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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
ntinuous line of railway opened, New York to Chicago......1853 First train over a uniform gauge from Buffalo to Erie and Chicago......Feb. 1, 1854 Office of the State superintendent of public instruction created by a law of......March 30, 1854 Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, widow of Alexander Hamilton, dies at Washington, D. C., aged ninety-seven years......Nov. 9, 1854 Railway suspension bridge at Niagara Falls completed......1855 Last survivor of Washington's Lifeguard, Sergeant Uzel Knapp, dies, aged ninety-seven, at New Windsor, Orange county......Jan. 11, 1856 St. Lawrence University, Canton, St. Lawrence county, incorporated......April 3, 1856 Dudley observatory built at Albany......1856 Failure of the Ohio Life and Trust Company in New York; a commercial panic spreads throughout the United States......Aug. 24, 1856 First telegraphic despatch received in New York from London by the Atlantic telegraph......Aug. 5, 1858 Edwin D. Morgan, Republican, elec
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washingtoniana. -1857 (search)
varied. During the last year of the war there were only sixty-five; when, in 1780, the army at Morristown was in close proximity to the enemy, it was increased from the original 180 to 250. The last survivor of Washington's lifeguard was Serg. Uzel Knapp, who died in New Windsor, N. Y., Jan. 11, 1857, when he was a little past ninety-seven years of age. He was a native of Stamford, Conn., and served in the Continental army from the beginning of the war until its close, entering the lifeguard at Morristown, N. J., in 1780. After his death Sergeant Knapp's body lay in state in Washington's headquarters at Newburg three days, and, in the presence of a vast assemblage of people, he was buried at the foot of the flag-staff near that mansion. Over his grave is a handsome mausoleum of brown freestone, made from a design by H. K. Brown, the sculptor. Schuyler Colfax, a grandson of the last commander of the guard, had in his possession a document containing the autograph signatures of th