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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Allouez , Claude Jean 1620 - (search)
Allouez, Claude Jean, 1620-
One of the earliest French missionaries and explorers of the country near the Great Lakes; born in 1620.
After laboring among the Indians on the St. Lawrence several years, he penetrated the Western wilds and established a mission on the western shores of Lake Michigan, where he heard much about the Mississippi River, and made notes of what he learned concerning it. He explored Green Bay, and founded a mission among the Foxes, Miamis, and other tribes there.
A mission begun by Marquette at Kaskaskia, Ill., Allouez sought to make his permanent field of labor; but when La Salle, the bitter opponent of the Jesuits, approached in 1679, he retired.
Returning to the Miamis on the St. Joseph's River, he labored for a while, and died, Aug. 27, 1689.
The contributions of Father Allouez to the Jesuit relations are most valuable records of the ideas and manners of the Indians.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), America, discoverers of. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Angell , James Burrill 1829 - (search)
Angell, James Burrill, 1829-
Educator and diplomatist; born in Scituate, R. I., Jan. 7, 1829; was graduated at Brown University; in 1849; Professor of Modern Languages and Literature at Brown University in 1853-60; president of the University of Vermont in 1866-71; and since 1871 president of the University of Michigan.
In 1880-81 he was United States minister to China; in 1887 a member of the Anglo-American Commission on Canadian Fisheries: in 1896 chairman of the Canadian-American Commission on Deep Waterways from the Great Lakes to the Sea: and in 1897-98 United States minister to Turkey.
He is author of numerous addresses, and magazine articles.
Blizzard,
A storm noted for its high wind.
extreme cold, and hard, sharp, fine crystals of snow.
It appears first east of the Rocky Mountains on the plains of Canada, and sweeps into the United States through Wyoming, North Dakota, and Minnesota, but seldom prevails east of the Great Lakes, excepting when the ground has had a long covering of snow.
It is a very dangerous storm, as the fine snow fills the air and prevents any one exposed to it from seeing his way. In the blizzard that occurred in January, 1888, extending from Dakota to Texas. 235 persons perished.
On March 11-14, 1888, a blizzard raged throughout the Eastern States that will long be remembered.
New York and Philadelphia suffered the most severely of all the cities in its path.
At one time the snow-laden wind blew at the rate of 46 miles an hour.
Streets and railroads were blocked, telegraph-wires were blown down, and many lives were lost.
Breakwater,
In civil engineering, a construction struction in deep water to protect an anchorage for vessels during storms and for other purposes.
They are technically classified as sloping, composite, and vertical.
The most notable breakwater in the United States is at the entrance of Delaware Bay, which cost considerably over $2,000,000. There are others at Galveston, Tex.; at Buffalo, Chicago, and Oswego, on the Great Lakes, and at several ports of entry in the Southern States, which have been constructed by the federal government since the close of the Civil War. The Eads jetties, below New Orleans, are practically a breakwater construction, although built for a different purpose.
Chicago,
City, port of entry, commercial metropolis of Illinois, and second city in the United States in point of population according to the census of 1900.. It is not only the largest city on the Great Lakes, but is also the largest interior
Chicago art Institute. city in the country.
In 1900 it had an estimated area of 190 1/2 square miles.
The equalized valuation of all taxable property in 1899 was $345,196,419, and the net debt was $14,529,042. The city owned real estate and buildings valued at $67,230,742, including a waterworks plant that cost $28,216,399. In the calendar year 1900, the foreign trade of the city was: Imports, $15,272,178; exports, $8,843,603. The population in 1890 was 1,099,850; in 1900 it had reached 1,698,575.
Early history.—The site of Chicago was a favorite rendezvous for several tribes of Indians in summer.
Its name signifies, in the Pottawatomie tongue, wild onion, or a polecat, both of which abounded in that region.
Of the skin of the pol
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Commerce of the United States . (search)
Detroit,
A city, port of entry, metropolis of Michigan, and county seat of Wayne county; on the Detroit River, 7 miles from Lake St. Clair, and about 18 miles from Lake Erie.
It is noted for the variety and extent of its manufactures and for its large traffic on the Great Lakes.
For the defence of the harbor and city the federal government is constructing Fort Wayne, a short distance below the city, which is designed to be the
Landing of Cadillac. strongest American fortification on the northern frontier.
In 1900 the city had an assessed property valuation of $244,371,550, owned unencumbered property of a market value of $21,684,539, and had a net general debt of $3,810,568, and a water debt of $1,033,000. The population in 1890 was 205,876; in 1900, 285,704.
Detroit was first settled by Antoine Cadillac, July 24, 1701, with fifty soldiers and fifty artisans and traders.
Three years later the first white child, a daughter of Cadillac, was baptized in the place, which wa
Erie Canal, the,
The greatest work of internal improvement constructed in the United States previous to the Pacific Railway.
It connects the waters of the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Hudson River.
It was contemplated by General Schuyler and Elkanah Watson, but was first definitely proposed by Gouverneur Morris, at about the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Various writers put forth essays upon the subject, among them De Witt Clinton, who became its most notable champion.
The project took such shape that, in 1810, canal commissioners were appointed, with Gouverneur Morris at their head.
In 1812 Clinton, with others, was appointed to lay the project before the national Congress, and solicit the aid of the national government.
Fortunately the latter declined to extend its patronage to the great undertaking.
The War of 1812-15 put the matter at rest for a while.
That war made the transportation of merchandise along our sea-coasts perilous, and the co
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fisheries, the. (search)