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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wilkes, Charles 1798-1877 (search)
rfolk, Va., Aug. 18, 1838, on an exploring expedition, and for his discoveries during that cruise Wilkes received a gold medal from the London Geographical Society. He returned to New York in June, 1842. In 1861 he was sent to the West Indies, in the frigate San Jacinto, to look after the Confederate cruiser Sumter, when he fell in with the British steamer Trent and took from her James M. Mason and John Slidell (q. v.), and conveyed them to Boston, for which he was thanked by Congress and received popular applause. But the President finally disapproved his act, as a stroke of state policy. In 1862 he commanded the flotilla on the James River, with the rank of commodore; and afterwards in command of a squadron in the West Indies, captured many blockade-runners. He was retired in 1864 and promoted rear-admiral in 1866. He died in Washington, D. C., Feb. 8, 1877. His publications include a Narrative of his exploring expedition, and Western America, including California and Oregon.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wills, legal (search)
of the States twenty-one years. Males and females are competent to make wills at eighteen years in the following States: California, Connecticut, Hawaiian Islands, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Oklahoma Territory, South Dakota, Utah; and in the following States only females at eighteen years: Colorado, District of Columbia,. Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, Wisconsin. In the following States persons of eighteen years may dispose of personal property only: Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri,. Oregon, Rhode Island, Virginia, West Virginia; in Georgia any one over fourteen years, and in Louisiana any one over sixteen years, is competent to make a will. In Colorado persons of seventeen years, and in New York males of eighteen and females of sixteen years, may dispose of personality. Most of the States require two witnesses, except in Connecticut (three), District of Columbia (three or four), Maine (three), Maryland and Massachusetts, (three), Mississippi and New Hampshire (three), Rhode
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Winthrop, Theodore 1828- (search)
Winthrop, Theodore 1828- Military officer; born in New Haven, Conn., Sept. 22, 1828; graduated at Yale College in 1848, and on his return from Europe, in 1851, became tutor to a son of William H. Aspinwall, of New York, whose counting-house he afterwards entered. In the employ of the Pacific Steamship Company, he resided in Panama two years, and visited California, Oregon, and Vancouver's Island. He was one of the sufferers in the expedition of Lieutenant Strain to explore the Isthmus of Darien, returning in impaired health in 1854. On the fall of Fort Sumter he joined the 7th N. Y. Regiment; went with it to Annapolis; became military secretary to General Butler at Fortress Monroe, with the rank of major, and was killed in battle at Great Bethel, Va., June 10, 1861.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wool, John Ellis 1784-1869 (search)
2,000 men fully armed and equipped. Collecting 3,000 men, he penetrated Mexico to Saltillo, after a march of 900 miles without loss. He selected the ground for the battle of Buena Vista, and commanded in the early part of the action until the arrival of General Taylor. For his conduct there he was brevetted major-general and received the thanks of Congress and John Ellis Wool. a sword. The New York legislature also presented him with a sword. In 1856 he quelled Indian disturbances in Oregon, and was called to the command of the Department of the East, where he furnished the means for the salvation of the national capital and Fort Monroe from seizure in April, 1861. When he heard of the attack on Massachusetts troops in Baltimore, he hastened to Albany to confer with Governor Morgan. That official resolved to push forward troops to Washington as rapidly as possible. Wool issued orders to the United States quartermaster at New York to furnish all needful transportation, and
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wool. (search)
hio2,754.49915,838,3697,760,800 Michigan1,340,4568,981,0554,310,906 Indiana647,3994,250,0942,337,552 Illinois616,0374,004,2412,002,121 Wisconsin726,0404,719,2602,312,437 Minnesota409,1572,761,8091,242,814 Iowa586,6443,813,1861,715,934 Missouri570,1283,420,7681,710,384 Kansas270,7162,165,728714,690 Nebraska315,9372,448,462856,962 South Dakota372,7172,422,661969,064 North Dakota362,5122,356,328924,531 Montana3,717,16026,020,1209,627,444 Wyoming2,780,54621,549,2317,111,246 Colorado2,128,50813,303,1754,390,048 New Mexico3,786,68816,093,4247,402,975 Arizona1,003,9427,529,5652,108,278 Utah2,261,91714,136,9814,947,943 Nevada612,3874,592,9031,424,400 Idaho2,576,24019,321,8006,182,976 Washington759,3996,454,8921,742,821 Oregon2,351,27418,810,1925,643,058 California1,907,43013,352,0104,539,683 Oklahoma32,432218,91676,621 ——————————————— Total40,267,818259,972,815101,024,837 Pulled wool.....28,663,80617,198 283 —————————
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wrecks. (search)
t of Lower California, the vessel taking fire; 140 persons drowned or burned to death, a few escaping with great suffering on a barren shore......Feb. 16, 1853 Explosion of steamboat Gazelle at Canemah, Or.; twenty-one killed and many wounded......April 8, 1854 Steamboat Secretary, crossing San Pablo Bay from San Francisco to Petaluma, bursts her boiler; more than fifty lives lost......April 15, 1854 Steamer Northerner wrecked on a rock near Cape Mendocino, between San Francisco and Oregon; thirty-eight lives lost......Jan. 6, 1860 American vessel Oneida run down by Peninsular and Oriental steamer Bombay, off Yokohama; about 115 lives lost......Jan. 24, 1870 American steamer Pacific collides, 30 miles southwest of Cape Flattery; 236 lives lost......Nov. 4, 1875 American schooner Sunshine stranded near Cape Foulweather, Or.; twenty lives lost......Nov. 18, 1875 American bark Malleville stranded on Vancouver Island; nineteen lives lost......Oct. 10, 1882 Grappler
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