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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Frelinghuysen, Frederick Theodore 1817-1885 (search)
Frelinghuysen, Frederick Theodore 1817-1885 Statesman; born in Millstone, N. J., Aug. 4, 1817; grandson of the preceding; graduated at Rutgers College in 1836; became an eminent lawyer, and was attorney-general of New Jersey, 1861-66. He was chosen United States Senator in 1868, and was re-elected for a full term in 1871. He was a prominent member of the Republican party. In July, 1870, President Grant appointed him minister to England, but he declined the position. On Dec. 12, 1881, he entered the cabinet of President Arthur as Secretary of State, on the resignation of Secretary Blaine, and served to the end of that administration, March 4, 1885. He died in Newark, N. J., May 20, 1885.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Jersey, (search)
by act of legislature......1878 Liberal League of New Jersey, the outgrowth of the Citizens' Protective Association of Newark, in State convention at Newark, demand remodelling of the Sunday laws......September, 1879 Thomas Alva Edison establishes a laboratory at Menlo Park, 1876; exhibits his newly invented system of electric lighting by incandescent carbon vacuum lamps......December, 1879 Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen appointed Secretary of State under President Arthur......Dec. 12, 1881 Act passed to create a council of State charities and correction, to consist of six persons appointed by the governor......March 28, 1883 Law enacted to abolish and prohibit the employment under contract of convicts and inmates of prisons, jails, penitentiaries, and all public reformatory institutions of the State......1884 Gen. George B. McClellan, born 1826, dies at Orange......Oct. 29, 1885 State board of agriculture established......1887 Act of legislature passed makin