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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Menomonee Indians, (search)
Menomonee Indians, A family of the Algonquian nation, residing upon the Menomonee River, in Wisconsin. They assert that their ancestors emigrated from the East, but they were found on their present domain in 1640 by the French. Jesuit missions were established among them in 1670 by Allouez and others. The Menomonees were fast friends of the French, marched to the relief of Detroit in 1712, and subsequently drove the Foxes from Green Bay. Some of their warriors were with the French against Braddock in 1755; also at the capture of Fort William Henry, on Lake George, and on the Plains of Abraham with Montcalm. In the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 they were the friends of the English. They assisted in the capture of Mackinaw in 1812, and were with Tecumseh at Fort Meigs and at Fort Stephenson in 1813. After that they made several treaties with the United States, and they served the government against the Sacs and Foxes in 1832 (see Black Hawk War). The religion of the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Militia, United States (search)
17 No limit. 45,000 9,500 Virginia Virginia Volunteers 250 190 805 5,176 300,000 11,200 Washington National Guard of Washington 11 73 54 669 1,877 96,000 Unknown. West VirginiaWest Virginia National Guard20 20 945 8,359 130,000 16,700 Wisconsin Wisconsin National Guard 8 67 69 2,692 3,122 400,000 100,000 Wyoming Wyoming National Guard348 1,078 180,000 5,000 Grand aggregates 911 4,576 5,459 96,899 199,694 11,448,300 $3,282,407 The total organized force is 105,845. militia in sucWisconsin National Guard 8 67 69 2,692 3,122 400,000 100,000 Wyoming Wyoming National Guard348 1,078 180,000 5,000 Grand aggregates 911 4,576 5,459 96,899 199,694 11,448,300 $3,282,407 The total organized force is 105,845. militia in such numbers as he might deem necessary. The militia of the States and Territories constitute primarily an armed local constabulary that may be called out by the governor as commander-in-chief on the request of a sheriff or other local authority to aid in the enforcement of law, preserve order, etc. In the Civil War as well as that against Spain the bulk of the volunteer army of the United States was drawn from the militia of the States, and in their more extended service these soldiers lose fo
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Milwaukee, (search)
Milwaukee, Known as the Cream City, the metropolis of Wisconsin, situated on the western shore of Lake Michigan, was founded by Solomon Juneau, who arrived there Sept. 14, 1818. The place and name were known as early as Nov. 10, 1699, as John Buisson de St. Comes mentions being storm-bound at Milwarck on that date. The east side was first platted and named Milwaukee by Messrs. Juneau and Martin in 1835, the first sale of lots taking place in August of that year. In 1838 the population of Milwaukee was 700; 1840, 1,700; and by decades since, 1850, 20,061; 1860, 45,246; 1870, 71,440; 1880, 115,587; 1890, 204,468; 1900, 285,315; by this census the fourteenth city in the United States in point of population.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Muir, John 1838- (search)
Muir, John 1838- Naturalist; born in Dunbar, Scotland, April 21, 1838; was educated in Scotland and at the University of John Muir Wisconsin. In 1879 he went to Alaska and located nearly seventy glaciers among the Sierra peaks where the leading geologists thought there were none. He spent twenty years in Alaska and discovered Glacier Bay and the great glacier to which his name has been given. He is the author of The Mountains of California, and of about 150 articles on the natural history of the Pacific coast, Alaska, etc., and editor of Picturesque California.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nicolet, Jean (search)
Nicolet, Jean Explorer; went to Quebec to trade with Indians, and extended his travels as far as Green Bay, Mich. Father Vimont wrote that his visit to this region was in 1634, which would make him the first white man who saw the prairies of Wisconsin. When he returned to Quebec he reported that he had sailed on a river which would have carried him to the sea in three days. According to this report the Jesuits thought that the long-sought passage to India would soon be discovered.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Northwestern Territory, the (search)
neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been fully convicted. This ordinance was adopted on the 13th, after adding a clause relative to the reclamation of fugitives from labor, similar to that which was incorporated in the national Constitution a few weeks later. This ordinance, and the fact that Indian titles to 17,000,000 acres of land in that region had lately been extinguished by treaty with several of the tribes (the Six Nations, Wyandottes, Delawares, and Shawnees), caused a sudden and great influx of settlers into the country along the northern banks of the Ohio. The Northwest Territory so established included the present States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. It is estimated that within a year following the organization of the territory full 20,000 men, women, and children passed down the Ohio River to become settlers upon its banks. See ordinance of 1787.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Parker, Theodore 1810- (search)
to it. Fifth, she thence made Louisiana, Missouri, and then Arkansas slave States. Sixth, she made slavery perpetual in Florida. Seventh, she annexed Texas. Eighth, she fought the Mexican War, and plundered a feeble sister republic of California, Utah, and New Mexico, to get more slave soil. Ninth, America gave ten millions of money to Texas to support slavery, passed the fugitive slave bill, and has since kidnapped men in New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, in all the East, in all the West, in all the Middle States. All the great cities have kidnapped their own citizens. Professional slave-hunters are members of New England churches; kidnappers sit down at the Lord's table in the city of Cotton, Chauncey, and Mayhew. In this very year, before it is half through, America has taken two more steps for the destruction of freedom. The repeal of the Missouri Compromise and the enslavement of Nebraska: that is the tenth step.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pauperism in the United States. (search)
Pauperism in the United States. Professor Richard T. Ely, formerly of Johns Hopkins University, now of the University of Wisconsin, contributes the following to the study of this question: While we may deplore the lack of careful statistical information concerning pauperism in this and other countries, there are certain facts which we do know. First of all is this fact: there exists in the United States an immense mass of pauperism. No one knows either how great this mass is, or whether it is relatively, or even absolutely, larger than in former times. Several States in the Union, as New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, publish statistics concerning the defective, delinquent, and dependent classes, but many of the States gather no statistics at all, or very inadequate ones. Such statistics as we have cannot well be brought together and compared, because they have not been collected in the same year in different States, nor have they been collected according
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Peet, Stephen Denison 1830- (search)
ry in 1854; was active in the ministry of the Congregational Church in 1855-66; later became known as an archaeologist. In 1878 he founded and became editor of The American Antiquarian, the first journal in the United States devoted entirely to archaeology. His publications include History of Ashtabula county, Ohio; Ancient architecture in America; History of early missions in Wisconsin; Primitive symbolism; Mound builders; Animal effigies; Cliff dwellers; The effigy mounds of Wisconsin, etc.ry in 1854; was active in the ministry of the Congregational Church in 1855-66; later became known as an archaeologist. In 1878 he founded and became editor of The American Antiquarian, the first journal in the United States devoted entirely to archaeology. His publications include History of Ashtabula county, Ohio; Ancient architecture in America; History of early missions in Wisconsin; Primitive symbolism; Mound builders; Animal effigies; Cliff dwellers; The effigy mounds of Wisconsin, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Personal liberty laws. (search)
se who should cause to be arrested any free colored person with the intent to reduce him or her to slavery. The law in Rhode Island forbade the carrying away of any person by force out of the State, and provided that no public officer should officially aid in the execution of the fugitive slave law, and denied the use of the jails for that purpose. Neither New York, New Jersey, nor Pennsylvania passed any laws on the subject, their statutebooks already containing acts which they deemed sufficient to meet the case. The law in Michigan secured to the person arrested the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, a trial by jury, and the employment of the State's attorney as counsel. It denied the use of the jails in the execution of the fugitive slave law, and imposed a heavy penalty for the arrest of free colored persons as fugitive slaves. The law in Wisconsin was precisely like that of Michigan. The remainder of the free-labor States refrained from passing any laws on the subject.
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