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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Agricultural colleges. (search)
Agricultural colleges. In 1857, the late Justin S. Morrill, then Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture of the national House of Representatives, introduced a bill appropriating to the several States a portion of the public lands for the purpose of encouraging institutions for the advancement of agriculture and the mechanic arts. The bill lingered in Congress (having been vetoed by President Buchanan) until July, 1862, when it became a law. The act provided that each State should receive a quantity of land equal in value to $30,000 for each of its Senators and Representatives in Congress under the census of 1860, to establish at least one college in each State where all the needful sciences for the practical avocations of life should be taught, and where agriculture, the foundation of all present and future prosperity, may look for troops of earnest friends studying its familiar and recondite economies. It provided that all expenses of location, management, taxation, etc., sh
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morrill, Justin Smith 1810- (search)
Morrill, Justin Smith 1810- Legislator; born in Strafford, Vt., April 14, 1810; received an academic education: engaged in mercantile business till 1848, then became interested in agriculture. He entered the national House of Representatives as a Republican in 1855, and served there till March 4, 1867, when he was transferre tariff bill known by his name in 1861; and was a member of the Senate committee on finance from 1867 till his death in Washington, D. C., Dec. 28, 1898. Justin Smith Morrill. Taking an active part in all the debates relating to the tariff and to coinage, his most notable speech was that in which he opposed the remonetizationwould reduce wages to the full extent of the difference there might be between its purchasing power and that of gold. Free-trade or protection. In 1890 Senator Morrill made the following contribution to the Gladstone-Blaine controversy concerning free-trade and protection: Any extended argument of the Right Honorable W.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morrill, lot Myrick 1813-1883 (search)
Morrill, lot Myrick 1813-1883 Financier; born in Belgrade, Me., May 3, 1813; admitted to the bar of Maine in 1839; elected to the State legislature in 1854; president of the State Senate in 1856; elected governor in 1857; and was United States Senator from 1860 until his appointment as Secretary of the Treasury in 1876. He died in Augusta, Me., Jan. 10, 1883.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Senate, United States (search)
been increased, during such term. No person holding any office under the United States shall be a member of the Senate during his continuance in such office. No person shall be a Senator who, having as a federal or State officer, taken an oath to support the Constitution, afterwards engaged in rebellion against the United States, unless Congress remove such disability. Usually men beyond middle age are selected for Senators. The oldest member of the body at any time in office, Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont, was born April 14, 1810, and died Dec. 28, 1898, in his eighty-ninth year. He had been longer in the Senate, too, than any other man, having entered on March 4, 1867. Henry Clay entered the Senate at an earlier age than any other. He was appointed Nov. 19, 1806, to fill a vacancy. Mr. Clay was born April 12, 1777. Among the curious facts connected with the personal history of some of the Senators may be mentioned these: Gen. James Shields represented three different
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vermont, (search)
Waterbury......1888 State board of trade organized......1888 Redfield Proctor appointed Secretary of War......March 5, 1889 Australian ballot law passed at session......Oct. 1–Nov. 25, 1890 George F. Edmunds resigns from the United States Senate, to take effect Nov. 1......April 6, 1891 Ex-Gov. Paul Dillingham dies at Waterbury......July 26, 1891 Celebration of centennial of admission of Vermont into the Union and dedication of the battle monument (308 feet high) at Bennington......Aug. 19, 1891 Legislature called in special session concerning direct-tax money refunded by Congress......Aug. 25, 1891 Ex-Gov. John Gregory Smith dies at St. Albans......Nov. 6, 1891 Redfield Proctor appointed United States Senator, Aug. 25; qualifies......Dec. 7, 1891 Redfield Proctor elected United States Senator......Oct. 19, 1892 Justin S. Morrill dies at Washington, D. C......Dec. 28, 1898 Merchants' National Bank, Rutland. failed......March 26, 1900 Virgini
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Vermont, (search)
th1795 to 1801 Nathaniel Chipman5th to 8th1797 to 1803 Stephen R. Bradley7th to 13th1801 to 1813 Israel Smith8th to 10th1803 to 1807 Jonathan Robinson10th to 14th1807 to 1815 Dudley Chace13th to 15th1813 to 1817 Isaac Tichenor14th to 17th1815 to 1821 James Fisk15th1817 to 1818 William A. Palmer15th to 19th1818 to 1825 Horatio Seymour17th to 23d1821 to 1833 United States Senators— continued. Name.No. of Congress.Term. Dudley Chace19th to 22d1825 to 1831 Samuel Prentiss22d to 27th1831 to 1842 Benjamin Swift23d to 26th1833 to 1839 Samuel S. Phelps26th to 32d1839 to 1851 Samuel C. Crafts27th1842 to 1843 William Upham28th to 33d1843 to 1853 Samuel S. Phelps33d1853 to 1854 Solomon Foot32d to 39th1851 to 1866 Lawrence Brainerd33d1854 to 1855 Jacob Collamer34th to 39th1855 to 1865 George F. Edmunds39th to 52d1866 to 1891 Luke P. Poland39th1865 Justin S. Morrill40th to 56th1867 to 1900 Redfield Proctor52d to ——1891 to —— William P. Dillingham56th to