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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Blaine , James Gillespie , 1830 -1893 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Conkling , Roscoe 1829 -1888 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fasts, days of (search)
Fasts, days of
Observed by many nations from remote antiquity: by the Jews (2 Chron.
XX. 3); by the Ninevites (Jonah III.). Days of humiliation, fasting, and prayer appointed by the presidents of the United States: Wednesday, May 9, 1798, by President John Adams; Thursday, Jan. 12, 1815, by President Madison; last Thursday of September, 1861, by President Lincoln; Thursday, April 30, 1863, by President Lincoln; first Thursday in August, 1864, by President Lincoln; Thursday, June 1, 1865, by President Johnson; Monday, Sept. 26, 1881, by President Arthur.
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), Gresham , Walter Quinton (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Howe , Timothy Otis 1816 -1883 (search)
Howe, Timothy Otis 1816-1883
Legislator; born in Liverpool, Me., Feb. 24, 1816; admitted to the bar in 1839, and began practice in Readfield; was elected to the legislature in 1840.
Subsequently he removed to Wisconsin.
He was circuit judge in 1850-56; then resumed practice.
He was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican in 1861, and served till 1879; was a delegate to the International Monetary Conference in Paris in 1881; and was appointed Postmaster-General by President Arthur in December of the latter year.
He died in Kenosha, Wis., March 25, 1883.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Johnson , Eastman 1824 - (search)
Johnson, Eastman 1824-
Artist; born in Lovell, Me., July 29, 1824; was educated in the public schools of Augusta, Me.; studied in the Royal Academy of Dusseldorf for two years, and was elected an academician of the National Academy of Design in 1860.
He has painted many notable pictures, including The Kentucky home; Husking bee; The stage coach; Pension agent; Prisoner of State, etc. His portraits include Two men, ex-Presidents Arthur, Cleveland, and Harrison, Commodore Vanderbilt, W. H. Vanderbilt, Daniel Webster, John Quincy Adams, John D. Rockefeller, Mrs. Dolly Madison, Mrs. August Belmont, Mrs. Hamilton Fish, and many others.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lee , William 1737 -1795 (search)
Lee, William 1737-1795
Diplomatist; born in Stratford, Va., in 1737: brother of Richard Henry and Arthur; was agent for Virginia in London, and became a merchant there.
The city of London being overwhelmingly Whig in politics, William Lee was elected sheriff of that city and Middlesex county in 1773.
In 1775 he was chosen alderman, but on the breaking out of the war in America retired to France.
Congress appointed him commercial agent at Nantes at the beginning of 1777, and he was afterwards American minister at The Hague. Mr. Lee was also agent in Berlin and Vienna, but was recalled in 1779.
In 1778 Jan de Neufville, an Amsterdam merchant, procured a loan to the Americans from Holland, through his house, and, to negotiate for it, gained permission of the burgomasters of Amsterdam to meet Lee at Aix-la-Chapelle.
There they arranged terms for a commercial convention proper to be entered into between the two republics.
When Lee communicated this project to the American commis