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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Supreme Court, United States (search)
d States comprised the following justices: Chief-Justice.Born.Appointed. Melville W. Fuller, of Illinois18331888 Associate Justices. John M. Harland. Kentucky18331877 Horace Gray, Massachusetts18281881 David J. Brewer, Kansas18371889 Henry B. Brown, Michigan18361890 Associate Justices—Continued.Born.Appointed. George Shiras, Jr., Pennsylvania18321892 Edward D. White. Louisiana18451894 Rufus W. Peckham New York18371895 Joseph McKenna, California18431898 Reporter. J. C. Banc-89818241889 Horace Gray, Massachusetts1881–....1828.... Samuel Blatchford, New York1882-931118201893 Lucius Q. C. Lamar, Mississippi1888-93518251893 Melville W. Fuller, Illinois1888–....1833.... David J. Brewer, Kansas1889–....1837.... Henry B. Brown, Michigan1890–....1836.... George Shiras, Jr., Pennsylvania1892–....1832.... Howell E. Jackson, Tennessee1893-95218321895 Edward D. White, Louisiana1893–....1845.... Rufus W. Peckham, New York1895–....1837.... Joseph McKenna, Ca
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Michigan, (search)
Unions throughout the State......1887 Ten counties hold local-option elections, and in each case they resulted in prohibition......December, 1887 Secret ballot law, on the Australian ballot system, passed......1889 Edwin B. Wimans, Democrat, elected governor by 183,725 votes; the Prohibition candidate received 28,651 votes......1890 Ex-Senator Thomas W. Palmer, of Detroit, appointed chairman of the national commission of the World's Columbian Exposition......June 27, 1890 Henry B. Brown, commissioned associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, Dec. 30, 1890, is sworn in......Jan. 5, 1891 Prof. Alexander Winchell, geologist, born 1824, dies at Ann Arbor......Feb. 19, 1891 Legislature places all penal and reformatory institutions under a single board, extends the Australian ballot system, and requires Presidential electors to be elected by congressional districts, instead of by general State ticket......1891 Twenty-fifth annual reunion of the Grand Ar
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), John Yates Beall, gallant soldier (search)
ance with the rites of the Episcopal Church. He requested to be engraved on his tomb: Died in Defence of My Country. Illegality of Captain Bealls execution. The next ranking officer to Captain Beall was B. H. Burley, who was associated with him in all his daring adventures, hence guilty of the same offense. Yet Lieutenant Burley was allowed to go unpunished by the Federal government. Burley was arrested by Canadian authority and surrendered on extradition papers, demanded by Mr. Henry B. Brown, then assistant United States attorney for the Detroit District, now one of the associated justices of the Supreme Court. Burley's chief defense was his commission as an acting master in the Confederate navy, signed at Richmond, Va., September 11, 1863, on which was an endorsement, dated Richmond, December 22, 1864, in the form of a proclamation by President Davis (which referred especially to Captain Beall's adventure), declaring that the Philo Parson's enterprise was a belligerent