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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), America, discoverers of. (search)
Arkansas,
One of the Southwestern States; discovered by De Soto in 1541, who crossed the Mississippi near the site of Helena.
It was next visited by father Marquette (q. v.) in 1673.
It was originally a part of Louisiana, purchased from the French in 1803, and so remained until 1812, when it formed a part of Missouri Territory.
It was erected into a Territory in 1819, with its present name, and remained under a territorial government until 1836, when a convention at Little Rock, its present capital, formed a State constitution.
Its first territorial legislature met at Arkansas Post in 1820.
On June 15, 1836, Arkansas was admitted into the Union as a State.
In 1861 the people of Arkansas were attached to the Union, but, unfortunately, the governor and most of the leading politicians of the State were disloyal, and no effort was spared by them to obtain the passage of an ordinance of secession.
For this purpose a State convention of delegates assembled at the capital (Littl
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Baraga , Frederick , 1797 -1868 (search)
Baraga, Frederick, 1797-1868
Clergyman; born in Carniola, Austria, June 29, 1797; in 1830 determined to devote his life to the conversion of Indians in the United States; settled among the Ottawas in Michigan.
In 1856 he was appointed Bishop of Marquette.
In addition to translating prayer-books, hymn-books, catechisms, etc., into the Indian language, he wrote in German the History, character, manners, and customs of the North American Indians.
He died in Marquette, Mich., Jan. 19, 1868.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dablon , Claude , 1618 -1697 (search)
Dablon, Claude, 1618-1697
Jesuit missionary; born in Dieppe, France, in 1618; began a mission to the Onondaga Indians in New York in 1655, and six years afterwards he accompanied Druillettes in an overland journey to the Hudson Bay region.
In 1668 he went with Marquette to Lake Superior, and in 1670 was appointed superior of the missions of the Upper Lakes.
He prepared the Relations concerning New France for 1671-72, and also a narrative of Marquette's journey, published in John Gilmary Shea's Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley (1853). He died in Quebec, Canada, Sept. 20; 1697.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Garfield , James Abram 1831 -1881 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hart , Albert Bushnell 1854 - (search)
Illinois.
The site of the present State was first explored by Marquette and Joliet, French missionaries from Canada, in 1763, who were followed by La Salle and Hennepin.
Twenty years later mission stations were established at Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and Peoria; and early in the eighteenth century a French monastery was established at Kaskaskia.
By the treaty of 1763, the Illinois country, as it was called, passed under the jurisdiction of the English.
By the treaty of 1783 it was ceded to the United States, and it formed a part of the Northwest Territory.
The country conquered by General Clarke, in 1778-79, the Virginia Assembly erected into a county, which they called Illinois.
It embraced all
State seal of Illinois. territory north of the Ohio claimed as within the limits of Virginia, and ordered 500 men to be raised for its defence.
In 1809, when the present boundaries of Indiana were defined, Illinois included Wisconsin and a part of Minnesota, and in 1810 contained mo