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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Adams , Charles Francis 1807 -1886 (search)
Adams, Charles Francis, 1807-1886
Statesman; born in Boston, Mass., Aug. 18, 1807;
Charles Francis Adams. son of John Quincy Adams; was graduated at Harvard College in 1825.
He accompanied his father to St. Petersburg and England, where he passed much of his childhood until the return of his family to America in 1817. Mr. Adams studied law in the office of Daniel Webster, and was admitted to the bar in 1828, but never practised it as a vocation.
In 1829 he married a daughter of Peter C. Brooks, of Boston.
For five years he was a member of the legislature of Massachusetts.
Having left the Whig Party, he was a candidate of the free-soil party (q. v.) in 1848 for the Vice-Presidency of the United States. Mr. Van Buren being the candidate for the Presidency.
They were defeated.
In 1850-56 Mr. Adams published the Life and works of John Adams (his grandfather), in 10 volumes.
In 1859 he was elected to Congress from the district which his father long represented.
He was then a
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Allen , James Lane 1849 - (search)
Allen, James Lane, 1849-
Author; born in Kentucky in 1849; was graduated at Transylvania University; taught in the Kentucky University, and later became Professor of Latin and Higher English in Bethany College, West Virginia.
Since 1886 he has been engaged in authorship.
His publications include Flute and violin; The Blue grass region, and other sketches of Kentucky; John Gray, a novel; The Kentucky; John Gray, a novel; The Kentucky Cardinal; Aftermath; A summer in Arcady; The choir invisible, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Allen , Robert 1815 -1886 (search)
Allen, Robert, 1815-1886
Military officer; born in Ohio, about 1815; was graduated at West Point in 1836, and served with distinction in the war with Mexico.
He was a very useful officer in the Civil War, and attained the rank of brigadier-general, and brevet major-general of volunteers.
He was stationed at St. Louis, where his services were of great value during the war. At its close he was made assistant quartermaster-general (1866), and afterwards chief-quartermaster of the division of the Pacific.
He died in Switzerland, Aug. 6, 1886.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Altgeld , John Peter 1847 - (search)
Altgeld, John Peter, 1847-
Lawyer; born in Germany, in December, 1847; was brought to the United States in infancy by his parents, who settled near Mansfield, O.; received a public school education; entered the Union army in 1863, and served till the close of the war. In 1869 he was admitted to the Missouri bar; in 1874 was elected State attorney of Andrew county, Mo.; in the following year removed to Chicago; in 1886-91 was judge of the superior court of that city; and in 1893-97 was governor of Illinois.
His action in pardoning (June 27, 1893) Fielden, Schwab, and Neebe, who had been imprisoned for complicity in the Haymarket atrocity by alleged anarchists, excited strong and general criticism (see anarchists; Chicago). His publications include Our penal machinery and its victims; Lice questions; Oratory; Its requirements and its rewards (1901); etc.
America's cup,
The popular name of a yachting trophy originally called the Queen's Cup, which was offered by the Royal Yacht Squadron of England in a
America's cup. competition open to the yachts of all nations in 1851.
The cup was won by the Boston-built schooner-yacht America.
Since then there were challenge contests in 1870, 1871, 1876, 1881, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1893, 1895, and 1899, and in each instance the cup was defended by American yachts, with success.
In 1895 Lord Dunraven's yacht, Valkyrie, after having been defeated in one race, won the second, but was deprived of the victory because of a foul.
The Englishman claimed that he had been cheated, and refused to race again.
He charged the American yachtsmen with unsportsmanlike conduct, and visited this country to press his charges.
His complaints were dismissed and he was dropped from the list of members of the New York Yacht Club, under whose auspices the races had been held.
One of the most notable of the several
Anarchists.
The battle on the part of society against the anarchists in the United States may be said to have been fought and won. From the close of the Civil War up to 1886, the number of anarchists in the country constantly increased.
The organization is supposed to have had its origin in Russia, the object of its existence being apparently to secure greater freedom for the people through the assassination of those government officers.
most notably the Czar, who to the popular notion embodied tyranny.
The members of anarchist bands knew but five of their fellows, though the society at one time is said to have had over 40,000 members.
The members were divided into groups of six, one member of each group communicating with one of another, thus forming a great chain, but diminishing the fear of traitors.
The oaths of the members are said to be of a most terrible character.
From its original inception anarchism soon changed until the members of the society in all lands were re
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Andrew , Stephen Pearl 1812 -1886 (search)
Andrew, Stephen Pearl, 1812-1886
Author; born in Templeton, Mass., March 22, 1812.
After practising law in the South, he settled in New York in 1847, and became a prominent abolitionist.
He gave much attention to phonographic reporting, and to the development of a universal philosophy which he named Integralism, and to a universal language named Alwato.
He was author of numerous works relating to these subjects, besides Comparison of the common law with the Roman. French, or Spanish Civil law on entails, etc.; Lore. Marriage and divorce; The labor dollar: transactions of the Colloquium (an organization established by himself and friends for philosophical discussion), etc. He died in New York, May 21, 1886.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Arthur , Chester Alan 1830 -1886 (search)
Arthur, Chester Alan, 1830-1886
Twenty-first President of the United States, from Sept. 19, 1881, to March 4, 1885; Republican; born in Fairfield, Vt., Oct. 5, 1830; was graduated at Union College in 1848; studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1854; and became a successful practitioner.
He gained much celebrity in a suit which involved the freedom of some slaves, known as the Lemmon case.
He procured the admission of colored persons to the street-cars of New York City by gaining a suit against a railway company in 1856. Mr. Arthur did efficient service during the Civil War as quartermaster-general of the State of New York.
In 1872 he was appointed collector of the port of New York, and was removed in 1878.
In 1880, he was elected Vice-President, and on the death of President Garfield, Sept, 19, 1881, he became President.
He died in New York City, Nov. 18, 1886.
Veto of Chinese immigration bill.
On April 4, 1882, President Arthur sent the following veto message to the
Baker, Marcus, 1849-
Cartographer; born in Kalamazoo, Mich., Sept. 23, 1849: was graduated at the University of Michigan in 1870.
He became connected with the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1873; and with the United States Geological Survey in 1886.
He has made extended explorations in Alaska and on the Pacific coast, and was the cartographer of the Venezuelan Boundary Commission.
In 1900 he was secretary of the United States Board on Geographic Names.
He has published many geographical and mathematical monographs, and, with Prof. William H. Dall, brought out the Alaska coast pilot.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bartlett , John Russell 1805 -1886 (search)
Bartlett, John Russell, 1805-1886
Author; born in Providence, R. I., Oct. 23, 1805.
He was for six years cashier of the Globe Bank in Providence, and an active member of the Franklin Society for the Cultivation of Science.
He was also one of the projectors of the Athenaeum in Providence, and for some time corresponding secretary of the New York Historical Society. Mr. Bartlett was associated with Albert Gallatin as a projector and founder of the American Ethnological Society.
In 1850 he was appointed by President Taylor a commissioner, under the treaty of peace with Mexico in 1848, to settle the boundary-line between that country and the United States.
He was engaged in that service until Jan. 7, 1853, making extensive surveys and explorations, with elaborate scientific observations; but, owing to a failure of Congress to make the necessary appropriations, he did not complete his work.
He published a personal narrative of his experience in that region in 1854.
In May, 1855,