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Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography 13 1 Browse Search
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Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography, Chapter 10: (search)
ip, they eventually retired under the whips of outrageous criticism. Mr. Columbus Delano, of Ohio, was made Secretary of the Interior. Mr. and Mrs. Delano were wMr. and Mrs. Delano were wholesome, ingenuous people. They appreciated the honor which had been conferred upon Mr. Delano by his appointment as a member of President Grant's cabinet. It is Mrs. Delano were wholesome, ingenuous people. They appreciated the honor which had been conferred upon Mr. Delano by his appointment as a member of President Grant's cabinet. It is possible that Mr. Delano was too honest a man to contend with the insidious cormorants who have ever besieged the Interior Department and, like many of his predecessMr. Delano by his appointment as a member of President Grant's cabinet. It is possible that Mr. Delano was too honest a man to contend with the insidious cormorants who have ever besieged the Interior Department and, like many of his predecessors and successors, was unable to escape the entanglements of scandals that have ever pursued the Secretary of the Interior. Mrs. Delano was a motherly, unassuming, lMr. Delano was too honest a man to contend with the insidious cormorants who have ever besieged the Interior Department and, like many of his predecessors and successors, was unable to escape the entanglements of scandals that have ever pursued the Secretary of the Interior. Mrs. Delano was a motherly, unassuming, loyal wife and mother, who made no attempt to introduce changes in the mode of etiquette in Washington. She tried to conform to all the rules laid down for the memberMrs. Delano was a motherly, unassuming, loyal wife and mother, who made no attempt to introduce changes in the mode of etiquette in Washington. She tried to conform to all the rules laid down for the members of the cabinet and their families. She gave all the entertainments, discharged all the duties supposed to be obligatory upon the ladies of cabinet officers' house
Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography, Chapter 12: (search)
rs were Mary Clemmer Ames, Mrs. Lippincott, Mrs. H. M. Barnum, Mrs. Olivia Briggs, Mrs. Coggswell, Mrs. and Miss Snead, and Miss Mary E. Healey. General Grant soon nominated his cabinet, retaining those who had served during his first term, with the exception of the Secretary of the Treasury. The members of the cabinet were: Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State; William A. Richardson, Secretary of the Treasury; W. W. Belknap, Secretary of War; George M. Robeson, Secretary of the Navy; Columbus Delano, Secretary of the Interior; John A. Creswell, Postmaster-General; George H. Williams, Attorney-General. Congress resumed its treadmill routine, with now and again outbursts of criticism and vituperation heaped upon President Grant. On March 9 our friend Doctor John P. Taggart, of Salt Lake City, telegraphed General Logan that my father had passed away from a return of the meningitis from which he had suffered the summer previous. There were three of my mother's children with my fat
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cabinet, President's (search)
1 William E. Chandler April 1, 1882 William C. Whitney March 6, 1885 Benjamin F. TracyMarch 5, 1889 Hilary A. Herbert arch 6, 1893 John D. Long March 5, 1897 March 5, 1901 Secretaries of the Interior. Thomas Ewing March 8, 1849 Alexander H. H. Stewart Sept.12, 1850 Robert McClelland March 7, 1853 Jacob Thompson March 6, 1857 Caleb B. Smith March 5, 1861 John P. Usher Jan. 8, 1863 James Harlan May 15, 1865 Orville H. Browning July 27, 1866 Jacob D. Cox March 5, 1869 Columbus Delano Nov. 1, 1870 Zachariah Chandler Oct. 19, 1875 Carl Schurz March12, 1877 Samuel J. KirkwoodMarch 5, 1881 Henry M. Teller April 6, 1882 L. Q. C. Lamar March 6, 1885 William F. Vilas Jan. 16, 1888 John W. Noble March 5, 1889 Hoke SmithMarch 6, 1893 David R. Francis Aug.24, 1896 Cornelius N. Bliss March 5, 1897 Ethan A. Hitchcock Dec. 21, 1898 March 5, 1901 Postmasters-General. Samuel OsgoodSept.26, 1789 Timothy PickeringAug. 12, 1791 Joseph Habersham Feb.25, 1795 Gid
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Delano, Columbus, 1809-1896 (search)
Delano, Columbus, 1809-1896 Statesman; born in Shoreham, Vt., June 5, 1809; settled in Mount Vernon, O., in 1817; admitted to the bar in 1831, and became prominent as a criminal lawyer. He was a member of Congress in 1844-64 and 1866-68; was appointed United States commissioner of internal revenue in 1869, and later by reorganizing the bureau increased the receipts in eight months more than 100 per cent.; and was Secretary of the Department of the Interior in 1870-75. He died in Mount Vernon, O., Oct. 23, 1896.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
Andrew Johnson, born 1808, dies near Jonesboro, Tenn......July 31, 1875 Hon. Horace Binney, born 1780, graduate of Harvard, 1797, and oldest member of Philadelphia bar, dies at Philadelphia......Aug. 12, 1875 Commodore Perry's flag-ship, the Lawrence, sunk for preservation in Misery Bay, Lake Erie, in July, 1815, is raised for transportation to the Centennial Exposition......Sept. 14, 1875 Democratic conventions of New York declare for specie resumption......Sept. 16, 1875 Columbus Delano, Secretary of the Interior, resigns July 5; resignation accepted......Sept. 22, 1875 President Grant speaks against sectarian schools in Des Moines, Ia.......Sept. 29, 1875 Steamship Pacific founders between San Francisco and Portland; 200 lives lost......Nov. 4, 1875 Henry Wilson, Vice-President, born 1812, dies at Washington, D. C.......Nov. 22, 1875 Thomas W. Ferry, of Michigan, president pro tem. of the Senate, becomes acting Vice-President......Nov. 22, 1875 William
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 34: America at school. (search)
aker in the United States. Republics can only stand on the education and enlightenment of the people, says President Grant. The stability and welfare of our institutions must necessarily depend for their perpetuity on education, says Columbus Delano, Secretary of the Interior. The existence of a republic, unless all its citizens are educated, is an admitted impossibility, says General Eaton, Commissioner of Education. Congress passed a bill, establishing a Bureau of Education at ersities, as in Iowa and Michigan. In all these sections, there is close and constant effort on the part of some, weakened by indifference on the part of many, to give the people that aliment, without which, according to President Grant and Secretary Delano, the republic cannot live. Yet, after all, the main interest in this intellectual struggle lies in the South, so long neglected by the ruling race; and in the Southern States, the chief scene of conflict is Virginia. The new race of Vi
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 61: Court of inquiry; president of Howard University (search)
ight departments. The Young Men's Christian Association of Washington, very active under the efficient secretaryship of Mr. George A. Hall, had for some years kept me as its president, and our Congregational Church under its new and able pastor, Rev. J. E. Rankin, D. D., still claimed some of my time. Indeed, there was as yet no leisure; and all friends believed that I was laden about as heavily as one man ought to be, when one day I received a note from the Secretary of the.Interior, Columbus Delano, inviting me to call at his office. Not a little curious at such an unusual invitation, I went at once. He asked me as soon as we were face to face if I were willing to go to Arizona and New Mexico as a Peace commissioner. General Grant's administration, he said, in pursuance of his peace policy with the Indians had succeeded in making peace with every tribe that was on the war path except one; that one was the Apache tribe of the notorious chieftain Cochise. Finding that my sele
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 62: life in Washington, D. C., 1866 to 1874; assigned to duty in regular army as commander, Department of the Columbia (search)
of twelve years a rough man had come to his mother's home and insulted her in his presence. The boy had a large-sized jackknife in his hand and struck the man with it in the breast, inflicting a fatal wound. The boy was arrested, tried, and sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary and had been kept in for his full term. While there, though associated with criminals, he was thoroughly trained in all that would be necessary to fit him for a clerkship. I carried the case up to the Hon. Columbus Delano, the Secretary of the Interior. I left Cudlipp in the hall near the secretary's door. The secretary was very pleasant and expressed his sorrow, but he said: General Howard, it will not do to have a penitentiary man in Government employ. Such was his decision. With a sad heart I stepped out and told the young man that the secretary did not dare to put him on the rolls again. The effect upon Cudlipp was startling. Pale as death, he leaned against the wall and murmured: It is
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Index (search)
avis, B. F., I, 277. Davis, Henry Winter, II, 321. Davis, James, II, 381. Davis, Jeff. C., I, 476, 497, 520, 28, 542, 557-560, 581, 584, 585; II, 29, 39, 43, 51, 52, 57, 146, 290, 345, 463. Davis, Jefferson, I, 99, 203, 488; II, 48, 93. Davis, Joseph R., I, 408, 415. Day, H. Howard, II, 327. Dayton, L. M., II, 62. Deady, M. P., II, 473. Dean, Stephen H., I, 23. DeGress, Francis, II, 13, 82, 90 119. Dehon, Arthur, I, 335. Delafield, Richard, I, 100. Delano, Columbus, II, 445, 466. Dennison, William, II, 227. Denver, J. W., I, 175. Dessaur, F., I, 377. Devens, Charles, I, 233, 328, 349, 364, 366, 368, 370, 371, 375, 376. Devereux, J. H., I, 450, 452. Devin, Thomas C., I, 406, 408. Diaz, Porfirio, II, 557. Dickinson, Joseph, I, 373. Dilger, Hubert, I, 364, 372, 413. Dodge, O. M., I, 557-559, 597, 598, 602, 611; II, 4-6, 8, 13, 15, 17-19, 21, 23-26, 32, 567. Dodge, Theodore A., I, 377. Dole, George, I, 371. Doub