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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Coxey, Jacob J. 1854- (search)
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), Wrecks. (search)
0 of the soldiers are swept from the deck and perish......Dec. 23-31, 1853 Ship Staffordshire, from Liverpool to Boston, strikes on Blande Rock, south of Seal Island; 178 lives lost......Dec. 30, 1853 Steamer Georgia, from Montgomery, Ala., destroyed by fire at New Orleans; sixty lives lost......Jan. 28, 1854 Ship Powhatan, from Havre to New York, with 311 emigrants, goes ashore in a gale on Long Beach, 7 miles north of Egg Harbor light, and is wrecked; no passengers saved......April 16, 1854 Steamer Arctic, from Liverpool, struck by the Vesta, 40 miles off Cape Race, Newfoundland, in a fog, and sinks; over 350 lives lost......Sept. 27, 1854 Collins line steamer Pacific leaves Liverpool for New York with 240 persons on board and is never heard from......Sept. 23, 1856 French steamer Le Lyonnais sunk off Nantucket by collision with the bark Adriatic; 260 lives lost......Nov. 2, 1856 Steamship Tempest, Anchor line, 150 persons on board, never heard from after leavin