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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 6 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 6 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 2: Two Years of Grim War. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 6 0 Browse Search
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army 6 0 Browse Search
L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion 6 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: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 6 0 Browse Search
William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik 6 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 6 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Internal revenue. (search)
13.23 Missouri 16,694,171.67 Montana, Idaho, and Utah 718,365.33 Nebraska, and North and South Dakota 3,383,918.23 New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont 1,309,361.06 New Jersey 8,828,895.04 New Mexico and Arizona 131,256.67 New York 46,475,135.22 North Carolina 6,331,933.36 Ohio 21,345,489.63 Oregon, Washington, and Alaska 1,248,743.91 Pennsylvania 25,923,506.35 South Carolina 312,911.22 Tennessee 2,295,606.01 Texas 1,541,474.47 Virginia 5,433,820.05 West Virginia 1,552,826.40 Wisconsin 10,502.994.09 —————— Total$295,31,107.57 The table on opposite page gives a summary of such receipts in the period 1880-1900, both inclusive, with principal sources. The re-imposition of adhesive stamps in 1898 was provided for in the War Revenue Act of that year. The war revenue and the receipts of the national treasury from other sources having been much larger than was anticipated, and having produced a surplus largely in excess of the actual financial needs of the countr
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Iowa (search)
Iowa Was originally a part of the vast Territory of Louisiana, ceded to the United States in 1803. The first settlement by Europeans was made by Julian Du Buque, who, in 1788, obtained a grant of a large tract, including the site of the city of Dubuque and the mineral lands around it. There he built a fort, and manufactured lead and traded with Indians until his death, in 1810. The Territory was placed under the jurisdiction of Michigan in 1834, and in 1836 under that of Wisconsin. It was erected into a separate Territory June 12, 1838, and included all the country north of Missouri between the Mississippi and the Missouri and the British line. This comprised a greater part of Minnesota and the whole of the present Dakotas, with an area of 94,000 square miles. The government was established at Iowa City, in 1839. In 1844 a State constitution was formed, but an application for admission into the Union was denied. The admission was effected Dec. 28, 1846, and in 1857 the cap
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Iroquois Confederacy, the (search)
of the Six Nations in New York passed into the possession of the white people, excepting some reservations on which their descendants still reside. In the plenitude of their Attack on an Iroquois Fort (from an old print). power the Confederacy numbered about 15,000; they now number about 13,000, distributed at various points in Canada and the United States. In 1899 there were 2,767 Senecas, 549 Onondagas, 161 Cayugas, 270 Oneidas, and 388 Tuscaroras in New York State; 1,945 Oneidas in Wisconsin; and 323 Senecas in Indian Territory. Like the other Indians of the continent, the Iroquois were superstitious and cruel. They believed in witches as firmly as did Cotton Mather and his Puritan brethren in New England, and they punished them in human form as fiercely as Henry VIII., or the rulers and the Gospel ministers at Salem in later times. Their medicine men and prophets were as expert deceivers as the priests, oracles, and jugglers of civilized men. They tortured their enemies i
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jackson, Sheldon 1834- (search)
Jackson, Sheldon 1834- Clergyman; born in Minaville, N. Y., May 18, 1834; graduated at Union College in 1855, and at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1858, and was ordained a minister in the Presbyterian Church on May 5 of the latter year. The same year he went as a missionary to the Choctaw Indians. In 1859-69 he was engaged in missionary work in western Wisconsin and southern Minnesota; in 1869-70 was superintendent of the Presbyterian missions in western Iowa, Nebraska, and the Rocky Mountain Territories; and in 1877 became superintendent of the Presbyterian missions in Alaska. In 1885 he was appointed United States general agent of education for the Territory of Alaska. In 1887 he organized at Sitka the Alaskan Society of Natural History and Ethnology; in 1884 induced Congress to grant a district organization to Alaska; in 1891 introduced reindeer into that region; and in 1898 was authorized to secure a colony of Laplanders for Alaska. He was several times a commissione
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jenkins, James G. 1834- (search)
Jenkins, James G. 1834- Jurist; born in Saratoga Springs, N. Y., July 18, 1834; was liberally educated in New York State; and was admitted to the bar in New York City in 1855. Two years later he removed to Milwaukee, Wis., where he practised till 1888, when he was appointed United States judge for the district of Wisconsin. In 1893 he was promoted to the bench of the United States Circuit Court of the 7th Judicial Circuit. In December, 1893, he issued an injunction forbidding all employes of the Northern Pacific Railroad (which at that time was in the hands of receivers appointed by the court) from joining or conspiring with others in striking against reduced wages. The Circuit Court of Appeals sustained this injunction in a modified form. Upon this action the labor leaders endeavored to have Judge Jenkins impeached, but without result.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jews. (search)
Philadelphia, and Baltimore. The following tentative estimate by States is given, being based, with a few modifications, on the table of David Sulzberger: Alabama6,000 Arizona2,000 Arkansas4,000 California35,000 Colorado10,500 Connecticut6,000 North and South Dakota3,500 Delaware3,000 District of Columbia3,500 Florida2,500 （Continued from preceding page.) Georgia7,000 Idaho2,000 Illinois95,000 Indiana25,000 Iowa5,000 Kansas3,500 Kentucky12,000 Louisiana20,000 Maine5,000 Maryland35,000 Massachusetts20,000 Michigan9,000 Mississippi5,000 Missouri35,000 Montana2,500 Nebraska2,000 Nevada2,500 New Hampshire1,000 New Jersey25,000 New Mexico2,000 New York400,000 North Carolina12,000 Ohio50,000 Oregon6,000 Pennsylvania95,000 Rhode Island3,500 South Carolina8,000 Tennessee5,000 Texas15,000 Utah5,000 Vermont1,000 Virginia18,000 Washington2,800 West Virginia6,000 Wisconsin10,000 Wyoming1,000 ——–—— Total1,043,800 Jews
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Johnson, John Butler 1850- (search)
Johnson, John Butler 1850- Educator; born in Marlboro, O., June 11, 1850; graduated at the University of Michigan in 1878, and became a civil engineer in the United States Lake and Mississippi River surveys. In 1883-98 he was Professor of Civil Engineering in Washington University, St. Louis. Later he was made dean of the College of Mechanics and Engineering in the University of Wisconsin. He was director of a testing laboratory in St. Louis, where all the United States timber tests were made. He also had charge of the index department of the journal published by the Association of Engineering Societies, and compiled two volumes of Index notes to engineering Literature. He is author of Theory and practice of surveying; Modern framed structures; Engineering contracts and specifications; Materials of construction, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Judiciary of the United States. (search)
cial purposes into nine circuits, and these circuits are subdivided into two or more districts. The 1st circuit consists of the States of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island; 2d, Connecticut, New York, and Vermont; 3d, Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania; 4th, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia; 5th, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas; 6th, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee; 7th, Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin; 8th, Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming; 9th, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Montana, and Washington. Each judge of the Supreme Court is allotted a circuit, and is required to attend that circuit at least one term every two years. Salary of chief-justice, $10,500; each justice, $10,000 a year. Circuit courts, established and organized by Congress. Each of the circuits has allotted to it one of the judges of the S
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Labor, industrial (search)
he following States have adopted laws prohibiting boycotting in terms: Colorado, Illinois, and Wisconsin. The States and Territories having laws prohibiting blacklisting in terms are Alabama, Colo Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin. The following States and Territories have laws which may be fairly construed as prohibitinHampshire, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Wisconsin. The following States and Territories have laws which may be fairly construed as prohibitinho, Indiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. The following is a summary of the laws of those States that have adopted the eight-hour wo for all laborers, workmen, and mechanics who may be employed by or on behalf of the State. Wisconsin. In all engagements to labor in any manufacturing or mechanical business, where there is no
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lead, (search)
Lead, A valuable mineral found in various parts of the world and in the United States in Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Missouri, Kansas, Wisconsin, Montana, and Illinois. In the calendar year 1899 the total production in the United States was 304,392 short tons, and the net production of refined lead was 210,500 short tons. The following is a brief history of the lead industry in the United States: It was first discovered in the Mississippi Valley by Le Sueur in 1700-1, but not mined till 1788, when Julien Dubuque staked a claim near the present site of Dubuque, Ia. The mining of lead, however, did not become general till 1826-27, and all the localities where the mineral had been discovered were not thrown open for sale till 1847.
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