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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hanaford, Phebe Anne 1829- (search)
Hanaford, Phebe Anne 1829- Author; born in Nantucket, Mass., May 6, 1829; was ordained to the ministry of the Universalist Church in 1868, being the first woman to assume the clerical office in that Church. Her publications include Abraham Lincoln; Field, gunboat, Hospital, and prison; Women of the century; Life of George Peabody, etc. Hancock, John
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hartstene, Henry J. 1828-1868 (search)
Hartstene, Henry J. 1828-1868 Naval officer; born in North Carolina; joined the navy in 1828; promoted commander in 1855; and was ordered to the Arctic region to search for Dr. Kane, whom he rescued with his party. In 1861 he resigned his commission and joined the Confederate navy, but in the following year he became insane. He died in Paris, France, March 31, 1868.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hawkins, Ernest 1802-1868 (search)
Hawkins, Ernest 1802-1868 Author; born in England about 1802; graduated at Oxford University in 1824, and became a clergyman. He was the author of Notices of the Church of England's missions to the North American colonies previous to the Independence of the United States; Annals of the colonial Church, etc. He died in 1868. Hawkins, Ernest 1802-1868 Author; born in England about 1802; graduated at Oxford University in 1824, and became a clergyman. He was the author of Notices of the Church of England's missions to the North American colonies previous to the Independence of the United States; Annals of the colonial Church, etc. He died in 1868.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hay, John 1838- (search)
he, time of his inauguration, and served as his assistant private secretary, till 1863, when he joined General Hunter in South Carolina as aide-decamp. In the same year he was appointed assistant adjutant-general, and assigned to the staff of Gen. Quincy A. Gillmore (q. v.), and was subsequently ordered to duty at the White House, where he remained until President Lincoln's assassination. Later he was brevetted colonel of volunteers. In 1865-67 he was secretary of legation in Paris; in 1867-68 at Vienna; and then till 1870 at Madrid. During 1870-75 he was an editorial writer on the New York Tribune; then removed to Cleveland. He was active in the Republican Presidential campaigns of 1876, 1880, and 1884; was first assistant Secretary of State in 1879-81; in the latter year was president of the international sanitary congress in Washington; in 1897-98 was ambassador to Great Britain; and in September of the latter year was appointed Secretary of State to succeed Judge William R. D
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hollister, Gideon Hiram 1817-1881 (search)
Hollister, Gideon Hiram 1817-1881 Author; born in Washington, Conn., Dec. 14, 1817; graduated at Yale College in 1840, studied law and practised in Litchfield, Stratford, Bridgeport, and Woodbury, Conn. He was clerk of courts in Litchfield in 1843-52; elected State Senator in 1856; and was appointed consul-general and United States minister to Haiti by President Johnson in 1868. In 1880 he was elected to the legislature, and there delivered a speech on the New York boundary question. He was author of Andersonville (a poem); Mount hope, a historical romance of King Philip's War; and History of Connecticut. He died in Litchfield, Conn., March 24, 1881.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hooker, Joseph 1814-1879 (search)
Hadley, Mass., Nov. 13, 1814; graduated at West Point in 1837, entering Joseph Hooker. the artillery. He served in the war with Mexico, and was brevetted lieutenantcolonel for bravery therein. He resigned in 1853 and settled in California, where he was residing when, in May, 1861, he was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers and assigned to the Army of the Potomac, in which he acquired the name of Fighting Joe Hooker. In May, 1862, he was promoted to major-general. He was severely wounded in the battle of Antietam, and soon afterwards was commissioned brigadier-general in the United States army. Early in 1863 he succeeded Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside (q. v.) in the command of the Army of the Potomac, and was himself succeeded by Gen. George G. Meade (q. v.) in June. He performed efficient service near Chattanooga in the fall of 1863, and in the Atlanta campaign of 1864. In 1868 he was retired with the full rank of major-general. He died in Garden City, N. Y., Oct. 31, 1879.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Howard, Joseph 1833- (search)
Howard, Joseph 1833- Journalist; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 3, 1833; educated in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 1860 he engaged in newspaper work, and has been editor, special writer, and correspondent for the New York Times, Herald, Tribune, World, Sun, and Recorder; the Boston Herald and Globe; the Philadelphia Times and Press; the Chicago News, Tribune, and Times-Herald; the San Francisco Chronicle, and other papers. In 1868-76 he was editor and proprietor of the New York Star. In 1895 he became president of the New York Press Club, and in 1897 president of the International League of Press Clubs. He has published a Life Of Henry Ward Beecher. Medal awarded Colonel Howard. In 1864 he created an unusual sensation by preparing an alleged proclamation, to which were attached the names of the President of the United States and the Secretary of State, and in which various defeats and disasters in the Union army were narrated, a day of fasting and prayer was r
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Howell, Robert Boyte Crawford 1801-1868 (search)
Howell, Robert Boyte Crawford 1801-1868 Clergyman; born in Wayne county, N. C., March 10, 1801; graduated at Columbian College, Washington, in 1826; ordained in the Baptist Church, Jan. 27, 1827; pastor at Nashville, Tenn., for many years. During the Civil War he was a strong advocate of the Confederacy. His publications include The early Baptists of Virginia, etc. He died in Nashville, Tenn., April 5, 1868.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hoyt, Albert Harrison 1826- (search)
Hoyt, Albert Harrison 1826- Author; born in Sandwich, N. H., Dec. 6, 1826; graduated at Wesleyan College in 1850, and became a lawyer; paymaster in the army in 1862-66; received the brevet of lieutenant-colonel in 1865; was editor of the New England Historical and Genealogical register in 1868-76. His publications include Necrology of the New England colleges; Capt. Francis Goelet's journal of his visit to Boston, Salem, etc., in 1745-50; Letters of Sir William Pepperrell, Bart.; History of the New England Historical and Genealogical register; Notes, Historical and bibliographical, on the laws of New Hampshire; The name Columbia, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Idaho, (search)
e mission was established in 1842. The region was visited almost exclusively by hunters and trappers till 1852, when gold was discovered on its present northern boundary. By act of Congress of March 3, 1863, the Territory of Idaho was created from a portion of Oregon Territory, with an area which included the whole of the present State of State seal of Idaho. Montana and nearly all of that of Wyoming. In 1864 the Territory lost a part of its area to form the Territory of Montana, and in 1868 another large portion was cut from it to form the Territory of Wyoming. On July 3, 1890, the Territory was admitted into the Union as a State, having then a gross area of 84,800 square miles. Between the dates of its creation as a Territory and a State it became widely noted as a most promising field for gold and silver mining, and for several years later, Idaho was classed politically as a silver State. Prospecting, however, developed a large number of rich paying gold properties, and d
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