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# Tales of My Landlord (1st Series)

TALES OF MY LANDLORD,
COLLECTED AND ARRANGED
BY
JEDEDIAH CLEISHBOTHAM,
SCHOOLMASTER AND PARISH-CLERK OF GANDERCLEUGH.
Hear, Land o' Cakes and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Jenny Groats', If there's a hole in a' your coats, If there's a hole in aI rede ye tent it, A chiel's amang you takin' notes, A chiel's amang youAn' faith he'll prent it. A chiel's amang youAn' faith he'll prenBurns.
IN FOUR VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
EDINBURGH:
PRINTED FOR WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, PRINCE'S STREET: AND JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, LONDON.
1816.
* Volume I
* Volume II
* Volume III
* Volume IV
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# Tales of My Landlord (1st Series)/Volume 1

TALES OF MY LANDLORD,
COLLECTED AND ARRANGED
BY
JEDEDIAH CLEISHBOTHAM,
SCHOOLMASTER AND PARISH-CLERK OF GANDERCLEUGH.
Hear, Land o' Cakes and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Jenny Groats', If there's a hole in a' your coats, If there's a hole in aI rede ye tent it, A chiel's amang you takin' notes, A chiel's amang youAn' faith he'll prent it. A chiel's amang youAn' faith he'll prenBurns.
IN FOUR VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
EDINBURGH:
PRINTED FOR WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, PRINCE'S STREET: AND JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, LONDON.
1816.
Edinburgh, Printed by James Ballantyne and Co.
TO
HIS LOVING COUNTRYMEN,
WHETHER THEY ARE DENOMINATED
MEN OF THE SOUTH,
GENTLEMEN OF THE NORTH,
PEOPLE OF THE WEST,
OR
FOLK OF FIFE;
THESE TALES,
ILLUSTRATIVE OF ANCIENT SCOTTISH MANNERS,
AND
OF THE TRADITIONS OF THEIR RESPECTIVE DISTRICTS,
ARE RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,
BY THEIR FRIEND AND LIEGE FELLOW-SUBJECT,
JEDEDIAH CLEISHBOTHAM.
* Introduction
* The Black Dwarf
** Chapter I
** Chapter II
** Chapter III
** Chapter IV
** Chapter V
** Chapter VI
** Chapter VII
** Chapter VIII
** Chapter IX
** Chapter X
** Chapter XI
** Chapter XII
** Chapter XIII
** Chapter XIV
** Chapter XV
** Chapter XVI
** Chapter XVII
** Chapter XVIII
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# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Abernethy, William Ellis

​ABERNETHY, William Ellis, educator, was born at Rutherford College, N.C., May 28, 1860; son of the Rev. Dr. Robert Labon and Mary Ann (Hayes) Abernethy. His first ancestor in America, Robert Abernethy, came from Scotland, settled in North Carolina, and was a prominent member of the Halifax state constitutional convention of 1776. William Ellis was graduated at Rutherford college, of which his father was president, in 1877. He studied law under Col. George N. Folk, of Lanier, N.C., in 1880; was county superintendent of public instruction 1890-'93; twice declined the nomination of the dominant party for state senator; and served as professor of law and English literature in Rutherford college, 1881-'94, and succeeded to the presidency of the college on the death of his father in 1894.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Acton, Thomas Coxon

​ACTON, Thomas Coxon, banker, was born in New York city, Feb. 23, 1823. He acquired a common school education and took a course at a law school, gaining admission to the bar. He at once entered upon the duties of assistant deputy county clerk, which office he held from 1850 to 1853. On the expiration of his term he entered the surrogate's office, and remained there three years. In 1860 he was placed on the board of New York police commissioners, and by his ​prompt action and untiring vigilance succeeded in suppressing the draft riots of 1863. He served on the police commission for nine years, and on resigning that office received the appointment of superintendent of the U. S. assay office. From 1882 to 1886 Mr. Acton was assistant United States treasurer, and in 1887 he organized and became president of the bank of New Amsterdam. Many reforms in the city government were instituted by him, among them the supersession of the unsatisfactory volunteer fire department by the paid service. He was interested in charitable and political reforms, and was one of the prime movers in the establishing of the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, and in forwarding the work of other similar organizations. He died in Saybrook, Conn., May 1, 1898.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Abernethy, Arthur Talmage

​ABERNETHY, Arthur Talmage, educator, was born in Rutherford college, N.C., Oct. 10, 1872; son of the Rev. Robert Labon and Mary Ann (Hayes) Abernethy. He learned telegraphy when nine years old, and worked in various offices in the United States and Mexico until he was prepared for college at the Chafman school. He was graduated at Rutherford college, A.M. in 1889. He was professor of Latin in the college, 1887-90, having passed his A.B. examination in 1887, but was refused the degree on account of his youth. He took a post-graduate course in Latin and Greek in Johns Hopkins university as an honorary Hopkins scholar, 1890-91, and received the degree of A.M., from Trinity college, N.C., in 1891. He returned to Rutherford college as professor of Latin and Greek in 1891; edited the Telegrapher, 1895-97; was biographical writer on the Philadelphia Record, 1897-99: and was a newspaper correspondent during three years' travels in all parts of the United States. He became known as a humorist, and was given the name of '"the New Bill Nye" by Edgar Wilson Nye, who was his friend and adviser. He published "Bertie and Clara" (1896); and "Mechanics and Practice of Electric Telegraph" (1891).
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Acheson, Ernest Francis

​ACHESON, Ernest Francis, representative, was born in Washington, Pa., Sept. 19, 1855; son of Alexander W. and Jane (Wishart) Acheson. He was an honorary graduate of Washington and Jefferson college in 1875; studied law with M. C. Acheson at Washington, Pa., was admitted to the bar in 1877, and practised his profession there until 1879, when he purchased the Washington Observer and was its editor from that date. He was a member of the Republican state committee; a delegate to the Republican national conventions of 1884 and 1896, and a representative from the 24th Pennsylvania district in the 54th, 55th, 56th, 57th and 58th congresses. He became president of the Pennsylvania editorial association in January, 1893, and recording secretary of the National editorial association in June, 1893. He was married Nov. 22, 1882, to Jannie B., daughter of Galbraith Stewart. He received the honorary degree of A.M., from Washington and Jefferson college in 1889.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Adair, William P.

​ADAIR, William P., assistant chief of the Cherokee nation, was born about 1828. At the time of the civil war General Albert Pike organized a band of Indians who, led by Adair, fought in the confederate army at the battle of Pea Ridge. After the war he was sent to Washington to represent his tribe, and died there Oct. 23, 1880.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Adams, Abigail

​ADAMS, Abigail, wife of John Adams, second president of the United States, was born in Weymouth, Mass., Nov. 22, 1744, daughter of William and Elizabeth Quincy Smith. Her father was for nearly half a century pastor of the Congregational church of Weymouth, and her mother a direct descendant of Thomas Shepard, the eminent Puritan divine of Cambridge, and a great grandniece of the Puritan preacher, John Norton, of the Hingham meeting-house, Boston. She had few educational advantages in the way of access to books, as they were kept from her owing to her delicate constitution. To in a measure compensate for this, she was instructed in the duties of the housewife and took great interest in home affairs. She became an adept in domestic economy, and added to it the rudiments of penmanship and arithmetic. As she reached womanhood her strength increased, and she took up French, Latin, and a well-directed course of reading, although this was only cursory before she became a wife. She was married to John Adams Oct. 25, 1764, and passed the next ten years as the frugal wife of a rising Braintree lawyer. To them were born, during this time, one daughter and three sons. The political events of the period marked the next decade of her married life as one of great anxiety. Her husband was absent most of the time, first as a delegate to Congress and afterwards on a diplomatic mission across the seas. The patriots led by her husband were urging the termination of the unhappy relations existing between the colonies and the mother country, by a declaration of independence. His earnest advocacy of heroic measures gained for him the appellation, "Colossus of Independence." No more positive and unyielding advocate of the measure sustained the course of John Adams than his patriotic wife, and while she had in full view the dire consequences of failure, yet her courage never faltered and her voice never uttered an uncertain sound. Alone with her children she passed the period of war, doing what she could for the patriot cause. In 1784 she undertook the long and dangerous voyage to Europe to join her husband in France, and then she accompanied him to London, as the wife of the first American minister at the court of St. James, and where as such she was not accorded decent courtesy. This rudeness greatly wounded her and increased her devotion to the new republic. Upon the accession of Mr. Adams to the presidency, his wife became the first mistress of the White House, and there the charm of house-keeping was not dispelled by the pride of position; She is the only woman in our history who has been the wife of one president and the mother of ​another. She resided at Braintree, Mass., after leaving Washington, but always retained an interest in public affairs. A memoir of her life, was published by her grandson Charles Francis Adams. She died at Quincy, Mass., Oct. 28, 1818.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Acheson, Marcus Wilson

​ACHESON, Marcus Wilson, jurist, was born in Washington, Pa., June 7, 1828, son of David and Mary (Wilson) Acheson. He was graduated at Washington college now Washington and Jefferson college, in 1845. He studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1852, and commenced to practise in Pittsburg, Pa., where he was married June 9, 1859, to Sophie Reiter. He was appointed U.S. district judge for the western district of Pennsylvania, Jan. 14, 1880, by President Hayes, U.S. circuit judge for the 3d judicial district, composed of Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, by President Harrison Feb. 9, 1891. He received the degree LL.D. from Washington and Jefferson college in 1881.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Abernethy, Robert Labon

​ABERNETHY, Robert Labon, educator, was born in Lincoln county, N.C., April 3, 1822; son of Turner and Fannie (Wedner) Abernethy. His father was a farmer and his first ancestor in America was John Abernethy, a near kinsman of the eminent English surgeon. He was brought upon the farm and had no school privileges. He gained a knowledge of English grammar from a second-hand text-book, and taught children in the neighborhood, extending his teaching as he gained further knowledge from such books as he ​could obtain. He became a minister in the Methodist church in 1840, preaching in the South Carolina conference, 1840-'43. In 1850 John Rutherford founded Rutherford college in Burke county, N.C., and the young Methodist preacher was made its first president. The building used, a log cabin, was built by Abernethy, and was used until the college was chartered and new buildings erected. In forty years he educated 10,000 boys and girls, 2200 of these being given free instruction through his personal liberality. In 1890 the college buildings were burned, the loss being $50,000. President Abernethy, although nearly seventy years old, took the lecture field and raised a sum sufficient to rebuild, making the college buildings among the first in the south. He received the degree of A.M. from Trinity college, N.C., in 1869, and that of D.D. from Alfred university, N.Y. He died at Rutherford College, N.C., Nov. 28, 1894.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Acheson, Alexander Wilson

​ACHESON, Alexander Wilson, lawyer, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., June 14, 1809. After his graduation from Washington college in 1827 he studied law, gaining admission to the bar in 1832. He established himself in practice in Washington county, Pa., and in 1835 was elected deputy attorney-general for the county. To this office he was re-elected in 1836, and again elected in 1839, 1845, and 1846. In 1866 he was president judge of the 27th judicial district of Pennsylvania, holding the office eleven years. In 1885 Parson's college, Iowa, conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. He died at Washington, Pa., July 10, 1890.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Adair, John

​ADAIR, John, senator, was born in Chester county, S. C. in 1759. He was a volunteer in the revolutionary army; was made a prisoner and obliged to endure very great suffering. In 1787 he removed to Kentucky, where he became prominent in the public affairs of that state, distinguished himself in Indian fights by his bravery and sagacity, and was made register of the Kentucky land office in 1805. He was a member of the convention that framed the constitution of the state of Kentucky, and was a representative in the state legislature and speaker of the house. In 1805-6 he was United States senator. At the time of Aaron Burr's treason, Adair was thought to be connected with it, and for a time he was rather unpopular, but people shortly became convinced that Adair had sympathized with Burr simply from his belief that the government was sanctioning his action. In 1813 he was aide to Governor Shelby in the battle of the Thames, and two years later he served under General Jackson as adjutant-general at the battle of New Orleans. He was prominent in politics, was elected governor of Kentucky in 1820, serving four years, and from 1831 to 1838 represented his district in Congress. His name is held in high esteem throughout Kentucky, and Adair county was named in his honor. He died May 19, 1840.
# The Adventures of Million Dollar Smith

The story of a young American who set out to win a fortune and a girl in Europe.
The Adventures of Million Dollar Smith
By Achmed Abdullah
* The First Hundred Thousand (June 1925)
* The Second Hundred Thousand (July 1925)
* The Million (August 1925)
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# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Allen, Richard L.

​ALLEN, Richard L., author, was born in Hampden county, Mass., in October, 1803. He entered commercial life in New York city and wrote on agricultural subjects. He afterwards studied law in Baltimore, but his health becoming impaired he settled on a farm in Niagara county, N. Y., in 1832. In 1842 Mr. Allen and his brother began the publication of the American Agriculturist, and in 1856 they opened a store for the sale of improved agricultural implements in New York. Mr. Allen was a clear and practical writer ​on agricultural topics, and published "History and Description of Domestic Animals" (1848); "The American Farm Book" (1849); "The Diseases of Domestic Animals" "American Farmer's Muck Book"; and "American Agriculture." He died in Stockholm, Sweden, Sept. 22, 1869.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Allen, Samuel

​ALLEN, Samuel, pioneer, was born in England in 1636. In 1691 he immigrated to America, where he bought a grant of land embracing about sixty miles, including the seacoast between Portsmouth and Dover, N.H., from the heirs of John Mason, who had been granted the land by the English crown. Mr. Allen, soon after his purchase, became involved with the original settlers respecting his titles. He was in litigation at the time of his death, and his sons, who inherited the property, carried on the suits until 1715, when the Allen family relinquished the claim. (See Belknap's "New Hampshire.") Mr. Allen died in Newcastle, N.H., May 15, 1805.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Allen, Thomas (landscape painter)

​ALLEN, Thomas, landscape painter, was born in St Louis, Mo., Oct. 19, 1849. He was educated in the public schools and at Washington university, St. Louis; was graduated in art at the Royal academy, Dusseldorf, Germany, in 1877, and continued his art studies in France three years. He exhibited first at the National academy of Design in New York in 1877, and at the Paris Salons of 1882, 1887, and 1889. He established a studio in Boston, became a member of the Society of American Artists in 1880, and an associate of the National Academy in 1884. He was also president of the Paint and Clay club, and of the Boston Society of Water Color Painters; vice-president of the Boston Art Students' association, and a member of the permanent committee of the School of Drawing and Painting of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He was a judge of awards at the World's Columbian exposition in 1898.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Allen, Thomas (financier)

​ALLEN, Thomas, financier, born in Pittsfield, Mass., Aug. 29, 1813, son of Jonathan Allen, a captain in the war of 1812, and grandson of Thomas Allen, the "fighting parson" of the revolution. He was graduated from Union college, N.Y., in 1832, and without money or friends he went to New York city, where he was employed as an attorney's clerk at a salary of three hundred dollars per year. He was an occasional contributor to the press, and in September, 1833, became editor of the Family Magazine, a monthly journal. He then aided in compiling a digest of the New York courts from the earliest period, and for his labor received a small but select law library. In 1835 he was admitted to the bar, but devoted his time almost wholly to journalism. On Aug. 16, 1837, he established the Madisonian in Washington, through the columns of which he exerted ​a powerful political influence. He was appointed to the office of public printer by President Harrison, was active in the campaign of 1840, and was one of those who stood at President Harrison's bedside at his death. In 1842 he retired from politics and removed to St. Louis, Mo., where he married, and began the construction of a railroad, the first of the system that resulted in the Pacific railroad, the great highway of commerce between the East and the West. In 1858 he founded the banking house of Allen, Copp & Nesbitt in St. Louis. He built the Iron Mountain railroad, which opened up a rich mineral region. This road he sold in 1881 to Jay Gould, receiving for it a check for two million dollars. He left many monuments to his public enterprise, among them the Berkshire Athenæum, at Pittsfield, Mass., which he erected at a cost of fifty thousand dollars, and the fireproof Southern hotel at St. Louis, opened May, 1881. In November, 1880, he was elected a representative to the 47th Congress. He died in Washington, D. C., April 8, 1882.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Allen, William (educator)

​ALLEN, William, educator, was born in Pittsfield, Mass., Jan. 2, 1784, son of Thomas Allen, a clergyman. He was a direct descendant of Governor Bradford on his father's side. He was graduated at Harvard college in 1802, studied theology, and in 1804 was licensed to preach and was first stationed in western New York. While holding the position of assistant librarian at Harvard college, he began the '"American Biographical and Historical Dictionary" (1809), which was the first work of the kind published in the United States, and which he revised and enlarged from the original seven hundred American names to eighteen hundred names in 1832, and seven thousand names in 1857. He was called from his work as a librarian in 1810 to preach as successor to his father in Pittsfield, where he remained seven years. In 1817 he was appointed president of Dartmouth college, and in 1819 of Bowdoin college. He served Bowdoin for nineteen years, retiring at the age of fifty-five, in order to devote himself to literary pursuits. He contributed to a new edition of Webster's dictionary ten thousand words not before given. He wrote: "Junius Unmasked" (1828); "Memoirs of Dr. Eleazar Wheelock and of Dr. John Codman" (1853); "A Discourse at the close of the Second Century of the Settlement at Northampton, Mass." (1854); "Wunnissoo, or the Vale of Housatonnuck," a poem (1856); " Christian Sonnets " (1860); "Poems of Nazareth and the Cross" (1866); "Sacred Songs" (1867). His "Life with selections from his Correspondence," was published in Philadelphia in 1847. He died at Northampton, Mass., July 16, 1868.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Allen, Solomon

​ALLEN, Solomon, itinerant preacher, was born at Northampton, Mass., Feb. 23, 1751. He was a brother of Thomas and Moses Allen, noted chaplains in the patriot army. Entering the Continental army as a private, he attained the rank of major. He was one of Andre's guards after his capture, and assisted in suppressing Shays's rebellion in Massachusetts. In 1801, he became an itinerant preacher, and for twenty years rode among the settlements of western New York. (See "Last Hours of Moses Allen," by J. N. Danforth.) He died in New York city, Jan. 28, 1821.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Allen, Robert (representative)

​ALLEN, Robert, representative, was born in Virginia in 1777. About 1804 he settled in Carthage, Tenn., where he engaged in business pursuits. He was elected clerk of Smith county in 1804, commanded a regiment under Jackson in the Creek war and at New Orleans. He served as a representative in the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th congresses. He died at Carthage, Tenn., Aug. 19, 1844.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Allen, Robert (soldier)

​ALLEN, Robert, soldier, was born in Ohio about 1815 He was graduated from the United States military academy in 1836, served in the Seminole war, and also in Mexico, acting as assistant quartermaster in the march to Monterey. He distinguished himself at Vera Cruz, and received the brevet rank of major for his conduct at Cerro Gordo. He saw service at Contreras and Churubusco, and at the taking of the city of Mexico. He was chief quartermaster of the Pacific division until the opening of the civil war, when he was transferred to the department of the Missouri, in charge of supplies and transportation for the armies in the Mississippi valley. He was raised to the rank of major, 1861; colonel, 1862; brigadier general of volunteers, 1863; brigadier-general U.S. army, 1864. He fitted out Virginia, Kentucky and North Carolina expeditions, and Gen. Sherman's army for the march to Chattanooga, acting as chief quartermaster of the Mississippi from 1863 to 1866, and was brevetted major-general in 1865. On the cessation of hostilities he was made chief quartermaster of the Pacific, and was placed on the retired list in 1878. He died in Switzerland, Aug. 6, 1886.