See also:RICHARD See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
HENRY See also:DANA (1815-1882)
, son of the last-mentioned, was See also:born in See also:Cambridge, See also:Massachusetts, on the 1st of See also:August 1815
.
He entered Harvard in the class of 1835, but at the beginning of his junior See also:year an illness affecting his sight necessitated a suspension of his See also:college See also:work, and in August 1834 he shipped before the See also:mast for See also:California, returning in See also:September 1836
.
The rough experience of this voyage did more than endow him with renewed See also:health; it changed him from a dreamy, sensitive boy, hereditarily disinclined to any sort of active career, into a self-reliant, energetic See also:man, with Broad interests and keen sympathies
.
He re-entered Harvard in See also:December 1836 and graduated in See also:June 1837
.
He was a student at the Harvard See also:law school from 1837 to 1840, and from See also:January 1839 to See also:February 184o he was also an instructor in elocution in the college
.
In 184o the notes of his See also:sea-trip were published under the See also:title Two Years Before the Mast
.
The See also:book attained an almost unprecedented popularity both in See also:America and in See also:Europe, where it was translated into several See also:languages; and it came to be considered a classic
.
Immediately after the See also:appearance of this book See also:Dana began the practice of law, which brought him a large number of maritime cases
.
In 1841 he published The See also:Seaman's Friend, republished in See also:England as The Seaman's See also:Manual, which was See also:long the highest authority on the legal rights and duties of See also:seamen
.
After gaining recognition as one of the most prominent members of the See also:Suffolk See also:bar, he became associated in 1848 with the See also:Free See also:Soil See also:movement, and took a prominent See also:part in the See also:Buffalo See also:convention of that year
.
This step, which caused him to be ostracized for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time from the See also:Boston circles in which he had been reared, brought him the cases of the fugitive slaves, Shadrach, See also:Sims and See also:Burns, and of the rescuers of Shadrach
.
On the See also:night following the surrender of Burns (May 1854) Dana was brutally assaulted on the Boston streets
.
In 1853 he took a prominent part in the See also:state constitutional convention
.
He allied himself with the Republican party on its organization, but his inborn dislike for See also:political manoeuvring prevented his ever becoming prominent in its See also:councils
.
In 1857 he became a See also:regular attendant at the meetings of the famous Boston Saturday See also:Club, to the members of which he dedicated his See also:account of a vacation trip, To See also:Cuba and Back (1857)
.
He returned to America from a trip See also:round the See also:world in time to participate in the presidential See also:campaign of 1860, and after See also:Lincoln's inauguration he was appointed See also:United States See also:district See also:attorney for Massachusetts
.
In this See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office in 1863 he won before the Supreme See also:Court of the United States the famous See also:prize See also:case of the "Amy See also:Warwick," on the decision in which depended the right of the See also:government to See also:blockade the See also:Con-federate ports, without giving the Confederate States an inter-See also:national status as belligerents
.
He brought out in 1865 an edition of See also:Wheaton's See also:International Law, his notes constituting a most learned and valuable authority on international law and its See also:bearings on See also:American See also:history and See also:diplomacy; but immediately after its publication Dana was charged by the editor of two earlier See also:editions, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Beach See also:- LAWRENCE
- LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
- LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
- LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
- LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
- LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
- LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
- LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
- LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)
Lawrence, with infringing his See also:copyright, and was involved in litigation which was continued
for thirteen years
.
In such See also:minor matters as arrangement of notes and verification of citations the court found against Dana, but in the See also:main Dana's notes were vastly different from Lawrence's
.
In 1865 Dana declined an See also:appointment as a United States district See also:judge
.
During the Reconstruction See also:period he favoured the congressional See also:plan rather than that of See also:President See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson, and on this account resigned the district-attorneyship
.
In 1867—1868 he was a member of the Massachusetts See also:House of Representatives, and in 1867 was retained with William M
.
See also:Evarts to prosecute See also:Jefferson See also:Davis, whose See also:admission to See also:bail he counselled
.
In 1877 he was one of the counsel for the United States before the See also:commission which in accordance with the treaty of See also:Washington met at See also:Halifax, N.S., to arbitrate the See also:fisheries question between the United States and See also:Great See also:Britain
.
In 1878 he gave up his law practice and devoted the See also:rest of his See also:life to study and travel
.
He died in See also:Rome, See also:Italy, on the 9th of January 1882
.
See See also:Charles See also:Francis See also:- ADAMS
- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
- ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
- ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
- ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT (i858— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
- ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
- ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
- ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
- ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)
Adams, See also:Richard See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry Dana: a See also:Biography (2 vols., Boston, See also:Mass., 1891)
.
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