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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Beaver, James Addams, 1837- (search)
Beaver, James Addams, 1837- Military officer; born in Millerstown, Pa., Oct. 21, 1837; was graduated at Jefferson College in 1856; entered the army in 1831; was shot through the body at Chancellorsville, in the side at Petersburg, and lost a leg at Ream's Station; brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers; was elected governor of Pennsylvania as a Republican in 1887; and was a member of President McKinley's commission to investigate the conduct of the War Department during the American-Spanish War.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Currency, Continental (search)
different sorts, should be a legal tender for the payment of all debts. To prevent sacrifices of property in cases of inability to pay, corn, cattle, and other personal goods, or, in default of such goods, the home and lands of the debtor, when taken in execution, were to be delivered to the creditor in full satisfaction, at such value as they might be appraised at by three intelligent and indifferent men —one to be chosen by the creditor, another by the debtor, and a third by the marshal. Beaver skins were also paid and received as money, and held a place next to coin in the public estimation. At one time musket-balls, at one farthing each, were made legal tender. A more available currency was found in wampum (q. v.), the money of the Indians. In 1645 the legislature of Virginia prohibited dealing by barter, and abolished tobacco as currency. They established the Spanish dollar, or piece of eight, at six shillings, as the standard of currency for that colony. In 1655 the piec
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Pennsylvania, (search)
n, the executive has been termed governor instead of president.1788 Thomas McKean1799 Simon Snyder1808 William Findley1817 Joseph Hiester1820 J. Andrew Shulze1823 George Wolf1829 Joseph Ritner1837 David R. Porter1839 Francis R. ShunkResigned, 18481845 William F. JohnsonActing1849 William Bigler1852 James Pollock1855 William F. Packer1858 Andrew G. Curtin1861 John W. Geary1867 John F. Hartranft1873 State governors—Continued. Henry M. Hoyt1879 Robert E. Pattison1883 James A. Beaver1887 Robert E. Pattison1891-1895 Daniel H. Hastings1895-1899 William A. Stone1899-1903 United States Senators. Name.No. of Congress.Term. William Maclay1st to 2d1789 to 1791 Robert Morris1st to 4th1789 to 1795 Albert Gallatin3d1793 to —— James Ross3d to 8th1794 to 1803 William Bingham4th to 7th1795 to 1799 John Peter G. Muhlenberg7th1801 to 1802 George Logan7th to 9th1801 to 1805 Samuel Maclay8th to 10th1803 to 1808 Andrew Gregg10th to 13th1807 to 1813 Michael Leib10th <