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Title: Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America : embracing history, statesmanship, naval and military life, philosophy, the drama, science, literature and art, with biographies
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Duyckinck, Evert A. (Evert Augustus), 1816-1878
Subjects: Biography Portraits
Publisher: New York : Johnson, Wilson
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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d in other ways cheering the visitorwith intellectual and refined associa-tions. Alice also took much interestin the social efforts of the day for theassertion of the claims and the ame-lioration of the condition of women. So twenty years passed away of thisresidence of the sisters in New York.Continuous confinement to the laborsof the desk, though pursued with sys-tem lightening the toil, were nowwearing upon a delicate, sensitive or-ganization. After a period of brokenhealth, during which she suffered noabatement of her intellectual powers,Alice expired at her residence in NewYork, on the 12th of February, 1870.The funeral services were held at theChurch of the Strangers, presided overby her friend Dr. Deems, who deliver-ed a discourse of much feelins: on theoccasion. A few months after, thecompanion of so many years, allied toher so closely in fame, her sisterPhoebe died at Newport, Rhode Island(the last day of July, 1871), and waslaid by her side in the rural cemeteryof Greenwood.
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JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN. THIS eminent statesman, like tiscontemporary, Andrew Jackson,was of Irish parentage. His grand-father, James Calhoun of Donegal,with many of the inhabitants of thatnorthern portion of the country aPresbyterian in faith, came to Ameri-ca in the year 1733, bringing with himhis son Patrick, a boy six years old.The family first landed in Pennsyl-vania, where they settled for a time inWythe County, in the western regionof Virginia, whence tliey were drivenby the Indian disturbances attendantupon the opening of the old Frenchwar, to emigrate further, to SouthCarolina. In this province they estab-lished themselves at a spot which be-came known as the Calhoun settle-ment, in the Abbeville district on theupper waters of the Savannah, then aremote frontier territory. This south-ern removal took place in 1756, afterthe defeat of General Braddock, whenVirginia lay open to Indian hostilities.It proved in the end an exchange of asingle peril for others far more formi-dable. I

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