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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hart, Albert Bushnell 1854- (search)
he Mississippi to the waters of the Columbia. On Aug. 12, 1805, they reached the point where one of the party bestrode the Missouri River, up which they had labored so many months, and just beyond was the long-sought western rim of the valley. From the year 1715, when France and England went mad over a Mississippi bubble, down to the present time, the Mississippi has been a household word throughout the civilized world. Ships of Marseilles, ships of Bordeaux, ships of Bremen, ships of Liverpool, set their course for the mouth of the Mississippi, that they may bring eager immigrants into the promised land; and the stolid peasant in Bohemia or Hungary lays down his guldens for a slip of pasteboard upon which are printed the talismanic words New York—St. Louis—Kansas City— Helena. Into a land which a century ago had not 100,000 people has converged a stream of settlers from East, South, and North, heaping up activity and prosperity as the meteors are said to sustain the heat of t<
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Minnesota, (search)
Nearly 100 lives lost by a tornado on Lake Pepin......July 13, 1890 State insane hospital at Fergus Falls opened......July 29, 1890 William Windom, Secretary of Treasury, dies suddenly after responding to a toast at a banquet given by the New York board of trade at Delmonico's, evening of......Jan. 29, 1891 Gen. H. H. Sibley, first governor of Minnesota, dies in St. Paul, aged eighty......Feb. 18, 1891 Whaleback steamer Charles W. Wetmore leaves Duluth with a cargo of grain for Liverpool......June 11, 1891 Washburn-Crosby Company, of Minneapolis, sends out 175 cars containing 22,000 barrels of flour, consigned to the Russian relief committee of Philadelphia......March 23, 1892 Republican National Convention assembles at Minneapolis......June 7, 1892 Fire in Minneapolis; loss, $2,000,000......Aug. 13, 1893 Forest fires destroy towns of Hinckley and Sandstone, causing the death of 417 people; 2,200 homeless and destitute; property loss about $1,000,000......Sep
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
.Sept. 1, 1615 Lands from Lake Ontario near Henderson, Jefferson county......October, 1615 They attack the Iroquois castle at Onondaga Lake, near Liverpool, Onondaga county, and are repulsed Oct. 10-16, 1615 A trading-post fortified at the mouth of the Tawasentha (Normans Kill) Creek, near Albany, by Jacob Eelkins; first at Sing Sing......1840 Population of the State, 2,428,921......1840 Railroad completed from Boston to Albany......1841 Steam-packet President sails for Liverpool (never heard from)......March 11, 1841 First Washington temperance meeting in New York......March 24, 1841 Steamboat Erie burned on Lake Erie; 180 perish..r John Franklin sails from New York under Lieutenant De Haven and Dr. Elisha Kent Kane......May 24, 1850 Collins line of steamships begin between New York and Liverpool—an American line......1850 Washington Hunt elected governor. 1850 Erie Railroad completed; Piermont on the Hudson to Lake Erie......April 28-29, 1851 Hud
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Oregon, (search)
by the votes of two Republican members of the House afterwards expelled......Sept. 19, 1866 Cincinnatus H. Miller (Joaquin Miller) appointed judge of Grant county......1866 Cargo of wheat shipped from Oregon direct to Australia by bark Whistler......1867 Grading for Oregon Central Railroad begun at Portland, April 14; grading of the rival Oregon and California Railroad begun......April 16, 1868 First full cargo of wheat exported from Oregon direct to Europe by Joseph Watt to Liverpool by the Sallie Brown......1868 State agricultural college at Corvallis opened......1868 Legislature rejects the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and protests against the treaty with China......1870 Oregon school for deaf-mutes at Salem opened......1870 Legislature rescinds the resolution of 1870, rejecting the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments......1872 Captain Jackson, commissioned to remove the Modocs to a reservation, fights them on Lost Rive