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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Johnson , Sir William 1715 -1774 (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)