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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), O'Conor , Charles 1804 -1884 (search)
O'Conor, Charles 1804-1884
Lawyer; born in New York City, Jan. 22, 1804; admitted to the bar in 1824.
He was connected with many of the most prominent legal cases, the most famous of which were the suits against the Tammany ring in 1871, in which William M. Evarts, James Emmot, and Wheeler H. Peckham were associated with him. In 1872 Mr. O'Conor was nominated for Vice-President by that portion of the Democratic party which was opposed to the election of Horace Greeley.
Mr. O'Conor was one of the counsel of Samuel J. Tilden before the electoral commission in 1876.
He died in Nantucket, Mass., May 12, 1884.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Peary , Robert Edwin 1856 - (search)
Peary, Robert Edwin 1856-
Explorer; born in Cresson, Pa., May 6, 1856; graduated at Bowdoin College in 1877; appointed civil engineer United States navy in 1881; assistant engineer Nicaragua ship-canal in 1884. Lieutenant Peary made voyages to Greenland in 1886, 1891, 1893, 1896, and 1898.
He is the author of Over the Great ice; A complete narrative of Arctic work.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Phelps , Thomas Stowell 1822 - (search)
Phelps, Thomas Stowell 1822-
Naval officer; born in Buckfield, Me., Nov. 2, 1822; graduated at the United States Naval Academy in 1846; promoted lieutenant in 1855; distinguished himself in the Civil War, preventing the union of reinforcements with the main Confederate body during the battle of West Point; was promoted rear-admiral in 1884; and retired in 1885.
He wrote Reminiscences of Washington Territory.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Phillips , Wendell 1811 -1884 (search)
Phillips, Wendell 1811-1884
Orator and reformer; born in Boston, Mass., Nov. 29, 1811; son of John Phillips, the first mayor of Boston; graduated at Harvard College in 1831, and at the Cambridge Law School in 1833, and was admitted to the bar in 1834.
At that time the agitation of the slavery question was violent and wide-spread, and in 1836 Mr. Phillips joined the abolitionists.
He conceived it such a wrong in the Constitution of the United States in sanctioning slavery that he could not conscientiously act under his attorney's oath to that Constitution, and he abandoned the profession.
From that time until the emancipation of the slaves in 1863 he did not cease to lift up his voice against the system of slavery and in condemnation of the Constitution of the United States.
His first great speech against the evil was in Faneuil Hall, in December, 1837, at a meeting to notice in a suitable manner the murder, in the city of Alton, Ill., of Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy, who fell in def
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Political parties in the United States . (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pratt , Daniel Johnson 1827 -1884 (search)
Pratt, Daniel Johnson 1827-1884
Educator; born in Westmoreland, N. Y., March 8, 1827; graduated at Hamilton College in 1851; became assistant secretary of the board of regents of the University of the State of New York.
His publications include Biographical notice of Peter Wraxall; Annals of public education in the State of New York, 1626–;1746; and most of the History of the boundaries of the State of New York.
He died in Albany, N. Y., Sept. 12, 188
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Presidential elections. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Prohibition party. (search)
Prohibition party.
The question of prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors was agitated in various sections of the United States before a political party was formed distinctly on that issue.
State legislation has at different times attempted prohibition in Maine, Kansas, Iowa, and other States.
A distinctive national party was organized in 1869, and in 1872 it nominated a candidate for President.
It has put a ticket in the field in all succeeding Presidential campaigns, among others St. John in 1884, Fisk in 1888, Bidwell in 1892, Levering in 1896, and Woolley in 1900.
It has received no electoral votes and has carried no congressional districts, though it has polled a popular vote of several hundred thousand.
Besides its characteristic plank, it has advocated in its platforms some principles held either by the Democratic or by the People's party.
In 1900 there was a marked increase in the popular vote of this party.
protection
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Quackenbos , John Duncan 1848 - (search)
Quackenbos, John Duncan 1848-
Physician; born in New York City, April 22, 1848; graduated at Columbia University in 1868; College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1871; appointed Professor of English Language and Literature in Columbia University, 1884.
Since 1895 he has devoted himself to his profession, making a specialty of diseases of the nervous system.
Dr. Quackenbos is the author of History of the world; Appleton's geographies; New England Roads; Hypnotism in mental and moral culture, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ramsey , James Gattys McGregor 1796 -1884 (search)
Ramsey, James Gattys McGregor 1796-1884
Historian; born in Knox county, Tenn., in 1796.
He published the Annals of Tennessee to the end of the eighteenth century.
During the Civil War he acted as a financial agent for the Confederacy and also as an officer in its army.
He died in Knoxville, Tenn., in 1884.
Ramsey, James Gattys McGregor 1796-1884
Historian; born in Knox county, Tenn., in 1796.
He published the Annals of Tennessee to the end of the eighteenth century.
During the Civil War he acted as a financial agent for the Confederacy and also as an officer in its army.
He died in Knoxville, Tenn., in 1884.