P. Blair, who afterwards served with honor as major general, defeated the secret attempts of the Governor to secure the state for the confederacy. Blair seized a camp of the rebels before their plans were matured, acting with Nathaniel Lyon. Lyon boldly disguised himself in the dress of an old lady well known in the locality and was driven all through the camp in her victoria, getting all the information required for success. Lyon and Blair continued their prompt action and drove the confederates to the southwest corner ot the state. There the Southerners...
...Frothingham was the son of Nathaniel Lengdon Frothingham and was born in Boston on Nov. 26, 1822. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1843, and after three years in the divinity school was ordained pastor of the North Church (Unitarian) at Salem, Mass., on March 10, 1847. He preached in Jersey City, N. J., in 1855-'59, then removed to New York, and became pastor of a congregation that in 1860 was organized as "The Third Unitarian Congregational Church," and represented the most radical branch of his denomination. He dissolved this society in 1879, and went to Europe...
...material used will be the finest statuary bronze. The design has not yet been chosen by the committee in charge, but it will, in general plan, be similar to the tablet in memory of Mr. Nathaniel Thayer, in the First Church, Boston. This tablet is in the shape of an unrolled scroll, with ends folded over. It is 5 ft. 6 in. long and 3 ft. 8 in. wide...
...Baker, Byron S. Hurlbut, Charles B. Davenport; for the Graduate School, James Mills Peirce (dean), Clement L. Smith, William G. Farlow, Charles L. Jackson. Edward L. Mark, Benjamin O. Peirce, Hans C. G. von Jagemann, Edward Channing, William J. Ashley, George L. Kittredge; for the Lawrence Scientific School, Nathaniel S. Shaler (dean), Edwin H. Hall, Paul H. Hanus, Ira N. Hollis, John E. Wolff, Herbert L. Warren, Roland Thaxter, James L. Love, George W. Fitz...
Professor Nathaniel Butler, director of the University Extension Department of the University of Chicago has resigned his position in order to accept the presidency of Colby University...