This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...ies of (tld age. He thereafter resolved to lead a quiet life but was drawn from his retirement to serve in the Constitutional Convention df IS.3, of wliicli he was unanimously elected Presichnt. His last public work was as Elector on the Van Iluri-n ticket of IS.7. His death occurred the same year, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...ies of (tld age. He thereafter resolved to lead a quiet life but was drawn from his retirement to serve in the Constitutional Convention df IS.3, of wliicli he was unanimously elected Presichnt. His last public work was as Elector on the Van Iluri-n ticket of IS.7. His death occurred the same year, Juni 2itli. His Congressional career, together with others of his letters, and additional i)articulars of his family and private life, are given in the Janus Sprnnt Historical Monograph No. 2. In politics li. was a very strict construction Kejiublican, a Crawford man and a Democrat, but he occasionally refused to follow bis party when in his opinion it deviated from the straig-ht path. He was a Trustee and warm friend of his State University. The strictness of bis integrity in private equalled that of bis i)olitical life. JOHN STEELE. John Slocl., wlio, on; iccouiil ol liavinj l)LLn elected by t. li- (loneral Asseinldv to the hifhesl post in the militia, is usually ealled (iriural Steele, was horn in Salishury. North Carolina, in 175. He was the son of William Steele and I-Jizaheth, his wile, the latter heini known in history for a most praise-W(rlh ael in the darkest hour of the Revolution. On the 1st of Kehruarv, 17S1, Gen. (xreeiie spent the ni; jht at her house. Dr. Read, who had chare of the American hospital at Salishury, called to see him. Said the Cieneral: l have ridden hard all day in the rain. I am fatijued, hungry, lone and penniless. Mrs. Steele overheard the words. She went to her hilling- place and Itrought out two hags of specie, all she had, the saving-s of years, and gae tluin to him, saying: Take these, you will need them. I can do witliout them. It was in her parlor that the picture of George III was hanging-. Gen. Greene...
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