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Cleveland
The most important port of Ohio, on Lake Erie, was named after (Gen. Moses Cleaveland, director of the Connecticut Land Company, who arrived at the present site of Cleveland, July 22, 1796, and began the settlement at the mouth of Cuyahoga River.
In 1800 the population was only 7; in 1810 it was 57; 1820, 150; 1830, 1,075; 1840, 6,071; 1850, 17,034.
In 1854, Ohio City, on the opposite bank of the river, was united with Cleveland, and in 1860 the population of the united cities was 43,838; in 1870. 92,829; 1880, 159,404; 1890, 261.353; 1900, 381,768.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cockran , William Bourke 1854 - (search)
Cockran, William Bourke 1854-
Lawyer; born in Ireland, Feb. 28, 1854; became prominent in New York politics as an adherent of Tammany Hall, for which he was frequently spokesman.
In 1896, being an advocate of the gold standard, he left his party and made speeches for the Republican party.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Coinage , United States (search)
Collamer, Jacob
Born in Troy, N. Y., Jan. 8, 1791; graduated at the University of Vermont in 1810; admitted to the bar in 1813; elected a justice of the Vermont Supreme Court in 1833; served until his election to Congress in 1843; appointed Postmaster-General under President Taylor in March, 1849; elected United States Senator in 1854, and served until his death, in Woodstock, Vt., Nov. 9, 1865.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Corcoran , William Wilson 1798 -1888 (search)
Corcoran, William Wilson 1798-1888
Philanthropist; born in Georgetown, D. C., Dec. 27, 1798; educated at Georgetown College; became a banker in Washington in 1837; and retired in 1854.
He was the founder of the Corcoran Art Gallery, in Washington, D. C., to which he gave a large endowment.
His contributions to public and private charities are said to have aggregated more than $5,000,000. He died in Washington, D. C., Feb. 24, 1888.
Coxey, Jacob J. 1854-
Political agitator; born in Snyder county, Pa., April 16, 1854.
The spring of 1894 was marked by one of the most unique popular uprisings ever witnessed in any country.
Coxey, then living in Massillon, O., organized what he called The army of the commonwealth, to be composed of men out of work, for a march to Washington in order to influence Congress to take some action for the benefit of trade in the country.
Coxey appointed March 10 as the day the army would start from Massillon, and early in the year a great number of small companies started from the South and West to join him. For a time it seemed as if the movement would be an impressive one.
Fully 1,500 men, composing the Western detachment, under Colonel Fry, reached the Mississippi.
This detachment was constantly growing in numbers, and was well received by the people through the States as it progressed towards Massillon to join Coxey.
But at this time three weeks of constant rain interfered,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Craighill , William Price 1833 - (search)
Craighill, William Price 1833-
Military engineer; born in Charlestown, Va., July 1, 1833; graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1853; superintended the building of Fort Sumter in 1854-55, and of Fort Delaware in 1858; planned and erected the defences of Pittsburg, Pa., in 1863; and subsequently was engaged on the defences of New York and Baltimore, and on the improvement of several rivers.
He was promoted brigadier-general and chief of engineers May 10, 1895; retired Feb. 1, 1897.
He published Army officers' pocket companion; translated Dufour's Cours de tactiques; and, with Captain Mendell, Jomini's Precis de l'art guerre.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cresson , Elliott 1796 -1854 (search)
Cresson, Elliott 1796-1854
Philanthropist; born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 2, 1796; was a member of the Society of Friends, a successful merchant, and a man devoted to the promotion of the interests of the Indians and the negroes.
He planned a colonization of American negroes in Africa, and was actively engaged in establishing the first colony of liberated slaves at Bassa Cove.
Subsequently he was president of the American Colonization Society (q. v.), and in 1838-53 labored in its behalf in New England, the Southern States, and Great Britain.
He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 20, 1854, and bequeathed property valued at over $150,000 to charitable purposes.