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Born Feb. 8, 1781, in London; died Oct. 15, 1829, in Kentish Town. English painter.From 1819 to 1829, Dawe worked in St. Petersburg, where, assisted by the Russian painters V. A. Golike and A. V. Poliakov, he painted 329 half-length portraits of generals who had participated in the Patriotic War of 1812 and the campaigns of 1813-14, large portraits of M. I. Kutuzov and M. B. Barclay-de-Tolly (both ...

... 1805–90) Unitarian clergyman, translator; born in Cambridge, Mass. He graduated from Harvard in 1825 and was ordained in 1829. He held Unitarian pastorates in Massachusetts, Maine, and Rhode Island from 1829–72 and was a lifelong leader of the Unitarian movement. He edited the Christian Examiner. (1857–61) and taught at Harvard Divinity School (1857 ...

... 1762–1829) Supreme Court justice; born in Westmoreland County, Va. (nephew of George Washington). He fought in the American Revolution and served the Virginia legislature (1787). President John Adams named him to the U.S. Supreme Court (1798–1829) where he usually concurred with Chief Justice John Marshall's decisions.

Died 1832. Figure in the American labor movement in the 1820’s.Skidmore helped found the New York Workingmen’s Party in 1829 and conceived its platform. He advanced a Utopian platform for the peaceful transformation of capitalist society through the equal redistribution of land. He also attacked black slavery and defended equal rights for women. After a split in the Workingmen’s Party ...

Died 1832. Figure in the American labor movement in the 1820’s.Skidmore helped found the New York Workingmen’s Party in 1829 and conceived its platform. He advanced a Utopian platform for the peaceful transformation of capitalist society through the equal redistribution of land. He also attacked black slavery and defended equal rights for women. After a split in the Workingmen’s Party ...