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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Banks, savings. (search)
Banks, savings. The savings banks in the United States are divided into two classes — the mutual and the stock. In 1900 the mutual savings banks numbered 652, and had 5,370,109 depositors. and $2,336,460,239 in resources, and held savings deposits aggregating $2.134,471,130. The stock savings banks numbered 350, and had an aggregate capital of $19.892.294; 527,982 depositors, and $288,413,395 in resources, and held $250.299,719 in deposits. The aggregate of the two kinds of savings banks were: Total number, 1,002: depositors. 5,898,091: resources, $2,624,873,634; and combined deposits, $2,384,770,849. In several of the States, particularly in Massachusetts, organizations called co-operative banks to a large extent take the place of the ordinary savings banks elsewhere, and building and loan associations, as well as loan and trust companies, also act practically as savings bank
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Banks, State. (search)
Banks, State. Official reports covering the various banks organized under State and Territorial charters for the banking year ending at various periods in 1900, gave the following summaries: Number of banks, 4,369; capital, $237,004,340; deposits, $1,266,735,282; surplus, $91,381,666; and resources, $1,759,835,802. Sectionally, the largest number of such banks were in the Middle States, 1,658; the Western States ranked second, with 1,158; the Southern States third, with 917; the Eastern States fourth, with 343; the Pacific States fifth, with 270; and the New England States sixth, with 21.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bannock Indians, (search)
Bannock Indians, A tribe of North American Indians, sometimes called the Robber Indians. It was divided into two distinct branches: the first inhabited the region between lat. 42° and 45° and reaching from long. 113° to the Rocky Mountains; the second claimed all of the southwestern part of Montana. The first branch was the more numerous. In 1869 the Bannocks of the Salmon River numbered only 350, having been reduced by small-pox and invasions of the Blackfeet. In that year about 600 of the Southern tribe were settled on the Wind River reservation, and in the same year 600 more were sent to the Fort Hall reservation. Most of the latter afterwards left the reservation, but returned with the Shoshones and the scattered Bannocks of the southern part of Idaho in 1874. In 1900 the Bannocks were reduced to 430 at the Fort Hall agency, and eighty-five at the Lemhi agency, both in Ida
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Baptist Church, (search)
ion. In 1764, when numbering only about 5,000 members in all America, the Baptists established their first college in Rhode Island (see Brown University). With one exception, the Baptists are the largest denomination of evangelical Christians in the United States. It is said that the first article of the amendments to the national Constitution, guaranteeing religious liberty (offered in 1789), was introduced chiefly through the influence of the Baptist denomination. The Baptist Church in 1900 was divided into the Regular Baptist, North; Regular Baptist, South; and Regular Baptist, Colored. Besides these there were ten other Church organizations so closely allied with the Regular Baptist Church as to be officially grouped with the Regular Church. Reports for 1899 gave the following summaries for the thirteen Baptist bodies: Ministers, 33,088; churches, 49,721; and members, 4.443,628. The Northern and Southern branches of the Regular Baptist Church had 14,409 ministers, 27,893 ch
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Barker, Wharton, 1846- (search)
Barker, Wharton, 1846- Banker; born in Philadelphia, Pa., May 1, 1846; was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1866, after having served in the Union army in the Civil War; founded the banking firm of Barker Brothers & Co., which in 1878 was appointed financial agent in the United States of the Russian government, and supervisor of the building of four cruisers for its navy; and was the Presidential nominee of the Middle-of-the-Road or Anti-Fusion People's party, in 1900.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Barnard, Frederick Augustus porter, 1809-1889 (search)
graduated at Yale College in 1828; president of the University of Mississippi in 1856-58, and chancellor in 1858-61. In 1861, on account of the Civil War, he resigned his offices in the university. He was president of Columbia F. A. P. Barnard. College, New York City, in 1864-88. At various times he held responsible appointments under the United States government, and was a member of many scientific and literary societies. He was a strong advocate of the higher education of women, and was instrumental in founding the women's Annex to Columbia College, which afterwards was given his name, and in 1900 was made a part of Columbia University. Among his works are Letters on College government; Report on collegiate education; Art culture; History of the American coast survey; University education; Undulatory Theory of light; Machinery and processes of the industrial Arts, and apparatus of the exact Sciences; Metric system of weights and measures. He died in New York, April 27, 1889.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Barton, Clara, 1830- (search)
to aid the sufferers by the Mississippi and Ohio floods. In 1883 she was made the superintendent, steward, and treasurer of the Reformatory Prison for Women, at Sherborn. Mass., and in the same year was special commissioner of foreign exhibits at the New Orleans Exposition. In 1884 she was a delegate of the United States to the Red Cross Conference, and also to the International Peace Conference, both held in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1889 she directed the movements for the relief of the sufferers by the flood at Johnstown, Pa.. and in 1896 went to Armenia and personally managed the relief measures. Prior to the war with Spain she carried supplies to the reconcentrados of Cuba. at the request of President McKinley, and was also active during the war in army relief work. In 1900, after the Galveston disaster, she directed the movement for the relief of the sufferers, till her health failed. She is author of History of the Red cross; and History of the Red cross in, peace and War.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bassett, John Spencer, 1867- (search)
Bassett, John Spencer, 1867- Educator; born in Tarboro, N. C., Sept. 10, 1867; graduated at Trinity College, N. C., in 1888, and was Professor of History in Trinity College in 1900. He is author of Constitutional Beginningis of North Carolina; Slavery and servitude in colony of North Carolina; Anti-slavery leaders of North Carolina; Slavery in the State of North Carolina ; The war of the regulation, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Beet sugar. (search)
w sugar. This may be further refined by dissolving again and using albumen and blood. Experiments in beet sugar production were stimulated by the United States bounty law, in operation from July 1, 1891, to Aug. 27, 1894. In the period 1890-1900 the output in the United States was increased from 2,800 tons to 74,944 tons. The following table shows the production, in long tons, in the United States in the season of 1899-1900: California37,938 Nebraska4,591 Utah8,574 New Mexico446 Nstimulated by the United States bounty law, in operation from July 1, 1891, to Aug. 27, 1894. In the period 1890-1900 the output in the United States was increased from 2,800 tons to 74,944 tons. The following table shows the production, in long tons, in the United States in the season of 1899-1900: California37,938 Nebraska4,591 Utah8,574 New Mexico446 New York1,607 Michigan16,699 Minnesota2,053 Oregon982 Illinois804 Colorado804 Washington446   Totals for United States74,944
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bessemer steel. (search)
mass of iron. During the calendar year 1899, the production of this form of steel in the United States amounted to 7,586,354 gross tons in ingots, an increase in a year of more than 14 per cent., and more than double the productions of 1894 and 1896). In 1899 the/un> maximum production of Bessemer steel rails \was reached, when the output was 2,240,767 gross tons. In the production of ingots Pennsylvania ranked first, with 3,968,779 tons; Ohio second, with 1,679,237; and Illinois third, with 1,211,246 ; and in the production of Bessemer steel rails Pennsylvania ranked first, with 1,224,807 tons. the remainder being divided between the other States. A further evidence of the remarkable growth of the allied iron and steel industry is found in the commercial returns of the United States Treasury Department for the first ten months of 1900, which show that more than $100,000,000 worth of iron and steel was exported. Of this total the value of steel rails alone aggregated $12,000,000.
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