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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dakota, (search)
Dakota, Originally formed a part of Minnesota Territory. It was a portion of the great Louisiana purchase in 1803. The Nebraska Territory was formed in 1854, and comprised a part of what became Dakota. The latter Territory was organized by act of Congress, approved March 2, 1861, and included the present States of Montana and Washington. In 1863 a part of the Territory was included in Idaho, of which the northeastern part was organized as Montana in 1864, and the southern part was transferred to Dakota. In 1868 a large area was taken from Dakota to form Wyoming Territory. The first permanent settlements of Europeans in Dakota were made in 1859, in what were then Clay, Union, and Yankton counties. The first legislature convened March 17, 1862. Emigration was limited until 1866, when settlers began to flock in, and population rapidly increased. In 1889, two States were created out of the Territory of Dakota, and admitted to the Union as State of North Dakota (q. v.) and Sta
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Darby, William, 1775-1854 (search)
Darby, William, 1775-1854 Geographer; born in Pennsylvania in 1775; served under General Jackson in Louisiana; and was one of the surveyors of the boundary between Canada and the United States. Among his works are Geographical description of Louisiana; Geography and history of Florida; View of the United States; Lectures on the discovery of America, etc. He died in Washington, D. C., Oct. 9, 1854.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Darien ship Canal, (search)
rvey a route, who reported that the distance between tidal effects was only 30 miles, and the summit level only 150 feet. The governments of England, France, the United States, and New Granada joined, late in 1853, in an exploration of the best route for a canal. It was soon ascertained that the English engineer had never crossed the isthmus at all. The summit level to which he directed the expedition was 1,000 feet above tidewater, instead of 150 feet. The expedition effected nothing. In 1854 Lieut. Isaac Strain led an American expedition for the same purpose. They followed the route pointed out by the English engineer, and, after intense suffering, returned and reported the proposed route wholly impracticable. The success of the Suez Canal revived the project, and in 1870 two expeditions were sent out by the United States government—one under Commander T. O. Selfridge, of the United States navy, to Isthmus of Darien; and the other, under Captain Shufeldt, of the navy, to the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Davis, Henry winter, 1817-1865 (search)
Davis, Henry winter, 1817-1865 Legislator; born in Annapolis, Md., Aug. 16, 1817; graduated at Kenyon College in 1837; elected to Congress as a Whig in 1854, and at the dissolution of that party joined the American or Know-nothing party, and was re-elected to Congress in 1858. At the outbreak of the Civil War he announced himself in favor of an unconditional Union while a candidate for re-election to Congress. He was overwhelmingly defeated, but in 1863 was reelected. Although representing a slave State, Senator Davis was a strong antislavery advocate. He died in Baltimore, Md., Dec. 30, 1865.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Davis, John W., 1799-1859 (search)
Davis, John W., 1799-1859 Statesman; born in Cumberland county, Pa., July 17, 1799; graduated at the Baltimore Medical College in 1821; settled in Carlisle, Ind., in 1823; member of Congress in 1835-37, 1839-41, and 1843-47; speaker of the House of Representatives during his last term; United States commissioner to China in 1848-50; and governor of Oregon in 1853-54. He was president of the convention in 1852 which nominated Franklin Pierce for President. He died in Carlisle, Ind., Aug. 22, 1859.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wright, Henrietta Christine, (search)
se president, Charles Loring Brace, grasped with the intuition of genius the true solution of the problem of childsaving. When Mr. Brace asked the chief of police to confer with him in regard to means for saving these children, the chief replied that the attempt would be useless. Nevertheless Mr. Brace began his work; and, knowing that this wreckage of civilization could be saved only by a return to nature, he at once began placing the wards of the society in homes in the East and West. In 1854 the first company of forty-six children left the office of the society, the greater number to find holes in Michigan and Iowa. Within the second year the society had placed nearly 800 children in homes in the Eastern and Western States. The society has continued its work on the same lines, and through its efforts thousands of men and women have been saved from lives of pauperism and crime. The reports of the society, which has always kept in touch with its wards, show how fully the faith o
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dorr, Thomas Wilson, 1805-1854 (search)
Dorr, Thomas Wilson, 1805-1854 Politician; born in Providence, R. I., Nov. 5, 1805; graduated at Harvard in 1823; studied law with Chancellor Kent; and began its practice in 1827. He is chiefly conspicuous in American history as the chosen governor of what was called the Suffrage party, and attempted to take the place of what was deemed to be the legal State government (see Rhode Island). He was tried for and convicted of high treason, and sentenced to imprisonment for life in 1842, but was pardoned in 1847; and in 1853 the legislature restored to him his civil rights and ordered the record of his sentence to be expunged. He lived to see his party triumph. He died in Providence, Dec. 27, 1854.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Douglas, Stephen Arnold, 1813-1861 (search)
ic mind in regard to the questions dividing us. Prior to 1854, this country was divided into two great political parties,he basis of Democratic action. Thus you see that up to 1853-54 the Whig party and the Democratic party both stood on the saeral Constitution. During the session of Congress of 1853-54 I introduced into the Senate of the United States a bill to only to the federal Constitution. Thus you see that up to 1854, when the Kansas and Nebraska bill was brought, into Congreainst it, and those four were old-line abolitionists. In 1854 Mr. Abraham Lincoln and Mr. Lyman Trumbull entered into an sire to know whether Mr. Lincoln to-day stands as he did in 1854, in favor of the unconditional repeal of the fugitiveslave im to answer whether he stands pledged to-day, as he did in 1854, against the admission of any more slave States into the Unlife, forgotten by his former friends. He came up again in 1854, just in time to make this abolition or Black Republican pl
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Drummond, Sir George Gordon, 1771-1854 (search)
Drummond, Sir George Gordon, 1771-1854 Military officer; born in Quebec in 1771; entered the British army in 1789; served in Holland and Egypt; and in 1811 was made lieutenant-general. In 1813 he was second in command to Sir George Prevost; planned the capture of Fort Niagara in December of that year; took the villages of Black Rock and Buffalo; captured Oswego in May, 1814; and was in chief command of the British forces at the battle of Lundy's Lane (q. v.)in July. In August he was repulsed at Fort Erie, with heavy loss, and was severely wounded. He succeeded Prevost in 1814, and returned to England in 1816. The next year he received the grand cross of the Bath. He died in London, Oct. 10, 1854.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Duane, James Chatham, 1824- (search)
Duane, James Chatham, 1824- Military officer; born in Schenectady, N. Y., June 30, 1824; graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1848, and served with the corps of engineers till 1854. He rendered excellent work during the Civil War, notably in the building of a bridge 2,000 feet long over the Chickahominy River. He was brevetted brigadier-general in 1865; promoted brigadier-general and chief of engineers, U. S. A., in 1886; retired June 30, 1888. From his retirement till his death, Nov. 8, 1897, he was president of the New York Aqueduct Commission.
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