The Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, Volumen 5,Números 2-4Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania., 1922 |
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... died there in 1851 being eighty - four years old . David S. Knox was the son of his father's second wife , Mary ... died in infancy . David Knox's first wife died in 1833 and about three years later he married Miss Rebecca Page of ...
... died there in 1851 being eighty - four years old . David S. Knox was the son of his father's second wife , Mary ... died in infancy . David Knox's first wife died in 1833 and about three years later he married Miss Rebecca Page of ...
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... died in 1872. In best of spirits and in ap- parent good health he retired and before morning he was dead . It would be interesting to know something more about Knox's grandmother than we do . She had the good sensible name of Mary Smith ...
... died in 1872. In best of spirits and in ap- parent good health he retired and before morning he was dead . It would be interesting to know something more about Knox's grandmother than we do . She had the good sensible name of Mary Smith ...
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... died soon after his graduation . The fall and winter after his father died , Knox was in the Mononga- hela Bank on a small salary . He had early made up his mind to study law . It is said that he told his parents that he in- tended to ...
... died soon after his graduation . The fall and winter after his father died , Knox was in the Mononga- hela Bank on a small salary . He had early made up his mind to study law . It is said that he told his parents that he in- tended to ...
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... died in 1877 and the firm of Knox & Reed was formed shortly after his death . The nephew held some of his uncle's clients . Knox , as Assistant United States District Attorney , with offices in the Federal Build- ing adjoining the ...
... died in 1877 and the firm of Knox & Reed was formed shortly after his death . The nephew held some of his uncle's clients . Knox , as Assistant United States District Attorney , with offices in the Federal Build- ing adjoining the ...
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... the Supreme Court when he died . Knox's personal characteristics were interesting . He was very companionable and a most delightful office asso- ciate . He was never captious and seldom irritable . Hon . Philander Chase Knox 129.
... the Supreme Court when he died . Knox's personal characteristics were interesting . He was very companionable and a most delightful office asso- ciate . He was never captious and seldom irritable . Hon . Philander Chase Knox 129.
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Página 303 - Logan, not even sparing my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it; I have killed many; I have fully glutted my vengeance; for my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 303 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat : if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, 'Logan is the friend of white men.
Página 154 - These are the times that try men's souls : The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it Now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Página 303 - ... I appeal to any white man to say if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry and he gave him not meat, if ever he came cold and naked and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites that my countrymen pointed as they passed and said, ' Logan is the friend of the white man.
Página 223 - I put out my setting-pole to try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by ; when the rapidity of the stream threw it with so much violence against the pole, that it jerked me out into ten feet water ; but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs.
Página 222 - As I had taken a good deal of notice yesterday of the situation at the Fork, my curiosity led me to examine this more particularly, and I think it greatly inferior, either for defence or advantages ; especially the latter.
Página 222 - Nature has well contrived this lower place for water defence; but the hill whereon it must stand being about a quarter of a mile in length, and then descending gradually on the land side, will render it difficult and very expensive to make a sufficient fortification there. The whole flat upon the hill must be taken in, the side next the descent made extremely high, or else the hill itself cut away: otherwise, the enemy may raise batteries within that distance without being exposed to a single shot...
Página 181 - DRAMA, and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management (and if a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to wit: 1.
Página 223 - The cold was so extremely severe, that Mr. Gist had all his fingers and some of his toes frozen, and the water was shut up so hard, that we found no difficulty in getting off the island on the ice in the morning,* and went to Mr. Frazier's.
Página 228 - As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.