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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gould, Helen Miller 1868- (search)
Gould, Helen Miller 1868- Philanthropist; born in New York City, June 20, 1868; daughter of Jay Gould; has been actively associated with benevolent work. When the war with Spain began in 1898 she gave the United States government $100,000 to be used at the discretion of the authorities. She was also actively identified with the Woman's National War Relief Association and freely contributed to its work. When the sick, wounded, and convalescent soldiers from Cuba were taken to Camp Wikoff on Long Island, she gave her personal services and also $25,000 for needed supplies. Among her other benefactions are $250,000 to the University of New York for a new library (secretly given in 1895), and later $60,000 for additional cost; $60,000 to Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J.; $10,000 for the engineering school of the University of New York; $8,000 to Vassar College; $100,000 to the University of New York for a Hall of Fame; $250,000 for the erection of a Presbyterian church at Rox
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gould, Jay 1836-1892 (search)
en employment in making surveys for a map of Ulster county. After completing the survey of several other counties, he became interested in the lumbering business with Zadock Pratt, whose share he later purchased. Just before the panic of 1857 he sold his lumber business and went to Stroudsburg, Pa., where he entered a bank. It was at this time that he first became interested in railroad enterprises. Removing to New York City he became a broker, dealing at first in Erie Railroad bonds. In 1868 he was elected president of that company and remained in that office till 1872, when the company was reorganized, and he was forced as a result of long litigation to restore $7,550,000, a portion of the amount which it was alleged he had wrongfully acquired. While president of the Erie company he invested heavily in stocks of various railroads and telegraph companies. After losing his office in the Erie company he applied himself to the Pacific railroads, in which he had become interested
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Grand army of the republic, the. (search)
large cities and in many counties. The second national encampment, meeting in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 15, 1868, found the order in a most promising condition. In 1868, the first observance of May 30 as a memorial day by the Grand Army was ordered, and on May 11, 1870, May 30 was fixed upon for the annual observance by an article adopted as part of the rules and regulations of the order. Unfortunately, during the warmly contested political campaign of 1868, the idea that the Army was intended as a political organization gained currency, with the result of injuring the order greatly. A heavy decrease of membership followed, causing almost a total disrupof the Republic held thus far, with the names of the commanders-in-chief elected: 1. Indianapolis, Ind., 1866; S. A. Hurlbut, Illinois. 2. Philadelphia, Pa., 1868; John A. Logan, Illinois. 3. Cincinnati, O., 1869; John A. Logan, Illinois. 4. Washington, 1870; John A. Logan, Illinois. 5. Boston, Mass., 1871; A. E. Bu
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Grant, Ulysses Simpson (search)
e armies in 1864, he accompanied that of the Potomac, with his headquarters in the field, and he remained with it until he signed the articles of capitulation at Appomattox Court-house, April 9, 1865. In 1866 he was promoted to general of the United States army. After the war Grant fixed his headquarters at Washington. When President Johnson suspended Stanton from the office of Secretary of War, Grant was put in his place ad interim. Stanton was reinstated by the Senate, Jan. 14, 1868. In 1868, Grant was elected Ulysses S. Grant. President of the United States by the Republican party, and was re-elected in 1872. He retired from the office March 4, 1877, and soon afterwards made a journey around the world, receiving great honors everywhere. Towards the close of his life he was financially ruined by an unprincipled sharper. Congress created him a general on the retired list; and, to make further provision for his family, he began compiling Personal memoirs of U. S. Grant, a w
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Green, Seth 1817-1888 (search)
sh artificially. In 1838 he went to Canada and studied the habits of salmon, which he observed ate their spawn as soon as it was cast. He established methods to prevent this and increased the yield of fish to 95 per cent. In 1864 he settled in Caledonia, N. Y., where he propagated fish by impregnating dry spawn by an artificial method. In 1867 the fish commissioners of New England invited him to experiment in the hatching of shad. Going to Holyoke, he made improvements which in an incredibly short time hatched 15,000,000, and in 1868 40,000,000. In the latter year he was made superintendent of the New York State fisheries. In 1871 he sent the first shad ever transported to California. As a result of this trial more than 1,000,000 shad were sent to the Pacific coast in 1885. During his life he hatched by artificial methods the spawn of about twenty kinds of fish. He was the author of Trout culture and Fish hatching and Fish catching. He died in Rochester, N. Y., Aug. 20, 1888.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Greene, Albert Gorton 1802-1868 (search)
Greene, Albert Gorton 1802-1868 Lawyer; born in Providence, R. I., Feb. 10, 1802; graduated at Brown University in 1820; ademitted to the bar in 1823, and began practice in Providence; president of the Rhode Island Historical Society in 1854-68. He was the author of the poems The militia muster; Old Grimes; Adelheid; The Baron's last banquet; and Canonchet. He died in Cleveland, O., Jan. 4, 1868. Greene, Albert Gorton 1802-1868 Lawyer; born in Providence, R. I., Feb. 10, 1802; graduated at Brown University in 1820; ademitted to the bar in 1823, and began practice in Providence; president of the Rhode Island Historical Society in 1854-68. He was the author of the poems The militia muster; Old Grimes; Adelheid; The Baron's last banquet; and Canonchet. He died in Cleveland, O., Jan. 4, 1868.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Grierson, Benjamin Henry 1826- (search)
royed 3,000 stand of arms, and inflicted a loss on their foes of property valued at $6,000,000. Grierson's loss was twenty-seven men and a number of horses. During the twenty-eight hours preceding the arrival of the raiders at Baton Rouge they had travelled 76 miles, engaged in four skirmishes, and forded the Comite River. Grierson declared that he found the Confederacy to be only a shell. This was in 1863. He was made major-general of volunteers in May, 1865, and for his services in the war was brevetted majorgeneral, United States army, in March, 1867. He had been commissioned lieutenant-colonel of United States cavalry in July, 1866. From 1868 till 1873 he was in command of the Indian Territory district, and was actively employed in campaigns against hostile Indians; and in 1873-81 was similarly engaged in western Texas and New Mexico. In 1886 he became commander of the District of New Mexico, and in 1890 he was retired with the rank of brigadier-general in the regular army.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Griggs, John William 1849- (search)
Griggs, John William 1849- Lawyer; born in Newton, N. J., July 10, 1849; graduated at Lafayette College in 1868; admitted to the bar in 1871; and began practice in Paterson, N. J. In 1876-77 he was a member of the New Jersey House of Representatives, and in 1882-88 of the State Senate, of which he was president in 1886. He was elected governor of New Jersey in November, 1895, and served till January, 1898, when he was appointed Attorney-General of the United States. In March, 1901, he resigned this office to resume private practice. His services during President McKinley's first administration and especially during the Spanish War period, were laborious, exacting, and highly appreciated by the President and his official advisers.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Halpine, Charles Graham 1829-1868 (search)
Halpine, Charles Graham 1829-1868 Author and soldier; born in Oldcastle, Ireland, Nov. 20, 1829; graduated at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1846; emigrated to the United States in 1850; was connected at various times with the Boston Post, New York Herald, New York Times, New York Leader, and New York Tribune. He enlisted in the 69th New York Infantry at the beginning of the Civil War, and reached the rank of brigadier-general. After the war he established the Citizen. He was best known under his nom de plume miles O'Reilly. He was the author of the well-known lyric beginning: Tear down the flaunting lie! Half-mast the starry flag! He died in New York City, Aug. 3, 1868.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, (search)
Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, An institution organized by Gen. Samuel C. Armstrong (q. v.) for the education of colored youth, in Hampton, Va. It was opened in 1868, is nonsectarian and co-educational; and now, under an arrangement with the national government, gives instruction to Indian youth as well as colored. The development of the institute is due, in a large pleasure, to the students themselves. Nearly all the buildings have been erected by the students, who also worked out the timber, baked the bricks, and performed other technical work. At the end of 1900 the institute reported eighty professors and instructors, 1,017 students, 1,061 graduates, 11,000 volumes in the library, and $889,500 in productive funds. The president was the Rev. H. B. Frissell, D. D.
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