Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties, Michigan
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Cartwright
Biography of Sir Richard J. Cartwright, K. C.M. G., M.P
Richard John Cartwright, who represents Centre Huron in the House of Commons, and was Minister of Finance from 1873 to 1878, is a son of the Rev. D. Cartwright, chaplain at one period to the forces at Kingston, where he was born, and grandson of Hon Richard Cartwright, a United Empire Loyalist, who came to …
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English Settlement on the Holsten River
In the meantime, the wild region upon the Cumberland river was explored, and some temporary establishments formed at the bluff, on which is now situated the city of Nashville. Captain James Robertson was the hero of these bold adventures, and had several times, with a small party of men, cut his way from extreme East …