An essay on the origin of the Linnaean society of Lancaster city and county, its objects and progress. Read before the association on its 4th anniversary, at the Athenaeum rooms, February 24th, 1866
A constitutional view of the late war between the states : its causes, character, conduct and results ; presented in a series of colloquies at Liberty Hall
Printed at the Methodist Book Concern, for the author,
Date of Publication
1863.
Physical Description
546 p. port. 19 cm.
Summary
This is an autobiography. The author was born in Lancaster, PA, in 1811. His parents sailed from Ireland in 1801.
Notes
Maxwell Pierson Gaddis (1811-1888) was a prolific author and Methodist itinerant preacher. His best known book is his autobiography "Footprints of an Itinerant".
A story of the Hartman family's immigration to America from Germany, the attack by Indians in their American home, and the abduction of two daughters by native Indians.
Van Wyck served as a Civil War Union Brigadier General, US Congressman, US Senator. He was the Sullivan County, New York, District Attorney 1850 to 1856 and was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses, serving 1859 to 1863.After his term, he entered the Union Army as Colonel of the 56th Regiment, New York Volunteers and commanded it during the Civil War.He was brevetted Brigadier General for services during the war and elected to the Fortieth Congress, serving 1867 to 1869. He moved to Nebraska in 1874 and was elected as a Republican to the US Senate and served from 1881 to 1887.
Summary
This speech was made a year before the Civil War criticizing slavery and the Democrat party.