Named Entity Browser, 1896 AD

Home Collections/Texts Perseus Catalog Research Grants Open Source About Help

Search for dates:

From:		,
	Month	Day	Year
To:		,

Enter a month, day and/or year to search for references to that date. You do not need to fill out every field: searching only for "1863" will find all references to the year 1863, while searching for "July 4" will find all references to the 4th of July, regardless of year.

Enter a starting date and an ending date to find all occurrences of dates in between.

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

Document	Max. Freq	Min. Freq
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 1896 AD or search for 1896 AD in all documents.

Your search returned 198 results in 161 document sections:

Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Woodford, Stewart Lyndon 1835- (search)

Woodford, Stewart Lyndon 1835- Diplomatist; born in New York City, Sept. 3, 1835; graduated at Columbia College in 1854; studied law and began practice in New York in 1857; was assistant United States district attorney for the southern Stewart Lyndon Woodford. district of New York in 1861-62; served in the National army in 1862-65, and received the brevet of brigadier-general of volunteers; was lieutenant-governor of New York in 1865-68; Presidential elector and chairman of the electoral college in 1872; member of Congress in 1873-75; and United States attorney for the southern district of New York in 1877-83. He was a member of the commission that drafted the charter for the Greater New York in 1896. In 1897 he was appointed minister to Spain, and served in that office till April, 1898, when war was declared by the United States and he returned home.

Search for a person:
In:	Forenames Surnames Full name

Named Entity Results, 1896 AD