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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Missouri, (search)
ds the Platte purchase, a triangle north of the Missouri River, west of the western boundary of the State, and south of the northern boundary to Missouri, thus making it slave territory......June 7, 1836 Depredations and murders in Carroll county traced to a band of desperadoes composed principally of a family named Hetherly, old Mrs. Hetherly being a sister of the Kentucky brigands, Big and Little Harpe. The band broken up by the arrest and imprisonment of some of its chief men......July 17, 1836 Bank of the State of Missouri established at St. Louis; capital, $5,000,000, about four-fifths belonging to the State......1837 By proclamation of President Van Buren, the law of June 7, 1836, regarding the Platte purchase, takes effect......March 28, 1837 Col. Richard Gentry's regiment leaves Columbia for the Seminole War......Oct. 6, 1837 State-house burned with public papers and records......Nov. 17, 1837 Act of Congress to ascertain the true boundary-line of Missouri
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), White, William 1748-1836 (search)
a College in 1765; studied theology, and was admitted to priest's orders in England in April, 1772. Returning to Philadelphia, he became assistant minister of Christ Church and St. Peter's, and in April, 1779, was chosen rector of those churches. He was elected chaplain to Congress at York, Pa., in 1778. Dr. White presided at the first convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America in 1785, and the constitution of that Church was written by him. The diocese of Pennsylvania elected him bishop in 1786, and he was consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Feb. 4, 1787, returning to Philadelphia on Easter Day. Bishop White was very active in the Church and in society. He was president of the Philadelphia Bible Society, of the Dispensary, of the Prison Society, and of the societies for the benefit of the deaf and dumb and the blind. William White. He published Memoirs of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., July 17, 1836.