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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Oklahoma, (search)
ny of 600 men, women, and children, and founds the town of Rock Falls......May, 1884 Under proclamation by President Arthur, July 1, the settlement at Rock Falls is broken up by United States troops......August, 1884 Many armed men under W. L. Couch encamp at Stillwater on the Cimmaron River and defy the military......December, 1884 Couch and his forces surrender to the United States troops, and are marched across the Kansas line and arrested under federal warrants......Jan. 27, 1885 Couch and his forces surrender to the United States troops, and are marched across the Kansas line and arrested under federal warrants......Jan. 27, 1885 Inhabitants of No Man's Land organize the Territory of Cimmaron, not recognized by Congress......1886 Delegates of Creek nation meet in Washington Jan. 19, and cede the western half of their domain for $2,280,857.10; ratified by the Creek council Jan. 31, by Congress......March 1, 1889 Seminoles execute a release and conveyance of their lands ceded by treaty in 1866......March 16, 1889 Oklahoma opened for settlement by proclamation of President Harrison, March 27, to take effect at
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Walker, Francis Amasa 1840-1897 (search)
Walker, Francis Amasa 1840-1897 Military officer; born in Boston, Mass., July 2, 1840; graduated at Amherst College in 1860, and began the study of law, but engaged in the military service in the spring of 1861, in the 15th Massachusetts Volunteers. In September he was assistant adjutant-general of Couch's brigade and adjutant-general of his division in August, 1862. In December he became colonel on the staff of the 2d Army Corps, serving in the Army of the Potomac. He was wounded at Chancellorsville; was made prisoner at Ream's Station, Va., and confined in Libby prison; and when exchanged in 1865 was compelled to resign on account of shattered health. He was in charge of the bureau of statistics in Washington, D. C.; superintendent of the census of 1870 and 1880; chief of the bureau of awards at the Centennial Exposition; Professor of Political Economy and History in the Sheffield Scientific School in 1873-81; and then became president of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech