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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Abbot , Henry Larcom 1831 - (search)
Abbot, Henry Larcom, 1831-
Military engineer; born in Beverly, Mass., Aug. 13, 1831.
He was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1854.
entered the Corps of Engineers, in which he reached the rank of colonel, and was retired in 1895.
In the Civil War he commanded the siege artillery of the armies operating against Richmond, designed the systems of submarine mine defences and of mortar batteries for the government, and was brevetted major-general of volunteers and brigadier-general U. S. A. After his retirement he designed the new harbor at Manitowoc, Wis., and was a member of the Technical Committee of the New Panama Canal Co.
His publications include Siege artillery in the campaign against Richmond; Experiments to develop a system of submarine mines; and Physics and Hydraulics of the Mississippi, the last in co-operation with General Humphreys.
He received the degree of Ll.D. from Harvard, and became a member of many scientific societies.
Adams, Henry A., Jr.
Born in Pennsylvania in 1833.
Graduated at Annapolis in 1851.
Took part in the engagement with the forts at the mouth of Canton River, China, in 1854.
Was on the Brooklyn at the passage of Forts St. Philip and Jackson in 1862, and also participated in the attack on Fort Fisher.
Was highly praised by Admiral Porter in his official despatches.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Agricultural colleges. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Allen , Henry Watkins 1820 - (search)
Allen, Henry Watkins, 1820-
Military officer; born in Prince Edward county. Va., April 20, 1820; became a lawyer in Mississippi; and in 1842 raised a company to fight in Texas.
He settled at West Baton Rouge, La., in 1850; served in the State legislature; was in the Law School at Cambridge in 1854; and visited Europe in 1859.
He took an active part with the Confederates in the Civil War, and was at one time military governor at Jackson, Miss.
In the battle of Shiloh and at Baton Rouge he was wounded.
He was commissioned a brigadier-general in 1864, but was almost immediately elected governor of Louisiana, the duties of which he performed with great ability and wisdom.
At the close of the war he made his residence in the city of Mexico, where he established the Mexican times, which he edited until his death, April 22, 1866.
American party,
A political organization founded in 1854, the members of which became known as Know-nothings, because in their endeavors to preserve the secrecy of their movements they were instructed to reply I don't know to any question asked in reference to the party.
It was at first a secret political organization, the chief object of which was the proscription of foreigners by the repeal of the naturalization laws of the United States, and the exclusive choice of Americans for office.
The more radical members of the party advocated a purely American school system, and uncomlpromising opposition to the Roman Catholics.
Such narrow views were incompatible with the generosity and catholic spirit of enlightened American citizens.
In 1856 they nominated ex-President Fillmore for the Presidency, who received 874,534 popular and eight electoral votes; made no nominations in 1860, but united with the Constitutional Union party, whose candidates.
Bell and Everett, received 590,6
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Anthony , Susan Brownell 1820 - (search)
Anthony, Susan Brownell, 1820-
American reformer; born in South Adams, Mass., Feb. 15, 1820.
She was of Quaker parent-age, and received her education at a Friends' school in Philadelphia.
From 1835 to 1850 she taught school in New York.
In 1847 she began her efforts in behalf of the temperance movement, making speeches and organizing societies; in 1852 she assisted in organizing the Woman's New York State Temperance Society.
In 1854-55 she held conventions in each county in New York in behalf of female suffrage.
She was a leader in the anti-slavery movement, and one of the earliest advocates of the coeducation of women.
Greatly through her influence, the New York legislature, in 1860, passed the act giving married women the possession of their earnings, and the guardianship of their children.
In 1868, with Mrs. E. C. Stanton and Parker Pillsbury, she began the publication of the Revolutionist, a paper devoted to the emancipation of women.
In 1872 she cast test ballots at t
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Arthur , Chester Alan 1830 -1886 (search)
Arthur, Chester Alan, 1830-1886
Twenty-first President of the United States, from Sept. 19, 1881, to March 4, 1885; Republican; born in Fairfield, Vt., Oct. 5, 1830; was graduated at Union College in 1848; studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1854; and became a successful practitioner.
He gained much celebrity in a suit which involved the freedom of some slaves, known as the Lemmon case.
He procured the admission of colored persons to the street-cars of New York City by gaining a suit against a railway company in 1856. Mr. Arthur did efficient service during the Civil War as quartermaster-general of the State of New York.
In 1872 he was appointed collector of the port of New York, and was removed in 1878.
In 1880, he was elected Vice-President, and on the death of President Garfield, Sept, 19, 1881, he became President.
He died in New York City, Nov. 18, 1886.
Veto of Chinese immigration bill.
On April 4, 1882, President Arthur sent the following veto message to the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bartlett , John Russell 1805 -1886 (search)
Barton, Clara, 1830-
Philanthropist; born in Oxford, Mass., in 1830; was educated in Clinton, N. Y. Her early life was devoted to teaching.
In 1854 she became a clerk in the Patent Office in Washington, resigning in 1861, and undertaking the
Clara Barton. nursing of sick and wounded soldiers of the army.
In 1864 General Butler made her head nurse of the hospitals in the Army of the James.
Later she was given charge by President Lincoln of the search organized to find missing Union soldiers, and in 1865 went to Andersonville to mark the graves of Northern soldiers who had died there.
When the Franco-Prussian War broke out (1870), she assisted in preparing military hospitals, and also aided the Red Cross Society.
In 1871, after the siege of Strasburg, she superintended, by request of the authorities, the distribution of work to the poor, and in 1872 performed a similar work in Paris.
For her services she was decorated with the Golden Cross of Baden and the Iron Cross of Germ