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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Georgia, (search)
t1877-82 Alexander H. Stephens1882-83 Henry D. McDaniel1883-86 John B. Gordon1886-90 William J. Northen1890-94 William Y. Atkinson1895-98 Allen D. Candler1898– United States Senators. NameNo. of CongressDate. William Few1st and 2d1789 to 1793 James Gunn1st to 7th1789 to 1801 James Jackson3d1794 to 1795 George Watson4th1795 Josiah Tattnall4th to 5th1796 to 1799 Abraham Baldwin6th to 9th1799 to 1807 James Jackson7th to 8th1801 to 1806 John Milledge9th to 12th1806 to 1809 George Jones10th1807 William H. Crawford10th to 12th1807 to 1813 United States Senators (continued). NameNo. of Congress.Date. Charles Tait11th1809 William B. Bullock13th1813 Williams Wyatt Bibb13th to 14th1813 to 1816 George M. Troup14th to 15th1816 to 1819 John Forsyth15th1819 John Elliott16th to 18th1819 to 1824 Freeman Walker16th1819 to 1821 Nicholas Ware17th to 18th1821 to 1824 Thomas W. Cobb18th to 20th1824 to 1828 John McPherson Berrien19th to 20th1825 to 1829 Oliver H. Prince
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Grady, Henry Woodfen 1851-1892 (search)
inst the old, but because of new conditions, new adjustments, and, if you please, new ideas and aspirations. It is to this that I address myself, and to the consideration of which I hasten, lest it become the Old South before I get to it. Age does not endow all things with strength and virtue, nor are all new things to be despised. The shoemaker who put over his door, John Smith's shop, founded in 1760, was more than matched by his young rival across the street, who hung out his sign, Bill Jones, Established 1886. No Old Stock Kept in This Shop. Dr. Talmage has drawn for you, with a master hand, the picture of your returning armies. He has told you how, in the pomp and circumstance of war, they came back to you, marching with proud and victorious tread, reading their glory in a nation's eye. Will you bear with me while I tell you of another army that sought its home at the close of the late war? An army that marched home in defeat and not in victory; in pathos and not in splen
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
rose as State flower by a vote of: Rose, 294,816; golden-rod, 206,402; majority, 88,414......May 8, 1891 Benson John Lossing, historian, born 1813, dies at Chestnut Ridge, Dutchess county......June 3, 1891 Chauncey Vibbard, called the father of the American railway, dies at Macon, Ga.......June 5, 1891 Statue of Henry Ward Beecher unveiled at Brooklyn......June 24, 1891 Four murderers, Slocum, Smiler, Wood, and Jugiro, executed by electricity at Sing Sing......July 7, 1891 George Jones, of New York Times, born 1811, dies at New York City......Aug. 12, 1891 A train on the New York Central runs from New York to East Buffalo, 436 miles in 426 minutes running time......Sept. 14, 1891 First regular Empire State Express makes the run from New York to Buffalo in 8 hours 42 minutes......Oct. 26, 1891 Roswell P. Flower elected governor......November, 1891 Field, Lindley, Wiechers & Co., stockbrokers, of New York City, make an assignment, liabilities, $2,000,000; E.