The story of a great nationOr, Our country's achievements, military, naval, political, and civil . Bom in Charlcstovvn, Apl. 25. 1791. firadnateat Yale College, 1810, and studied for a painter. Con-ceived the idea of telegraphic ser\ice, ;. SoiiLlUaidin the U, S., England and France to build an ex[ieri-mental line, without success, until 1843, when CongreeBvoted him $.S0.(1IX1. The firsf message was sent o\er theline, Baltimore to W;ishington, May 27, 1844. Laid thefirst sub-marine cable. N. Y. Harbor, Oct., 1842. DiedApl. S, CHARLES F. DEEMS. Pastor of The Church of the Str


The story of a great nationOr, Our country's achievements, military, naval, political, and civil . Bom in Charlcstovvn, Apl. 25. 1791. firadnateat Yale College, 1810, and studied for a painter. Con-ceived the idea of telegraphic ser\ice, ;. SoiiLlUaidin the U, S., England and France to build an ex[ieri-mental line, without success, until 1843, when CongreeBvoted him $.S0.(1IX1. The firsf message was sent o\er theline, Baltimore to W;ishington, May 27, 1844. Laid thefirst sub-marine cable. N. Y. Harbor, Oct., 1842. DiedApl. S, CHARLES F. DEEMS. Pastor of The Church of the Strangers. New YorlcCity. Born in Baltiincire, Md., Dec. 4, 1820. (iradualeat Dickinson College, 1839. Professor of Logic andRhetoric in the University of North Carolina, of Greensboro Female College, N. (.,1840-51. Presiding Elder of the Wilmiugtuii and New-bern district, 1860-t).^. Organized church of theStrangers. 18G8 Received gift of Mercer street Presby-terian Church jtroperty from Com. Vandirl)i]i. American Institute of Christian Philoso] The Light of the Nations.


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