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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Salt Lake City, (search)
Salt Lake City, Capital of the State of Utah and county seat of Salt Lake county; population in 1900, 53,531. The city is one of the wonders of United States history. It is in mid-continent; was founded by the Mormons in 1847, after their exodus from the Mississippi region; is at the western base of the Wasatch range of mountains, 4,334 feet above the sea; and near a great salt lake. Its streets are regularly laid out, 125 feet in width, and the city covers a vast space in proportion to the number of its A view of Salt Lake City. inhabitants. It originally had 260 blocks, each an eighth of a mile square, and containing ten acres. Each block was divided into eight lots, ten by twenty rods, and contained an acre and a quarter. Since the city was laid out, several of the blocks have been intersected by new streets. There the Mormons built their greatest tabernacle, capable of seating 8.000 persons, covered by a self-supporting roof, and also a vast temple constructed of gray
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Smith, Joseph Fielding 1838- (search)
Smith, Joseph Fielding 1838- Mormon; born in Far West, Mo., Nov. 13, 1838; crossed the plains to Salt Lake City in 1848; worked as a laborer in 1848-54; was a Mormon missionary to the Sandwich Islands in 1854-57; became a high-priest and member of the high council in October, 1858; was subsequently missionary to Europe; was ordained an apostle in July, 1866; and was president of the constitutional convention which met in 1882 to draw up a constitution for the State of Utah, and to petition Congress for admission to the Union. He was second counsellor in the Mormon Church under presidents Taylor, Woodruff, and Snow, and on Oct. 17, 1901, was elected president of the Church to succeed Lorenzo snow (q. v.).
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Southern conventions in 1850. (search)
s a union of equal and independent sovereignties, and that the powers delegated to the federal government can be resumed by the several States, whenever it may seem to them proper and necessary. 3. Resolved, that all the evils anticipated by the South, and which occasioned this convention to assemble, have been realized by the failure to extend the Missouri line of compromise to the Pacific Ocean; by the admission of California as a State; by the organization of territorial governments for Utah and New Mexico, without giving adequate protection to the property of the South; by the dismemberment of Texas; by the abolition of the slave-trade and the emancipation of slaves carried into the District of Columbia for sale. 4. Resolved, that we earnestly recommend to all parties in the slave-holding States to refuse to go into or countenance any national convention, whose object may be to nominate candidates for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency of the United States, under any party de
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Standard time. (search)
ection, the time of which is that of the seventy-fifth meridian, lies between the Atlantic Ocean and an irregular line drawn from Detroit, Mich., to Charleston, S. C. The central, the time of which is that of the ninetieth meridian, includes all between the last-named line and an irregular line from Bismarck, N. D., to the mouth of the Rio Grande. The mountain, the time of which is that of the 105th meridian, includes all between the lastnamed line and the western boundary of Montana, Idaho, Utah, and Arizona. The Pacific, the time of which is that of the 120th meridian, includes all between the last-named line and the Pacific coast. The difference in time between adjoining sections is one hour. Thus, when it is twelve o'clock noon in New York City (eastern time, it is 11 A. M. (central time) at Chicago, and 10 A. M. at Denver (mountain time), and at San Francisco, 9 A. M. (Pacific time). The true local time of any place is slower or faster than the standard time as the place is ea
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stansbury, Howard 1806-1863 (search)
Stansbury, Howard 1806-1863 Surveyor; born in New York City, Feb. 8, 1806; became a civil engineer. In 1828 he was appointed to survey lines for the proposed canals from Lakes Erie and Michigan to the Wabash River. He was made first lieutenant, Topographical Engineers, in 1838, and captain in 1840; explored the Great Salt Lake region in 1849-51, and gained a high reputation by his report on that section. He was promoted major in 1861. He was the author of An expedition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah. He died in Madison, Wis., April 17, 1863. Stanton, Edwin McMasters
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State flowers. (search)
dopted by State legislature, not by public school scholars.Magnolia Maine Adopted by State legislature, not by pub lic school scholars.Pine Cone MichiganApple Blossom MinnesotaLady Slipper MississippiMagnolia MontanaBitter Root NebraskaGolden Rod New Jersey, State treeSugar Maple New York, Rose; State treeMaple North DakotaWild Rose Oklahoma Territory Adopted by State legislature, not by public school scholars.Mistletoe OregonOregon Grape Rhode IslandViolet TexasGolden Rod UtahSego Lily Vermont Adopted by State legislature, not by public school scholars.Red Clover Washington Adopted by the women's clubs of the State.Rhododendron In other States the scholars or State legislatures have not yet taken action. In Illinois in the vote on the leading State flower by the pupils of the schools the rose, violet, and golden rod received the largest number of votes, in the order named, although no State flower was adopted. In Kansas the sunflower is usually known a
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State regulation of railways. (search)
osing new burdens. In almost all—so far as is known, in all— other countries this is done. The States in which, as we see from the above list, there is not business enough to produce a profit on railway operation are the following: North Carolina,Alabama, South Carolina,Michigan, North Dakota,Kansas, Georgia,Missouri, Nebraska,Iowa. Texas, Other States there are for which the figures are not available, but which undoubtedly fall in the same category. These are: South Dakota,Utah, Montana,Wyoming, Washington,Florida, Oregon,Mississippi, Arizona,Indian Territory, Oklahoma,Colorado, New Mexico,and probably Nevada,Louisiana. In all of these States it would be an incomparably wiser policy to lighten the burdens of the railways as much as possible, and to encourage them to keep their properties in fitting condition to give adequate public service, rather than to attempt to further curtail revenues which are already inadequate. But it is not necessary now to r
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Suffrage, woman. (search)
, Arizona, Indiana, Missouri, Michigan, and California. Woman suffrage amendments to the constitution were defeated by the people in the State elections of 1898 in South Dakota and Washington, and in Oregon in June, 1900. In Colorado, Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming, women have full suffrage and vote for all officers, including Presidential electors. The woman suffrage law was adopted in Wyoming in 1870, and in Colorado in 1893, and woman suffrage is a constitutional provision in Utah and WyominUtah and Wyoming. In Indiana women may hold any 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, Te
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sun-worshippers. (search)
1,854148,355170,209 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)
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 Constitution of the United States, in which the Supreme Court of the United States is described as follows: The judicial power of the United States govern
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