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See also:ARMSTRONG, See also:SAMUEL See also:CHAPMAN (1839—1893) , See also:American soldier, philanthropist and educator, was See also:born on Maui, one of the Hawaiian Islands, on the 3eth of See also:January 1839, his parents, See also:Richard and Clarissa Armstrong, being American missionaries. He was educated at the Punahou school in See also:Honolulu, at Oahu See also:College, into which the Punahou school See also:developed in 1852, and at See also:Williams College, See also:Williamstown, See also:Massachusetts, where he graduated in 1862. He served in the See also:Civil See also:War, on the See also:Union See also:side, from 1862 to 1865, rising in the volunteer service to the See also:regular See also:rank df See also:colonel and the See also:brevet rank of brigadier-See also:general, and, after See also:December 1863, acted as one of the See also:officers of the coloured troops commanded by General See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Birney. In See also:November 1865 he was honourably mustered out of the volunteer service. His experience as See also:commander of See also:negro troops had added to his See also:interest, always strong, in the negroes of the See also:south, and in See also:March 1866 he became See also:superintendent of the Ninth See also:District of See also:Virginia, under the Freedman's See also:Bureau, with headquarters near Fort See also:Monroe. While in this position he became convinced that the only permanent See also:solution of the manifold difficulties which the freedmen encountered See also:lay in their moral and See also:industrial See also:education. He remained in the educational See also:department of the Bureau until this See also:work came to an end in 1872; though five years earlier, at See also:Hampton, Virginia, near Fort Monroe, he had founded, with the aid principally of the American Missionary Association, an industrial school for negroes, Hampton See also:Institute, which was formally opened in 1868, and at the See also:head of which he remained until his See also:death, there, on the 1th of May 1893. After 1878 See also:Indians were also admitted to the Institute, and during the last fifteen years of his See also:life Armstrong took a deep interest in the " See also:Indian question." Much of his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time after 1868 was spent in the See also:Northern and Eastern states, whither he went to raise funds for the Institute. See Samuel Chapman Armstrong, a See also:Biographical Study (New See also:York, 1904), by his daughter, Edith Armstrong See also:Talbot.
His See also:brother, WILLIAM N. ARMSTRONG, was See also:attorney-general in the See also:cabinet of the Hawaiian See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king Kalakaua I. He accompanied that monarch on a prolonged See also:foreign tour in 188r, visiting See also:Japan, See also:China, See also:Siam, See also:India, See also:Europe and the See also:United States, and in 1904 published an amusing See also:account of the See also:journey, called See also:Round the See also:World with a King.
End of Article: ARMSTRONG, SAMUEL CHAPMAN (1839—1893)
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