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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hawaii, Hawaiian Islands, (search)
Hawaii, Hawaiian Islands, Or Sandwich Islands, a group of eight large islands and some islets in the North Pacific Ocean, on the border of the tropics, something over 2,000 miles southwest of San Francisco. Hawaii is by far the largest of the group, and Oahu contains the capital, Honolulu. These islands are mountainous, containing several well-known A bit of Honolulu, from the Harbor. volcanoes, and are remarkably productive. Sugar leads as an article of export, followed by rice, bananas, and hides. The area is 6,640 square miles, and the population in 1900 was 154,001. About onehalf of this number were natives or halfcastes; there were several thousands each of Chinese, Japanese, and Portuguese; while the American. British, and German contingents, though smaller, were, of course, very influential. Discovered by Captain Cook in 1778, this former island kingdom in 1819 renounced in form idolatry, and received American missionaries in 1820. A constitution was granted in
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hinton, Richard Josiah 1830- (search)
Hinton, Richard Josiah 1830- Author; born in London, England, Nov. 25, 1830; came to the United States in 1851; settled in Kansas in 1856; served in the National army throughout the Civil War, attaining the rank of colonel. He engaged in journalism in Washington, New York, and San Francisco. He is the author of Life of Abraham Lincoln; Life of William H. Seward; Handbook of Arizona; Life of Gen. P. H. Sheridan; John Brown; The making of the New West, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hittell, John Sherzer 1825- (search)
Hittell, John Sherzer 1825- Author; born in Jonestown, Pa., Dec. 25, 1825; graduated at Miami University in 1843; settled in California in 1849, and was a journalist in San Francisco for twenty-five years. His publications include History of San Francisco; The resources of California, etc. Hittell, John Sherzer 1825- Author; born in Jonestown, Pa., Dec. 25, 1825; graduated at Miami University in 1843; settled in California in 1849, and was a journalist in San Francisco for twenty-five years. His publications include History of San Francisco; The resources of California, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hui Shen, (search)
things which were found by the Spaniards when they conquered America, exhibit the most surprising coincidences with the details of Asiatic beliefs and Asiatic civilization. So much is this the case that those independent observers who have known nothing of the story of Hui Shen have been convinced that there must have been some kind of communication between America and Asia since the beginning of the Christian era. Thirty-five of these coincidences are given by Mr. Edward P. Vining, of San Francisco, in his exhaustive study of the subject, contained in his work entitled, An inglorious Columbus. He says: Almost any one of these coincidences might be fortuitous, but it seems impossible that so many coincidences could have existed unless the civilization of one continent was to some extent borrowed from the other. It may be added that the majority of these coincidences point most unmistakably to Buddhism, and if not actually introduced by Hui Shen and the party of Buddhist priests wh
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jackson, Helen Maria Fiske 1831-1885 (search)
en Maria Fiske 1831-1885 Author; born in Amherst, Mass., Oct. 18, 1831; daughter of Prof. Nathan W. Fiske; was educated in the Ipswich Female Seminary; married Capt. Edward B. Hunt in 1852. She first became known as an author under the letters H. H. in 1875, when she married William S. Jackson. In 1879 she became deeply interested in the condition of the American Indians and their treatment by the United States government. In 1883, while a special commissioner to inquire into the circumstances of the Mission Indians of California, she studied the history of the early Spanish missions, and a short time prior to her death she wrote the President a letter pathetically asking for the righting of the wrongs of the Indian race. Her works include Verses; Bits of travel; Nelly's silver-mine; The story of Boone; A century of dishonor; Mammy Littleback and her family; Ramona; Glimpses of three coasts; Hetty's strange history, and others. She died in San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 12, 1885.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Junipero, Miguel Jose Serra 1713-1784 (search)
Junipero, Miguel Jose Serra 1713-1784 Missionary; born in the island of Majorca, Nov. 24, 1713; entered the Order of St. Francis in 1729; was sent to Mexico in 1750, where he was asigned to labor among the Indians of Sierra Gorda. When the Jesuits were expelled from Lower California in 1767, the Franciscans, under Junipero, were appointed to take charge of all the California missions. He founded the following missions: San Diego, Cal., July 16, 1769; San Carlos, at Monterey, June 3, 1770; San Antonio, July 14, 1771; San Gabriel, near Los Angeles, Sept. 8, 1771; San Luis Obispo, Sept. 1, 1772; San Francisco, June 27, 1776; San Juan Capistrano, Nov. 1, 1776; Santa Clara, Jan. 18, 1777; San Buenaventura, March 31, 1782. He died in Monterey, Cal., Aug. 28, 1784.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kip, William Ingraham 1811-1893 (search)
Kip, William Ingraham 1811-1893 Clergyman; born in New York City, Oct. 3, 1811; graduated at Yale College in 1831, and later at the General Theological Seminary; was ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1835; elected bishop of California in 1857. He was the author of Early Jesuit missions in America; The Olden time in New York, etc. He died in San Francisco, Cal., April 7, 1893.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kirchhoff, Charles William 1854- (search)
Kirchhoff, Charles William 1854- Engineer; born in San Francisco, Cal., March 28, 1854; graduated at the Royal School of Mines, Clausthal, Germany, in 1874. Returning to the United States he was chemist of the Delaware Lead Refinery in Philadelphia in 1874-79; managing editor of the Engineering and mining journal in 1883-86; and for several years was connected with The iron age, of which he became editor-in-chief in 1899. Since 1883 he has been special agent of the United States Geological Survey for the collection of statistics of the production of lead, copper, and zinc. He was president of the American Institute of Mining Engineers in 1898-99.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Klondike, (search)
ans. The first white man to enter the region was George W. Carmack, who staked the first claim on Bonanza Creek, in August, 1896. Here $14,200 were secured in eight days by three men. On July 14, 1897, a steamer from the Klondike arrived at San Francisco. On board were forty miners, who had more than $500,000 in gold dust, and there was $250,000 more for the Commercial Company. After an assay it was found that the Klondike gold was not as pure as that of California, there being combined with it a greater amount of iron, lead, etc. On July 17 of the same year a second steamer arrived at San Francisco, bringing sixty-eight miners, with $1,250,000 worth of gold. Immediately the Klondike fever became general, and so large was the number of gold-seekers that the capacity of all the steamers running to St. Michael, Juneau, and Dyea was overtaxed. For a time it was feared that many of these goldseekers would perish before the opening of the passes in the following spring on account
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Leland Stanford, Junior, University, (search)
Leland Stanford, Junior, University, The most generously endowed educational institution in the world, was opened for the reception of students in 1891. It is situated at Palo Alto, a short distance south of San Francisco, and was founded by Senator Leland Stanford as a memorial to his son, Leland Stanford, Jr. The property which Senator Stanford set apart for its maintenance was valued at $20,000,000. His widow has since increased the amount of endowment, and in 1899 it represented a total of $45,000,000. The buildings were constructed without regard to their cost, and are nowhere surpassed in beauty and fitness. Many of them are of yellow sandstone, and the Moorish style of architecture has been followed in their construction. The courses of instruction embrace almost every department of study imaginable, and provide a complete system of education from the kindergarten to the postgraduate course. There are not only schools of agriculture, machine-shops, and laboratories for
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