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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Holidays, legal. (search)
. 25. District of Columbia. Jan. 1, Feb. 22, March 4, May 30, July 4, first Monday in September, Thanksgiving, Dec. 25. Florida. Jan. 1 and 19, Feb. 22, Arbor Day, April 26, June 3, July 4, first Monday in September, Thanksgiving, Dec. 25, general election. Georgia. Jan. 1 and 19, Feb. 22, April 26, June 3, July 4, first Monday in September, any Thanksgiving Day, first Friday in December, Dec. 25. Idaho. Same as Arizona. Also Friday after May 1. Omitting May 30. Illinois. Jan. 1, Feb. 12 and 22, May 30, July 4, first Monday in September, Thanksgiving, Dec. 25, election day. Indiana. Jan. 1, Feb. 22, public fast, May 30, July 4, first Monday in September, Thanksgiving, Dec. 25, general election. Iowa. Jan. 1, May 30, July 4, first Monday in September, Thanksgiving, Dec. 25, general election. Kansas. Jan. 1, Arbor Day, May 30, public fast, July 4, first Monday in September, Thanksgiving, Dec. 25, general election. Kentucky. Jan. 1
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Homestead laws. (search)
ion for drawing the land by States was repeated, and the Treasury Department, which then had charge of the sale of public lands, was empowered to sell them in any part of the United States at pleasure. The low price attracted settlers, and large tracts for settlement were purchased by associations of colonists; but the States had also much land for sale, and they eagerly pushed these in the market, underbidding the government to check Western immigration, and the Spaniards holding land in Illinois offered farms without charge to actual settlers. After the meeting of the first Congress under the Constitution the matter was referred to Hamilton, who, in July, 1790, submitted to the House of Representatives a plan for the disposal of the public territory. Congress, however, was very slow to act in the matter, and neither adopted Hamilton's plan nor framed any other. In 1796 the present system of surveying lands was in substance adopted, and provision was made for the public sale of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hurlbut, Stephen Augustus 1815- (search)
Hurlbut, Stephen Augustus 1815- Military officer; born in Charleston, S. C., Nov. 29, 1815; became a lawyer; served in the Florida War; and in 1845 settled in Illinois. He was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers in May, 1861; commanded a division at the battle of Shiloh; and was made major-general in 1862. He served under Sherman in Mississippi; succeeded Banks in command of the Department of the Gulf; in 1869-72 was minister to Colombia, South America; and from 1881 till his death, March 27, 1882, was minister to Peru.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Illinois. (search)
onastery was established at Kaskaskia. By the treaty of 1763, the Illinois country, as it was called, passed under the jurisdiction of the En79, the Virginia Assembly erected into a county, which they called Illinois. It embraced all State seal of Illinois. territory north of theIllinois. territory north of the Ohio claimed as within the limits of Virginia, and ordered 500 men to be raised for its defence. In 1809, when the present boundaries of Indiana were defined, Illinois included Wisconsin and a part of Minnesota, and in 1810 contained more than 12,000 inhabitants. On Oct. 14, 181 no farther. Hopkins called for 500 volunteers to follow him into Illinois. Not one responded. They would not submit to his leadership, aner that war the population rapidly increased, and on Dec. 3, 1818, Illinois, with its present limits, was admitted into the Union as a State. ation of more than 55,000. The Black Hawk War (q. v.) occurred in Illinois in 1832. There the Mormons established themselves in 1840, at Nau
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Illinois Indians, (search)
Illinois Indians, A family of the Algonquian nation that comprised several clans—Peorias, Moingwenas, Kaskaskias, Tamnaroas, and Cahokias. At a very early period they drove a Dakota tribe, whom they called the Arkansas, to the country on the southern Mississippi. These were the Quapaws. In 1640 they almost exterminated the Winnebagoes; and soon afterwards they waged war with the Iroquois and Sioux. Their domain was between Lakes Michigan and Superior and the Mississippi River. Marquetth in the war of the Revolution, and joined in the treaty at Greenville in 1795. By the provision of treaties they ceded their lands, and a greater portion of them went to a country west of the Mississippi, within the present limits of Kansas, where they remained until 1867, when they were removed to a reservation of 72,000 acres southwest of the Quapaws. In 1872 the whole Illinois nation had dwindled to forty souls. This tribe, combined with the Weas and Piankeshaws, numbered only 160 in al
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Imperialism. (search)
ons we shall now see. The region bounded on the north by the Great Lakes, on the east by the Alleghany Mountains, on the south by the Ohio River, on the west by the Mississippi, out of which have grown the States of Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana, had been claimed under their charters by Virginia, New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, but they ceded their claims to the United States. The country so ceded was our first territorial acquisition, and became known as the Norf of the Tagals. Under date of Oct. 6, 1789, President Washington forwarded instructions to Governor St. Clair, in which he said: It is highly necessary that I should, as soon as possible, possess full information whether the Wabash and Illinois Indians are most inclined for war or peace. . . . You will, therefore, inform the said Indians of the disposition of the general government on this subject, and of their reasonable desire that there should be a cessation of hostilities as a prel
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Indian corn. (search)
ion was between 560,000 and 580,000 bushels. At the beginning of the nineteenth century the annual export was 2,000,000 bushels. But its annual product was not included in the census reports until 1840, when the aggregate yield was nearly 400,000,000 bushels. In the calendar year 1900 the aggregate production was 2,105,102,516 bushels, from 83,320,872 acres, and the total value was $751,220,034. The banner States, in their order and with their production, were: Iowa, 305,859,948 bushels; Illinois, 264,176,226 bushels; Nebraska, 210,430,064 bushels; Missouri, 180,710,404 bushels; Kansas, 103,870,630 bushels; Indiana, 153,200,800 bushels; and Ohio, 106,890,188 bushels— all other States and Territories being below the 100,000,000 mark. See Agriculture. Legend of the Grain.—While Capt. Miles Standish and others of the Pilgrims were seeking a place to land, they found some maize in one of the deserted huts of the Indians. Afterwards Samoset, the friendly Indian, and others, taught the P
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Indiana, (search)
milar letters-patent were issued by Connecticut, relinquishing all claim to jurisdiction. So the Reserve was annexed to the Northwest Territory, which was presently divided, by act of Congress (May 7), into two separate jurisdictions, the western one being called the Territory of Indiana, after one of the old ante-Revolutionary land companies. St. Vincent, or Vincennes, was made the capital, and William Henry Harrison was appointed governor of the Territory. It then included Michigan and Illinois. In 1803 a movement was made in Congress for suspending for a limited term, in the case of Indiana Territory, the provision of the ordinance of 1787 (q. v.) prohibiting slavery northward of the Ohio River. A committee, of which John Randolph, of Virginia, was chairman, reported strongly against the proposition, believing that in the salutary operation of this salutary and sagacious restraint the inhabitants of Indiana would, at no distant day, find ample remuneration for a temporary pri
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Indians, (search)
North Carolina. ShawneesSouth of the Ohio, W. Kentucky, and Tennessee. MiamisS. Michigan, N. Indiana, and N. W. Ohio. IllinoisS. Illinois and Indiana. KickapoosN. and central Illinois. PottawattomiesNorthern Illinois. OttawasMichigan. Sacs andS. Illinois and Indiana. KickapoosN. and central Illinois. PottawattomiesNorthern Illinois. OttawasMichigan. Sacs and FoxesNorthern Wisconsin. MenomoneesSouthern shore of Lake Superior. Chippewasor OjibwaysSouthern shore of Lake Superior. II. Wyandotte or Huron-Iroquois tribes: Eries (Huron or Wyandotte-Iroquois）Southern shore of Lake Erie. Andastes (Huronor central Illinois. PottawattomiesNorthern Illinois. OttawasMichigan. Sacs and FoxesNorthern Wisconsin. MenomoneesSouthern shore of Lake Superior. Chippewasor OjibwaysSouthern shore of Lake Superior. II. Wyandotte or Huron-Iroquois tribes: Eries (Huron or Wyandotte-Iroquois）Southern shore of Lake Erie. Andastes (Huronor Wyandotte-Iroquois）Head-waters of the Ohio. Wyandottes (Huron or Wyandotte-Iroquois）Territory north of Lakes Erie and Ontario. Senecas (Iroquois proper)Western New York. Cayugas (Iroquois proper)Central New York. Onondagas (Iroquois proper)CentraNorthern Illinois. OttawasMichigan. Sacs and FoxesNorthern Wisconsin. MenomoneesSouthern shore of Lake Superior. Chippewasor OjibwaysSouthern shore of Lake Superior. II. Wyandotte or Huron-Iroquois tribes: Eries (Huron or Wyandotte-Iroquois）Southern shore of Lake Erie. Andastes (Huronor Wyandotte-Iroquois）Head-waters of the Ohio. Wyandottes (Huron or Wyandotte-Iroquois）Territory north of Lakes Erie and Ontario. Senecas (Iroquois proper)Western New York. Cayugas (Iroquois proper)Central New York. Onondagas (Iroquois proper)Central New York. Oneidas (Iroquois proper)Eastern New York. Mohawks (Iroquois proper)Eastern New York. Tuscaroras (Iroquois proper)S. W. Virginia and North Carolina. Joined the Iroquois of New York, 1713. Names and location of the principal
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ingersoll, Robert Green 1833- (search)
most of his military career in raiding and scouting. On Nov. 28, 1862, while endeavoring to intercept a Confederate raiding body with 600 men, he was attacked by a force of 10,000, and captured. He was almost immediately paroled, and placed in command of a camp at St. Louis. After a few months in this capacity, fearing that he would not be returned to active service, he resigned his commission. Returning home, he became a strong Republican, and in 1866 was appointed attorney-general of Illinois. In 1876, at the Republican National Convention, he nominated James G. Blaine for the Presidency in a speech which contained the following memorable sentence: Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his shining lances full and fair against the brazen forehead of every defamer of his country and maligner of its honor. He was conspicuously active in the Presidential campaigns of 1876 and 1880, and had it not bee
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