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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Acquisition of Territory. (search)
Adultery,
A criminal act which in the United States has various forms of punishment under State laws.
The commission of the act is a recognized cause for absolute divorce in all the States and Territories excepting South Carolina, which has no divorce laws.
See divorce laws.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Agricultural implements . (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Agricultural societies. (search)
Agricultural societies.
The first society in the United States was formed by planters of South Carolina in 1784, and it is yet in existence.
The next year the Philadelphia Society for promoting Agriculture was formed, and in 1791 citizens of New York organized a similar society.
In 1792 the Massachusetts Society for promoting Agriculture was organized.
These were city institutions, and not composed of practical farmers.
They dealt with facts and theories.
The majority of husbandmen then did not hear nor heed their appeals for improvements.
But finally the more intelligent of that class of citizens became interested, and a convention of practical farmers in the District of Columbia, held in 1809, resulted in the formation of the Columbian Agricultural Society for the Promotion of Rural and Domestic Economy.
They offered premiums; and their fair, held in May, 1810, is believed to be the first exhibition of its kind in this country.
Elkanah Watson (q. v.) founded the Berkshir
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Alexander , Edward Porter , 1835 - (search)
Alexander, Edward Porter, 1835-
Engineer; born in Washington, Ga., May 26, 1835; was graduated at the United States Military Academy, and commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Engineer Corps in 1857, resigned and entered the Confederate army in 1861; served with the Army of Northern Virginia from the beginning to the close of the war, attaining the rank of brigadier-general and chief of ordnance.
In 1866-70 he was Professor of Mathematies and Engineering in the University of South Carolina; in 1871-92 engaged in railroad business; and in 1892-94 was a member of the Boards on Navigation of the Columbia River, Ore., and on the ship-canal between Chesapeake and Delaware bays.
Subsequently he was engineer-arbitrator of the boundary survey between Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), America, discoverers of. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), American Association , the. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Amnesty proclamations. (search)