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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894 (search)
Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894 Military officer; born in Waltham, Mass., Jan. 30, 1816. His early education was obtained at a common school. He became a lawyer and Democratic orator; edited a newspaper in Waltham and Lowell; and during the administration of President Polk held office in the Boston Custom-house. In 18Waltham and Lowell; and during the administration of President Polk held office in the Boston Custom-house. In 1849 he was a member of the Massachusetts legislature, and speaker of the Lower House in 1851-52. He was president of the State Constitutional Convention in 1853, and a member of Congress in 1853-57, separating from the Democratic party on the question of slavery; and, after a long contest, was elected speaker of the House of Represnapolis military district. General Banks was an active and skilful leader in various battles during the war in Virginia and in the region of the lower Mississippi and Red rivers. In 1865-73, 1875-77, and 1889-91 he was a Representative in Congress, and subsequently he was United States marshal. He died in Waltham, Sept. 1, 1894.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Harrington, Timothy 1715-1795 (search)
Harrington, Timothy 1715-1795 Clergyman; born in Waltham, Mass., in 1715; became a Congregational pastor in 1741. It is of him that the amusing story is told that, having always been in the habit of praying for our gracious sovereign King George before the Revolutionary War, after the war broke out he at one time, through habit, uttered the accustomed prayer, but hastily added, O Lord, I mean George Washington! He died in Lancaster, Mass., Dec. 18, 1795.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nelson, Charles Alexander 1839- (search)
Nelson, Charles Alexander 1839- Librarian; born in Calais, Me., April 14, 1839; graduated at Harvard College in 1860; quartermaster United States army. 1864-65; appointed Professor of Greek in Drury College in 1879; assistant librarian of Astor Library in 1881; librarian of Howard Library, New Orleans, in 1888; Newberry, Chicago, in 1891; deputy librarian, Columbia University, in 1893 Mr. Nelson is the author of a History of Waltham, and compiled a history of the manuscripts and early printed books of S. B. Duryea; Catalogue of the Astor Library; Catalogue Avery Memorial Library.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Textile fabrics (search)
ceeded in introducing that industry, with very imperfect machinery. A woollen factory was in operation in Hartford, Conn., in 1789, and in 1794 one was established in Byfield, Mass. The same year a carding-machine for wool was first put into operation in the United States. It was constructed under the direction of John and Arthur Schofield. Samuel Slater (q. v.) may be considered the father of cotton manufacturing in the United States. But his operations were only in spinning the yarn. It remained for a citizen of the United-States, Francis C. Lowell, a merchant of Boston, to introduce the weaving of cotton cloth here. He invented a power loom, and in 1812 he and Francis S. Jackson erected a mill in Waltham, Mass. The machinery was constructed by Paul Moody. After many failures and alterations, they succeeded in perfecting looms that worked well, and in 1813 they had also a spinning-wheel, with 1,300 spindles. Slater's Rhode Island mill had then only 144 spindles. See cotton.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
by 182 yeas (175 Democrats, seven Populists) to 106 nays (ninety-three Republicans, thirteen Democrats), and passes bills for free coal, iron, barbed wire, and sugar......Aug. 13, 1894 Tariff bill becomes a law without the President's signature......Aug. 27, 1894 Second session (268 days) adjourns......Aug. 28, 1894 Ten towns in Minnesota, six in Wisconsin, and three in Michigan totally destroyed by forest fires......August, 1894 Gen. N. P. Banks, born Jan. 30, 1816, dies at Waltham, Mass.......Sept. 1, 1894 Samuel J. Kirkwood, United States exSenator, ex-Secretary of the Interior, and war governor of Iowa, dies at Des Moines, aged eighty-one......Sept. 1, 1894 Maj.-Gen. George Stoneman, ex-governor of California, born Aug. 8, 1822, dies at Buffalo, N. Y.......Sept. 5, 1894 President Cleveland proclaims amnesty to persons convicted of polygamy under the Edmunds act......Sept. 27, 1894 Proclamation of President setting apart the Ashland forest reserve in Oregon.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
Parkman dies at Jamaica Plains, at the age of seventy years......Nov. 8, 1893 Ex-Gov. William Gaston dies at Boston, aged seventy-four......Jan. 19, 1894 Miss Helen Shafer, president of Wellesley College, born 1840, dies......Jan. 20, 1894 Fast Day abolished and April 19, the anniversary of the battle of Lexington, substituted as a holiday (to be called Patriots' Day)......March 16, 1894 Sixty-eight factories closed in Fall River......Aug. 13, 1894 Nathaniel P. Banks dies at Waltham......Sept. 1, 1894 Oliver Wendell Holmes dies at Boston......Oct. 7, 1894 Ex-Speaker Robert C. Winthrop dies at Boston......Nov. 16, 1894 The veterans of the 15th, 19th, 23d, and 58th Massachusetts volunteer regiments return captured flags, and the 7th Massachusetts return the State flag to the State officers......Dec. 22, 1894 State census taken, showing a total population of 2,500,183......1895 Manchester celebrates its 250th anniversary......July 18, 1895 Samuel F. Smit
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Willard, Joseph 1798-1865 (search)
Willard, Joseph 1798-1865 Author; born in Cambridge, Mass., March 14, 1798; graduated at Harvard College in 1816; admitted to the bar and began practice in Waltham, Mass.; settled in Boston in 1829; appointed master of chancery in 1838; and was elected clerk of the Superior Court in 1856 and 1861. His publications include Topographical and Historical sketches of the town of Lancaster, Mass., with an appendix; Naturalization in the American colonies; Letter to an English friend on the rebellion in the United States and on the British policy, etc. He died in Boston, Mass., May 12, 1865.