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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Parkman, Francis 1823-1893 (search)
ta Indians. The hardships he Francis Parkman. there endured caused a permanent impairment of his health, and through life he suffered from a chronic disease and partial blindness. Notwithstanding these disabilities he long maintained a foremost rank among trustworthy and accomplished American historians. His chief literary labors were in the field of inquiry concerning the power of the French, political and ecclesiastical, in North America. So careful and painstaking were his labors that he was regarded as authority on those subjects which engaged his pen. Mr. Parkman's first work was The California and Oregon trail, in which he embodied his experience in the Far West. His first work on the French in America was The conspiracy of Pontiac (1851). It was followed by Pioneers of France in the New world (1865); The Jesuits in North America; The discovery of the Great West. （1869) ; The Old Regime in Canada (1874); Montcalm and Wolfe (1883). He died in Boston, Mass., Nov. 8, 1893
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
ing)......Oct. 30, 1893 Wilson bill as amended passes the House by 193 to 94; not voting, sixty-six; and is approved......Nov. 1, 1893 McCreary Chinese exclusion bill, as amended by Mr. Geary, passes the House by 178 to 9, Oct. 16, and Senate, Nov. 2. The bill extends the time of registration six months from date; approved......Nov. 3, 1893 First session (extra) adjourns......Nov. 3, 1893 Francis Parkman, American historian, born 1823, dies at Jamaica Plains, near Boston......Nov. 8, 1893 Extradition treaty with Norway ratified Nov. 8, and proclaimed......Nov. 9, 1893 The cruiser Columbia makes a record of 25 knots......Nov. 16, 1893 Supreme Court decides that the Great Lakes of this country and their connecting waters are included in the term high seas ......Nov. 20, 1893 Jeremiah M. Rusk, ex-Secretary of Agriculture, dies at his home in Viroqua, Wis., aged fifty-three......Nov. 21, 1893 Pauline Cushman (Fryer), actress, scout, and spy in the Federal army d
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
of Massachusetts, dies at his home, Boston......Jan. 23, 1893 Great fire in Boston; loss, $5,000,000......March 10, 1893 Tremont Temple destroyed by fire......March 19, 1893 Lizzie Borden tried and acquitted......June 20, 1893 Statue of William Lloyd Garrison unveiled at Newburyport......July 4, 1893 Mrs. Lucy Stone, one of the earliest champions of women's rights, dies at Boston......Oct. 18, 1893 Francis Parkman dies at Jamaica Plains, at the age of seventy years......Nov. 8, 1893 Ex-Gov. William Gaston dies at Boston, aged seventy-four......Jan. 19, 1894 Miss Helen Shafer, president of Wellesley College, born 1840, dies......Jan. 20, 1894 Fast Day abolished and April 19, the anniversary of the battle of Lexington, substituted as a holiday (to be called Patriots' Day)......March 16, 1894 Sixty-eight factories closed in Fall River......Aug. 13, 1894 Nathaniel P. Banks dies at Waltham......Sept. 1, 1894 Oliver Wendell Holmes dies at Boston......Oct