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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Indiana, (search)
Jenningsassumes officeNov. 7, 1816 William Hendricksassumes officeDec. 4, 1822 James B. Rayassumes officeFeb. 12, 1825 Noah Nobleassumes officeDec. 7, 1831 David Wallaceassumes officeDec. 6, 1837 Samuel Biggerassumes officeDec. 9, 1840 James Whitcombassumes officeDec. 6, 1843 Joseph A. Wrightassumes officeDec. 6, 1849 Ashbel P. Willardassumes officeJan. 12, 1857 Abraham A. Hammondassumes officeOct. 1860 Henry S. Laneelected U. S. SenatorJan. 1861 Oliver P. Mortonassumes officeJan. 185 to 1837 Robert Hanna22d1831 to 1832 John Tipton22d to 25th1832 to 1837 Oliver H. Smith25th to 27th1837 to 1843 AlbertS. White26th to 28th1839 to 1844 Edward A. Hannegan28th to 30th1843 to 1849 Jesse D. Bright29th to 37th1845 to 1861 James Whitcomb31st to 32d1849 to 1852 Charles W. Cathcart32d1852 to 1853 John Petit32d to 33d1853 to 1856 Graham N. Fitch34th to 36th1857 to 1860 Henry S. Lane37th to 39th1861 to 1867 Joseph A. Wright37th1861 to 1862 David Turpie37th1863 Thomas A. He
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
shed at Newport and silk spun and woven......October, 1844 Henry Clay candidate for the Presidency......1844 Miss Delia A. Webster, for abducting slaves to Ohio, is sentenced to two years in penitentiary, Dec. 23, 1844. By petition of jury and others she is pardoned by Governor Owsley, and leaves for her home in Vermont......Feb. 25, 1845 Governor Bartley, of Ohio, refuses a requisition from Governor Owsley for one Kissam, charged with kidnapping slaves......March 14, 1845 Governor Whitcomb, of Indiana, issues a warrant to an officer from Kentucky for the arrest of a free mulatto on charge of stealing several slaves from Harrodsburg......April 25, 1845 Methodist Episcopal Church, South, organized, Louisville......May, 1845 Office of the True American, published at Lexington by Cassius M. Clay, for its abolition utterances entered by sixty citizens, and Clay's effects shipped to Cincinnati......Aug. 18. 1845 Reinterment of Daniel Boone and wife in the State cemete
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Whitcomb, James -1852 (search)
Whitcomb, James -1852 Governor; born near Windsor, Vt., Dec. 1, 1795; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1822; began practice in Bloomington, Ind., in 1824; was governor of Indiana in 1843-49, and during his last term recruited five infantry regiments for the Mexican War. He was elected United States Senator in 1849. He died in New York City, Oct. 4, 1852. He was the author of Facts for the people a pamphlet in favor of freetrade.
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 10: a New nation (search)
l and political conflicts of his day, he gave himself to the fastidious creation of beautiful lines, believing that the beautiful line is the surest road to Arcady, and that Herrick, whom he idolized, had shown the way. To some readers of these pages it may seem like profanation to pass over poets like Sill, George Woodberry, Edith Thomas, Richard Hovey, William Vaughn Moody, Madison Cawein — to mention but half a dozen distinguished names out of a larger company — and to suggest that James Whitcomb Riley, more completely than any American poet since Longfellow, succeeded in expressing the actual poetic feelings of the men and women who composed his immense audience. Riley, like Aldrich, went to school to Herrick, Keats, Tennyson, and Longfellow, but when he began writing newspaper verse in his native Indiana he was guided by two impulses which gave individuality to his work. I was always trying to write of the kind of people I knew, and especially to write verse that I could rea