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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Arkansas, (search)
Term of Office. James Miller1819 to 1825 George Izard1825 to 1829 John Pope1829 to 1835 William S. Fulton1835 to 1836 State Governors of Arkansas. James S. Conway1836 to 1840 Archibald Yell1840 to 1844 Samuel Adams1844 Thomas S. Drew1844 to 1848 John S. Roane1848 to 1852 Elias N. Conway1852 to 1860 Henry M. Rector1860 to 1862 Harris Flanagin1862 to 1864 Isaac Murphy1864 to 1868 Powell Clayton1868 to 1871 Orzo H. Hadley1871 to 1872 Elisha Baxter1872 to 1874 Augustus H. Garland1874 to 1876 Wm. R. Miller1877 to 1881 Thos. J. Churchill1881 to 1883 Jas. H. Berry1883 to 1885 Simon P. Hughes1885 to 1889 James P. Eagle1889 to 1893 Wm. M. Fishback1893 to 1895 James P. Clarke1895 to 1897 Daniel W. Jones1897 to 1901 Jefferson Davis1901 to---- United States Senators from the State of Arkansas. names.No. of Congress.Date. William S. Fulton24th to 28th1836 to 1844 Ambrose H. Sevier24th to 30th1836 to 1848 Chester Ashley28th to 30th1844 to 1848 Solon Borland30
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Articles of War. (search)
Articles of War. In the United States, Congress only can make articles of war. These have been based on the English articles and mutiny act. They were first adopted by the Continental Congress. July 30, 1775, and extended March 20, 1776; enacted again, with little alteration, April 10, 1806. Some additions were made from 1861-65, and in 1874 they were codified as section 1,342 of the Revised statutes of the United States. An act of Congress provides that the Articles of War shall be read before the officers and men of the army and navy at frequent and regular periods.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bachman, John, 1790-1874 (search)
Bachman, John, 1790-1874 Naturalist; born in Dutchess county, N. Y., Feb. 4, 1790. He was pastor of a Lutheran church at Charleston, S. C., in 1815-74; but is best known from his association with Auduhbon in the preparation of his great work on ornithology. He contributed the most of the text on the quadrupeds of North America, which Audubon and his sons illustrated. He died in Charleston, S. C., Feb. 25, 1874. Bachman, John, 1790-1874 Naturalist; born in Dutchess county, N. Y., Feb. 4, 1790. He was pastor of a Lutheran church at Charleston, S. C., in 1815-74; but is best known from his association with Auduhbon in the preparation of his great work on ornithology. He contributed the most of the text on the quadrupeds of North America, which Audubon and his sons illustrated. He died in Charleston, S. C., Feb. 25, 1874.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bagley, worth, 1874- (search)
Bagley, worth, 1874- Naval officer; born in Raleigh, N. C., April 6, 1874; was graduated at the United States Naval Academy in 1895. After serving two years on the Montgomery, Texas, and the Maine, he was made ensign July 1897. He was a short time on the Indiana, and then became the executive clerk of Capt. Charles D. Sigsbee on the Maine. In November, 1897, he was appointed inspector of the new torpedo-boat Winslow. and when she went into commission on Dec. 28, he was made her executive officer, under Lieut. J. B. Bernadou, her commander. In April, 1898, the Winslow was with the fleet mobilized for operations in Cuban waters. On the morning of May 11 she prepared, with the Hudson and Wilmington, to force an entrance to the harbor of Cardenas. She was fired upon by one of several Spanish gunboats, and immediately there was a general engagement. the Winslow, was soon disabled, and was with difficulty hauled out of range of the Spanish guns. The guns of the enemy were silen
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bancroft, George, (search)
mboldt and other eminent scholars and philosophers. At Heidelberg he spent some time in the study of history with Schlosser; and in Paris he made the acquaintance of Alexander von Humboldt, Cousin, and others. At Rome he formed a friendship with Chevalier Bunsen: he also knew Niebuhr. While engaged in the Round Hill School, Mr. Bancroft completed the first volume of his History of the United States, which was published in 1834. Ten volumes of this great work were completed and published in 1874, or forty years from the commencement of the work. The tenth volume brings the narrative down to the conclusion of the preliminary treaty of peace in 1782. In 1838 President Van Buren appointed Mr. Bancroft collector of the port of Boston. He was then engaged in delivering frequent political addresses, and took a deep interest in the philosophical movement now known as transcendentalism. He was a Democrat in politics, and in 1840 received the nomination for governor of Massachusetts, but
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bankruptcy laws, past and present. (search)
law of England is far and away the most successful and the fairest bankruptcy law yet enforced in that country. While the list of objections to discharges in England is on the increase, here it is growing smaller and smaller. In 1800, among other restrictions, the bankrupt was not entitled to a discharge unless he paid 75 cents on a dollar. In 1841 a majority of creditors in number and value might prevent the discharge by filing a written dissent thereto. The law of 1867, as amended in 1874, refused a discharge to voluntary bankrupts who did not pay 30 per cent. on claims proved, except with the assent of one-fourth of their creditors in number and one-third in value; and, copying the English model, it enumerated ten acts, the commission of which might deprive him of his discharge. The new law goes to the antipodes of the present English statute and not only wipes out the necessity of paying any percentage in dividends, a very poor change, but abolishes the semi-control of cr
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bannock Indians, (search)
Bannock Indians, A tribe of North American Indians, sometimes called the Robber Indians. It was divided into two distinct branches: the first inhabited the region between lat. 42° and 45° and reaching from long. 113° to the Rocky Mountains; the second claimed all of the southwestern part of Montana. The first branch was the more numerous. In 1869 the Bannocks of the Salmon River numbered only 350, having been reduced by small-pox and invasions of the Blackfeet. In that year about 600 of the Southern tribe were settled on the Wind River reservation, and in the same year 600 more were sent to the Fort Hall reservation. Most of the latter afterwards left the reservation, but returned with the Shoshones and the scattered Bannocks of the southern part of Idaho in 1874. In 1900 the Bannocks were reduced to 430 at the Fort Hall agency, and eighty-five at the Lemhi agency, both in Ida
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bartholdi, Frederic Auguste. (search)
entitled Liberty enlightening the world. His other works include a statue of Lafayette in Union Square, New York, and a bronze group of Lafayette and Washington, presented by American citizens to the city of Paris, and unveiled Dec. 1, 1895. Soon after the establishment of the republic of France, in 1870, a movement was inaugurated in that country for the presentation to the United States of some suitable memorial to testify to the fraternal feeling existing between the two countries. In 1874 an association, known as the French-American Union, was formed for the furtherance of this object, and most of the foremost men of France lent it their aid. It was decided to present to the United States a colossal statue of Liberty enlightening the world, and more than 1,000,000 francs were raised by popular subscription for that purpose. Of the Bartholdi's statute of liberty in New York Harbor. various models submitted to the committee having the matter in charge, that of M. Bartholdi w
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813- (search)
of the struggle. Mr. Beecher led a most active life as preacher, editor, lyceum lecturer, and author of numerous books. He began editorial labors before the began to preach, conducting for a year (1836) The Cincinnati journal; and for nearly twenty years he was an editorial contributor to the New York independent, a weekly newspaper. From 1870 he was editor several years of the Christian Union, a weekly paper published in New York, and was a constant contributor to other publications. In 1874 Mr. Beecher was accused of criminal conduct with Mrs. Theodore Tilton. He was exonerated by the committee of Plymouth Church, but in the civil suit instituted by Mr. Tilton, which lasted more than six months, the jury failed to agree. The case attracted the attention of the entire world. The system of slavery. The following is Mr. Beecher's address in Liverpool, England, Oct. 16, 1863, the feeling of his auditors towards his subject and himself being clearly indicated parenthetically:
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Blackburn, Joseph Clay styles, 1838- (search)
Blackburn, Joseph Clay styles, 1838- Lawyer; born in Woodford county, Ky., Oct. 1, 1838; was graduated at Centre College, Danville, in 1857; served in the Confederate army during the Civil War; was elected to the legislature in 1871, to Congress in 1874, and to the United States Senate in 1885 and 1891. He was a leader in the free-coinage movement.
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