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James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 11 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore) 8 0 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 8 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 7 3 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 6 0 Browse Search
Isaac O. Best, History of the 121st New York State Infantry 4 4 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. 3 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 19, 1860., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 3, 1862., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Johnson, Sir William 1715-1774 (search)
pted into the Mohawk tribe and made a sachem. At the council of governors, convened by Braddock at Alexandria in 1755, Johnson was appointed sole superintendent of the Six Nations, created a major-general, and afterwards led an expedition intended for the capture of Crown Point. The following year he was knighted, and the King gave him the appointment of superintendent of Indian affairs in the North; he was also made a colonial agent. He continued in the military service during the remainder of the war, and was rewarded by his King with the gift of 100,000 acres of land north of the Mohawk River, which was known as Kingsland, or the Royal Grant. Sir William first introduced sheep and blooded horses into the Mohawk Valley. He married a German girl, by whom he had a son and two daughters; also eight children by Mary (or Mollie) Brant, who lived with him until his death. Sir William lived in baronial style and exercised great hospitality. He died in Johnstown, N. Y., July 11, 1774.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Johnstown flood. (search)
Johnstown flood. See inundations.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stanton, Elizabeth Cady 1815- (search)
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady 1815- Reformer; born in Johnstown, N. Y., Nov. 12, 1815; received an academic education. In July, 1848, she called the first woman's rights. convention, which met in Seneca Falls, N. Y., and succeeded, after much opposition, in having the first demand for woman suffrage adopted. She was president of the Woman's Loyal League in 1861, and held the same office in the Woman's Suffrage Association in 1865-93. She annually addressed Congress for over twenty-five years in advocacy of a sixteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States establishing woman suffrage. She is the author of The history of woman suffrage (with Susan B.. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage); Eighty years and more; The woman's Bible, etc. See divorce laws, uniform.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stewart, Gideon Tabor 1824- (search)
Stewart, Gideon Tabor 1824- Lawyer; born in Johnstown, N. Y., Aug. 7, 1824; was educated in Oberlin, O.; began the practice of law in Norwalk in 1846, and for a time was editor of the Reflector. He removed to Dubuque, Ia., in 1861, and owned and published the Daily times during the Civil War. In 1876 he returned to Norwalk and resumed law practice. For many years Mr. Stewart was actively identified with the temperance movement, and in 1853 undertook to organize a National Prohibition party. The movement, owing to the Civil War and other causes, failed, but in 1869 such a party was formed in Chicago by a national convention, to which he was a delegate. He was for many years chairman of the national executive committee of his party, and was a candidate for a number of high offices in his State. In 1876 he was the candidate of his party for the Vice-Presidency on the ticket headed by Green Clay Smith, which received a popular vote of 9,522.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
Oklahoma, by proclamation of President, March 23, 1889, is opened for settlement at noon, and city of Guthrie established......April 22, 1889 Simpson Dry-dock at Newport News, Va., the largest in the United States, formally opened......April 24, 1889 Centennial of inauguration of President Washington celebrated in New York City and elsewhere......April 29–May 1, 1889 Body of Dr. Cronin, of Chicago, who had disappeared three weeks previously, found in a sewer......May 22, 1889 Johnstown flood......May 31, 1889 John Brown's fort, near Harper's Ferry, swept away by a flood on the Potomac......June, 1889 City of Seattle, W. T., nearly destroyed by fire; 30 acres burned over; loss, $5,000,000......June 6, 1889 Simon Cameron, statesman, born 1799, dies at Donegal, Lancaster co., Pa.......June 26, 1889 Maria Mitchell, astronomer, born 1818, dies at Lynn, Mass.......June 28, 1889 Theodore Dwight Woolsey, ex-president of Yale College, born 1801, dies at New Haven