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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
ed of his gallant and judicious conduct on July 2, 1853, in rescuing Martin Koszta from illegal seizure and imprisonment on board the Austrian brig Huzzar, approved......Aug. 4, 1854 First session adjourns......Aug. 7, 1854 Ostend manifesto issued......Oct. 18, 1854 Andrew H. Reeder, of Pennsylvania, appointed governor of Kansas by President Pierce......1854 Second session assembles......Dec. 4, 1854 Jesse D. Bright, of Indiana, elected president pro tem. of the Senate......Dec. 5, 1854 Congress assents to the cession by Massachusetts to New York of Boston corner, the southwesterly corner of Berkshire county, approved......Jan. 3, 1855 Annexation of the Sandwich Islands discussed in Congress (strongly opposed by England)......January, 1855 Panama Railroad completed; first train from ocean to ocean......Jan. 28, 1855 Rights of citizenship secured to children of citizens born in foreign territory by an act approved......Feb. 10, 1855 Grade of lieutenant-gene
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
and first sale of lots takes place......Sept. 21, 1854 Samuel D. Lecompte, of Maryland, commissioned chief-justice......Oct. 3, 1854 Andrew H. Reeder, of Pennsylvania, appointed governor, arrives in the Territory......Oct. 7, 1854 Secret societies called Blue Lodges begin in Weston, Mo., for extending slavery into Kansas......October, 1854 Election as territorial delegate to Congress of J. W. Whitfield, pro-slavery, by illegal votes......Nov. 29, 1854 Topeka founded......Dec. 5, 1854 A free-State meeting at Lawrence......Dec. 23, 1854 Wyandotte Indians cede to the United States lands purchased by them from the Delawares in Kansas in 1843......Jan. 31, 1855 First census completed: total, 8,501; voters, 2,905; slaves, 192......Feb. 28, 1855 Five sons of old John Brown settle on the Pottawattomie, near Osawatomie......February, 1855 About 1,000 Missourians enter Lawrence with arms, and vote for members of the legislature......March 30, 1855 Manhattan locat