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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Allison , William Boyd , 1829 - (search)
Allison, William Boyd, 1829-
Politician; born in Perry, O., March 2, 1829; was educated at Alleghany and Western Reserve Colleges; admitted to the bar and practised in Ohio until 1857, when he removed to Dubuque, Ia. In 1860 he was a delegate to the Chicago Convention.
During the Civil War he was active in raising troops for the Union army.
In 1862 he was elected to Congress as a Republican, and was re-elected three times.
In 1873 he was elected to the United States Senate, and has since held the seat by reelections.
He has been a conspicuous candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination several times, and his name is associated with that of the late Richard P. Bland (q. v.) in the history of the Silver Act of 1877-78.
See Bland silver bill.
Iowa
Was originally a part of the vast Territory of Louisiana, ceded to the United States in 1803.
The first settlement by Europeans was made by Julian Du Buque, who, in 1788, obtained a grant of a large tract, including the site of the city of Dubuque and the mineral lands around it. There he built a fort, and manufactured lead and traded with Indians until his death, in 1810.
The Territory was placed under the jurisdiction of Michigan in 1834, and in 1836 under that of Wisconsin.
It was erected into a separate Territory June 12, 1838, and included all the country north of Missouri between the Mississippi and the Missouri and the British line.
This comprised a greater part of Minnesota and the whole of the present Dakotas, with an area of 94,000 square miles.
The government was established at Iowa City, in 1839.
In 1844 a State constitution was formed, but an application for admission into the Union was denied.
The admission was effected Dec. 28, 1846, and in 1857 the cap
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Keane , John Joseph 1839 - (search)
Keane, John Joseph 1839-
Clergyman; born in Ballyshannon, Ireland, Sept. 12, 1839; came to the United States in 1846; was educated in St. Charles's College and St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore; ordained a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in 1866, and assigned to St. Patrick's Church, Washington.
He remained there till Aug. 25, 1878, when he was consecrated Bishop of Richmond, Va. He became rector of the Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C., in 1886, and held that post till 1897, when he resigned at the Pope's request and went to Rome.
He was an associate editor of the revised edition of Johnson's universal Cyclopaedia in 1892-95.
In 1897, having received from Rome a leave of absence for two years, he returned to the United States, and in September, 1900, was appointed Archbishop of Dubuque, to succeed the late Archbishop John Hennessy.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lead, (search)
Lead,
A valuable mineral found in various parts of the world and in the United States in Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Missouri, Kansas, Wisconsin, Montana, and Illinois.
In the calendar year 1899 the total production in the United States was 304,392 short tons, and the net production of refined lead was 210,500 short tons.
The following is a brief history of the lead industry in the United States: It was first discovered in the Mississippi Valley by Le Sueur in 1700-1, but not mined till 1788, when Julien Dubuque staked a claim near the present site of Dubuque, Ia. The mining of lead, however, did not become general till 1826-27, and all the localities where the mineral had been discovered were not thrown open for sale till 1847.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Perry , William Stevens 1832 -1898 (search)
Perry, William Stevens 1832-1898
Clergyman; born in Providence, R. I., Jan. 22, 1832; graduated at Harvard College in 1854; ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1858; held pastorates in various parts of New England; and was consecrated bishop of Iowa, Sept. 10, 1876.
His publications include Journals of the General conventions of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America; Documentary history of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America; Historical collections of the American colonial Church; The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883; The American Church and the American Constitution, etc. He died in Dubuque, Ia., May 13, 1898.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Roman Catholic Church . (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stewart , Gideon Tabor 1824 - (search)
Stewart, Gideon Tabor 1824-
Lawyer; born in Johnstown, N. Y., Aug. 7, 1824; was educated in Oberlin, O.; began the practice of law in Norwalk in 1846, and for a time was editor of the Reflector.
He removed to Dubuque, Ia., in 1861, and owned and published the Daily times during the Civil War. In 1876 he returned to Norwalk and resumed law practice.
For many years Mr. Stewart was actively identified with the temperance movement, and in 1853 undertook to organize a National Prohibition party.
The movement, owing to the Civil War and other causes, failed, but in 1869 such a party was formed in Chicago by a national convention, to which he was a delegate.
He was for many years chairman of the national executive committee of his party, and was a candidate for a number of high offices in his State.
In 1876 he was the candidate of his party for the Vice-Presidency on the ticket headed by Green Clay Smith, which received a popular vote of 9,522.