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Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 1: ancestry. (search)
n the New World. It is certain that on the death of Cromwell he aided Governor Berkeley in proclaiming Charles II in Virginia King of England, Scotland, France, Ireland, and Virginia two years before his restoration in England. In consequence, the motto to the Virginia Coat of Arms was En dat Virginia quintam until after the union of England and Scotland, when it was En dat Virginia quartam. The inscription on the tombstone of the second Richard Lee, at Burnt House Fields, Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland County, describes him as belonging to an ancient and noble family of Morton Regis in Shropshire. It is clearly established that the three earliest representatives of the family in America, Colonel Richard Lee and his two eldest sons, claimed this Shropshire County descent. It is our purpose to trace the Lees in America, not in England. The first emigrant, Colonel Richard Lee, is described as a man of good stature, of comely visage, enterprising genius, a sound head, vigorous spi
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Geary, John White 1819- (search)
Geary, John White 1819- Military officer; born in Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland co., Pa., Dec. 30, 1819; became a civil engineer, and served as lieutenant-colonel of a Pennsylvania regiment of volunteers in the war with Mexico, wherein he was wounded, and for gallant services was made colonel of his regiment. He was first commander of the city of Mexico after its capture. He went to San Francisco in 1848, and was the first mayor of that city. Returning to Pennsylvania, he was appointed territorial governor of Kansas in July, 1856, an office he held one year. Early in 1861 he raised and equipped the 28th regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers. In the spring of 1862 Emily Geiger's arrest. he was promoted brigadier-general, and did good service throughout the war, becoming, at the end of Sherman's march from Atlanta to the sea, military governor of Savannah and brevet major-general. In 1866 he was elected governor of Pennsylvania, and held the office till within two weeks of hi
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pennsylvania, (search)
ne at Wilkesbarre and other towns, killing fourteen, injuring 180, and damaging property to $1,000,000......Aug. 19, 1890 Boundary between Pennsylvania and New York agreed upon by commissioners, March 26, 1886, and confirmed by both legislatures, is approved by Congress......Aug. 19, 1890 International Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers is organized at Pittsburg......Oct. 15, 1890 Over 100 miners killed by an explosion of fire-damp in the shaft of Frick & Co.'s coke works, near Mount Pleasant......Jan. 27, 1891 Strike in Connellsville coke regions begins; 10,000 miners involved......Feb. 9, 1891 Eleven strikers killed and forty wounded......April 2, 1891 Governor Pattison vetoes the compulsory education bill......June 18, 1891 Governor signs the Baker ballot reform bill......June 19, 1891 Governor Pattison calls an extra session of the Senate, to meet Oct. 13, to investigate charges against the State's financial officers......Sept. 26, 1891 Human Freedom Lea