The Historical Register: A Biographical Record of the Men of Our Time who Have Contributed to the Making of AmericaEdwin Charles Hill, Bela James Porter Edwin C. Hill, 1923 |
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Page 105 - Society ; the degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by the University of Glasgow in 1806; and in 1808 he was elected a member of the French Institute.
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Page 118 - The deputies having conceived great danger to our state, in regard that our magistrates, for want of positive laws, in many cases, might proceed according to their discretions, it was agreed, that some men should be appointed to frame a body of grounds of laws, in resemblance to a Magna Charta, which, being allowed by some of the ministers, and the general court, should be received for fundamental laws.
Page 14 - Thomas, published in 1698, he mentions " all sorts of very good paper are made in the German Town." The mill at which this paper was made, was the first paper mill erected in the British colonies. What was then called the German Town,3 was afterwards, and is now, known by the name of Germantown, five miles distant from Philadelphia.4 The mill was constructed with logs. The building covered a water...
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Page 204 - York, which, from that time, continued to be the place of meeting until the adoption of the Constitution of the United States. From 1781 to 1788, Congress met annually on the first Monday in November, pursuant to the Articles of Confederation.
Page 104 - Alabama, began the study of medicine and graduated from the medical department of the University of Louisville in April, 1869.
Page 65 - League since 1882; also he was a life member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and Valley Forge Historical Society.
Page 106 - the best essay on any subject connected with surgery or surgical pathology," his subject being "Amputation at the Ankle-joint." In 1878 he received the first prize of the American Medical Association for an essay on "The Surgical Anatomy and Surgery of the Carotid Arteries...