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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 3 3 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Noble, John Willock 1831- (search)
Noble, John Willock 1831- Lawyer; born in Lancaster, O., Oct. 26, 1831; graduated at Yale College in 1851; entered the Union army in the 3d Iowa Cavalry, of which he became colonel, and was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers at the close of the war. In 1867-70 he was United States attorney for Missouri at St. Louis. President Grant offered him the post of United States solicitor-general, which he declined. In 1889 President Harrison appointed him Secretary of the Department of the Interior, and in 1893 he resumed practice in St. Louis.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Tariff. (search)
denied the power of Congress to lay duties for protection.] Duties on coffee, cocoa, and tea reduced by act of May 20; on molasses and salt by act......May 29, 1830 Secretary of the Treasury Ingham, in his report, advocates home valuation in place of foreign, the current value of goods in the United States to be the dutiable value......Dec. 15, 1830 National free-trade convention meets in Philadelphia......Sept. 30, 1831 National protection convention meets in New York......Oct. 26, 1831 George McDuffie, representative from South Carolina, from committee on ways and means, reports a bill proposing ad valorem duties for revenue only......Feb. 8, 1832 John Quincy Adams reports a bill repealing the act of 1828, and reducing duties on coarse woollens, iron, etc.......May 23, 1832 Tariff bill retaining the protective features of the tariff of 1828, but reducing or abolishing many taxes, is reported. It reduced the tax on iron, increased that on woollens, made some r
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
hree......July 4, 1831 Negro insurrection led by Nat Turner, in Southampton county......August, 1831 President Jackson reforms his cabinet......1831 Anti-Masonic party hold a national convention at Baltimore, Md., and nominate William Wirt, of Virginia, for President, and Amos Ellmaker, of Pennsylvania, for Vice-President; number of delegates, 112......Sept. 26, 1831 Free trade convention held at Philadelphia......Oct. 5, 1831 High tariff convention held at New York......Oct. 26, 1831 Copyright law radically amended, making the term twenty-eight years instead of fourteen, with renewal of fourteen years more, and wife and children of author, in case of his death, entitled to a renewal......1831 William Lloyd Garrison begins the publication of the Liberator at Boston......1831 Twenty-second Congress, first session, convenes......Dec. 5, 1831 National Republican party hold a national convention at Baltimore, Md., and nominate Henry Clay, of Kentucky, for Pres