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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Missouri, (search)
ng Price (Dem.)term beginsDec., 1852 Trusten Polk (Dem.)term beginsDec., 1856 Hancock JacksonactingMarch, 1857 Robert M. Stewart (Dem.)term beginsDec., 1857 Claiborne F. Jackson (Dem.)term beginsJan. 4, 1861 H. R. Gamble (provisional)electedJuly 31, 1861 Willard P. HallactingJan. 31, 1864 Thomas C. Fletcher (Rep.)term beginsJan. 31, 1865 Joseph W. McClurg (Rep.)term beginsJan. 31, 1869 R. Gratz Brown (Lib.)term beginsJan. 31, 1871 Silas Woodson (Dem.)term beginsJan. 31, 1873 Charles H. Hardin (Dem.)term beginsJan. 31, 1875 John S. Phelps (Dem.)term beginsJan. 31, 1877 Thos. T. Crittenden (Dem.)term beginsJan. 31, 1881 John S. Marmaduke (Dem.)term beginsJan. 31, 1885 Albert G. MorehouseactingDec. 28, 1887 David R. Francis (Dem.)term beginsJan., 1889 William J. Stone (Dem.)term beginsJan., 1893 Lou V. Stephensterm beginsJan., 1897 A. M. Dockeryterm beginsJan., 1901 United States Senators. Name.No. of Congress.Term. David Barton17th to 21st1821 to 1831 Thomas H.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
e Island ratifies the Constitution......May 29, 1790 [The last of the thirteen colonies.] An act passed by 32 to 29—House—authorizing the acquisition of the District of Columbia for the seat of government......July 10, 1790 First national census begun; population enumerated as of......Aug. 1, 1790 Treaty with the Creek Indians......Aug. 7, 1790 Tariff bill amended by increasing duties......Aug. 10, 1790 Second session adjourns......Aug. 12, 1790 General Harmar's and Colonel Hardin's expedition against the Indians defeated in northwestern Ohio......Oct. 17-20, 1790 Third session, Philadelphia, opens......Dec. 6, 1790 Vermont, the fourteenth State, admitted......Jan. 18, 1791 Act incorporating Bank of the United States......Feb. 8, 1791 [Bank to be at Philadelphia; might establish branches; chartered for twenty years; capital, $10,000,000.] An act taxing imported spirits, with new duty on domestic spirits......1791 First Congress adjourns......Marc
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
h Spain, implicating Wilkinson, Brown, Innes. etc.......July 4, 1806 Aaron Burr appears in court at Frankfort under process served by Col. Joseph Hamilton Daviess, United States attorney, to answer high misdemeanor in organizing within the United States a military expedition against Mexico. Burr is acquitted......Dec. 2, 1806 [A few days later his acquittal was celebrated by a ball at Frankfort.] Jefferson Davis born in Christian county......June 3, 1808 Abraham Lincoln born in Hardin (now Larue) county......Feb. 12, 1809 Dr. Ephraim McDowell, the father of ovariotomy, successfully performs the first in the world, at Danville......1809 Mammoth Cave discovered......1809 Lottery authorized to raise $10,000 for the improvement of the navigation of the Kentucky River......Jan. 10, 1811 Henry Clay, speaker of the House of Representatives......Nov. 4, 1811 Colonel Owen and Joseph H. Daviess, of Kentucky, killed in action at the battle of Tippecanoe......Nov. 7. 1
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nevada, (search)
way to California......1844 Gen. J. C. Fremont's expedition crosses Nevada from near Pilot Knob into California......1845 Nevada included in the territory ceded to the United States by the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo......Feb. 2, 1848 H. S. Beatie takes possession of the present site of Genoa, erects a log-house, and opens a supply depot for emigrants......1849 Gold discovered in small quantities in Gold Cañon, near Dayton, by Abner Blackburn......July, 1849 An immigrant named Hardin discovers silver in the Black Rock range, 1 1/2 miles from the place settled in 1866 as Hardinville......1849 Nevada included in the Territory of Utah by act......Sept. 9, 1850 Trading-post erected on land where Carson City now stands......1851 E. Allen and Hosea B. Grosch discover silver ore in Gold Cañon......1853 Carson City laid out in Eagle Valley by Abraham V. Z. Curry, who built a stone house there......1858 Chinese first introduced into Nevada to work on a mining-ditch
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wallace, William Harvey Lamb 1821-1862 (search)
Wallace, William Harvey Lamb 1821-1862 Military officer; born in Urbana, O., July 8, 1821; served in the war with Mexico, in Hardin's regiment; and was State's attorney for the ninth circuit of Illinois, in 1853. In May, 1861, he became colonel of the 11th Illinois Volunteers. He commanded a brigade in McClernand's division at the capture of Fort Donelson, and was made brigadier-general of volunteers. On the first day of the battle of Shiloh (q. v.) he was mortally wounded, and died in Savannah, Tenn., April 10, 1862.