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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
...May 10, 1894 General assembly of the Presbyterian Church convicts Prof. Henry P. Smith of heresy by a vote of 396 to 101......May 26, 1894 Kelly's industrial army, 1,100 strong, reaches St. Louis May 28; divides, and proceeds down the Mississippi and up the Ohio towards Washington......May 31, 1894 Frye's California army arrives in detachments at Washington early part of......June, 1894 Rhode Island legislature elects ex-Gov. George P. Wetmore as successor to United States Senator Dixon......June 12, 1894 American Railway Union boycott of the Pullman Palace Car Company grows into a general Western railroad strike......June 27, 1894 Bill making the first Monday in September a legal holiday, Labor day, in the United States, approved......June 28, 1894 Rear-Adm. William Grenville Temple, U. S. N., dies at Washington, aged seventy......June 28, 1894 Kelly's army reaches the vicinity of Washington about......July 1, 1894 United States Judges Groscup and Woods
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Idaho (search)
eneral Gaines, having burned the old Sac village on the Mississippi deserted by Black Hawk and his warriors, encamp at Rock Island, where Black Hawk, summoned to a council, signs an agreement not to recross the Mississippi to the Illinois side without permission from the governor or the President of the United States......June 30, 1831 Black Hawk, with 150 warriors, unsuccessfully attacks Apple River Fort, 12 miles from Galena......June 6, 1832 Battle of Kellog's Grove, 50 miles from Dixon; Colonel Demont attacked by Indians under Black Hawk......June 26, 1832 Chicago incorporated as a town......August, 1833 New State bank with six branches incorporated......1834 Abraham Lincoln elected to the State legislature......1834 [Also 1836, 1838, 1840.] First number of the Alton observer, an anti-slavery newspaper, published by Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy......Sept. 8, 1836 Abraham Lincoln admitted to practise law......1836 Act to establish and maintain a general syste
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maryland, (search)
ince at their expulsion, arrive......1755 Act to raise £ 40,000 for erecting Fort Frederick and other forts and blockhouses on the frontier, and for a joint expedition against Fort Duquesne......March 22, 1756 Governor Sharpe appoints a day of thanksgiving for the capture of Fort Duquesne, and the Assembly grants £ 1,500 to the Maryland troops who took part in the expedition......November, 1758 Frederick, Lord Baltimore, agrees to the appointment of the commission, Messrs. Mason and Dixon, who surveyed the line known by their name, and set up milestones: agreement made......July 4, 1760 Zachariah Hood, a merchant of Annapolis, is appointed stamp distributer under the Stamp Act; arriving with his stamps, he is obliged to land clandestinely; his effigy is whipped, hanged, and burned, and he seeks refuge in New York. The Assembly, prorogued from 1763, meets and protests against the Stamp Act, and appoints Col. Edward Tilghman, William Murdock, and Thomas Ringgold delegates t
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 15. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Terry's Brigade, formerly John M. Jones's. (search)
3d Sergeant J. N. Phillips, Private R. Byas, S. N. Carson, Private J. W. Moore, T. J. Pritchett, W. C. Gilmore, R. P. Lindsay. Co. K. Sergeant E. I. Frasier, Corporal A. H. Scarboro, Private M. F. Colvin, J. K. Kennedy, G. W. Sanders, Private J. J. Raines, A. J. Welder, W. D. Wheeler, A. J. Wright, W. G. Loman. [206] Forty-ninth Georgia Regiment. Mus'n J. H. Latimer, D. C. Graham, Mus'n J. D. Bradshaw, W. H. Ashley. Co. A. 1st Sergeant J. B. Ussery, Private A. Dixon, J. J. Dixon, T. McAdams, H. J. Herney, R. L. Lavender, G. M. McCullers, Private J. T. Meredith, W. Nesmith, J. N. Sheppard, J. Wright, G. W. Wright, J. H. Ganey, J. Clemmons. Co. B. Sergeant Jno. Yancey, Corporal D. B. Graham, J. W. Studstell, Private A. Smith, J. Saterday, D. Ray, Private W. Anderson, R. F. Anderson, G. Bowen, James Garrison, M. Robinson, A. M. Land, J. Reeves, Private J. P. Williams, S. White, J. Walker, J. Yancey, J. W. Yawn, J.