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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Indiana, (search)
goes into operation......Nov. 1, 1851 Butler University, at Irvington, chartered in 1850, opened......1855 State Senate refused to go into an election of United States Senator, creating a vacancy, in 1845, and a second time rerefuses......1855 Great frauds in sale of swamp lands, whereby State lost about $1,500,000, exposed......1859 D. C. Stover, clerk in Agent of State's office, issues $2,500,000 of forged State securities......1859 Lieut.-Gov. A. A. Hammond succeeds Governor Willard, who dies at St. Paul, Minn......Oct. 3, 1860 Governor Lane elected United States Senator; Lieutenant-Governor Morton succeeds......January, 1861 Caleb B. Smith appointed Secretary of the Interior......March 5, 1861 Six regiments raised and mustered in within a week after the call of the President for troops, made......April 15, 1861 Jesse D. Bright expelled from United States Senate for treason......March 2, 1862 Legislature broken up by Republicans to prevent passage of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
less than 8,000 in both territories......1675 Three Indians of the Wampanoags are seized, taken to Plymouth, tried, and executed for the murder of one Sausaman, an Indian of the Massachusetts tribe......June, 1675 Indians attack Swanzey and kill several persons......June 24, 1675 Wampanoags, under Philip, attacked by colonists, leave Narraganset Bay, unite with the Nipmuks, and attack Brookfield; the residents, in the principal building, defend themselves from Aug. 2 to 5, when Major Willard with a troop of horse routs the Indians......1675 Hadley attacked by Indians on a fast day while the inhabitants are at church......Sept. 1, 1675 Captain Beers and his party ambushed near Northfield; he with twenty of his men killed......Sept. 4, 1675 Captain Lothrop, of Beverly, having been sent with ninety picked men, the flower of Essex, to bring in the harvest of the settlements, is surprised by a large body of Indians at a small stream, now Bloody Brook, and totally defeat
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Webber, Samuel 1759-1810 (search)
Webber, Samuel 1759-1810 Educator; born in Byfield, Mass., in 1759; graduated at Harvard College in 1784; entered the ministry; and became a tutor in Harvard in 1787; was Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy there in 1789-1804, and then became president. He was one of the commissioners appointed to settle the boundary-line between the United States and the British provinces; vicepresident of the American Academy; author of System of Mathematics; Eulogy On President Willard; and reviser of Jedidiah Morse's American universal geography. He died in Cambridge, Mass., July 17, 1810. Webster, Daniel