hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 4 4 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing). You can also browse the collection for August 26th, 1891 AD or search for August 26th, 1891 AD in all documents.

Your search returned 4 results in 4 document sections:

Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891 (search)
Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891 Historian; born in Evans, N. Y., Sept. 4, 1815. In 1833 he gathered information regarding the Creek chief Weatherford, and from that time onward he was an indefatigable student, devoting his life to the collection of materials bearing upon the history of the Western States and biographies of the leading men of the country. In 1853 he was appointed secretary of the Wisconsin State Historical Society and was connected with the library of the society, with a few short intervals, till his death. He published the Collections of the State Historical Society (10 volumes) ; The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, etc. He died in Madison, Wis., Aug. 26, 1891.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Liliuokalani, Lydia Kamekeha 1838- (search)
Liliuokalani, Lydia Kamekeha 1838- ExQueen of the Hawaiian Islands; born in Honolulu, Dec. 2, 1838; married John O. Dominis, a native of the United States (died Aug. 26, 1891); became vice-regent when King Kalakaua left Hawaii on his trip to the United States; and after his death in San Francisco she was proclaimed Queen, Jan. 29, 1891. On Jan. 30, 1892, she was dethroned because of her efforts to restore absolute monarchy and abolish the constitution of 1887. Although President Cleveland favored her restoration to the throne, all her endeavors in that direction were futile, and a provisional government was set up. A little later she came to the United States, and remained here till August, 1898, when she returned to Hawaii. The islands had then been annexed to the United States. In March, 1900, an attempt was made in the United States Senate to grant her a lump sum of $20,000 and an annual pension Lydia Kamekeha Liliokalani. of $10,000 for the rest of her life as a compens
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
.....Aug. 13, 1891 Sarah Childress Polk, widow of exPresident James K. Polk, born 1803, dies at Nashville, Tenn.......Aug. 14, 1891 Battle monument, 308 feet high, in Bennington, Vt., dedicated; address by President Harrison......Aug. 19, 1891 Over sixty persons killed by a falling building in Park Place, New York City......Aug. 22, 1891 R. G. Dyrenforth and staff experiment in artificial rain production by dynamite bombs exploded in the air, etc., near Midland, Tex......Aug. 18-26, 1891 First reunion of survivors of the Black Hawk War of 1832 held at Lena, Ill.; seventeen veterans over seventy years old present......Aug. 28, 1891 Germany removes restrictions on imports of American pork......Sept. 3, 1891 New Chilean government, with Jorge Montt as president, officially recognized by the Department of State at Washington, D. C.......Sept. 7, 1891 Denmark revokes prohibition of import of American pork......Sept. 8, 1891 Forest reservation in Wyoming, adjoining
retary of the National World's Columbian commission......June 27, 1890 Congress appropriates $500,000 to improve Galveston Harbor, and authorizes the Secretary of War to contract for the completion of the work; estimated to cost $6,200,000......September, 1890 United States Senator John H. Reagan resigns, to take effect June 10......April 24, 1891 Five constitutional amendments ratified at special election......Aug. 11, 1891 Experiments in rain-making by explosives......Aug. 18-26, 1891 Horace Chilton appointed, qualifies as United States Senator......Dec. 7, 1891 A small force of United States cavalry and infantry attack and break up the camp of Catarino Garza, Mexican revolutionist, at Retampal Springs......Dec. 22, 1891 Roger Q. Mills chosen United States Senator by the legislature, March 22, qualifies......March 30, 1892 A band of revolutionists under Garza cross the border, burn a Mexican barrack, and return to Texas......Dec. 12, 1892 Town of Cisco des