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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 2 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Slater, John F. 1815-1884 (search)
Gilman, ex-president of Johns Hopkins University, as president; Chief-Justice Fuller, as vicepresident; Morris K. Jesup, as treasurer; J. L. M. Curry, as secretary and general manager; and Bishops Potter and Galloway, and Messrs. William E. Dodge, William A. Slater, John A. Stewart, Alexander E. Orr, and William H. Baldwin, Jr. The fund is a potential agency in working out the problem of the education of the negro, and over half a million of dollars has already been expended. By the extraordinary fidelity and financial ability of the treasurer, the fund, while keeping up annual appropriations, has increased to $1,500,000. Schools established by States, denominations, and individuals are helped by annual donations. Among the most prominent are the Hampton Normal and Industrial; the Spelman, the Tuskegee, and schools at Orangeburg, S. C.; Tongaloo, Miss.; Marshall, Tex.; Raleigh, N. C.; New Orleans; the Meharry College at Nashville, etc. Mr. Slater died in Norwich, Conn., May 7, 1884.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
ghter against William Berner for complicity in the murder of his employer, W. H. Kirk......March 28-30, 1884 Government offers $25,000 for the discovery and rescue, or ascertaining the fate, of the Greely Arctic expedition, by act of......April 17, 1884 Steamer Thetis leaves Brooklyn navyyard for relief of Greely. May 1, 1884 Morrison tariff bill rejected in House of Representatives......May 6, 1884 Failure of the Marine Bank and firm of Grant & Ward in New York City......May 6-7, 1884 Statue of Chief-Justice John Marshall unveiled at Washington, D. C.......May 10, 1884 Alert, the last Greely relief steamer, sails from Brooklyn navy-yard......May 10, 1884 Charles O'Conor, born 1804, dies at Nantucket......May 12, 1884 Bill repealing the test oath of 1862 approved......May 12, 1884 Financial crisis in New York City......May 14, 1884 National Anti-monopoly Convention at Chicago nominates Gen. B. F. Butler for President; the candidate for Vice-President lef