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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Mexico, (search)
annual statistician and economist, L. P. McCarty, 1889, and elsewhere.] Military governors. Gen. Stephen W. Kearnyassumes office Aug. 22, 1846 Charles Bent appointed Sept. 22, 1846 Donaciano Vigilacting Jan. 19, 1847 Lieut.-Col. J. M. Washington appointed 1848 Maj. John Munroeappointed 1849 Territorial governors. James S. Calhoun assumes office March 3, 1851 Col. E. V. Sumner acting 1852 John Greiner acting1852 William Carr Lane appointed1852 William S. Messervyacting 4 months 1853 David Meriwether appointed 1853 W. H. H. Davis acting 1857 Abraham Rencher appointed 1857 Henry Connelly1857 1861 W. F. M. Arny acting 1865 Robert B. Mitchell appointed 1866 William A. Pileappointed 1869 Marsh Giddings appointed 1871 William G. Ritch acting 1875 Samuel B. Axtell appointed 1875 Lewis Wallace appointed 1878 Lionel A. Sheldonappointed 1881 Edmund G. Ross appointed1885 L. Bradford Princeappointed 1889 William T. Thorntonappointed1893 Miguel A. Otero appointed1897
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Orleans. (search)
he city. General Morgan, on the opposite side of the river, had 800 men, all militia and indifferently armed. On the night of the 7th, Pakenham sent Lieutenant-Colonel Thornton with a detachment to attack Morgan, and at dawn the British, under Pakenham, were seen advancing to attack Jackson's lines. The heavy guns of one of Ja of the American line, played incessantly, cheering the troops with martial music. No music but the bugle inspired the British columns. Across the Mississippi, Thornton had captured the American intrenchments after the cannon had been spiked and rolled into the river; also Patterson's battery, the commander and his men, after spiking the guns, escaping on board the Louisiana. Then Thornton recrossed the river and joined the retiring army. In this terrible battle the British lost 2.600 men, killed, wounded, and made prisoners; while the Americans, sheltered by their breastworks, lost only eight killed and thirteen wounded. The history of human warfare
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Mexico, (search)
ve series of tests with sugar beets in which New Mexico is shown to lead the world, the average figures for the territory being: precentage of solids in the beets, 19.4; percentage of sugar, 15.34; ratio of purity, 83.2......April 10, 1893 W. T. Thornton succeeds L. Bradford Prince as governor......April 26, 1893 The Pecos Company organized in New Jersey with $5,000,000 to construct in southeastern New Mexico the largest irrigation enterprise in the United States......May 15, 1893 New Mlican territorial central committee......Jan. 21, 1896 The New Mexico pioneers organized......Jan. 7, 1897 Miguel A. Otero, second son of the former territory secretary under Lincoln, appointed governor by President McKinley, succeeding W. T. Thornton......June 7, 1897 Manuel R. Otero and Howard Leland appointed registers of the United States land offices at Santa Fe and Roswell, respectively......Sept. 17, 1897 Frank W. Parker appointed associate justice......Jan. 10, 1898 Willia