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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 4 4 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 1 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cooper, James Fenimore 1789-1851 (search)
Cooper, James Fenimore 1789-1851 Author; born in Burlington. N. J., Sept. 15, 1789: James Fenimore Cooper. studied at Yale College, but did not graduate. He was six years in the naval service. Choosing literature as a profession, he took the path of romance, and wrote and published in the course of his life thirty-two volumes of fiction, the most famous of which were his Leatherstocking tales. He wrote a History of the United States Navy, in 2 volumes; Lives of American naval officers; Battle of Lake Erie; Gleanings in Europe; Sketches of Switzerland; and a comedy. He died in Cooperstown, N. Y., Sept. 14. 1851.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
Erie Railway, New York to Dunkirk......April 28, 29, 1851 Extension of the United States Capitol; corner-stone laid by the President; oration by Daniel Webster......July 4, 1851 [Extension finished, November, 1867.] General Lopez's second expedition against Cuba......Aug. 3, 1851 Louis Kossuth and suite received on the United States war steamer Mississippi at the Dardanelles......Sept. 10, 1851 James Fenimore Cooper, author, dies at Cooperstown, N. Y., aged sixty-two......Sept. 14, 1851 Hudson River Railroad opened from New York to Albany......Oct. 8, 1851 Kossuth leaves the Mississippi at Gibraltar and embarks on the Madrid, an English passenger steamer, for Southampton, England......Oct. 15, 1851 President Fillmore issues a proclamation forbidding military expeditions into Mexico......Oct. 22, 1851 Grinnell expedition, sent out in search of Sir John Franklin, May, 1850, returns to New York......October, 1851 Thirty-second Congress, first session, assemb
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
....May 8, 1850 Arctic expedition in search of Sir John Franklin sails from New York under Lieutenant De Haven and Dr. Elisha Kent Kane......May 24, 1850 Collins line of steamships begin between New York and Liverpool—an American line......1850 Washington Hunt elected governor. 1850 Erie Railroad completed; Piermont on the Hudson to Lake Erie......April 28-29, 1851 Hudson River Railroad opened......1851 James Fenimore Cooper, born in 1789, dies at Cooperstown, N. Y.......Sept. 14, 1851 Whig party disappears from State and national politics after......1852 Horatio Seymour, governor......Jan. 1, 1853 Second Arctic expedition in search of Sir John Franklin sails from New York under Dr. Kane. Funds mostly furnished by Henry Grinnell, of New York, and George Peabody. Grinnell land discovered......May 30, 1853 New York clearing-house established......1853 District libraries of the State have 1,604,210 volumes......1853 [This number was reduced more than
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Oregon, (search)
40 acres. To each emigrant settling in Oregon between Dec. 1, 1850, and Dec. 1, 1853, 160 acres......Sept. 27, 1850 Maj. Philip Kearny fights the Indians at Rogue River......June 23, 1851 A party of twenty-three, under T'Vault, set out to explore the interior, Aug. 24, 1851. Sept. 1 all but nine turn back, at the Rogue River, about 50 miles from the ocean. These reach the headquarters of the Coquille, Sept. 9; descend it, are attacked, and five of the nine killed by Indians......Sept. 14, 1851 Yam Hill River bridge, the first in the country, constructed at Lafayette......1851 Gold discovered by some half-breeds in the sand of the old sea-beach at the mouth of a creek near the Coquille......1852 Willamette University at Salem opened 1844; chartered......1853 War with the Indians of Rogue River, begun in June, ended by a treaty signed by Joel Palmer and Samuel H. Culver. By this treaty the Indians sell their lands, comprising the whole Rogue River Valley, to the Uni