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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 2 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Child, David Lee 1794-1874 (search)
Child, David Lee 1794-1874 Abolitionist; born in West Boylston, Mass., July 8, 1794; graduated at Harvard College in 1817: was later admitted to the bar. In 1830 he was editor of the Massachusetts journal, and while holding a seat in the legislature opposed the annexation of Texas; afterwards he issued a tract on the subject entitled Naboth's Vineyard. In 1836 he published ten articles on the subject of slavery, and in the following year, while in Paris, addressed a memoir to the Societepour l'abolition d'esclavage. He also forwarded a pamphlet on the same subject to the Eclectic review in London. In 1843-44 he edited (with his wife) the Anti-slavery standard in New York. He died in Wayland, Mass., Sept. 18, 1874.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nebraska, (search)
provided for by act of legislature......1870 Gov. David P. Butler impeached for corruption in office, in appropriating to his own use $17,000 of school fund......June 2, 1871 Omaha Daily bee established by Edward Rosewater at Omaha......1871 University of Nebraska, at Lincoln, chartered 1869, opened......1871 Nebraska Relief and Aid Society, Gen. E. O. C. Ord at the head, organized at request of the governor to relieve sufferers from famine caused by drought and locusts......Sept. 18, 1874 Legislature authorizes $50,000 in State bonds for relief of sufferers by locusts and famine......1875 New constitution framed by a convention which met at Lincoln, May 11, 1875, completing its labors June 12, is ratified by the people......Oct. 12, 1875 Convention of governors from the Western States and Territories at Omaha to consider the grasshopper pest......October, 1876 Ponco chief Standing Bear and twenty-five followers on their way from the Indian Territory, which the