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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 44 14 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. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 24 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 2 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6 2 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 5 3 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 2, 1861., [Electronic resource] 5 1 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 4 2 Browse Search
Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army . 4 0 Browse Search
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 3 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Adams, Henry C. (search)
Adams, Henry C. Born in Davenport, Ia., 1861. Graduated from Iowa College, 1874. Professor of Political Economy in the University of Michigan since 1887. Director of the division of transportation of the eleventh census; statistician to Interstate Commerce Commission since 1887; president American Economic Association from 1895-97. He has written Lectures on political Economy ; State in relation to industrial action; Public debts; The Science of finance.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Iowa, (search)
against......1845 Mormons remove from Nauvoo, Ill., and settle at Council Bluffs......1846 Constitution framed by a convention which meets at Iowa City May 4, completing its labors May 19, 1846, is ratified by a vote of the people, 9,492 to 9,036......Aug. 3, 1846 Act of Congress, fixing boundaries for Iowa, referring the Missouri boundary to the Supreme Court......Aug. 4. 1846 Iowa admitted into the Union by act approved......Dec. 28. 1846 Antoine le Claire breaks ground at Davenport for the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad, now the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific......Sept. 1, 1853 Iowa Wesleyan University at Mount Pleasant chartered and opened......1855 Corner-stone of the first railroad bridge over the Mississippi River, between Rock Island and Davenport, lard Sept. 1. 1854; and first locomotive, the Des Moines, to cross the Mississippi passes over......April 21, 1856 Massacre of white settlers at Spirit Lake by a predatory band of Indians under the Si
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wilkie, Francis Bangs 1832-1892 (search)
Wilkie, Francis Bangs 1832-1892 Journalist; born in West Charleston, N. Y., in 1832; graduated at Union College in 1857; removed to Davenport, Ia., where he engaged in journalism in 1859. He was connected with the Herald in Dubuque till the Civil War began, and then went South as a war correspondent. He established and published for a short time Our whole nation, in Macon City, Mo., when he became war correspondent of the New York Times, and served as such for four years. He wrote for theand then went South as a war correspondent. He established and published for a short time Our whole nation, in Macon City, Mo., when he became war correspondent of the New York Times, and served as such for four years. He wrote for the Chicago Times for seventeen years under the name of Polinto; was the organizer and first president of the Chicago Press Club; and author of History of Davenport; Walks about Chicago; The history of Great inventions, etc. He died in Chicago, Ill., April 12, 1892.