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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Day, William Rufus, 1849- (search)
Day, William Rufus, 1849- Statesman; born in Ravenna, O., April 17, 1849; graduated at the University of Michigan in 1870: studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1872; began practice at Canton, O.; served as judge in the court of common pleas in 1886-90; appointed judge of the United States district court for the northern district of Ohio in 1889, but resigned before taking office on William Rufus day. account of ill health. In March, 1397, he was made assistant Secretary of State, and on April 26, 1898, succeeded John Sherman as head of the department. While in the State Department he had charge, under the President, of the delicate diplomatic correspondence preceding and during the war with Spain, and of the negotiation of the protocol of peace. After the latter had been accepted Judge Day was appointed chief of the United States peace commission, his place as Secretary of State being filled by John Hay, recalled as American ambassador to Great Britain. After the rat
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 50: last months of the Civil War.—Chase and Taney, chief-justices.—the first colored attorney in the supreme court —reciprocity with Canada.—the New Jersey monopoly.— retaliation in war.—reconstruction.—debate on Louisiana.—Lincoln and Sumner.—visit to Richmond.—the president's death by assassination.—Sumner's eulogy upon him. —President Johnson; his method of reconstruction.—Sumner's protests against race distinctions.—death of friends. —French visitors and correspondents.—1864-1865. (search)
ong Republicans. Howard and Davis were averse to any direct issue with the President on negro suffrage, confident that the public mind was not ready for it, and thinking it wiser to make it on the right of Congress to control the reconstruction. B. Gratz Brown alone responded without qualification to Sumner's appeal. Of the members of the House, Boutwell At Weymouth, July 4. of Massachusetts, Julian Julian's Political Recollections, p. 268. of Indiana, and Garfield of Ohio, At Ravenna, O., July 4. Works of J. A. Garfield, vol. i. p. 85. each addressed the people of his State in favor of admitting freedmen to the suffrage. Sherman, speaking at Circleville, O., June 10, showed himself friendly to negro suffrage (New York Tribune, June 14), and Morrill of Vermont spoke in favor of it before the Republican convention of that State. But on the other hand Dawes of Massachusetts, already a leader in that body, in an address to his neighbors, which was widely read, came earne
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America, together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company), Ohio, Ravenna, Portage County, Ohio (search)
Ravenna, Portage County, Ohio a town of 4,000 pop., on the Cleveland & Pittsburgh Railroad, at the intersection of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad. The Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal passes through here. A great depot for the shipment of produce from the surrounding agricultural districts.