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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Allison , William Boyd 1829 - (search)
Allison, William Boyd, 1829-
Politician; born in Perry, O., March 2, 1829; was educated at Alleghany and Western Reserve Colleges; admitted to the bar and practised in Ohio until 1857, when he removed to Dubuque, Ia. In 1860 he was a delegate to the Chicago Convention.
During the Civil War he was active in raising troops for the Union army.
In 1862 he was elected to Congress as a Republican, and was re-elected three times.
In 1873 he was elected to the United States Senate, and has since held the seat by reelections.
He has been a conspicuous candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination several times, and his name is associated with that of the late Richard P. Bland (q. v.) in the history of the Silver Act of 1877-78.
See Bland silver bill.
Schurz, Carl
Military officer; born near Cologne, Germany, March 2, 1829; studied at the Gymnasium at Cologne and at the University of Bonn; with other students engaged in the revolutionary movements in 1848; joined Gottfried Kinkel in publishing a liberal newspaper; and, after the failure of an attempt at insurrection at Bonn (1849) both were compelled to fly. Schurz made his way to Switzerland.
On the night of Nov. 6, 1850, he rescued Kinkel from the fortress of Spandau, escaped to the sea, and took passage in a schooner for Leith.
Thence Schurz went to Paris; thence to London, in 1851, where he was a teacher until the summer of 1852, when he came to the United States, landing at Philadelphia.
There he remained three years, and then settled at Madison, Wis. In the Presidential campaign of 1856 he became a noted German orator, and in 1858 began to make public speeches in English.
He soon afterwards became a lawyer at Milwaukee, and, in the winter of 1859-60 was recognized as