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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), South Carolina, (search)
...Dec. 7, 1876 Speaker Wallace, having a certificate from the secretary of State of the votes cast for governor and lieutenant-governor, proceeds to canvass the votes and declares Wade Hampton and William D. Simpson, Democrats, elected; oath of office is administered by Trial-Judge Mackay......Dec. 12, 1876 Both governors, being invited to Washington, hold a private conference with President Hayes, which results in a proclamation by Governor Chamberlain withdrawing his claim......April 11, 1877 F. L. Cardoza, State treasurer under Governor Chamberlain, is arrested for fraud upon the State government, July 21, and sentenced to two years in the county jail and $4,000 fine......Nov. 8, 1877 Legislature by joint resolution provides that all the unfunded debts and liabilities of the State, including the bills of the bank of the State, and so much of the funded debt as is known as the Little Bonanza, be settled at the rate of 50 per cent. ......March, 1878 Wade Hampton, elec
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Winans, Ross 1796-1877 (search)
Winans, Ross 1796-1877 Inventor; born in Vernon, N. J. October, 1796; showed an inventive bent early in life; and was sent to England as an agent of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to examine English railroad systems. Returning to the United States he constructed the first locomotive used with success on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. He also designed the eightwheeled car and the camel-back locomotive; founded in Baltimore the most extensive railway machine works in the United States. He was chosen to the extra session of the legislature of Maryland in 1861, but was made a prisoner in Fort McHenry. He died in Baltimore, Md., April 11, 1877.