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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Agricultural implements .
Agricultural implements.
The United States for many years has led the world in the invention and use of appliances for tilling the soil.
The extension of farming to large areas, as in Minnesota, Nebraska, and the Dakotas, where farms of 50,000 acres are not unusual, has called for quicker means of ploughing, sowing, and reaping than is possible by hand.
Hence inventive genius has recognized the new conditions and provided ploughs, seeding-machines, cultivators, reapers, binders, and other apparatus operated by horse and steam-power.
The invention of the mowing-machine is coeval, in our country, with the reaping-machine.
The Manning mower was invented in 1831.
That and the Ketcham (1844) held the place of superior excellence until about 1850, when other inventors had made improvements.
In 1850 less than 5,000 mowing-machines had been made in our country.
Within a quarter of a century afterwards a mowing-machine was considered indispensable to every farm.
The American machi
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Allen , William Vincent 1847 - (search)
Allen, William Vincent, 1847-
Politician: born in Midway, O., Jan. 28, 1847; was educated in the common schools and Upper Iowa University; served as a private soldier in the Union army during the Civil War. In 1869 he was admitted to the bar. In 1891 he was elected judge of the Ninth Judicial District Court of Nebraska, and in 1892. United States Senator from Nebraska, as a Populist.
In the special session of Congress in 1893 he held the floor with a speech for fifteen consecutive hours, and in 1896 was chairman of the Populist National Convention.
See people's party: Populists.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Andrews , Elisha Benjamin 1844 - (search)
Andrews, Elisha Benjamin, 1844-
Educator: born in Hinsdale, N. H., Jan. 10,) 1844; graduated at Brown University in 1870, and at Newton Theological Institute in 1874; was president of Brown University in 1889-98; superintendent of the Chicago Public Schools in 1898-1900; and in the last year became chancellor of the University of Nebraska.
He is author of History of the United States; An honest dollar, a plea for bimetallism, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Annexed Territory ,
Bad lands, the.
Mauvaises Terres, of the old French fur-traders' dialect, are an extensive tract in the Dakotas, Wyoming, and northwestern Nebraska, between the North Fork of the Platte and the South Fork of the Cheyene rivers, west, south, and southeast of the Black Hills.
It lies mostly between long.
103° and 105° N., with an area as yet not perfectly defined, but estimated to cover about 60,000 square miles.
There are similar lands in the Green River region, of which Fort Bridger is the centre, and in southeastern Oregon.
They belong to the Miocence period, geologically speaking.
The surface materials are for the most part white and yellowish indurated clays, sands, marls, and occasional thin beds of lime and sandstone.
The locality is fitly described as one of the most wonderful regions of the globe.
It is held by geologists that during the geological period named a vast fresh-water lake system covered this portion of our continent, when the comparatively soft material
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bissell , William 1860 (search)
Bissell, William, -1860
H., legislator; born near Cooperstown, N. Y., April 25, 1811: elected to the Illinois legislature in 1811; and became prosecuting attorney for St. Clair county in 1844.
During the Mexican War he served as captain of the 2d Illinois Volunteers, and distinguished himself at Buena Vista.
In 1839-45 he was a representative in Congress from Illinois; was separated from the Democratic party on the Kansas-Nebraska bill; and was chosen governor on the Republican ticket in 1856, and afterwards reelected.
While in Congress he enagetel in a controversy with Jefferson Davis, who challenged Mr. Bissell.
In accepting the challenge Mr. Bissell chose as weapons muskets, distance 30 paces, which was unsatisfactory to the friends of Mr. Davis.
He died in Springfield.
Ill., March 18, 1860.