American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Oliver Hazard Perry (August 20, 1785-August 23, 1819) was a U.S. Navy Captain. He was the brother of Commodore Matthew C. Perry. In the War of 1812, Captain Oliver Hazard Perry was responsible for the victory over the British fleet on Lake Erie, September 10, 1813. The sailors on deck with him heard him say: <The prayers of my wife are answered.> 1785OP001 He then dispatched a message to the Secretary of the Navy, saying: <It has pleased the Almighty to give the arms of the United States a signal victory over their enemies on this lake. The British squadron,...

John McLean (March 11, 1785-April 4, 1861) was a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1829-61. He had served as a U.S. Representative from Ohio, 1813-16; a justice on the Supreme Court of Ohio, 1816-22; and the U.S. Postmaster General, 1823-29. On November 4, 1852, in a letter from Chapel Wood, John McLean wrote to the American Bible Society: <No one can estimate or describe the salutary influence of the Bible. What would the world be without it? Compare the dark places of the earth, where the light of the Gospel has not penetrated, with those where it has been proclaimed...

Georgia University (January 27, 1785) was founded by Abraham Baldwin, a signer of the Constitution of the United States. Through his far-sighted efforts, Baldwin secured for the university 40,000 acres of land. His expertise in law and ministry was manifest in his writing of the Charter of the College of Georgia: <An act for the more full and complete establishment of a public seat of learning in this State. When the minds of the people in general are viciously disposed and unprincipled, and their conduct disorderly, a free government will be attended with greater confusions and evils more horrid than...

Connecticut Western Reserve Lands (1785-1786) arrangements were enacted in the Legislature for the sale of the Western Reserve Lands, which included a provision that there should be reserved in each township: 500 acres for the gospel, 500 acres for schools and 240 acres: <To be granted in fee simple to the first gospel minister who shall settle in such town.> 1785CT001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1785CT001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Connecticut, 1785-1786. Allen Nevins, The American States During and After the Revolution: 1770-1789 (New York:...

Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784-July 9, 1850) was the 12th President of the United States, 1849-50, famed as a national military hero; Major General during Mexican War, 1846-48; fought General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna at Buena Vista, 1847; fought at Monterrey, Resaca de la Palma, Palo Alto, Matamoros, 1846; commanded Army of Occupation on Mexican border, 1845; took command of Fort Jesup, 1844; commanded Department of Florida, 1838; Brigadier General in Seminole War, 1836-37, fighting in the Battle of Okeehobee, 1837; Colonel in the Black Hawk War, 1832; took command of Fort Crawford, 1832, Fort Snelling, 1829; established Fort...