hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing). You can also browse the collection for December 26th, 1846 AD or search for December 26th, 1846 AD in all documents.

Your search returned 2 results in 2 document sections:

Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Thomas, Allen Clapp 1846- (search)
Thomas, Allen Clapp 1846- Historian; born in Baltimore, Md., Dec. 26, 1846; graduated at Haverford College in 1865; became Professor of History, and librarian of Haverford College in 1878. He is the author of A history of the United States for schools and academies; An elementary history of the United States; History of the Society of friends in America, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pennsylvania, (search)
g Railroad completed......1842 Riots between the native Americans and Irish in Philadelphia suppressed by the military......April-May, 1844 Petroleum is obtained while boring for salt on the Alleghany, a few miles above Pittsburg......1845 Pittsburg nearly destroyed by fire; loss, $10,000,000......April 10, 1845 Telegraphic communication between Philadelphia and Fort Lee, opposite New York, completed......Jan. 20, 1846 Philadelphia and Pittsburg connected by telegraph......Dec. 26, 1846 State forbids the use of jails to hold fugitive slaves......May 3, 1848 Resurvey of Mason and Dixon's line completed......Nov. 19, 1849 Judiciary made elective......1850 Manufacture of galvanized iron begun In Philadelphia......1852 Railroad track torn up at Harbor Creek, near Erie, by the opposition to the railroad......Dec. 9, 1853 Pennsylvania State Agricultural College organized in Centre county. April 13, 1854 Zinc works at Bethlehem go into operation......Oct.