American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Dartmouth College (1754) was founded in New Hampshire by Reverend Eleazar Wheelock by a charter granted by George III. Its alumni included Daniel Webster, who defended the College's Charter before the U.S. Supreme Court, 1819. The Charter of Dartmouth College, 1754, stated: <Whereas...the Reverend Eleazar Wheelock...educated a number of the children on the Indian natives with a view to their carrying the Gospel in their own language and spreading the knowledge of the great Redeemer among their savage tribes. And...the design became reputable among the Indians insomuch that a larger number desired the education of their children in said school....Dartmouth-College...

James McHenry (November 16, 1753-May 3, 1816) was a physician, soldier and politician. He was one of the signers of the Constitution of the United States, a member of the Continental Congress, a Maryland State Legislator, and the U.S. Secretary of War, who supervised the establishment of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Fort McHenry, where, in 1812, the battle with Britain occasioned the writing of our national anthem, was named after him. James McHenry studied medicine under the renowned Dr. Benjamin Rush, himself a signer of the Declaration of Independence. James McHenry served with distinction under General Washington...

Edmund Jennings Randolph (August 10, 1753-September 13, 1813) was an American Revolutionary leader. He was a member of the Continental Congress and delegate to the Constitutional Convention. He was the Governor of Virginia, U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Secretary of State. On June 28, 1787, at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, following the historical address and appeal for prayer by Dr. Benjamin Franklin (which ended the heated debates over state representation), Edmund Jennings Randolph of Virginia proposed: <That a sermon be preached at the request of the convention on the 4th of July, the anniversary of Independence; & thenceforward prayers...

William Linn (1752-1808) was elected on May 1, 1789, as the first Chaplain of U.S. House of Representatives and given a salary of $500 from the Federal Treasury. In 1772, William Linn graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and was ordained by the Donegal Presbytery in 1775. Linn served as a chaplain during the American Revolutionary War and was pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Big Springs, Pennsylvania. William Linn moved to Maryland to be principal of the Washington Academy. In 1787, William Linn was appointed a trustee of Queen's College. He became the second President...

Liberty Bell (August 1752) was cast in England by an order of the Pennsylvania Assembly to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the colony's existence. Founded in 1701, when William Penn wrote the Charter of Privileges, the colony's Assembly declared a "Year of Jubilee" in 1751, and commissioned a bell to be put in the Philadelphia State House. The Liberty Bell got its name from being rung at the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence, July 8, 1776, and it cracked as it was rung at the funeral for Chief Justice John Marshall, 1835. Isaac Norris, the Speaker of...