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Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
delegates from sixteen States, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher president), and organizes American Woman's Suffrage Association......Nov. 24, 1869 Second session opens......Dec. 6, 1869 National Colored Labor Convention meets in Washington......Dec. 10, 1869 Wyoming gives women the right to vote and hold office......Dec. 10, 1869 George Peabody, born in South Danvers, Mass., 1795, dies in London, Nov. 4; funeral services held in Westminster Abbey, Nov. 12, and body placed on the British steDec. 10, 1869 George Peabody, born in South Danvers, Mass., 1795, dies in London, Nov. 4; funeral services held in Westminster Abbey, Nov. 12, and body placed on the British steamship Monarch for transportation to the United States......Dec. 11, 1869 Act removing legal and political disabilities from large classes of persons in the Southern States......Dec. 14, 1869 Edwin M. Stanton, born 1814, dies at Washington, D. C.......Dec. 24, 1869 Telegraph operators' strike throughout the country......Jan. 4, 1870 Statue of Nathanael Greene, placed in the old hall of House of Representatives by Rhode Island, accepted by resolution of Congress......Jan. 20, 1870
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wyoming, (search)
he sources of the Sweetwater......1867 Laramie City located on the Union Pacific Railroad......April, 1868 Territory of Wyoming organized by act of Congress out of parts of Dakota, Utah, and Idaho......July 25, 1868 Coal discovered three miles from Evanston, 1868, and first mine opened......1869 Cheyenne designated as the capital of Wyoming, and first territorial court held there......Sept. 7, 1869 Act approved giving women the right to vote and hold office in Wyoming......Dec. 10, 1869 Grand jury of men and women impanelled at Laramie......March 7, 1870 Lieut. Gustavus C. Doane makes a reconnoissance from Fort Ellis, Montana, to Yellowstone Lake, via Gallatin River...... 1870 Act of Congress approved setting apart 3,575 square miles near the headwaters of the Yellowstone as a public park......March 1, 1872 Military expedition under Captain Jones proceeds north from Bryan, on the Union Pacific Railroad, through the Wind River Valley and the Yellowstone Natio
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Chapter 19: the Byron controversy, 1869-1870. (search)
nce, and your courage to proclaim the truth when any good end is to be served by it. It is to be expected that public opinion will be more or less divided as to the expediency of this revelation . Hoping that you have recovered from your indisposition, I am Faithfully yours, O. W. Holmes. While undergoing the most unsparing and pitiless criticism and brutal insult, Mrs. Stowe received the following sympathetic words from Mrs. Lewes (George Eliot):-- The Priory, 21 North Bank, December 10, 1869. My dear friend,--. . . In the midst of your trouble I was often thinking of you, for I feared that you were undergoing a considerable trial from the harsh and unfair judgments, partly the fruit of hostility glad to find an opportunity for venting itself, and partly of that unthinking cruelty which belongs to hasty anonymous journalism. For my own part, I should have preferred that the Byron question should never have been brought before the public, because I think the discussion o