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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hendricks, Thomas Andrews -1885 (search)
Hendricks, Thomas Andrews -1885 Statesman; born near Zanesville, O., Sept. 7, 1819. In 1822 his father settled in Indiana, where the son was educated at Thomas Andrews Hendricks. South Hanover College, and became a lawyer. He was an active member of the State constitutional convention of 1850, and a member of Congress from the Indianapolis District from 1851 to 1855. He was Democratic United States Senator from 1863 to 1869, was chosen governor of Indiana for four years in 1872, and Vice-President of the United States on the ticket with Mr. Cleveland in 1884. He had second place with Samuel J. Tilden in 1876. He died in Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 25, 1885.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Herkimer, Nicholas (search)
n of a palatine who settled on a tract called Burnet's Field, now in Herkimer county, N. Y. Nicholas was made a lieutenant of provincials in 1758, and was in command at Fort Herkimer during the attack of the French and Indians upon it that year. In 1775 he was appointed colonel of the 1st Battalion of Tryon county militia. He was also chairman of the county committee of safety; and in September, 1776, he was made brigadier-general by the provincial convention of New York. He commanded the Tryon county militia in the battle at Oriskany (Aug. 6, 1777), where he was severely wounded in the leg by a bullet, and he bled to death in consequence of defective surgery, Aug. 16, 1777. On Oct. 4 following the Continental Congress voted the erection of a monument to his memory of the value of $500. This amount was many years afterwards increased by Congress, private subscriptions, and the New York legislature to more than $10,000, and the monument in the form of an obelisk was erected in 1884.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hichborn, Philip 1839- (search)
e he took a two years course in ship construction, design, and calculation under the direction of the Navy Department. In 1860 he was assigned to duty in the navy-yard at Mare Island, Cal., and in 1862-69 was master shipwright there. In the latter year he was made an assistant naval constructor, with the relative rank of lieutenant. In 1875, after a competitive examination, he was commissioned a naval constructor. He was selected by the Secretary of the Navy for special duty in Europe in 1884, and later Philip Hichborn. published the results of his investigations in a work on European dockyards. This work attracted much attention, and for a time foreign powers were greatly exercised over its appearance, as nothing so exhaustive had been published before. On July 13, 1893, he was appointed chief constructor of the navy with the relative rank of commodore, and on Sept. 7, 1897, was reappointed. On his sixtieth birthday, March 4, 1899, through the provisions of the naval personn
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Higginson, Thomas Wentworth 1823- (search)
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth 1823- Author; born in Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 22, 1823; graduated at Harvard College in 1841; became pastor of the First Congregational Church in Newburyport, Mass., in 1847. In 1858 he gave up the ministry for literature. He entered the National army in September, 1862, and was made colonel of the 33d Colored Regiment in Thomas Wentworth Higginson. the same year. This regiment comprised the first freed slaves received into the National army. He was wounded at Willtown Bluffs, S. C., in August, 1863, and resigned in the following year. His publications include Army life in a Black Regiment; Young folks' history of the United States; History of education in Rhode Island; Young folks' book of American explorers; Short studies of American authors; Life of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (in American men of letters series, 1884) ; Larger history of the United States, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hoar, George Frisbie 1826- (search)
Hoar, George Frisbie 1826- Legislator; born in Concord, Mass., Aug. 29, 1826; graduated at Harvard in 1846; studied law, and practised in Worcester, Mass. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1852, and of the Senate in 1857; city attorney in 1860; member of Congress in 1869-77; and became United States Senator in the latter year. He was a delegate to the National Republican Conventions of 1876, 1880, and 1884; and one of the managers George Frisbie Hoar. on the part of the House of Representatives in the Belknap impeachment case in 1876.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hoffman, Charles Fenno 1806-1884 (search)
Hoffman, Charles Fenno 1806-1884 Author; born in New York City in 1806; was educated at Columbia College; admitted to the bar in 1827. He soon abandoned his profession and devoted himself to literature, joining Charles King in editing the New York American. He established the Knickerbocker magazine in 1833; became editor of the American monthly magazine; and in 1846 editor of the Literary world. He was also the author of many poems and of songs that attained wide popularity. He died in Harrisburg, Pa., June 7, 1884.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hunt, William Henry 1824-1884 (search)
Hunt, William Henry 1824-1884 Lawyer; born in Charleston, S. C., in 1824; educated at Yale College; settled in New Orleans to practise; supported the National cause during the Civil War. He was Secretary of the Navy in 1881-82; and in the latter year was appointed minister to Russia. He died in St. Petersburg, Russia, Feb. 27, 1884.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hypnotism, educational uses of. (search)
or, if mental and moral effects in the direction of improvement can be produced and made permanent, we have taken a long step in a true educational process. To what extent has this been actually accomplished? A very marked and, it must also be said, a most unusual case is reported in the Annales Medico-Psychologiques, and has been verified and summarized by Mr. F. W. H. Myers, secretary of the Society for Psychical Research. Still further condensed, it is as follows: In the summer of 1884 there was at the Salpetriere a young woman of a deplorable type—a criminal lunatic, filthy in habits and violent in demeanor, and with a life-long history of impurity and theft. M. Auguste Voisin, one of the physicians of the hospital staff, undertook to hypnotize her at a time when she could be kept quiet only by the strait-jacket and the continuous cold douche to the head. She would not look at the operator, but raved and spat at him. M. Voisin, however, kept his face close to hers an
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Idaho, (search)
rop alone exceeding in value $4,280,000. For 1900 the equalized valuation of all taxable property was $47,545,905, and the total bonded debt was $425,500, largely incurred for the construction of wagon-roads. The population in 1890 was 84,385; in 1900, 161,772. See United States, Idaho, vol. IX. Territorial governors. Name.Date. Wm. H. Wallace1863 to 1864 Caleb Lyon1864 to 1866 David W. Ballard1866 to 1867 Samuel Bard1870 Gilman Marston1870 to 1871 Alexander Connor1871 Thomas M. Bowen1871 Thomas W. Bennett1871 to 1876 Mason Brayman1876 to 1880 John B. Neil1880 to 1883 John N. Irwin1883 Wm. N. Burn1884 to 1885 Edwin A. Stevens1885 to 1889 State governors. Name.Date. George L. Shoup1890 N. B. Willey3890 to 1893 Wm. J. McConnell1893 to 1897 Frank Steunenberg1897 to 1901 Frank W. Hunt1901 to 1903 United States Senators. Name.No. of Congress.Date. George L. Shoup51st to —1890 Fred. T. Dubois51st to 54th1890 to 1895 Henry Heitfeld55th to 58th1897 to 19
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ide, Henry Clay 1844- (search)
Ide, Henry Clay 1844- Jurist; born in Barnet, Vt., Sept. 18, 1844; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1866. He was a member of the Vermont State Senate in 1882-85; president of the Republican State Convention in 1884; and a delegate to the National Republican Convention in 1888. In 1891 he was appointed United States commissioner to Samoa; and in 1893-97 was chief-justice of the islands under the joint apportionment of England, Germany, and the United States. On returning to the United States he engaged in banking and manufacturing.
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