Bancroft, George, 1800-1891

American historian and author.

Epithet: USA Minister in London

Northampton, Massachusetts, historian and author; secretary of the Navy, 1845-1846; U.S. minister to Berlin, 1867-1874.

American historian.

George Bancroft served as the 18th Secretary of the Navy, 1845-1846.

George Bancroft (October 3, 1800 - January 17, 1891) was an American historian and statesman. He served as U.S. Secretary of the Navy, 1845-1846, and established the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1845.

American scholar.

George Bancroft (1800-1891) was an American historian and statesman, and an active promoter of secondary education both in his home state and at the national level. As U. S. Secretary of the Navy under James K. Polk, Bancroft established the Naval Academy at Annapolis and later served as U.S. Minister to Great Britain (1846-1849), Prussia (1867-1871), and the German Empire (1871-1874). He is best remembered however for his 10-volume History of the United States, a work which fellow historian Leopold von Ranke called "the best book ever written from the democratic point of view." [From the Dictionary of American Biography .]

U.S. secretary of the navy, diplomat, and historian.

American diplomat.

Historian, diplomat.

George Bancroft (1800-1891) was an American historian, diplomat and public official who wrote the ten-volume History of the United States. Bancroft's positions included Collector of the Port of Boston, Secretary of the Navy under Polk, Minister to Great Britain from 1846 to 1849, and Minister to Germany from 1867 to 1874. In addition to History of the United States, Bancroft wrote other historical studies and biographies.

Historian, diplomat born in Worcester, Mass.

Epithet: of Belgravia

Historian.

George Bancroft was an American scholar and historian. Born in Massachusetts and educated at Harvard, Bancroft studied and travelled extensively in Europe. He published literary works, and translated extensively from the German, and is best remembered for his monumental history of the United States, published in 10 volumes over a period of some 40 years, and later revised and updated by the author.

American Historian.

New York resident, author, Secretary of the Navy, and historian.

George Bancroft (1800-1891), historian and diplomat, was the son of Aaron (1755-1839) and Lucretia Chandler Bancroft (1765-1839).

Bancroft was a notable historian and author of the 10 volume "History of the United States."

George Bancroft (1800-1891) was a preeminent American historian, Secretary of the Navy, and founder of the U.S. Naval Academy. The son of Aaron Bancroft, George Bancroft was born in Worcester, Massachusetts and graduated from Harvard in 1817. After furthering his education in Germany, Bancroft returned to Massachusetts in 1822 and married his first wife, Sarah Dwight, in 1827. In 1834, he published the first volume of The History of the United States, his seminal work which he continued to update until 1874. After the death of his wife in 1837, he married Elizabeth Davis Bliss. In 1844, Bancroft lost the contest for governor of Massachusetts, but was appointed by President Polk as Secretary of the Navy a year later. During his time as the Navy Secretary, he established the U.S. Naval Academy. In 1866, Bancroft delivered a special eulogy on Lincoln.

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Historian and statesman.

George Bancroft was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He studied divinity at Harvard, and history at Gottingen. His major work was a monumental History of the United States, spanning 10 volumes and covering 1834-1840 and 1852-1874. A Democrat, he was secretary to the navy from 1845-1846, and established the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. He was also the United States minister to Britain from 1846-1849, Prussia from 1867-1871, and the German empire from 1871-1874.

Robert William Hughes was born at Muddy Creek Plantation, Powhatan County, Va. in 1821. His parents died in 1822 and he was raised by Edward C. Carrington and Eliza Preston Carrington. He attended Caldwell Institute, Greensboro, N. C. and studied law in Fincastle, Va. He married Eliza M. Johnston, niece of Joseph E. Johnston and the adopted daughter and niece of John B. Floyd. Hughes' son was Robert Morton Hughes. Robert William Hughes was a newspaper editor and federal district attorney. Involved in post Civil War Republican Party politics, he was nominated for governor of Virginia and for Congress but did not win. He was appointed judge of the federal court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Dictionary of American Biography

Charles Campbell (1807-1876) was born on 1 May 1807, in Petersburg, Virginia, the firstborn child of parents John Wilson Campbell (d.1842), and Mildred Walker Moore Campbell. John, a bookstore owner, was also a historian. In 1831 he published the History of Virginia to 1781 . Later, he held the position of Federal Collector of Customs in Petersburg, Virginia. Mildred taught at the Petersburg Classical Academy in the 1840's. In addition to Charles, the couple also had two younger children, Alexander (Aleck) S. Campbell, and Elizabeth (Betty) Campbell Maben (d.1871).

Charles' mother, Mildred Walker Moore Campbell, was the granddaughter of Virginia lieutenant governor Alexander Spotswood (1676-1740). Mildred Walker Moore Campbell and her siblings Mary Fairfax Moore Keller, Dr. Alexander Spotswood Moore, Ann Evelina Moore Henley, William Agustin Moore, Eliza Moore McDonald, and Lavinia Moore McPheeters wrote and received numerous pieces of personal correspondence that are available in this collection.

Charles Campbell attended the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) from 1823-1825. Upon graduation he enrolled in Henry St. George Tucker's School of Law in Winchester, Virginia. However, he suffered from chronic headaches which caused him severe physical and mental exhaustion. By 1829, these health issues would force him to leave the law profession.

Following his departure from law, Campbell worked as an engineer of the Petersburg Railroad. Later he ran a private school for boys in Glencoe, Alabama. On 13 September 1836, he married Elvira N. Callaway (1819-1837) of Monroe County, Tennessee. In 1837, Elvira died shortly after the birth of a son, Callaway Campbell (b.1837). In his distress, Campbell left his son with Elivira's siblings, Thomas and Lucinda Callaway. Later, this would result in a court case to regain custody of his child.

Following the death of his wife, Campbell worked as a clerk in the office of the Collector of Custom in Petersburg, Virginia (a position he obtained from his father John Campbell). From 1840-1843, Campbell also owned, published, and edited a Petersburg newspaper, The American Statesman . He returned to teaching in 1842 by opening a classical school in Petersburg, becoming both teacher and administrator in the Anderson Seminary. He would hold these positions until the formation of free public schools in 1870.

Campbell remarried in 1850 to Miss Anna Birdsall of Rahway, New Jersey. They had four children, Mary Spotswood Campbell Robinson (b.1852), Nanny Campbell (b.1854), Charles Campbell (b.1856), and Fanny Campbell (1858-1860's).

Charles Campbell was committed to Western Lunatic Asylum at Staunton, Virginia, in 1873 where he remained until his death on July 11, 1876. He was buried at Blandford Church Cemetery, Petersburg.

Like his father, Campbell was a historian. He began contributing to journals in 1834. Some of the journals to which he frequently contributed included; The Southern Literary Messenger or The Southern and Western Literary Messenger and Review ; The Farmer's Register ; The New Yorker ; and the Petersburg Intelligencer . His most important work, however, was the History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia . This work built upon his father's book and concerned Virginia history from the colony's founding to the Revolutionary War.

A noted American historian, diplomat, and public official, George Bancroft (1800-1891) was born on October 3, 1800, in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was the eighth of thirteen children born to Aaron and Lucretia (Chandler) Bancroft. After primary schooling in Worcester, Bancroft attended the Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire and later graduated from Harvard in 1817. During his long career, Bancroft taught at the Round Hill School in Northampton, Massachusetts, served as the collector of the port of Boston, and held various public offices. In 1845, he was appointed Secretary of the Navy in President James K. Polk’s (1795-1849) cabinet and served in this position until 1846, during which he established the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Bancroft was then named as a United States minister to Great Britain from 1846-1849, and later to Germany from 1867 until his retirement in 1874. Bancroft settled in Washington, D.C., where he finished writing his ten volume set, History of the United States. He also kept a summer home in Newport, Rhode Island, at the Rosecliff mansion. George Bancroft died on January 1, 1891, in Washington, D.C.