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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Missouri, (search)
mbly......March 6, 1849 Fire in St. Louis destroys twenty-three steamboats and their cargoes and a large section of the city......May 17, 1849 United States Senator Thomas H. Benton, in the hall of the House at Jefferson City, opposes the Jackson resolutions, as in the spirit of nullification and disunion, and appeals from the legislature to the people......May 26, 1849 Inter-State convention at St. Louis unanimously endorses a national Pacific railway across the continent......Oct. 16, 1849 Ground broken for the Pacific Railroad by the mayor of St. Louis......July 4, 1850 William Jewell College at Liberty, chartered in 1849, opened......1850 At a joint convention to choose a United States Senator, Henry S. Geyer, of St. Louis, Whig, defeats Thomas H. Benton......Jan. 22, 1851 Destruction of the Industrial luminary, a newspaper published at Parkville, by a pro-slavery faction......April 14, 1855 Gov. Trusten Polk resigns to become United States Senator......Ma
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Williams, George Washington (search)
Williams, George Washington Author; born a mulatto in Bedford Springs, Pa., Oct. 16, 1849; was a lieutenant-colonel in the Republican army of Mexico in 1865-67; engaged in journalism in 1875; graduated at the Cincinnati Law College in 1877; member of the Ohio legislature in 1878-81; and was minister to Haiti in 1885-86. His publications include History of the negro race in America from 1619-1880; History of the negro troops in the War of the rebellion; and History of the reconstruction of the insurgent States (2 volumes).