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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cooke, Philip St. George -1895 (search)
Cooke, Philip St. George -1895 Military officer; born near Leesburg, Va., June 13, 1809; graduated at West Point in 1827. He served in the war against Mexico, and late in 1861 was made brigadiergeneral of volunteers. He had seen much service in wars with the Indians, commanded in Kansas during the troubles there, and took part in the Utah expedition in 1858. He commanded all the regular cavalry of the Army of the Potomac, and was distinguished in the campaign on the Peninsula in 1862. He was retired with the rank of brevet major-general, in 1873, and died in Detroit, Mich., March 20, 1895.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Coronado, Francisco Vasquez de 1510-1542 (search)
ulf of California, with 350 Spaniards and 800 Indians, to explore the country northward. He followed the coast nearly to the head of the gulf, and then penetrated to the Gila, in the present Arizona Territory. Following that stream to its head-waters, he crossed the great hills eastward, to the upper waters of the Rio Grande del Norte, which he followed to their sources. Then, crossing the Rocky Mountains, he traversed the great desert northeastwardly to the present States of Colorado or Kansas, under lat. 40° N. In all that vast region he found little to tempt or reward a conquest—rugged mountains and plains and a few Indian vilages in some of the valleys. He made quite an elaborate report, accompanying it with drawings of the cities and houses built by the Indians (see below). He died in March, 1542, insane, it is believed. Coronado's relation to Mendoza. On Aug. 3, 1540, Coronado addressed the following report to the Mexican viceroy, concerning his journey into what is
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Crime against Kansas, the (search)
Crime against Kansas, the See Kansas.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Debtors. (search)
Funded loan of 1891, continued at 2 per cent., called for redemption May 18, 1900; interest ceased Aug. 18, 1900.624,850.00 Funded loan of 1891, matured Sept. 2, 1891.71,550.00 Old debt matured at various dates prior to Jan. 1, 1861, and other items of debt matured at various dates subsequent to Jan. 1, 1861.1,073,740.26 ———— Aggregate of debt on which interest has ceased since maturity.1,770,140.26 Bonds issued to Pacific railroads matured but not yet presented: Union Pacific, $12,000; Kansas Pacific, $1,000; total13,000.00 Debt bearing no interest. Dollars. United States notes.Feb. 25, 1862; July 11, 1862; Mar. 3, 1863.346,681,016.00 Old demand notes.July 17, 1861; Feb. 12, 1862.53,847.50 National-bank notes: Redemption account.July 14, 1890.28,703,554.50 Fractional currency.July 17, 1862; March 3, 1863; June 30, 1864, less $8,375,934, estimated as lost or destroyed, act of June 21, 1879.6,877,462.41 ———— Aggregate of debt bearing no interest.382,315,880.41
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Delaware Indians, (search)
ess, they fled to the Huron liver and Canada. Under the provisions of a treaty in 1787, a small band of Delawares returned to the Muskingum, the remainder being hostile. These fought Wayne, and were parties to the treaty at Greenville in 1795. The scattered tribes in Ohio refused to join Tecumseh in the War of 1812, and in 1818 they ceded all their lands to the United States, and settled on the White River, in Illinois, to the number of 1,800, leaving a small remnant behind. They finally settled in Kansas, where missions were established among them, and they rapidly increased in the arts of civilized life. In the Civil War, the Delawares furnished 170 soldiers for the National army. Having acquired land from the Cherokees in the Indian Territory, they now occupy the Cooweescoowee and Delaware districts; numbered 754 in 1900; are considered the traders and business men of the North American Indians; and still keep up their totemic distinction of Turtle, Turkey, and Wolf families.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Divorce laws. (search)
required, six months; either may remarry. Illinois. Extreme and repeated cruelty; conviction of felony or other infamous crime; attempt by either party on life of other; wilful desertion two years. Residence required, one year; no statute as to remarrying. Indiana. Habitual drunkenness; cruel and inhuman treatment; abandonment two years; failure on part of husband to support wife for two years. Residence required, two years; either may marry again, except as limited in decree. Kansas. Fraudulent contract; conviction of and imprisonment for felony; habitual drunkenness; extreme cruelty; gross neglect of duty; abandonment one year. Residence required, one year; parties may remarry at once, unless appeal is taken, and then thirty days after final judgment on the appeal. Kentucky. Uniting with religious society which forbids marriage of husband and wife; abandonment one year; living apart without cohabitation five years; condemnation for felony; force, duress or fr
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dorsey, James Owen, 1848- (search)
Dorsey, James Owen, 1848- Ethnologist; born in Baltimore, Md., Oct. 31, 1848; studied at the Theological Seminary of Virginia, and became a Protestant Episcopal missionary to the Ponka Indians in Dakota. He was ethnologist to the United States Geological Survey, and a member of the ethnological bureau in the Smithsonian. His publications include Osage War customs; Kansas mourning and War customs; Omaha Sociology; Siouan migrations, etc. He died Feb. 4, 1895.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Douglas, Stephen Arnold, 1813-1861 (search)
r of the Kansas-Nebraska bill (q. v. ); and in 1856 was a rival candidate of Buchanan for the nomination for the Presidency. He took sides in favor of freedom in Kansas, and so became involved in controversy with President Buchanan. He was a candidate of the Democratic party in 1860 for President of the United States, but was de to the federal Constitution. During the session of Congress of 1853-54 I introduced into the Senate of the United States a bill to organize the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska on that principle which had been adopted in the compromise measures of 1850, approved by the Whig party and the Democratic party in Illinois in 1851,ed to the accomplishment of the following purposes: to bring the administration of the government back to the control of first principles; to restore Nebraska and Kansas to the position of free Territories; that, as the Constitution of the United States vests in the States, and not in Congress, the power to legislate for the extra
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dwight, Theodore, 1764-1846 (search)
ed in 1833. He published the Albany Daily Advertiser in 1815, and was the founder, in 1817, of the New York Daily Advertiser, with which he was connected until the great fire in 1835, when he retired, with his family, to Hartford. Mr. Dwight was one of the founders of the American Bible Society. He was one of the writers of the poetical essays of the Echo in the Hartford Mercury. He was also the author of a Dictionary of roots and Derivations. He died in New York City, July 12, 1846. Author; born in Hartford, Conn., March 3, 1796; graduated at Yale College in 1814; settled in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1833. In association with George White it is said that he induced about 9,000 people to leave the East and settle in Kansas. He was the author of a New Gazetteer of the United States (with William Darby); History of Connecticut; The Kansas War: or the exploits of chivalry in the nineteenth century; Autobiography of General Garibaldi, etc. He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 16, 1866.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Elective franchise. (search)
vada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont, Virginia and Wyoming. In some counties in Georgia registration is required by local law. In Kentucky registration is required in cities; in Kansas in cities of the first and second class; in Nebraska and Iowa in cities of 2,500 population and over; in North Dakota in cities of over 3,000; in Ohio in some cities; in Maine in towns of 500 or more voters; in South Dakota in cities and towns oficted of crime and disfranchised by judgment of court excluded. Iowa Citizen; must have resided in State six months, county sixty days; idiots, insane, convicted of infamous crime, nonresident United States soldiers and marines excluded. Kansas Citizen or alien who has declared intention; must have resided in State six months, town or precinct thirty days; idiots, insane, convicts, rebels not restored to citizenship, persons under guardianship, public embezzlers, bribed, excluded.
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