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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Delano, Columbus, 1809-1896 (search)
Delano, Columbus, 1809-1896 Statesman; born in Shoreham, Vt., June 5, 1809; settled in Mount Vernon, O., in 1817; admitted to the bar in 1831, and became prominent as a criminal lawyer. He was a member of Congress in 1844-64 and 1866-68; was appointed United States commissioner of internal revenue in 1869, and later by reorganizing the bureau increased the receipts in eight months more than 100 per cent.; and was Secretary of the Department of the Interior in 1870-75. He died in Mount Ve-1896 Statesman; born in Shoreham, Vt., June 5, 1809; settled in Mount Vernon, O., in 1817; admitted to the bar in 1831, and became prominent as a criminal lawyer. He was a member of Congress in 1844-64 and 1866-68; was appointed United States commissioner of internal revenue in 1869, and later by reorganizing the bureau increased the receipts in eight months more than 100 per cent.; and was Secretary of the Department of the Interior in 1870-75. He died in Mount Vernon, O., Oct. 23, 1896.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
esting Gen. Robert Anderson, commander of Fort Sumter, to take charge of the State troops, which he did......September, 1861 S. B. Buckner occupies Bowling Green with a Confederate force......Sept. 18, 1861 Sixth Regiment, Indiana Volunteers, reaches Louisville......Sept. 20, 1861 House passes a bill calling out 40,000 volunteers for one to three years to repel the invasion of Confederate forces......Sept. 24, 1861 Battle at Camp Wildcat, the junction of three roads leading to Mount Vernon, London, and Richmond. Kentucky Infantry under Col. Theodore T. Garrard unsuccessfully attacked by Confederates under Brig.-Gen. Felix K. Zollicoffer......Oct. 4, 1861 Sovereignty convention in session at Russellville for three days. Over 200, representing sixty-five counties, adopt an ordinance of secession, choose Col. George W. Johnson provisional governor, with Bowling Green the new seat of government......Nov. 18, 1861 Confederate Congress admits Kentucky as a State......Dec.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vernon, Edward 1684-1757 (search)
s exploit a commemorative medal was struck, bearing an effigy of the admiral on one disk. and a town and six ships on the other. With twenty-nine ships-of-the-line and eighty small vessels, bearing 15,000 sailors and 12,000 land troops, Vernon sailed from Jamaica (January, 1741) to attack Carthagena, but was repulsed with heavy loss. Twenty thousand men perished, chiefly by a malignant fever. The admiral was afterwards in Parliament several years, and during the invasion of the Young Pretender in 1745 he was employed to guard the coasts of Kent and Suffolk; but soon afterwards, on account of a quarrel with the admiralty, his name was struck from the list of admirals. Lawrence Washington, a brother of General Washington, then a spirited young man of twenty-two, bearing a captain's commission, joined Vernon's expedition in 1741, and because of his admiration for the admiral he named his estate, on the Potomac, Mount Vernon. Admiral Vernon died in Suffolk, England, Oct. 29, 1757.