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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Farrar, Timothy 1788-1874 (search)
Farrar, Timothy 1788-1874 Jurist; born in New Ipswich, N. H., March 17, 1788; was associated in law practice with Daniel Webster in 1813-16; vice-president of the New England Historico-Genealogical Society in 1853-58. His publications include Report of the Dartmouth College case; Review of the Dred Scott decision; and Manual of the Constitution of the United States. He died in 1874.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Federal Union, the John Fiske (search)
ut much toil and trouble. The great puzzle of civilization—how to secure permanent concert of action without sacrificing independence of action—is a puzzle which has taxed the ingenuity of Americans as well as of older Aryan peoples. In the year 1788 when our federal union was completed, the problem had already occupied the minds of American statesmen for a century and a half—that is to say, ever since the English settlement of Massachusetts. In 1643 a New England confederation was formed betkely have ended in failure. After the independence of the colonies was acknowledged, the formation of a more perfect union was seen to be the only method of securing peace and making a nation which should be respected by foreign powers; and so in 1788, after much discussion, the present Constitution of the United States was adopted—a Constitution which satisfied very few people at the time, and which was from beginning to end a series of compromises, yet which has proved in its working a maste
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Federalists. (search)
Federalists. While the national Constitution was under discussion throughout the Union, in 1788, and it was passing the ordeal of State conventions, its advocates were called Federalists, because the effect of the Constitution would be to bind the several States more closely as a so-called confederation. They formed a distinct party that year, and held supreme political power in the republic until the close of the century. The leading members of the party were Washington, Hamilton, Adams, Jay, and many of the less distinguished patriots of the Revolution. Their opponents were called Anti-Federalists. In the contests of the French Revolution, which had influence upon public opinion in the United States, the Federalists leaned towards England, and the Anti-Federalists or Republicans towards France. In the Presidential election of 1800, the Federalists were defeated and Jefferson was elected. The party became unpopular because of its opposition to the War of 1812; and it fell
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Filson, John 1747- (search)
Filson, John 1747- Pioneer; born in Chester county, Pa., in 1747; purchased a onethird interest in the site of Cincinnati, which he called Losantiville. While exploring the country in the neighborhood of Losantiville he disappeared and it is supposed was killed by hostile Indians, about 1788. He was the author of The discovery, settlement, and present State of Kentucky; A topographical description of the Western Territory of North America; Diary of a journey from Philadelphia to Vincennes, Ind., in 1785, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fitch, John 1743-1798 (search)
in East Windsor, Conn., Jan. 21, 1743; was an armorer in the military service during the Revolution, and at Trenton, N. J., manufactured sleeve-buttons. For a while, near the close of the war, he was a surveyor in Virginia, during which time he prepared, engraved on copper, and printed on a press of his own manufacture, a map of the Northwest country, afterwards formed into a Territory. He constructed a steamboat in 1786 that could be propelled eight miles an hour. A company was formed (1788) in Philadelphia, which caused a steam-packet to ply on the Delaware River, and it ran for about two years when the company failed. In 1793 he unsuccessfully tried his steam navigation projects in France. Discouraged, he went to the Western country again, where Fitch's steamboat. he died in Bardstown, Ky., July 2, 1798, leaving behind him a history of his adventures in the steamboat enterprise, in a sealed envelope, directed to My children and future generations, from which Thompson Westc
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Frankland, state of. (search)
te sent William Cocke as a delegate to the Congress, but he was not received, while the North Carolina party sent a delegate to the legislature of that State. Party spirit ran high. Frankland had two sets of officers, and civil war was threatened. Collisions became frequent. The inhabitants of southwestern Virginia sympathized with the revolutionists, and were inclined to secede from their own State. Finally an armed collision between men under Tipton and Sevier took place. The latter were defeated, and finally arrested, and taken to prison in irons. Frankland had received its death-blow. The Assembly of North Carolina passed an act of oblivion, and offered pardon for all offenders in Frankland in 1788, and the trouble ceased. Virginia, alarmed by the movement, hastened to pass a law subjecting to the penalties of treason any person who should attempt to erect a new State in any part of her territory without previous permission obtained of her Assembly. Franklin, Benjamin
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gadsden, James 1788-1858 (search)
Gadsden, James 1788-1858 Statesman; born in Charleston, S. C., May 15, 1788; graduated at Yale College in 1806. After a short career in business, he entered the army, and was made lieutenant-colonel of engineers. During the War of 1812, with Great Britain, his service was marked with distinction, and when peace was concluded he became aide to General Jackson in the expedition to investigate the military defences of the Gulf of Mexico and the southwestern frontier. Soon after he was appointed, with Gen. Simon Bernard, to review the examinations, and rendered a separate report, in which he differed from General Bernard. In 1818 he was made aide-de-camp to General Jackson, with whom he participated in the campaign against the Seminole Indians. Later he went with Jackson to Pensacola, when the latter took possession of Florida, and was the first white man to cross that peninsula from the Atlantic to the Gulf. In 1853 he was minister to Mexico, and on Dec. 10 of that year negoti
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Garfield, James Abram 1831-1881 (search)
to the Great Miami or Maumee, and down the southeast side of the river to its mouth, thence along the shore of Lake Erie to the mouth of the Cuyahoga. The territory thus described was to be forever the exclusive possession of these Indians. In 1788 a settlement was made at Marietta., and soon after other settlements were begun. But the Indians were dissatisfied, and, by the intrigues of their late allies, the British, a savage and bloody war ensued, which delayed for several years the settlascertain the political and legal status of the settlers on the Reserve. The State of Connecticut did not assume jurisdiction over its people, because the State had parted with her claim to the soil. By a proclamation of Governor St. Clair, in 1788, Washington county had been organized, having its limits extended westward to the Scioto and northward to the mouth of the Cuyahoga, with Marietta as the county seat. These limits included a portion of the Western Reserve. But the Connecticut se
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gates, William 1788-1868 (search)
Gates, William 1788-1868 Military officer; born in Massachusetts in 1788; graduated at West Point in 1806; served throughout the War of 1812, the Florida War, and the war with Mexico. He was retired from active service in 1863, and died in New York City, Oct. 7, 1868. Gates, William 1788-1868 Military officer; born in Massachusetts in 1788; graduated at West Point in 1806; served throughout the War of 1812, the Florida War, and the war with Mexico. He was retired from active service in 1863, and died in New York City, Oct. 7, 1868.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gelelemend, or kill-buck 1737-1811 (search)
Gelelemend, or kill-buck 1737-1811 A chief of the Delaware Indians; born in Pennsylvania in 1737. During the Revolutionary War he did all in his power to keep his people neutral, a stand which aroused the animosity of those in his tribe who had joined the English. In 1788 he joined the Moravian mission in Salem, O., receiving the name of William Henry. He died in Goshen, O., in 1811.
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