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Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
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oted to impeach the President. Thetrial of the President followed and ended onthe 26th of May, and during its progress GeneralSchofield had been nominated to the Senate assecretary of war. When the Senate failed toconvict the President. Stanton at once retiredand the nomination of Schofield was confirmed.He left the office which he had held formore than six years a comparatively youngman, but broken in health by the unremittingtoil and anxiety which he had undergone.His income which had been considerable whenhe took office had been so reduced that he hadnothing but his house in Washington, and hewas obliged to resume the practice of his pro-fession. He argued several important cases, buthis powers were exhausted, and he graduallyfailed. His last argument was made at a hear-ing in his own library in December 1869, and henever left the house again. The approachineresignation of Judge Grier made a prospectivevacancy on the Supreme Bench and on therecommendation of the leading men in both
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STANTON — STANWOOD Houses of Congress President Grant nominatedStanton to the place on 20 Dec. l86g. His nom-ination was at once confirmed and he hved tofeel the pleasure of receiving the only oflficewhich he ever desired, but his work was doneand he died four days later. A sincere, un-selfish, patriotic man, the result of the CivilWar was due in no small part to his labors.MooRFiELD Storey,Author ^Life of Charles Sumner. Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, American re-former: b. Johnstown, N. Y., 12 Nov. 1815; d.New York, 26 Oct. 1902. She was graduatedfrom Emma Willard Seminary. Troy, N. Y.,in 1832 and was married to Henry BrewsterStanton (q.v.) in 1840. Her attention was firstattracted to the disabilities of her sex when at15 she was prepared to enter college and foundnone in which she could obtain the educationwhich her brothers received. She afterwardstudied Blackstone, Story, and Kent, and whilein London, in 1847, met Lucretia Mott, withwhom in the following year she issued the firstcall

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