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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
at the White House......Dec. 31, 1877 About 100 lives, chiefly railroad engineers and artisans bound for Brazil, lost by wreck of the steamship Metropolis near Kitty Hawk, N. C.......Jan. 31, 1878 Greenback National Convention in Toledo, O., organizes a National Greenback party, with Judge Francis W. Hughes as president......Feb. 22, 1878 Bland silver bill, as amended, passed over the President's veto......Feb. 28, 1878 Benjamin F. Wade, born 1800, dies at Jefferson, O.......March 2, 1878 American register to be issued to, and naval officers detailed for, the Jeannette (fitted for a Polar expedition by James Gordon Bennett), by act......March 18, 1878 William M. Tweed, born 1823, dies in Ludlow Street jail, New York......April 12, 1878 Thomas W. Ferry chosen president pro tem. of the Senate......April 17, 1878 First train on the Gilbert elevated railroad, New York, is run on Sixth Avenue......April 29, 1878 Coinage of 20-cent silver pieces stopped by act...
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wade, Benjamin Franklin -1878 (search)
Wade, Benjamin Franklin -1878 Statesman; born near Springfield, Mass., Oct. 27, 1800; removed to Ashtabula, O., in 1821; admitted to the bar in 1827; elected prosecuting attorney in 1835; State Senator in 1837; and was United States Senator in Benjamin Franklin Wade. 1851-69. He was a conspicuous antislavery leader, opposed the Kansas-Nebraska bill; favored the homestead bill and the confiscation of property in slaves. He was acting Vice-President of the United States under President Johnson; and one of the commissioners to Santo Domingo in 1871. He died in Jefferson, O., March 2, 1878.