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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 1 1 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morton, William Thomas Green 1819-1868 (search)
Morton, William Thomas Green 1819-1868 Dentist; born in Charlton, Mass., Aug. 9, 1819. After studying dentistry in Baltimore in 1840, he settled in Boston (1842), where he successfully manufactured artificial teeth. While attending lectures at a medical college, he conceived the idea that sulphuric ether might be used to alleviate pain. Assured of its safety by experiments on himself, he first administered it successfully in his dental practice Sept. 30, 1846, extracting a firmly rooted tooth without pain. At the request of Dr. John C. Warren, ether was administered to a man in the Massachusetts General Hospital, from whose groin a vascular tumor was removed while the patient was unconscious. Dr. Morton obtained a patent for his discovery in November, 1846, under the name of Letheon, offering, however, free rights to all charitable institutions; but the government appropriated his discovery to its use without compensation. Other claimants arose, notably Dr. Charles T. Jackso
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), California (search)
Two hundred Mormon emigrants, recruited in the United States, arrive at San Francisco in the ship Brooklyn, under Elder Brannan......July 31, 1846 Americans, under Com. Robert F. Stockton and Colonel Fremont, capture Los Angeles......Aug. 13, 1846 First number of an American newspaper, the Californian, issued at Monterey by Robert Semple and Walter Colton......Aug. 15, 1846 Commodore Stockton proclaimed governor......Aug. 17, 1846 Mexicans recapture Los Angeles......Sept. 29-30, 1846 Gen. Stephen W. Kearny, under orders from Washington to proceed from New Mexico to California and establish a provisional government, arrives at Santa Maria......Dec. 5, 1846 Indecisive battle at San Pascual between Mexican Gen. Don Andres Pico, and General Kearny, who is twice wounded......Dec. 6, 1846 Battle of San Gabriel; decisive defeat of the Mexicans......Jan. 8-9, 1847 Los Angeles regained by the Americans......Jan. 10, 1847 Colonel Fremont assumes the civil governmen