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Duncan J. Campbell
1845 births | 1883 deaths | nova scotia mlasDuncan J. Campbell (1845 – ca 1883) was a physician and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada. He represented Inverness County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1872 to 1883 as a Conservative member.
He was born in Margaree Forks, Nova Scotia, the son of Samuel Campbell and Ann McDonald McDonell, JK & Campbell, RB Lords of the North p.233. Campbell was educated at Harvard College. He was first elected to the provincial assembly in an 1872 by-election held after S. McDonnell resigned his seat. In 1874, he married Elizabeth Smyth, the daughter of Peter Smyth, who had previously sat for Inverness in the provincial assembly. Campbell died in office The Canadian parliamentary companion, 1883, JA Gemmill.
Emeline Meaker
1883 deaths | 19th century executions by the united states | people executed by hanging | people executed by vermont | people executed for murder | people from burlington, vermontEmeline Lucy Meaker (sometimes reported as Lucy Emeline Meaker) (died March 30, 1883) was the first woman that was legally executed by Vermont. In 1883, Meaker was convicted of and hanged for the murder of her husband's half-sister Alice near Burlington, Vermont.
The crime
Sometime in the spring of 1879, a child welfare worker approached Meaker and her husband to ask if they would consider taking Mr. Meaker’s eight year old half-sister Alice into their home, as she was living in an overcrowded orphanage.Hearn, Daniel Allen, Legal Executions in New England: A comprehensive reference, 1623–1960 (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1999) pp. 273–274."Mrs. Lucy E. Meaker Still Claims Innocence and Reproaches the Boy Almon", Burlington Free Press and Times, March 30, 1883. Mr. Meaker was offered a stipend of $400 to care for Alice, and so he agreed. Emeline Meaker was not pleased with the arrangement and beat, starved, and otherwise mistreated Alice.Karl Witte
1800 births | 1883 deaths | university of leipzig alumniJohann Heinrich Friedrich Karl Witte (born July 1, 1800 in Lochau; died March 6, 1883 in Halle) was a German jurist and Dante Alighieri scholar. He was the son of a pastor who encouraged a fairly intense program of learning. When Karl Witte was nine he spoke five languages and at fourteen was certified for a doctorate at the University of Leipzig. GWU His father wrote a book about educating his child. The Education of Karl Witte: Or, The Training of the Child By Karl Heinrich Gottfried Witte, Henry Addington Bruce In his own right be began his reputation as a Dante scholar in 1823. New York Times 199
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