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 . 1. An his on July 4, 1805, wasprinted. He was in the legis-lature in 1810-11, speaker ofthe house in the latter yeai,and state senator in 1812. He ?entered the army in 1
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 . 1. An his on July 4, 1805, wasprinted. He was in the legis-lature in 1810-11, speaker ofthe house in the latter yeai,and state senator in 1812. He ?entered the army in 1812 as ?lieutenant-colonel of the 21stinfantry, became its colonel -::;March 12,1813, and brigadier-general Apr. 15, 1814. He jserved with conspicuous gal-lantry on the Canadian border,was thrice wounded in the at-tack on York (Toronto) , 1813, in the battle of Niag-ara in July, 1814, and at FortErie in September; for his part in these engage-ments he received the bievet of major, and a : Niag-ara, Chippewa, Erie. At the reduction of the armyin 1815 he was retained in the service, remaining inthe arniy till 1820, when he settled in Louisiana, re-sumed the practice of his profession, was sent to thestate senate, and as representative of his district in theU. S. congress from 1835 up to the time of his death,which occurred at AVest Feliciana, La., March2, 264 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA CABSON, Hampton Lawrence, lawyer andlegal author, was bom in Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 21,1852. His paternal ancestors were driven out ofScotland, through the tyranny of Archbishop Laud,into the north of Ireland. After the siege of Derrythey came to America and settled in great-grandfather was a prominent merchant ofthat city, and during the revolution supported thecause of the colonists, being one of the first to signthe famous non-importation resolutions. Dr. JosephCarson, his father, was a noted physician and scien-tist, and profe
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