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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wyant , Alexander H. 1836 -1892 (search)
Wyant, Alexander H. 1836-1892
artist; born in Port Washington, O., Jan. 11, 1836; studied in Carlsruhe, Dusseldorf, and London; opened a studio in New York City in 1864; was elected an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1868, and an Academician in 1869.
Among his pictures are Staten Island from the Jersey Meadows; Scene on the Upper Susquehanna; Fort at New Bedford; A midsummer retreat; New England landscape; Scene on the Upper little Miami, etc. He died in New York City, Nov. 29, 1892.
Yosemite Valley,
A picturesque stretch of country in the Sierra Nevada of California, 150 miles in a direct line southeast from San Francisco, and nearly in the centre of the State.
Its scenic attractions are most remarkable.
It was discovered in 1851, a party of settlers near the mining-camp of Mariposa having visited it that year.
The Indian residents of that region are said to be a mixed race.
They were troublesome to the white settlers, and were chased to this stronghold, and thus it was discovered.
The name Yosemite signifies a full-grown grizzly bear.
By act of Congress in 1864 the valley, with a small adjacent region, was intrusted to the State of California as a State park.
This was followed by the reservation of other regions, and the area has since been set aside by Congress as a national park.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Young , John Russell 1841 -1899 (search)
Yung wing, 1828-
Diplomatist; born in Nan Ping, China, Nov. 17, 1828; came to the United States in 1847; graduated at Yale College in 1854; was commissioned by the Chinese government in 1864 to buy machinery in the United States for what became the arsenal of Kiang Nan. In 1870 he made several propositions to the Chinese government, two of which were adopted— viz., to arrange a settlement of the massacre of Christians in Tientsin by establishing a line of steamers to carry tributerice; the outgrowth of which was the celebrated China Merchant Steam Navigation Company; and to provide for the education of Chinese youth in foreign countries, that intercourse with foreigners might be made easier.
Under the last provision scores of young men were sent to the United States, and, under the charge of an educational commission with headquarters at
Yung wing. Hartford, Conn., were prepared by a thorough course of study to take their places as
The Chinese College at Hartford, Conn. wi
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Zalinski , Edmund Louis Gray 1849 - (search)
Zalinski, Edmund Louis Gray 1849-
Military officer; born in Kurnich, Prussian Poland, Dec. 13, 1849; came to the United States with his parents in 1853, and settled in Seneca Falls, N. Y. He was appointed an aide on the staff of Gen. Nelson A. Miles in 1864, and served till the close of the war, being promoted second lieutenant of volunteers in 1865 for gallantry at the battle of Hatcher's Run.
In February, 1866, he was appointed a second lieutenant in the 5th United States Artillery; was promoted first lieutenant in January, 1867, and captain in December, 1887; was Professor of Military Science in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1872-76; graduated at the United States Artillery School at Fort Monroe, Va., and at the School of Submarine Mining at Willett's Point, N. Y., in 1880; invented and was engaged in developing and perfecting the pneumatic dynamite torpedo gun bearing his name in 1883-89; travelled in Europe to obtain military information in 1889-90; was on garri