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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Baraga, Frederick, 1797-1868 (search)
Baraga, Frederick, 1797-1868 Clergyman; born in Carniola, Austria, June 29, 1797; in 1830 determined to devote his life to the conversion of Indians in the United States; settled among the Ottawas in Michigan. In 1856 he was appointed Bishop of Marquette. In addition to translating prayer-books, hymn-books, catechisms, etc., into the Indian language, he wrote in German the History, character, manners, and customs of the North American Indians. He died in Marquette, Mich., Jan. 19, 1868.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dablon, Claude, 1618-1697 (search)
Dablon, Claude, 1618-1697 Jesuit missionary; born in Dieppe, France, in 1618; began a mission to the Onondaga Indians in New York in 1655, and six years afterwards he accompanied Druillettes in an overland journey to the Hudson Bay region. In 1668 he went with Marquette to Lake Superior, and in 1670 was appointed superior of the missions of the Upper Lakes. He prepared the Relations concerning New France for 1671-72, and also a narrative of Marquette's journey, published in John Gilmary Shea's Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley (1853). He died in Quebec, Canada, Sept. 20; 1697.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Iron and steel. (search)
s. Virginia and West Virginia combined ranked next with 986,476 long tons. The contributors to the aggregate output were twenty-four States and Diagram of a modern blast-furnace. Territories, and the increased production was principally in Michigan and Minnesota. The amount of pig-iron manufactured in the United States in 1899 was 13,620,703 long tons. In the eleven years 1889-1899 the total production of ore in the United States was 178,507,234 long tons, The Great Ore docks at Marquette. an average annual output of 16,227,930 long tons. In the production of 1899 the red hematite constituted the most prominent general class of iron-ore, yielding 20,004,399 long tons, or 81 per cent. of the total. Brown hematite yielded 2,869,785 long tons; magnetite, 1,727,430 long tons; and carbonate, 81,559 long tons. Michigan produced the largest amount of red hematite, Virginia the largest brown hematite, Pennsylvania the largest of magnetite, and Ohio the largest of carbonate.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Omaha Indians, (search)
Omaha Indians, A tribe of Indians of the Dakota family. They are represented in Marquette's map in 1673. They were divided into clans, and cultivated corn and beans. One of their customs was to prohibit a man from speaking to his fatherin-law and mother-in-law. They were reduced, about the year 1800, by small-pox, from a population capable of sending out 700 warriors to about 300. They then burned their villages and became wanderers. They were then relentlessly pursued by the Sioux. They had increased in number, when Lewis and Clarke found them on the Quicoure in 1805, to about 600. They have from time to time ceded lands to the United States, and since 1855 have been settled, and have devoted themselves exclusively to agriculture. In 1899 they numbered 1,202, and were settled on the Omaha and Winnebago agency, in Nebraska.