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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Shawnee Indians (search)
Shawnee Indians A once powerful family of the Algonquian nation, supposed to have been originally of the Kickapoo tribe, a larger portion of whom moved eastward, and a part removed in 1648 to the Fox River country, in Wisconsin. The Iroquois drove them back from the point of emigration south of Lake Erie, when they took a stand in the basin of the Cumberland River, where they established their great council-house and held sway over a vast domain. Some of them went south to the region of the Carolinas and Florida, where those in the latter region held friendly relations with the Spaniards for a while, when they joined the English in the Carolinas, and were known as Yamasees and Savannahs. At about the time that the English settled at Jamestown (1607), some Southern tribes drove the Shawnees from the Cumberland region, when some of them crossed the Ohio and settled on the Scioto River, at and near the present Chillicothe. Others wandered into Pennsylvania, where, late in the se
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sibley, Henry Hastings 1811-1891 (search)
rn in Detroit, Mich., Feb. 20, 1811; became a partner in the American Fur Company in 1834. On one of his trips he arrived at the mouth of the Minnesota River, and was so much pleased with the place that he settled there. On May 29, 1848, when Wisconsin became a State, St. Croix River was made the western boundary. This left about 23,000 square miles east of the Mississippi without a government. In November, 1848, Mr. Sibley was elected to represent this district in Congress where he was instrumental in having an act passed creating the Territory of Minnesota, which was made to include the rest of Wisconsin and a large area west of the Mississippi. He served in Congress till 1853. Minnesota was created a State on May 11, 1858, and he was chosen its first governor. He commanded the white volunteer forces of Iowa and Minnesota against the Sioux rising of 1862, and on Sept. 23 broke the power of the Indians in a decisive battle at Wood Lake; was commissioned brigadier-general of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Spooner, John Coit 1843- (search)
nteers, and was private and military secretary to Gov. Lucius Fairchild (q. v.). He was admitted to the bar in 1867; was associate Attorney-General in 1867-70; removed to Hudson, Wis., in the latter year, and practised law there till 1884; and was elected United States Senator to succeed Angus Cameron for the term beginning March 4, 1885. On the expiration of this term (1891) he was succeeded by William F. Vilas, Democrat. In 1892 he was defeated as Republican candidate for governor of Wisconsin; in the following year removed to Madison, and on Jan. 27, 1897, was again elected United States Senator to succeed Senator Vilas. In the Fifty-sixth Congress Senator Spooner was chairman of the committee on rules, and a member of the committees on the judiciary, public, health and national quarantine, finance, and relations with Cuba; his membership in the latter committee was exceedingly influential, and greatly aided President McKinley in carrying out the scheme of Congress for the ten
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State laws, uniform (search)
e framers of new laws have given play to their energies. And what is more, the statutes on all these subjects have generally been moulded upon a very few patterns, either a British act of Parliament or an act first passed by the legislature of New York, of Virginia, of Massachusetts, or of Connecticut. Thus the chapter of the Revised statutes of New York which deals with Testamentary powers, and the chapter on Uses and trusts, have been copied almost literally into the codes of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota; the law marching westward in pretty close touch with the parallel of latitude. Thus the task of those aiming at uniformity is somewhat simplified; they have in many fields of legislation to deal only with four or five groups of States, not with forty-five separate units. The Civil War did much to strengthen the national pan-American feeling of our citizens, North and South, East and West; and thus to lessen the stubbornness with which heretof
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State regulation of railways. (search)
a3,12593715,620 North Dakota3,4191,02517,090 Georgia3,4841,04517,420 Nebraska3,4871,04617,433 Texas3,7421,12218,710 Alabama3,7811,13418,900 Michigan3,8351,15019,170 Kansas 4,4821,34422,610 Missouri4,7681,43023,860 Iowa4,7921.43723,960 Wisconsin5,3461,60326,730 Maine 5,4461,63327,230 Kentucky6,0031,80030,010 Virginia6,3931,90231,710 Minnesota6,5921,97732,960 Illinois 6,8062,04134,030 California8,1992,45940,990 Ohio8,3632,50841,610 Massachusetts10,1183,035 50,590 New Hampshire1es in this group legislation is now threatened to reduce passenger fares. The railway companies will have no difficulty whatever in showing any such legislation to be plainly confiscatory and unconstitutional. The States in this group are: Wisconsin,Minnesota, Maine,Illinois, Kentucky,California, Virginia,Ohio. To which may be added: West Virginia,Delaware, Tennessee,Maryland. 3. There remain on our list eight States which show an average earning capacity of $10,000 and upward
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), States, origin of the names of (search)
granted in 1664. Carolina, North and South, so named in compliment to Charles II. (Latin Carolus), who granted the colonial charter. Ohio (Indian), O-hee-yuh (Seneca) beautiful river. The French spell it O-y-o. Oregon, from oregano (Spanish)., the wild marjoram, which grows abundantly on the Pacific coast. Pennsylvania, Penn's woods, so named in honor of Admiral Penn, to whose son William it was granted by Charles II. Rhode Island, a corruption of Roode Islandt, Red Island, so named by the Dutch traders because of the abundance of cranberries found on the shore. Tennessee (Indian), river of the big bend. Texas, from an Aztec word signifying north country. Vermont (French, verd mont), green mountain, from the green mountain ranges that traverse it. Virginia, so named in compliment to Elizabeth, the unmarried Queen of England. West Virginia, formed from the western portion of old Virginia. Wisconsin, or Ouisconsin, the French form of an Indian word meaning a wild, rushing river.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Suffrage, woman. (search)
office under the school laws, but cannot vote for any such officer. In Kansas women exercise the suffrage largely in municipal elections. In some form, mainly as to taxation or the selection of school officers, woman suffrage exists in a limited way in Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin. In Great Britain women vote for some local officers, but not for members of Parliament. In many European countries, in Australia and New Zealand, in Cape Colony, in Canada, and in parts of India women vote on various terms for municipal or school officers. The New York State Association Opposed to the Extension of Suffrage to Women is an organization of women having its headquarters in New York. The executive committee is as follows: Mrs. Francis M. Scott, chairman; Miss Alice C
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sun-worshippers. (search)
,854148,355170,209 Nevada598683,3424,210 New Hampshire6106,20057,60063,800 New Jersey2,32940,552516,650357,202 New Mexico905924,9005,492 New York8,696125,7251,238,7231,364,448 North Carolina5,90546,897392,706439,603 North Dakota6945,37642,71948,095 Ohio7,66497,042679,788776,830 Oklahoma Territory8936,64434,32240,966 Oregon1,22311,86380,01791,880 Pennsylvania9,209140,5581,224,5711,365,129 Rhode Island3616,3274,93255,859 South Carolina4,70342,080340,303382,383 South Dakota8006,00048,37854,378 Tennessee4,47535,919239,416275,325 Texas3,85229,796240,993270,789 Utah1358008,5009,300 Vermont7787,90054,75562,655 Virginia4,20148,531293,336341,867 Washington8827,00053,00060,000 West Virginia2,02420,545152,945173,490 Wisconsin6,76822,880447,617470,497 Wyoming954558,4808,935 Total137,2931,399,71111,327,85812,727, 5696 Superior, Lake, discovery of. See Joliet, Louis; Marquette, Jacques; Allouez, Claude Jean; Dablon, Claude; Nicolet, Jean. Supreme Court, United States
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Supreme Court, United States (search)
h. The judges of each circuit and the justice of the Supreme Court for the circuit constitute a Circuit Court of Appeals. The first circuit consists of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island. Second—Connecticut, New York, Vermont. Third— Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Fourth—Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia. Fifth—Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas. Sixth—Kentucky. Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee. Seventh—Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin. Eighth—Arkansas, Colorado, Indian and Oklahoma Territories, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming. Ninth—Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington. On the following page is given a complete list of the justices of the United States Supreme Court, the names of the chief-justices being in italics. While United States minister to England, the Hon. E. J. Phelps wrote an essay on the Const
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sylvania, proposed State of (search)
Sylvania, proposed State of Under Jefferson's plan for the creation of new States from what was known in 1784 as the Northwest Territory. The third tier of projected new States spread from the forty-fifth parallel of latitude to the Lake of the Woods; was covered with dense forests of pine, hickory, and oak; and was designated as Sylvania. Immediately beneath this tract was a narrow strip stretching from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi. This was called Michigania, and a part of it now forms the centre of Wisconsin. See Saratoga, proposed State of.
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