Daniel Webster was the ninth born son of Ebenezer Webster, who was a farmer and tavern-keeper. He was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire on January 18th in 1782. He was nicknamed "Black Dan." When he was a child he was mostly bedridden, many thought he wouldn't make it. He was forced to read. He fell in love with books. When he was just fifteen he entered Dartmouth College. After he graduated he taught for a little while before working in a law office in Boston. He made over 65,000 a year! In 1807 Webster married and moved to Portsmouth and...
of State under William Henry Harrison in 1841 and John Tyler until 1843. He was responsible for the negotiation of the Webster-Ashburton Treaty with the British government in 1842. H

of State under William Henry Harrison in 1841 and John Tyler until 1843. He was responsible for the negotiation of the Webster-Ashburton Treaty with the British government in 1842. H
e returned to guide and serve as Secretary of State under Fillmore in 1850 until 1852. Although he strongly opposed slavery, Webster supported the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850. This angered all of the anti-slavery Whigs. They thought Webster wanted the support of the South in his proposed presidential bid in 1852. Instead, Franklin Pierce got the nomination. Daniel Webster died on October 24th, 1852. Many school hood friends attended.
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A boy of Scotch-Irish descent, whose ancestors had settled in Pennsylvania before travelling through mountains to resettle in southern territory, he was born in 1782 in the Abbeville district of South Carolina on March 18. His family was not rich, nor were they poor; they owned slaves and were regarded...
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Born in 1859 in Paris, Pierre Curie was a French physicist who spent a great deal of his life dealing in the fields of chemistry and physics. During his lifetime, he was known for his work in radioactivity, magnetism, piezoelectric effect, and his work and studies with his wife Marie...
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