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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Adee, Alvey Augustus, 1842- (search)
Adee, Alvey Augustus, 1842- Diplomatist; born in Astoria, N. Y., Nov. 27, 1842; was educated privately. On Sept. 9, 1870, he was appointed secretary of the American legation in Madrid, where he also served at different times as charge d'affaires; July 9, 1877, was transferred to the Department of State in Washington, D. C.; June 11, 1878, became chief of the Diplomatic Bureau; July 18. 1882, third assistant Secretary of State; and Aug. 3, 1886, second assistant Secretary of State. He was present when the peace protocols were signed between the United States and Spain, in Washington.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
tution, born 1797, dies......May 13, 1878 Select committee appointed in the House on motion of Mr. Potter to investigate alleged frauds in the Presidential election in Louisiana and Florida......May 17, 1878 Further retirement of legal-tender notes forbidden; the balance, $350,000,000, to be kept in circulation, by act......May 31, 1878 Bill to repeal the bankrupt law passed......June 7, 1878 Act providing for government of the District of Columbia by three commissioners......June 11, 1878 William Cullen Bryant, born 1794, dies at New York......June 12, 1878 It is made unlawful to employ the army as a posse comitatus to execute laws except as expressly authorized by the Constitution......June 18, 1878 Act for additional life-saving stations and for organizing the life-saving service......June 18, 1878 Second session adjourns......June 20, 1878 Yellow fever prevails in the Southern States, beginning at New Orleans about......July 10-15, 1878 Gen. B. F. But
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), District of Columbia. (search)
ted States for four years, and a House of Delegates elected by the people......Feb. 21, 1871 Henry D. Cooke, first governor......March 16, 1871 Alexander R. Shepherd appointed governor......Sept. 13, 1873 Congress abolishes the territorial government, substituting a temporary board of three commissioners appointed by the President......June 20, 1874 Permanent government of District constituted by Congress, in a board of three commissioners with no local legislative body......June 11, 1878 President Garfield assassinated in the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station at Washington......July 2, 1881 Remains of John Howard Payne, who died in Tunis, Africa, in 1852, interred in Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington......June 9, 1883 Capstone of the Washington Monument placed (monument 555 feet high)......Dec. 6, 1884 American College of the Roman Catholic Church opened at Washington......Nov. 13, 1889 The Ford Opera-house collapsed during business hours; twenty-one cler
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washington, (search)
mmencement Bay, Puget Sound, selected as the western terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad......1872 [Then the site of a saw-mill and a few cabins.] Emperor William I. of Germany, as arbitrator, decides San Juan dispute, giving islands involved to United States......Oct. 21, 1872 Walla Walla volunteers go to Idaho to help United States troops in Nez Perce Indian war......July, 1877 First settler at Spokane Falls......1878 Constitutional convention meets at Walla Walla, June 11, 1878, sits twenty-four days. Constitution ratified by the people......November, 1878 Citizens generally participate in goldspike celebration of completion of Northern Pacific Railroad......September, 1883 Attempts of Knights of Labor to expel the Chinese from Washington lead to riots. Governor Squire, by proclamation, calls on citizens to preserve peace, Nov. 5, 1885; and a riot occurring in Seattle, Feb. 7, 1886, he declares martial law......Feb. 8, 1886 State school for defective
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), His son, Thomas Dekay 1820-1878 (search)
His son, Thomas Dekay 1820-1878 Engineer, born in Vernon, N. J., Dec. 6, 1820, became a partner with his father and his brother, William Lewis. In 1843, with Andrew M. Eastwick, and Joseph Harrison, he went to Russia in the place of his father, who had been invited to St. Petersburg by the Russian government, and executed a contract to construct the rollingstock of the railroad between St. Petersburg and Moscow, for $3,000,000. Later other contracts were concluded which proved very lucrative. He invented with his father and brother a system of steam navigation known as the cigar-ship, and a tubular arrangement by which young trout could be easily fed. He died in Newport, R. I., June 11, 1878.