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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Presidential elections. (search)
orN. Y.Dem29,408John Q. AdamsMass.Dem James BlackPa.Temp5,608John RussellMich.Temp Thomas A. HendricksInd.Dem42George W. JulianInd.Lib5 B. Gratz BrownMo.Dem18A. H. ColquittGaDem5 Charles J. JenkinsGa.Dem2John M. PalmerIll.Dem3 David DavisIll.Ind.1T. E. BramletteKyDem3 W. S. GroesbeckO.Dem1 Willis B. MachenKyDem1 N. P. BanksMass.Lib1 1876. Samuel J. TildenN. Y.Dem4,284,885250,235184T. A. HendricksInd.Dem184 Rutherford B. Hayes*O.Rep4,033,950(h) 185William A. Wheeler*N. Y.Rep185 Peter CooperN. Y.Gre'nb81,740Samuel F. CaryO.Gre'nb Green Clay SmithKyPro.9,522Gideon T. StewartO.Pro James B. WalkerIll.Amer2,636D. KirkpatrickN. Y.Amer 1880. James A. Garfield*O.Rep4,449,0537,018214Chester A. Arthur*N. Y.Rep214 W. S. HancockPa.Dem4,442,035155William H. EnglishInd.Dem155 James B. WeaverIowaGre'nb307,306B. J. ChambersTexGre'nb Neal DowMe.Pro10,305H. A. ThompsonO.Pro John W. PhelpsVt.Amer707S. C. PomeroyKanAmer 1884. Grover Cleveland*O.Dem4,911,01762,683219T. A. Hendricks*Ind
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Radcliffe College, (search)
Radcliffe College, An educational institution for women exclusively, in Cambridge, Mass.; established in 1878 by a society for the collegiate instruction of women, and made a part of Harvard University in the following year. In 1893-94 it was established as a separate institution, although in affiliation with Harvard University, and given its present name in honor of Annie Radcliffe, the first woman who made a donation of money for the founding of Harvard University. At the close of 1900 it reported: Professors and instructors, 114; students, 407; volumes in the library, 13,000; productive funds, $400,000; benefactions, $122,108; income, Peter Cooper's train. $96,170; number of graduates, 395; president, Mrs. Louis Agassiz.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Railroads. (search)
r was given A modern locomotive designed for fast passenger service. by the legislature of Maryland (1827) to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. The same year Horatio Allen was sent to England by the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company to buy for them locomotives and iron for a railway which they built in 1828 from Honesdale to the coal-mines. Allen, in the latter part of 1829, put the first locomotive on an American railway. The first locomotive built in the United States was by Peter Cooper, at his iron-works near Baltimore, in 1830. It was a small machine, and drew an open car on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, filled with directors, from Baltimore to Ellicott's Mills, at the rate of 18 miles an hour. The multiplication of railways in the United States kept pace with the marvellous increase in population, wealth, and inland commerce, until, in 1890, the mileage was greater than that of all other railway systems in the world combined. In 1830 there were in the country 23
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
of Kentucky, for President, and G. T. Stewart, of Ohio, for Vice-President......May 17, 1876 National Greenback Convention at Indianapolis, Ind., nominates Peter Cooper, of New York, for President; United States Senator Newton Booth, nominated for Vice-President, declines, and Samuel F. Cary, of Ohio, substituted......May 18, 1876 Alphonso Taft, Secretary of War, resigns, being appointed Attorney-General......May 22, 1876 Peter Cooper's letter of acceptance......May 31, 1876 Edwards Pierrepont, Attorney-General, resigns......June 1, 1876 Site for observatory of Mount Hamilton, Santa Clara co., Cal., granted to the trustees of Lick Observato Postmaster-Gen. T. O. Howe, born 1816, dies at Kenosha, Wis.......March 25, 1883 Four survivors of the Jeannette arrive at New York......March 27, 1883 Peter Cooper, born 1791, dies at New York City......April 4, 1883 Brig.-Gen. Joseph K. Barnes, Surgeon-General of the United States army, 1864-82, dies at Washington, D.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Florida, (search)
der King Philip......Jan. 18, 1836 General Gaines, with troops from New Orleans, attacked by Indians while seeking to ford the Withlacoochee......Feb. 29, 1836 Richard Keith Call appointed territorial governor......March, 1836 Defence of Cooper's post west of the Withlacoochee by Georgia volunteers under Major Cooper against 250 Seminole warriors......April 5-7, 1836 Railroad from St. Joseph to bayou Columbus opened......1836 Battles between the United States troops and Indians inMajor Cooper against 250 Seminole warriors......April 5-7, 1836 Railroad from St. Joseph to bayou Columbus opened......1836 Battles between the United States troops and Indians in Florida, at Micanopy, June 9; Welika Pond, July 9; Ridgely's Mills, July 27; Fort Drane, Aug. 21; San Velasco......Sept. 18, 1836 General Call relieved; Gen. Thomas S. Jesup takes command......November, 1836 Battle of Wahoo Swamp ends the campaign of 1836; results of the year encourage the Seminoles......Nov. 17-21, 1836 Attack on Camp Monroe by 400 Seminoles under King Philip repulsed......Feb. 8, 1837 Four hundred Seminoles attack Fort Mellon, on Lake Monroe, and retire......Feb.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
s the Fifteenth Amendment to Constitution......March 13, 1869 A band of so-called Ku-klux attack Frank Bowen near Nicholasville, who in self-defence kills one......March 16, 1869 Seven hundred colored delegates hold a State educational convention near Louisville......July 14, 1869 Great commercial convention at Louisville, ex-President Millard Fillmore presides; 520 delegates from twenty-nine States......Oct. 13, 1869 Affray at Somerset, Pulaski county, from the whipping of one Cooper by regulators; forty men engaged; three killed......Nov. 20, 1869 Legislature establishes an insurance bureau......May 20, 1870 Governor Stevenson resigns. Preston H. Leslie, president of the Senate, acting lieutenant-governor, is inaugurated......Feb. 13, 1871 Over 100 armed men enter Frankfort at dawn and free a white man charged with murdering a negro, though the jail was guarded by four militiamen......Feb. 25, 1871 An assault on a United States mail agent (a negro, William H
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Jersey, (search)
ll powers of government......March 14, 1682 Robert Barclay appointed for life first governor of east Jersey under the new proprietary, with Thomas Rudyard as deputy......1682 Revenues of Matenicunk Island, in the Delaware opposite Burlington, set apart for education. This is believed to be the first school fund in America......1683 Perth Amboy laid out into lots......1683 First tavern or hotel in the province established at Woodbridge......1683 Site of Camden occupied by Messrs. Cooper, Runyon, and Morris......1684 First Episcopal church in New Jersey, St. Peter's, founded at Perth Amboy......1685 Byllinge dies, and Dr. Samuel Coxe, of London, purchases his interest in west Jersey......1687 First Baptist church in east Jersey built at Middletown......1688 Governor Barclay dies......Oct. 3, 1690 Presbyterian churches established in Freehold and Woodbridge......1692 First school law of the State enacted by the General Assembly of east New Jersey at Pert
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