Appleton's Cyclop Dia of American Biography Volume 6

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...instruction of Dr. Lowell Mason and other teachers of music, and became known as a singer. At twenty-eight he lost his voice, after which he taught music in Connecticut, and from 1850 till 1855 in the south. While there he became a bitter foe to slavery, and his feeling was subsequently manifested in his Many war songs. He afterward removed to Indianapolis, and then to Elkhorn, Wis., where he died. He composed a great number of sentimental songs. His cantata of The Rebellion, ' in which is expressed his sorrow for the death of Lincoln, is one of his best efforts, nis war songs were very popular in their day. Among his ballads are Sweet By and By, Lorcna, and The Golden Stair. WEBSTER, Nathan Bnrnham, educator, b. in Unity, N. II., 13 June, 1821. Ho was educated at Norwich university, but left in 1840, without being graduated, to take charge of the Virginia literary, scientific, and military academy which had been established byCapt. Alden Partridge in Portsmouth. Two years later he resigned and establ ished a similar school in Charleston, S. C. In 1844 he returned to the Virginia military academy, but in 1847 he taught in Richmond and lectured on physics in Richmond college. During 1848-'9 ho was civil engineer in the U. S. navy-yard at Norfolk, Va., and then he founded the Virginia collegiate institute, and conducted it in Norfolk till 1862. when, owing to the civil war he removed to Ottawa, Canada, where he established a similar school. He opened the Webster institute in Norfolk in 1869, which he there continued till 1886. Prof. Webster invented the meteorgraph, an automatic meteoro. nu Whs griii logical register, which he described in the Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Sci...