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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: February 28, 1861., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ship-building. (search)
egan the career of navigation and commerce which has specially distinguished the New England States. See navigation acts; naval ships; Great Lakes and the Navy. Ship-building on the Lakes. Henry Sherman Boutell, who has been a member of Congress from Illinois since 1897, contributes the following illuminative discussion of the Rush-Bagot convention in its relation to the subject of the building and maintenance of war-ships on the Great Lakes. Mr. Boutell was born in Boston, Mass., March 4, 1856; graduated at Harvard in 1876; admitted to the Illinois bar in 1879; and was a member of the Illinois legislature in 1884. He was elected to Congress in November, 1897, and re-elected in 1898 and 1900. In 1815, at the close of the war between the United States and Great Britain, each country had a considerable naval force on the northern lakes. The reduction of this force was essential to a permanent peace. Nevertheless, in the latter part of the summer of 1815, Mr. John Quincy
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
sident Pierce to Congress, endorses the bogus legislature, and calls the Topeka movement revolutionary......Jan. 24, 1856 Whitfield takes his seat in Congress, and Reeder announces that he will contest it......Feb. 4, 1856 United States forces in Kansas, by order of Secretary of War, are put under requisition of the governor......Feb. 15, 1856 Free-State legislature meets at Topeka; Governor Robinson delivers his message, and A. H. Reeder and J. H. Lane are elected senators......March 4, 1856 Henry Ward Beecher sends twenty-five Bibles and twenty-five Sharp's rifles to a Connecticut party emigrating to Kansas......March 28, 1856 Topeka constitution presented in United States Senate by Lewis Cass, March 24; in the House by Daniel Mace, of Indiana......April 7, 1856 Congressional investigating committee reaches Lawrence......April 18, 1856 Sheriff Jones attempts to arrest S. N. Wood in Lawrence, charged with aiding in the rescue of Branson in November previous, but