History of Lake George, (Warren County) New York United States of America

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Edward Eggleston, author, was born at Vevay, Ind., Dec. 10, 1837; son of Joseph Cary and Mary Jane (Craig) Eggleston; grandson of Edward and Judith (Booker) Eggleston; and great-grandson of William and ??(Cary) Eggleston. The original ancestor immigrated to Virginia in the latter part of the seventeenth century. Edward's father. Joseph Cary Eggleston (born in Virginia, May 30, 1812, died in Indiana, Oct. 21, 1846), was a graduate of William and Mary college and of Henry St. George Tucker's law school; a member of the Indiana senate, and at one time a candidate for representative in congress. Edward Eggleston attended Amelia academy in Virginia, but from invalidism his education was chiefly acquired at home. In 1856 he went to Minnesota for the benefit of his health and on his return entered the itinerant Methodist ministry. After six months of preaching in Indiana he held various pastorates in Minnesota until 1866 when illness forced him to abandon his profession. He was associate editor of The Little Corporal, Chicago, Ill., in 1866, editor of the National Sunday School Teacher, 1866-70, and in 1870 removed to New York to become literary editor and then superintending editor of the Independent. He resigned in 1871 and in 1871-72 edited Hearth and Home. He was pastor of an independent organization known as the church of Christian Endeavor, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1874-79, and in the latter year retired to Joshua's Rock, his home on Lake George, N.Y., where he devoted his time to literary work. He was married, March 18, 1858, to Elizabeth, daughter of William and Susan (Good) Smith of Northamptonshire, England, and a second time, Sept. 14, 1891, to Frances, daughter of Samuel M. and Eliza (Eggleston) Goode of Madison, Ind. Besides numerous magazine articles and several schoolbooks, his published works include: Mr. Blake's Walking Stick (1870); The Book of Queer Stories (1870); The Sunday School Manual (1870); The Hoosier Schoolmaster (1871); The End of the World (1872); The Mysteries of Metropolisville (1873); A Schoolmaster's Stories for Boys and Girls (1874); The Circuit Rider (1874); Christ in Literature (1875); Christ in Art (1875); Roxy (1878); Famous American Indians (with Lillie E. Seelye and George Cary Eggleston (1878-80); The Hoosier Schoolboy (1888); The Graysons (1888); The Faith Doctor (1891); Duffels (1893) ; The Beginners of a Nation (1896). He died at Lake George, N.Y., Sept. 2, 1902.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Henry Augustus Loop, artist, was born at Hillsdale, Columbia county, N.Y., Sept. 9, 1831; son of George H. and Angelica Malcolm (Downing) Loop, and a descendant of Gerlach Leupp (Holland), who came to New Amsterdam the latter part of the seventeenth century. He attended school at Great Barrington, Mass., and studied art in 1850 with Henry Peters Gray in New York city; in 1856 with Thomas Couture in Paris, France, and in 1857 in Rome, Venice and Florence. He opened a studio in New York city, where his professional life was spent. He made a second visit to Europe in 1867-68, and visited all the Continental art centres. He became an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1859; an Academician in 1861; a member of the Century association in 1860, and was also a member of the Artists' Fund society. He was married to Jennette Shepherd, daughter of James Harrison of New Haven, Conn. He exhibited The Italian Minstrel in the Paris Salon of 1868, and Aphrodite in the Centennial exhibition of 1876. Among his more noteworthy works, besides portraits of Gregory Thurston Bedell, Bishop of Ohio, the Hon. William G. Choate of New York, and Mrs. Timothy Porter of Stamford, Conn., are: Undine (1863); Clytie (1865); The Improvisatrice (1869); Lake Maggiore (1870); The White Rose (1871); Idle Fancies (1874); Venice (1875); ?none (1877); At the Spring (1879); Idyll of the Lake (1881); Hermica (1878); Love's Crown (1882); Marina (1878); Summer Moon (1884); The Dreamer (1885). He died at Lake George, N.Y., Oct. 20, 1895.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Robert Dale Owen, representative and author, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, Nov. 7, 1801; son of Robert and Anne Caroline (Dale) Owen, and grandson of Robert and ? (Williams) Owen, and of David Dale, a mill owner and lord provost of Glasgow, Scotland. His father (1771-1858), a prominent British social reformer and the author of many socialistic books, was in America, 1824-27, where he purchased 30,000 acres of land in Indiana and Illinois, and made an unsuccessful attempt to found a colony, which he named New Harmony. Robert Dale Owen was educated by private tutors and at Emanuel von Fellenberg's school at Hofwyl, Switzerland, 1818-21. He came to the United States in 1824, and aided his father in establishing the colony at New Harmony, Ind., but in 1827, upon the failure of the enterprise, went back to England. Returning to America in the same year he settled in New York, where he published the Free Inquirer, 1828-32, being assisted in the undertaking by Fanny Wright, the abolitionist. In 1832 he again went to New Harmony, Ind. He was a representative in the Indiana legislature, 1835-38, and was influential in securing one half of the appropriation from the surplus U.S. revenue allotted to Indiana for the support of the public schools of that state. He was a Democratic representative from Indiana in the 28th and 29th congresses, 1843-47. While in congress he introduced a resolution relating to the Oregon dispute, which subsequently formed the basis upon which the question was settled in 1846, and a resolution organizing the Smithsonian Institution. He was a member of the constitutional convention of Indiana in 1850, chairman of the committee on rights and privileges, and of the committee on revision. He was again a representative in the state legislature in 1851; appointed by President Pierce charg? d'affaires at Naples in 1853, and U.S. minister in 1855, serving until his return to the United States in 1858. Be championed the abolitionist cause, and during the civil war was appointed by Secretary Stanton chairman of a committee to inquire into the condition of the freed slaves. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by the Indiana university in 1872, and he was a trustee of the university, 1838-46 and 1849-51. He is the author of: Outline of the System of Education at New Lanark (1824); Moral Physiology (1831); Discussion with Origen Bachelor, on the Personality of God and the Authority of the Bible (1832); Pocahontas: a Drama (1837); Hints on Public Architecture (1849); A Treatise on the Construction of Plank Roads (1850); Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World (1859); The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation, and the Future of the African Race in the United States (1864); Beyond the Breakers (1870); Debatable Land Between this World and the Next (1872), and Threading My Way (1874). He died at Lake George, N.Y., June 17, 1877.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor