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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Immigration. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ingalls , Rufus 1820 -1893 (search)
Ingalls, Rufus 1820-1893
Military officer; born in Denmark, Me., Aug. 23, 1820; graduated at West Point in 1843, entering the rifles, but was transferred to the dragoons in 1845.
He served in the war with Mexico, and was on the staff of General Harney on the Pacific coast.
In April, 1861, he went with Colonel Brown to reinforce Fort Pickens; and in July was ordered to the Army of the Potomac, where he was upon the staff of General McClellan, with the rank of lieutenantcolonel.
He was chief quartermaster of that army from 1862 to 1865; was made brigadier-general of volunteers in May, 1863, and was brevetted major-general, U. S. A. and U. S. V., March 13, 1865.
He was in most of the battles of the Army of the Potomac from that of South Mountain to the surrender of Lee at Appomattox.
He died in New York City, Jan. 16, 1893.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Insurance. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jackson , Henry rootes 1820 -1898 (search)
Jackson, Henry rootes 1820-1898
Military officer; born in Athens, Ga., June 24, 1820; graduated at Yale College in 1839, and admitted to the bar in 1840, when he settled in Savannah.
He was appointed United States district attorney for Georgia in 1843.
During the Mexican War he was colonel of the 1st Georgia Volunteers.
At the close of the war he became part proprietor of The Georgian, in Savannah.
In 1853 he was sent to the Court of Austria as the United States charge d'affaires. In 1854-58 he was minister to Austria.
Returning to the United States he was commissioned a special United States district attorney for Georgia, to aid in trying notorious slavetrading cases.
When the Civil War broke out he entered the Confederate army with the rank of brigadier-general.
During the battle of Nashville, in December, 1864, he was taken prisoner, and was held till the lose of the war. Returning to Savannah he resumed law practice.
In 1875-88 he was a trustee of the Peabody Education
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jarves , James Jackson 1820 -1888 (search)
Jarves, James Jackson 1820-1888
Author; born in Boston, Mass., Aug. 20, 1820; established the first newspaper printed in the Hawaiian Islands, in 1840.
In 1850 he was appointed by King Kamehameha III.
commissioner to the United States, Great Britain, and France, for the purpose of negotiating treaties, and in 1879 United States vice-consul in Florence, Italy.
Among his works are History of Hawaii; Parisian sights and French principles seen through American spectacles; Italian sights, etc. He died in Terasp, Switzerland, June 28, 1888.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Johnson , Cave 1793 -1866 (search)
Johnson, Cave 1793-1866
Jurist; born in Robertson county, Tenn., Jan. 11, 1793; elected circuit judge in 1820; served in Congress, 1829-37; and appointed Postmaster-General in 1845.
He died in Clarksville, Tenn., Nov. 23, 1866.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kane , Elisha Kent 1820 - (search)
Kane, Elisha Kent 1820-
Explorer; born in Philadelphia, Feb. 20, 1820; was educated at the universities of Virginia and Pennsylvania, taking his medical degree in 1843.
Ill-health led to his entering the navy, and he sailed as physician to the embassy to China in 1843.
He travelled extensively in Asia and Europe, traversed Greece on foot, explored western Africa to some extent, was in the war with Mex-
Elisha Kent Kane. ico, and in May, 1850, sailed as surgeon and naturalist under Lieut. Edwin J. De Haven, in search of Sir John Franklin. Sir John, an English navigator, had sailed on a voyage of discovery and exploration with two vessels, in May, 1845.
Years passed by, and no tidings of him or his companions came.
Expeditions were sent from England in search of him. Public interest in the fate of Sir John was excited in Europe and the United States, and in May. 1850, Henry Grinnell, a merchant of New York, fitted out two ships, the Advance and Rescue, and placed them in char
Keene, Laura 1820-
Actress; born in Chelsea, London, England, in 1820; real name, Mary Moss; made her first appearance on the stage in London, in 1845; was married to Henry W. Taylor in 1847, and to John Lutz in 1857.
She won her greatest successes in light comedy.
She first appeared in the United States at Wallack's Theatre, New York, in 1852, where she subsequently took the management of the Varieties Theatre, and later opened a theatre under her name, which she managed till 1863.
At t1820; real name, Mary Moss; made her first appearance on the stage in London, in 1845; was married to Henry W. Taylor in 1847, and to John Lutz in 1857.
She won her greatest successes in light comedy.
She first appeared in the United States at Wallack's Theatre, New York, in 1852, where she subsequently took the management of the Varieties Theatre, and later opened a theatre under her name, which she managed till 1863.
At this house, in 1858, she first brought out Our American cousin, in which Joseph Jefferson took the part of Asa Trenchard and Edward A. Sothern that of Lord Dundreary, then a minor character, which Mr. Sothern afterwards made the principal one in a new version of the play.
In 1860 she brought out The seven sisters, which ran for 169 nights.
It was while her company was playing Our American cousin, at Ford's Theatre, Washington, on April 14, 1865, that President Lincoln was fatally shot.
She re