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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Alger, William Rounseville, 1822- (search)
Alger, William Rounseville, 1822- Clergyman and author; born in Freetown, Mass., Dec. 30, 1822; graduated at Harvard Theological School in 1847; held charges in Boston, New York, Denver, Chicago, and Portland, Me., subsequently making his home in Boston. His publications include: Symbolic history of the cross; History of the doctrine of a future life; The genius of solitude; The friendships of women; Poetry of the Orient; Life of Edwin Forrest; Sounds of consolation in human life, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hart, Albert Bushnell 1854- (search)
ng architects all over the world to compete on its buildings; a splendid city, a beehive of busy men and women, luxurious and magnificent, with imposing public buildings and boulevards and miles of comfortable homes. Up to this time it must be owned that the Mississippi Valley has run rather to great cities than to notable communities. New Orleans is the one ancient city in the whole region. St. Louis and Kansas City, Omaha, St. Paul, and Minneapolis, Memphis, Cincinnati, Pittsburg, and Denver, are most of them still in the rough, everywhere edges showing, vacant lots gaping, unsightly earth banks furnishing ugliness to the eye and dust to the nostrils. And through most parts of the West the villages and country towns are much inferior to those of New England, New York, or northern Ohio in trimness and tidiness. Fifty years hence these cities will be more closed up, more trim and turfedged, and some of them, notably Minneapolis, have already entered upon the construction of a wi
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
State for enterprising settlers, and promises to be one of the finest portions of the Union. In 1900 the aggregate assessed valuation of taxable property was $328,936,054; the State tax rate was $5.50 per $1,000; and the bonded debt (Sept. 1) was $583,000, all held in State funds. See United States, Kansas, vol. IX. Territorial governors. Name.Term. Andrew H. Reeder. Pa1854 to 1855 Wilson Shannon, O.1855 to 1856 John W. Geary, Pa1856 to 1857 Robert J. Walker, Miss1857 to 1858 J. W. Denver1858 Samuel Medary1858 to 1861 George M. Bebee1861 State governors. Name.Term. Charles Robinson1861 to 1862 Thomas Carney1862 to 1864 S. J. Crawford1864 to 1868 James M. Harvey1868 to 1872 Thomas A. Osborn1873 to 1875 George T. Anthony1876 to 1878 John P. St. John1879 to 1883 George W. Glick1883 to 1885 John A. Martin1885 to 1887 Lyman U. Humphreys1887 to 1893 L. D. Lewelling1893 to 1895 E. N. Morrill1895 to 1897 John W. Leedy1897 to 1899 William E. Stanley1899 to —
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Colorado, (search)
proclamations of President Harrison, Feb. 11, and supplementary......March 18, 1892 Conclave of the grand encampment of the Knights Templar of the United States formally opens at Denver......Aug. 9, 1892 Death, at Wilmington, O., of Gen. James W. Denver, in whose honor Denver was named......Aug. 9, 1892 Panic of ‘93 and closing of silver-mines......June, 1893 Bull Hill war inaugurated at Cripple Creek......March, 1894 Militia ordered out and United States government called to asDenver was named......Aug. 9, 1892 Panic of ‘93 and closing of silver-mines......June, 1893 Bull Hill war inaugurated at Cripple Creek......March, 1894 Militia ordered out and United States government called to assist in settling city hall troubles......June, 1894 Adjutant-General Tarsney assaulted and maltreated at Colorado Springs......June 23, 1894 Great fire destroying Cripple Creek......April, 1896 Strike of Leadville miners inaugurated......June 19, 1896 Strike of coal-miners at Walsenburg, resulting in international complications......December, 1896 Leadville strike settled and militia returned......Feb. 22, 1897 Governor Adams furnishes United States government with regiment of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
slavery; adjourns......Nov. 3, 1857 Free-State convention at Lawrence repudiates the Lecompton constitution, and asks for a vote of the people to decide between it and the Topeka constitution......Dec. 2, 1857 President Buchanan, by message, urges admission of Kansas under Lecompton constitution......Dec. 7, 1857 Special session of territorial legislature passes act to submit Lecompton constitution to a full and fair vote of the whole people on Jan. 4, 1858......Dec. 17, 1857 J. W. Denver succeeds Secretary Stanton, removed, as acting governor......Dec. 21, 1857 Election on the Lecompton constitution with or without slavery; free-State men do not vote; total vote, 6,795......Dec. 21, 1857 Free-State convention at Lawrence on Dec. 23, and a Democratic convention at Leavenworth, both in opposition to the Lecompton constitution......Dec. 24, 1857 Election of officers under the Lecompton constitution; vote for governor, 4,097......Jan. 4, 1858 Result of a people's