Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-07-13


Their deeds of old renown, inspire
The bosom with their fathers fire.
Their names are associated with all the valued
Institutions of our land. =
'.These our Immortal sages wrought,
Out of the deepest mines of thought.n
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George Washington, First President of the Uri-
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Martha Washington, Consort of Geo. W ashington
Thos. Jefferson Sd President of the United Ste
John Hancock, President of Congress, Cover nor
of Massachusetts, etc.
Charles Carroll, of Carrolton, last survivor & the
Signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Winfield Scott, Major General o. S. -rmy.
Anthony Wayne, Major General U. S. Army.
Thomas Marlborough, Commodore U. s. Navy.
Washington Irving, Author of The Sketch Book,
Life of Columbus etc.
William White, D. D., Bishop of the Protestant
Episcopal church in Pennsylvania.
John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States.
Lewis Cass, Senator from Michigan, etc.
Andrew jackson, Seventh President of the o. S:
i. Fennimore Cooper, Author of 1.-The Spy"
Naval History of the United States" etc.
Patrick Henry, First Republican Governor of Vir-
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John C. Calhoun, Senator from South Carolina.
William Moultrie, Major General u. S. Army.
Henry Clay, Senator from Kentucky, etc.
Daniel Webster, Senator from Massachusetts, etc.
William Writ, Attorney General, etc.
Timothy Dwight, d. D., President of Yale col
lego, etc.
Joel Barlow, Author of The Columbiad, )" Min
lister to France, etc.
John Trumbull, President of the American Acad-
envy of Fine Arts.
John Jay, hief Justice of New York, Minister to
England and spain, etc.
John E. IL ward, Colonel U. s. Army, Senator
from MAJ and, etc.
Gilbert Stuart, Painter.
Israel Putnam, Major General U. s. Army.
Alex. Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury, etc.
Oliver II. Perry, Commodore U. S. Navy.
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