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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jackson, Helen Maria Fiske 1831-1885 (search)
Jackson, Helen Maria Fiske 1831-1885 Author; born in Amherst, Mass., Oct. 18, 1831; daughter of Prof. Nathan W. Fiske; was educated in the Ipswich Female Seminary; married Capt. Edward B. Hunt in 1852. She first became known as an author under the letters H. H. in 1875, when she married William S. Jackson. In 1879 she became deeply interested in the condition of the American Indians and their treatment by the United States government. In 1883, while a special commissioner to inquire into the circumstances of the Mission Indians of California, she studied the history of the early Spanish missions, and a short time prior to her death she wrote the President a letter pathetically asking for the righting of the wrongs of the Indian race. Her works include Verses; Bits of travel; Nelly's silver-mine; The story of Boone; A century of dishonor; Mammy Littleback and her family; Ramona; Glimpses of three coasts; Hetty's strange history, and others. She died in San Francisco, Cal., A
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, A Glossary of Important Contributors to American Literature (search)
5); Astoria (1836); Adventures of Captain Booneville (1837); his complete works (1848-50); Mahomet and his successors (1849-50); Oliver Goldsmith, a biography (1849); WVolfert's Roost, and other papers (1855); Life of George Washington (1855-59). Died at Sunnyside, Irvington, N. Y., Nov. 28, 1859. Jackson, Helen Fiske (Hunt) Born in Amherst, Mass., Oct. 18, 1831. She was the daughter of Prof. Nathan W. Fiske, and married in October, 1852, Capt. Edward B. Hunt, and October, 1875, William S. Jackson. Contributed poems and prose articles to the N. Y. Nation, independent, and Atlantic monthly. She was greatly interested in the Indians, and her works dealing with that subject are A century of Dishonor (1881), and Ramona (1884); other works are Verses by H. H. （1870); Bits of travel (1872); Bits of talk about home matters (1873); Sonnets and Lyrics (1886). Died in San Francisco, Aug. 12, 1885. Knight, Sarah Born in Boston, Mass., April 19, 1666. She was the daughter of Capt
The Daily Dispatch: April 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
taken up and rejected. Mr. Brannon moved that when the Senate adjourn, it adjourn to meet at 7 o'clock to night Agreed to. On motion of Mr. Wickham, the Senate adjourned. Night session. The Senate was called to order at 7 ½ o'clock, Lt. Gov. Montague in the chair. Rills Passed.--House bill amending the act concerning the Berryville and Charlestown Turnpike Company, House bill to amend the road laws of Brooke and Hancock counties; House bill authorizing payment to Wm. S. Jackson certain coupons; House bill to refund to Wm. H. Morton a sum of money; House bill for payment of a sum of money to J. W. Jones, Jailor of Frederick county; House bill to provide for the payment to the Richmond branch of the Exchange Bank for interest on lost coupons. The joint resolution for the suspension of a judgment against William Striation and Henry Farley, of Logan county, was taken up and lost for want of a constitutional majority. A message was received from the House,