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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Missouri, (search)
June 7, 1836, regarding the Platte purchase, takes effect......March 28, 1837 Col. Richard Gentry's regiment leaves Columbia for the Seminole War......Oct. 6, 1837 State-house burned with public papers and records......Nov. 17, 1837 Act of that the Mormons shall leave the State......October, 1838 Corner-stone of the University of the State of Missouri at Columbia, laid......July 4, 1840 Suicide of Gov. Thomas Reynolds......Feb. 9, 1844 Remains of Daniel Boone and his wife aretifies Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution......Jan. 10, 1870 State Agricultural College located at Columbia by law......1870 A movement set on foot in 1866 by Col. B. Gratz Brown, for universal amnesty, universal franchise, a amount of $32,745.69......March 4, 1890 Semi-centennial of the laying of the corner-stone of the State university at Columbia celebrated......July 4, 1890 Limited Kansas City express on the Missouri Pacific Railroad is held up by seven highway
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), North Carolina, (search)
igh to promote the mental and political elevation of their race......Oct. 1, 1866 Legislature passes an act granting a general amnesty and pardon to all officers and soldiers of the State of North Carolina, or of the late Confederate States armies, or of the United States, for offences committed against the criminal laws of North Carolina ......Dec. 22, 1866 Gen. D. E. Sickles assigned by the President to command the 2d Military District, North and South Carolina, with headquarters at Columbia......March 11, 1867 General Sickles removed, and Gen. Edward R. S. Canby appointed to the command......Aug. 26, 1867 Conservative mass-meeting at Raleigh define their aim to ward off the dangers which threaten us from the success of the ultra-Republicans or Radical party in the State ......Sept. 27, 1867 Convention called under the reconstruction acts of Congress by General Canby assembles at Raleigh, Jan. 14; frames a constitution and adjourns, March 16. Constitution is ratified
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), South Carolina, (search)
the State......May 23, 1788 Convention at Columbia completes State constitution......June 3, 179 of South Carolina, chartered 1801, opened at Columbia......1805 Owing to the peculiar distributi marshal......Sept. 20, 1858 Grand jury at Columbia returns no bill on all three indictments agaiFeb. 12; Congaree Creek......Feb. 15, 1865 Columbia surrendered to General Sherman......Feb. 17, orth and South Carolina, with headquarters at Columbia......March 11, 1867 General Sickles supersn......June 25, 1868 State penitentiary at Columbia opened......1868 J. K. Jillson elected theyers' convention held at the State capitol in Columbia to devise means for the redemption of the Startered......1872 Tax-payers' convention at Columbia by resolution asking for amendments, simplify6 Winthrop training-school for teachers at Columbia, opened......1886 Act passed providing a ped State fair ever held in the State opens at Columbia......Jan. 1, 1890 Act passed creating a bo[8 more...]
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Texas, (search)
ed by the Mexicans......April 20, 1836 Battle of San Jacinto; 750 Texans under General Houston defeat 1,600 Mexicans under Santa Ana, and capture him......April 21, 1836 Mexicans retreat beyond the frontier of Texas......April 24, 1836 Congress meets at Washington, March; at Harrisburg, March; at Galveston, April 16; and at Velasco......May, 1836 Public and secret treaties with Santa Ana signed at Velasco......May 14, 1836 Gen. Sam Houston inaugurated as president of Texas at Columbia......Oct. 22, 1836 Congress of United States acknowledges independence of Texas......March, 1837 Congress meets at Houston......May, 1837 Convention to fix the boundary-line between the United States and Texas concluded at Washington, April 25, 1838, and ratifications exchanged Oct. 12, and proclaimed ......Oct. 13, 1838 Act of congress approved for carrying into effect the convention of Oct. 13, 1838......Jan. 11, 1839 By act of Texan congress, Dec. 10, 1836, the permanent f
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Van Buren, Martin 1782-1862 (search)
Van Buren, Martin 1782-1862 Eighth President of the United States, from March 4, 1837, to March 4, 1841; Democrat; born in Kinderhook, N. Y., Dec. 5, 1782; was educated at the village academy; studied law with William P. Van Ness; and was admitted to the bar in 1803. Having a taste for politics, he early engaged in it, being a member of a nominating convention when he was eighteen years of age. In 1808 he was appointed surrogate of Columbia county, and was sent to the State Senate in 1812. From 1815 to 1819 he was attorney-general of the State of New York; and was again Senator in 1816, holding both offices at the same time. He began a new organization of the Democratic party in 1818, and became the leader of a body of politicians known as the Albany regency (q. v.). It held the political control of the State for nearly twenty years. Mr. Van Buren was elected to the United States Senate in 1821, and was also in the convention that revised the State constitution. In the lat
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wallace, David Duncan 1874- (search)
Wallace, David Duncan 1874- Educator; born in Columbia, S. C., May 23, 1874; graduated at Wofford College in 1894; elected Professor of History and Economics at Wofford College in 1899. He is the author of Constitutional history of South Carolina, 1725 to 1775; Arrival of the tea, and the origin of the extra-legal organs of Revolution in South Carolina, etc.; and editor of McCrady's South Carolina under the proprietary government.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Warfield, Ethelbert Dudley 1861- (search)
Warfield, Ethelbert Dudley 1861- Educator; born in Lexington, Ky., March 16, 1861; graduated at Princeton College in 1882 and at Columbia Law School in 1885; president and Professor of History at Miami University in 1888-91; became president and Professor of History at Lafayette College in the latter year; is chaplain-general of the Sons of the American Revolution. His publications include The Kentucky revolutions of 1798, an Historical study; Memoir of Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, U. S. N., etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washingtoniana. -1857 (search)
on to the administration, and his reception was not so warm as it had been during his tour in New England. He stopped a few days on the Potomac, and selected the site for The President's House in Philadelphia, 1794. the national capital. His course lay through Virginia by way of Richmond into North Carolina, and by a curved route to Charleston, S. C. He extended it to Savannah, Ga., whence he ascended the right bank of the river to Augusta; and, turning his face homeward, passed through Columbia and the interior of North Carolina and Virginia. The journey of 1,887 miles was made with the same pair of horses. Washington strongly desired to retire to private life at the close of his first term as President. The public more strongly desired his continuance in office. It was a critical time in the life of the republic, and he patriotically yielded to what seemed to be the demands of public interests, and became a candidate for re-election. The lines between the two political pa
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Whittier, John Greenleaf 1807-1892 (search)
beloved physician, from that beautiful land of plenty and peace which Bayard Taylor has described in his Story of Kennett, was not to be overlooked. Abolitionist in heart and soul, his house was known as the shelter of runaway slaves; and no sportsman ever entered into the chase with such zest as he did into the arduous and sometimes dangerous work of aiding their escape and baffling their pursuers. The youngest man present was, I believe, James Miller McKim, a Presbyterian minister from Columbia, afterwards one of our most efficient workers. James Mott, E. L. Capron, Arnold Buffum, and Nathan Winslow, men well known in the antislavery agitation, were conspicuous members. Vermont sent down from her mountains Orson S. Murray, a man terribly in earnest, with a zeal that bordered on fanaticism, and who was none the more genial for the mob-violence to which he had been subjected. In front of me, awakening pleasant associations of the old homestead in Merrimac valley, sat my first sch
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Williams, Edward P. 1833- (search)
Williams, Edward P. 1833- Naval officer; born in Castine, Me., Feb. 26, 1833; graduated at the United States Naval Academy, June 10, 1853; promoted lieutenant, Sept. 16, 1855, and lieutenant-commander in July, 1862; was one of the volunteers under Admiral Dahlgren to attack Fort Sumter. During that action, on the night of Sept. 8, 1863, he commanded the sailors and marines in the first division of boats; was taken prisoner and held in Columbia, S. C., for a year, till exchanged; promoted commander in July, 1866. He was placed in command of the steamer Oneida in the Asiatic fleet. On Jan. 24, 1870, he sailed from Yokohama, and at 6.30 P. M. his vessel collided with the English mailsteamer Bombay in Tokio Bay and sank in a few minutes. Twenty-two officers, including Williams, and 115 men were lost.
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