Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . of Washington, in 1798, as second in com-mand of the army, which was to be calledinto service in case of hostilities withFrance. Aaron Burr was one year the senior ofHamilton, in point of ag
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . of Washington, in 1798, as second in com-mand of the army, which was to be calledinto service in case of hostilities withFrance. Aaron Burr was one year the senior ofHamilton, in point of age. His father wasthe Rev. Aaron Burr, the learned and de-vout president of Princeton college, and. his mother the daughter o{ that eminentdivine, Jonathan Edwards. Before Burrhad reached his third year, however, hewas an orphan. AVhen twelve j-ears ofage he entered college, graduating at six-teen with the highest rejiutatioii. In1775, while a student of law, he joined theAmerican army under Washington, andsuch was his ardor in his countrys ,that he joined Arnold as a volunteer inthe expedition against Quebec. After hisarrival there he was appointed aid-dc-canipto ^Montgomery, and was b}- the side ofthat brave officer when he fell. Subse-quently, in 1776, he was received byWashington as one of his niilitarj- family,but was .soon cast off by that stern moral-ist in consequence of his act of Washington, Burr never for-gave. His unquestioned military talents,however, secured for him the high positionof lieutenant-colonel in 1777, which he re-tained until 1779, when he was obliged torelinquish it on account of ill-liealth. De-voting himself to law, he early became
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