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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cabinet, President's (search)
lmer Feb. 15, 1844 John Y. Mason March14, 1844 George Bancroft March10, 1845 John Y. Mason Sept. 9, 1846 William B. Preston March 8, 1849 William A. Graham July 22, 1850 John P. Kennedy July 22, 1852 James C. DobbinMarch 7, 1853 Isaac Toucey March 6, 1857 Gideon Welles March 5, 1861 Adolph E. Borie March 5, 1869 George M. Robeson June 25, 1869 Richard W. Thompson March12, 1877 Nathan Goff, JrJan. 6, 1881 William H. Hunt March 5, 1881 William E. Chandler April 1, 1882 William C. Whitney March 6, 1885 Benjamin F. TracyMarch 5, 1889 Hilary A. Herbert arch 6, 1893 John D. Long March 5, 1897 March 5, 1901 Secretaries of the Interior. Thomas Ewing March 8, 1849 Alexander H. H. Stewart Sept.12, 1850 Robert McClelland March 7, 1853 Jacob Thompson March 6, 1857 Caleb B. Smith March 5, 1861 John P. Usher Jan. 8, 1863 James Harlan May 15, 1865 Orville H. Browning July 27, 1866 Jacob D. Cox March 5, 1869 Columbus Delano Nov. 1, 1870 Zachariah Chandler Oct. 1
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
000,000 to protect the treasury gold reserve......July 21, 1896 New York banks deposit $9,600,000 in the sub-treasury......July 23, 1896 Appellate division of the New York Supreme Court declares the rapid transit act constitutional......July 28, 1896 Frank S. Black, of Troy, nominated by the Republicans for governor, and Timothy L. Woodruff, of Brooklyn, for lieutenantgovernor......Aug. 26, 1896 LI Hung Chang, Chinese statesman, meets President Cleveland at the residence of William C. Whitney in New York City......Aug. 29, 1896 General Roloff, of the Cuban army, arrested in New York for violating neutrality laws......Sept. 17, 1896 Niagara Falls electric power turned on in Buffalo......Nov. 15, 1896 Governor Morton approves a reclassification of several thousand places in the civil service list......Dec. 9, 1896 Dakota divorces declared void in New York State by Justice Leslie W. Russell......Dec. 23, 1896 Lexow legislative committee begins investigation of t
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Whitney, William Collins 1841- (search)
Whitney, William Collins 1841- Capitalist; born in Conway, Mass., July 15, 1841; graduated at Yale University in 1863, and at the Harvard Law School in 1865; admitted to the bar and began practising in New York; assisted in organizing the Young Men's Democratic Club in 1871: was active in the movement against the Tweed ring; and Secretary of the Navy in 1885-89, during which period the creation of the new navy was begun. He has since been largely interested in street railway corporations.