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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Agricultural implements. (search)
e extension of farming to large areas, as in Minnesota, Nebraska, and the Dakotas, where farms of 50,000 acres are not unusual, has called for quicker means of ploughing, sowing, and reaping than is possible by hand. Hence inventive genius has recognized the new conditions and provided ploughs, seeding-machines, cultivators, reapers, binders, and other apparatus operated by horse and steam-power. The invention of the mowing-machine is coeval, in our country, with the reaping-machine. The Manning mower was invented in 1831. That and the Ketcham (1844) held the place of superior excellence until about 1850, when other inventors had made improvements. In 1850 less than 5,000 mowing-machines had been made in our country. Within a quarter of a century afterwards a mowing-machine was considered indispensable to every farm. The American machines are the best in the world, and are sold all over Europe and South America. The plough used in this country during the colonial period was
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cabinet, President's (search)
l Cobb March 6, 1857 Philip F. Thomas Dec. 12, 1860 John A. Dix Jan. 11, 1861 Name.Appointed. Salmon P. Chase March 7, 1861 William Pitt Fessenden July 1, 1864 Hugh McCullochMarch 7, 1865 George S. Boutwell March 11, 1869 William A. Richardson March 17, 1873 Benjamin H. Bristow June 4, 1874 Lot M. Morrill July 7, 1876 John Sherman March 8, 1877 William Windom March 5, 1881 Charles J. Folger Oct. 27, 1881 Walter Q. Gresham Sept.24, 1884 Hugh McCulloch Oct. 28, 1884 Daniel Manning March 6, 1886 Charles S. Fairchild April 1, 1887 William Windom March 5, 1889 Charles Foster Feb. 21, 1891 John G. Carlisle March.6, 1893 Lyman J. Gage March 5, 1897 March 5, 1901 Secretaries of War. Henry Knox Sept. 12, 1789 Timothy Pickering Jan. 2, 1795 James McHenryJan. 27, 1796 Samuel Dexter May 13, 1800 Roger Griswold Feb. 3, 1801 Henry Dearborn March 5, 1801 William Eustis March 7, 1809 John Armstrong Jan. 13, 1813 James Monroe Sept.27, 1814 William
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Daughters of the American Revolution, (search)
Daughters of the American Revolution, A society organized in Washington, D. C., Oct. 11, 1890. All women above eighteen years of age who are descended from patriots, soldiers, sailors, or civil officers who supported the cause of independence, are eligible to membership. In 1900 there were 492 State chapters in fourteen States and Territories, in the District of Columbia, and in Hawaii, with a total membership of about 27,000. The president-general was Mrs. Daniel Manning; recording secretary-general, Mrs. Albert Ackers, Nashville, Tenn. At the annual national convention in Washington in February, 1901, the membership was reported at 35,092, and Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks, of Indiana, was elected president-general, and Mrs. E. W. Howard, of Virginia, recording secretary-general.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Manning, Daniel 1831-1887 (search)
Manning, Daniel 1831-1887 Financier; born in Albany, N. Y., May 16, 1831; received a public school education; was for many years connected with the Albany Argus, and was also an officer in several financial institutions. He became conspicuously active in the Democratic party in 1872; was chairman of the New York State Democratic Convention in 1881-84; a delegate to the National Democratic Conventions of 1876, 1880, and 1884, and chairman of the convention of 1880. He was Secretary of the United States Treasury in 1885-87. He died in Albany, N. Y., Dec. 24, 1887.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
, approved......Feb. 4, 1887 Pension bill for relief of dependent parents and honorably discharged soldiers and sailors who served three months in the Civil War, now disabled and dependent upon their own labor, vetoed......Feb. 11, 1887 Daniel Manning resigns as Secretary of the Treasury......Feb. 14, 1887 Union Labor party organized at Cincinnati, O.......Feb. 22, 1887 Bill to prohibit importation of opium from China approved......Feb. 23, 1887 Veto of the dependent pension bill President Cleveland's third annual message......Dec. 6, 1887 Anarchist Most sentenced to one year's imprisonment......Dec. 8, 1887 Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, geologist, born 1829, dies at Philadelphia......Dec. 22, 1887 Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Manning, born 1831, dies at Albany, N. Y.......Dec. 24, 1887 Secretary Lamar resigns......Jan. 7, 1888 Asa Gray, botanist, born 1810, dies at Cambridge, Mass.......Jan. 30, 1888 David R. Locke, Petroleum V. Nasby, Confederate X Ro