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Adams, Henry C.
Born in Davenport, Ia., 1861.
Graduated from Iowa College, 1874. Professor of Political Economy in the University of Michigan since 1887. Director of the division of transportation of the eleventh census; statistician to Interstate Commerce Commission since 1887; president American Economic Association from 1895-97.
He has written Lectures on political Economy ; State in relation to industrial action; Public debts; The Science of finance.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Alger , Russell Alexander 1836 - (search)
Alger, Russell Alexander, 1836-
Secretary of War: born in Lafayette, O., Feb. 27, 1836; worked on a farm for years earning
Russell A. Alger. money to defray the expenses of his education.
He was admitted to the bar in 1859, but was forced by ill health to give up practice.
When the Civil War broke out he entered the Union army as a captain, and rose to brevet brigadier-general of volunteers.
After the war he entered the lumber business, in which he acquired a large fortune.
He was governor of Michigan in 1885-87; was a candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1888; was commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1889-90; and became Secretary of War under President McKinley in 1897.
During almost all of the American-Spanish War in 1898 he was subjected to much public censure on account of alleged shortcomings in the various bureaus of the War Department.
He resigned his office in 1899, and wrote a history of the war with Spain.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Altgeld , John Peter 1847 - (search)
Altgeld, John Peter, 1847-
Lawyer; born in Germany, in December, 1847; was brought to the United States in infancy by his parents, who settled near Mansfield, O.; received a public school education; entered the Union army in 1863, and served till the close of the war. In 1869 he was admitted to the Missouri bar; in 1874 was elected State attorney of Andrew county, Mo.; in the following year removed to Chicago; in 1886-91 was judge of the superior court of that city; and in 1893-97 was governor of Illinois.
His action in pardoning (June 27, 1893) Fielden, Schwab, and Neebe, who had been imprisoned for complicity in the Haymarket atrocity by alleged anarchists, excited strong and general criticism (see anarchists; Chicago). His publications include Our penal machinery and its victims; Lice questions; Oratory; Its requirements and its rewards (1901); etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ames , Herman Vandenburg 1865 - (search)
Ames, Herman Vandenburg, 1865-
Historian; born in Lancaster, Mass., Aug. 7, 1865; was graduated at Amherst College in 1888 and later studied in Germany.
In 1891-94 he was an instructor in History at the University of Michigan; in 1896-97 occupied a similar post in Ohio State University; and in the latter year accepted the chair of American Constitutional History in the University of Pennsylvania.
He is author of The proposed amendments to the Constitution of the United States, for which hAug. 7, 1865; was graduated at Amherst College in 1888 and later studied in Germany.
In 1891-94 he was an instructor in History at the University of Michigan; in 1896-97 occupied a similar post in Ohio State University; and in the latter year accepted the chair of American Constitutional History in the University of Pennsylvania.
He is author of The proposed amendments to the Constitution of the United States, for which he was awarded the prize of the American Historical Association in 1897.
Anderson, Larz, 1866-
Diplomatist; born in Paris, France, Aug. 15, 1866; was graduated at Harvard College in 1888; spent two years in foreign travel: was second secretary of the United States legation and embassy in London in 1891-93, and first secretary of the embassy in Rome in 1893-97.
During the war with Spain he served as a captain and adjutant-general of United States volunteers.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Angell , James Burrill 1829 - (search)
Angell, James Burrill, 1829-
Educator and diplomatist; born in Scituate, R. I., Jan. 7, 1829; was graduated at Brown University; in 1849; Professor of Modern Languages and Literature at Brown University in 1853-60; president of the University of Vermont in 1866-71; and since 1871 president of the University of Michigan.
In 1880-81 he was United States minister to China; in 1887 a member of the Anglo-American Commission on Canadian Fisheries: in 1896 chairman of the Canadian-American Commission on Deep Waterways from the Great Lakes to the Sea: and in 1897-98 United States minister to Turkey.
He is author of numerous addresses, and magazine articles.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Appropriations by Congress. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Arbitration, international. (search)
Arbitration, international.
In 1897 the friends of arbitration the world over were exceedingly depressed over a defeat which the principle sustained at the hands of the United States Senate.
By a close vote on April 13, the Senate rejected in toto a measure providing for the arbitration of all disputes that may arise between the United States and Great Britain.
This general arbitration measure arose from the Venezuela trouble.
On March 5, 1896, Lord Salisbury submitted to Secretary Olney a suggested treaty in regard to the Venezuelan matter.
On April 11, Secretary Olney proposed a few amendments to the treaty, and also suggested that a general treaty for the arbitration of all difficulties might be concluded along the same lines.
The draft of this general treaty was made public Jan. 13, 1897, and at once the project became the subject of debate here and abroad.
In England the proposed treaty was cordially received and promptly ratified and sent to this country.
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