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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 2 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 1 1 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), California (search)
ded by adding Chinese......1855 James King, of William, editor of the San Francisco Evening bulletin, a champion of reform, is shot in the street by James Casey, editor of the Sunday times, a noted politician, May 14, 1856; dies May 20. The vigilance committee is revived May 15, and some 8,000 members are enrolled. Casey is taken from jail, May 18; tried and hanged with another man named Cora, convicted of murder......May 22, 1856 Discovery of gold mines on the Frazer River......May 1, 1858 First overland mail west leaves St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 16, 1858; arrives at San Francisco......Oct. 10, 1858 Forty-two prisoners escape from State prison in open day, and 100 others following are fired upon and driven back......June 27, 1859 David C. Broderick wounded by David S. Terry in a duel Sept. 12; dies......Sept. 16, 1859 First pony express leaves Sacramento for St. Joseph, Mo.......April 4, 1860 A Japanese embassy of seventy-two men are the guests of San Francisco..
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Georgia, (search)
851 Formation of the Know-nothing or American party in Georgia......1852 Southern convention meets in Savannah......Dec. 12, 1856 Appropriation of $200,000 made by Congress for purchase of site for a naval depot at Brunswick on Blythe Island......Jan. 28, 1857 Howell Cobb appointed Secretary of the Treasury......March 6, 1857 Governor Brown vetoes bill suspending forfeiture proceedings against banks for one year; the banks in Augusta and elsewhere resume specie payment......May 1, 1858 Georgia schooner-yacht Wanderer seized in New York on suspicion of being a slavetrader, but released.......June 16, 1858 Governor Brown seizes forts Pulaski and Jackson sixteen days before Georgia secedes......Jan. 3, 1861 Ordinance of secession passed (yeas, 208; nays, 89)......Jan. 19, 1861 [Alexander H. Stephens and Herschel V. Johnson vote nay.] Members of Congress from Georgia withdraw......Jan. 23, 1861 Iverson withdraws from the Senate......Jan. 28, 1861 Mint