Identifier: historyofnewyork01loss (find matches)
Title: History of New York City : embracing an outline sketch of events from 1609 to 1830, and a full account of its development from 1830 to 1884
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891
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Publisher: New York : Perine Engraving and Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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of tbe Inter-national Code Committee, trustee of Williams College, and ex-president and a trustee otWells College for Women. Besides these offices and trusts, he is identified with manyinstitutions in the Presbyterian Church, of which he is a member. None of these officesdoes Dr. Prime hold as sinecures, but he is a working member—generally a wheel-horse bearing the brunt—attending all meetings, and giving his time gratuitously toevery cause which he undertakes to promote. Dr. Prime is eminently conservative in all things. He is earnest in controversy.Right or wrong, he deals telling blows. In tbe social circle he is one of the most genialof men, full of wit and humor and pleasant repartee. In the pulpit he is always im-pressive, and his arguments are convincing. As a speaker he is easy, graceful, impas-sioned, and marked by simplicity. He bears the burden of more than threescore andten years with ease. Dr. Prime received his honorary degree from Hampden-Sidney Col-lege, Virginia.
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FIRST DECADE, 1830-1810. 3&ft tlie countenance of some foreign government. He was unsuccessful.England would not grant him a patent, and from France he receivedonly a brevet <Pt/ic< /ilio?i, a worthless piece of paper that did not secureto him any special privilege. Yet among scientific men like Aragoand Humboldt the invention excited wonder, admiration, and greatexpectations. Professor Morse returned to New York in the steamship Great West-(/■/i.in April, 1839, disappointed but not disheartened. lie waitednearly four years before Congress did anything for him. Meanwhilehe had demonstrated the feasibility of marine telegraphy by laying asubmarine cable across the harbor of Xew York, and working it per-fectly. This achievement won for Morse the gold medal of the Ameri-can Institute. Soon after that Professor Morse suggested the feasibility of an oceantelegraph to connect Europe and America. In a letter to the Secretaryof the Treasury, John C. Spencer, in August, 1843, Morse

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