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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Erie Canal, the, (search)
Erie Canal, the, The greatest work of internal improvement constructed in the United States previous to the Pacific Railway. It connects the waters of the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Hudson River. It was contemplated by General Schuyler and Elkanah Watson, but was first definitely proposed by Gouverneur Morris, at about the beginning of the nineteenth century. Various writers put forth essays upon the subject, among them De Witt Clinton, who became its most notable champion. The project took such shape that, in 1810, canal commissioners were appointed, with Gouverneur Morris at their head. In 1812 Clinton, with others, was appointed to lay the project before the national Congress, and solicit the aid of the national government. Fortunately the latter declined to extend its patronage to the great undertaking. The War of 1812-15 put the matter at rest for a while. That war made the transportation of merchandise along our sea-coasts perilous, and the com
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
Daniel Webster delivered the oration.] Lafayette leaves Washington for France in the new frigate Brandywine, furnished him by the government......Sept. 7, 1825 Mordecai M. Noah selects Grand Island, in the Niagara River, as a site for a city of refuge for the Jews, to be called Ararat......Sept. 17, 1825 Com. David Porter, while cruising, lands a force at Porto Rico and exacts an apology for an insult to the American flag. He is recalled and suspended for six months......1825 Erie Canal finished......Oct. 26, 1825 Nineteenth Congress, first session, convenes......Dec. 5, 1825 Dispute between the State of Georgia and the United States upon the removal of the Creek Indians......1825-29 John Gaillard, United States Senator from South Carolina from 1804 to 1826, and from April 14, 1814, to March 9, 1825, president pro tem. of the Senate, dies at Washington......Feb. 26, 1826 South American states call a general congress, to meet at Panama in June, 1826, and to co
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Indiana, (search)
un......Dec. 31, 1821 Indiana University at Bloomington, chartered 1820, opened......1824 Mr. Rapp and associates sell their property at Harmony to Robert Dale Owen, of Scotland, a philanthropist, who attempts to establish a community, naming the place New Harmony......1825 State road from Lake Michigan to Madison on the Ohio begun......1830 Thomas Lincoln, with his family, removes to Macon county, Ill......1830 Indiana Historical Society incorporated......1831 Wabash and Erie Canal in Indiana begun......Feb. 22, 1832 State bank chartered......1834 Internal improvement law, a State loan of $10,000,000 to be expended by a board of internal improvement......January, 1836 Madison and Lafayette Railroad commenced......1836 Indiana Asbury University (since 1884 De Pauw), at Greencastle, chartered and opened......1837 University of Notre Dame (R. C.), at Notre Dame, chartered 1844, and opened......1845 State failing to pay its interest on the public debt f
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Index to volumes I. And II. (search)
S. political support. 1.190, 2.309, 315, 317; loses Presidential nomination, 282, 434. Clerical Appeal, (a) 2.136-143, 52, 167, 198, (b) 156, (c) 158: repudiated by abolitionists, 157, 158, 173, except Emancipator, 162, copied by proslavery press, 162, viewed by L. Tappan, 163, censured in report by G., 209, approved by Woodbury, 141-143, by Torrey, 266, by Lundy, 322. Cleveland National A. S. Convention, 2.314-319, 339. Clinton, De Witt [1769-1828], his person, 1.357; author of Erie Canal, 2.259. Coates, Lindley [b. Mar. 3, 1794; d. June 3, 1856], 2.355.—Portrait in Smedley's Hist. Underground R. R. Codding, Ichabod, Rev. [b. Bristol, N. Y., 1811; d. Baraboo, Wis., June 17, 1866], 2.348. Coe, William, Rev., supporter of G., 2.269, 287, summoned to Chardon St. Convention, 424. Coffin, Joshua [b. Newbury, Mass., Oct. 12, 1792; d. June 24, 1864], historian of Newbury, 1.222, teacher, 273, 275; part in founding New Eng. A. S. Society, 278, 280, 281; helps edit Lib.,
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 3: early childhood. (search)
mself, and before he could understand the meaning of war and, doubtless heard his father read in it of the triumphs and disasters of the Second War with Great Britain, and of the rejoicings at the conclusion of peace. He himself may have read of Decatur's gallantry in the war with Algiers, of Wellington's victory at Waterloo, of Napoleon's fretting away his life on the rock of St. Helena, of Monroe's inauguration, of the dismantling of the flees on the great lakes, of the progress of the Erie Canal project, of Jackson's inroads into Florida, and the subsequent cession of that province to the United States, of the first meeting of Congress in the Capital, of the passage of the Missouri Compromise. During the progress of the various commercial treaties with the States of Europe, which were negotiated after the conclusion of the general peace, the whole theory, practice, and history of commercial intercourse, were amply discussed in Congress and the newspapers; and the mind of Horace,
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), Indiana, Covington, Fountain County, Indiana (search)
Covington, Fountain County, Indiana a town of 2,000 pop., on Wabash River and Wabash & Erie Canal, 73 miles from Indianapolis. Large quantities of produce are shipped from here on the canal.
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), Indiana, Worthington, Greene County, Indiana (search)
Worthington, Greene County, Indiana a town of 1,000 pop., on the Wabash & Erie Canal, near the confluence of Eel River with the West Fork of White River. An important business point.
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), Indiana, Huntington, Huntington County, Indiana (search)
Huntington, Huntington County, Indiana a town of 4,000 pop., on the Toledo, Wabash & Western Railroad and the Wabash & Erie Canal. A place of active trade.
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), Indiana, Peru, Miama County, Indiana (search)
Peru, Miama County, Indiana a town of 4,000 pop., on Wabash River and the Wabash & Erie Canal. The Toledo, Wabash & Western Railroad here forms a junction with the Peru & Indianapolis Railroad, 75 miles from Indianapolis.
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), Indiana, Petersburgh, Pike County, Indiana (search)
Petersburgh, Pike County, Indiana a town of 1,000 pop., on the Wabash & Erie Canal, 40 miles from Evansville.
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