| Sumner County (Kan.) - 1885 - 478 pages
...while engaged in active measures to destroy, b« force of arms, the Government over which he had onre presided, he was taken sick and soon died. . • •...as one of the first pioneers, in 1735. In the year i3o6, with his wife and children, ar.d soon after followed by most of the members of the Polk fatnly,... | |
| Green Lake County (Wis.) - 1890 - 902 pages
...Confederates. He was chosen a member of their Congress ; and while engaged in active measures to destroy, by force of arms, the Government over which he had once presided, he was taken sick and soon died. THE NEW VOIVR . ELE VENTH PRESIDENT. 59 AMES K. POLK, the eleventh President of the United States,... | |
| Jefferson County (Iowa) - 1890 - 670 pages
...Confederates. He was chosen a member of their Congress ; and while engaged in active measures to destroy, \y force of arms, the Government over which he had once presided, he was taken sick and soon died. FN .-:>'/ Yl'KK j PUP LiC LIBRARY1 *"•,•! OR. IFNOX : Till,*- * tOU-'DATIOMS "* 59 AMES K. POLK,... | |
| Thompson Cooper - Biography - 1890 - 736 pages
...Herod ian ; Greek Epi» grams ; Latin Poems; and Letters. POLK, JAMES KNOX, an American statesman and the eleventh president of the United States, was born in Mecklenburg co., North Carolina, 3 Nov., 1795, and graduated at the university of North Carolina in 1815. In 1825 he... | |
| Michigan - 1891 - 974 pages
...Confederates. He was chosen a member of their Congress; and while engaged in active measures 1o deslroy, by force of arms, the Government over which he had once...1795. His parents were Samuel and Jane (Knox) Polk, tlie former a son of Col. Thomas Polk, who located at the above place, as one of the first pioneers,... | |
| Calhoun County (Mich.) - 1891 - 1057 pages
...Confederates. He was chosen a member of their Congress; and while engaged in active measures to destroy, by force of arms, the Government over which he had once...of the United States, was born in Mecklenburg Co., NC,Nov. 2, 1795. His parents were Samuel and Jane (Knox) Polk, the former a son of Col. Thomas Polk,... | |
| Governors - 1891 - 652 pages
...Confederates. He was chosen a member of their Congress; and while engaged in active measures to destroy, bv force of arms, the Government over which he had once...of the United States, was born in Mecklenburg Co., NC,Nov. 2, 1795. His parents were Samuel and Jane (Knox) Polk, the former a son of Col. Thomas Polk,... | |
| Governors - 1891 - 892 pages
...Confederates. He was chosen a member of their Congress; and while engaged in active measures to destroy, by force of arms, the Government over which he had once...POLK, the eleventh President of the United States, was bom in Mecklenburg Co., NC, Nov. 2, 1795. His parents were Samuel and Jane (Knox) Polk, the former... | |
| Ionia County (Mich.) - 1891 - 860 pages
...of their Congress; and while engaged in active measures to destroy, by force of arms, the Govermnent over which he had once presided, he was taken sick...the eleventh ^President of the United States, was bom in Mecklenburg Co., NC,Nov. 2, 1795. His parents were Samuel and Jane (Knox) Polk, the former a... | |
| Barry County (Mich.) - 1891 - 844 pages
...Confederates. He was chosen a member of their Congress; and while engaged in active measures to destroy, bv force of arms, the Government over which he had once presided, he was taken sick and soon died. e/<3*~ ELEVENTH PRESIDENT. 59 AMES K. POLK, the eleventh President of the United States, was born in... | |
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