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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), South Dakota, State of (search)
ntion to meet at Sioux Falls, July 4, 1889......Feb. 22, 1889 Election held by proclamation of territorial governor, A. C. Mellette, April 15, 1889, for delegates to a constitutional convention to meet July 4, and the Sioux Falls constitution of 1885 favored by 37,710 votes to 3,414......May 14, 1889 Sioux Falls constitution amended and adopted by a convention at Sioux Falls, July 4, which adjourns......Aug. 5, 1889 Charles A. Foster, of Ohio, William Warner, of Missouri, and Gen. George A. Cook, a committee appointed by the President, arrive at the Sioux reservation early in June, and secure the consent of threefourths of the Indians to open for settlement 26,751,105 acres of their land in the northwestern part of South Dakota......August, 1889 Arthur C. Mellette, Republican, elected governor of South Dakota, the Sioux Falls constitution adopted by 70,131 to 3,267; the article prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors adopted by 40,234 to 34,510, and Pi
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vancouver, George 1758- (search)
Vancouver, George 1758- Navigator; born in England about 1758; accompanied Captain Cook in his last two voyages. In 1790 he was made master in the royal navy, and was sent out in command of the Discovery to ascertain whether in North America, between lat. 30° and 60° N., there was any interior sea or water communication between the known gulfs of the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. He sailed from England in April, 1791, and in the spring of 1792 crossed from the Sandwich Islands to the American coast, when Nootka was surrendered by the Spaniards, in accordance with previous arrangements. He did not find the soughtfor waters, and returned to London, late in 1795, with shattered health. His name was given to a large island on the western coast of North America. He devoted himself to the arrangement of his manuscripts for publication, and the narrative of his voyages, published in 3 volumes after his death, was edited by his brother. He died near London, May 10, 179