The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . lvaniain 1789, studied law, and in 1803 began practice atWilmington, Del. He was elected to con-gress as an anti - Federalist, and whilethere, 1805-7, was concerned in the im-peach
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . lvaniain 1789, studied law, and in 1803 began practice atWilmington, Del. He was elected to con-gress as an anti - Federalist, and whilethere, 1805-7, was concerned in the im-peachment of Judge S. Chase of the U. court. He was U. S. attorney-general from 1807-12. In the war of1812 he was captain of a company of ar-tillery, which operated on the Canadianborder, and in 1815 a member of the Del-aware senate. In 1817 he was one of acommission sent to look into affairs inthe newly formed republics of SouthAmerica, and advise as to their recogni-tion, a course of action which he favoredin a Report on the Present State of theUnited Provinces (1819). He was againin congress 1821-33, and in the U. S. sen-ate 1833-23. He was sent as first U. S. minister tothe Argentine provinces in January, 1823, showinghimself during his brief service there a friend to theyoung republic, being much honored for his servicesby the Argentines. He died at Buenos Ayres, Ar-gentine Republic, June 10, 12 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA ^!l—<*-!* WEED, Thurlow, politician and journalist, wasborn at Cairo, Greene county, N. Y., Nov. 15, father was a migratory person, whose circum-stances in life confirmed the old adage A rollingstone gathers no moss, and the son, at a very earlyage, was obliged to provide for himself. When butnine years old he made his way to the adjoiningtown of Catskill, and there hired out as cabin boyupon a sloop plying upon the Hudson river. Thislife was full of novel excitement to the half-grownboy, and even in his old age bespoke of it as am
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