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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Crawford, George Washington 1798- (search)
Crawford, George Washington 1798- Statesman; born in Columbia county, Ga., Dec. 22, 1798; graduated at Princeton in 1820; appointed attorney-general of Georgia in 1827; elected to the State legislature in 1837, and to Congress in 1843. The same year he was elected governor of Georgia, and re-elected in 1845. President Taylor appointed him Secretary of War in 1849.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
educational academies in Kentucky, each with 6,000 acres of land......Feb. 10, 1798 John Fitch, inventor of steamboat, dies at Bardstown, aged fifty-five......June, 1798 Kentucky resolutions of 1798, suggesting nullification of the alien and sedition laws, introduced by John Breckinridge; pass both Houses of the legislature......Nov. 16, 1798 Transylvania University established at Lexington by union of Transylvania Seminary (founded 1780) and Kentucky Academy (founded 1796)......Dec. 22, 1798 Constitutional convention in Frankfort......Aug. 17, 1799 At Harpe's Head, 3 miles from Dixon, Webster county, highwayman Micajah Harpe, alias Big Harpe, killed and head impaled......1799 Boundary-line between Kentucky and Virginia defined......Oct. 14, 1799 Great revival of religion begins in Kentucky; first great camp-meeting held at Gaspar River......July, 1800 Kentucky River Company chartered to clear the river of obstructions......Dec. 19, 1801 Kentucky Insurance C