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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hunter , David 1802 -1886 (search)
Hunter, David 1802-1886
Military officer; born in Washington, D. C., July 21, 1802; graduated at West Point in 1822; was appointed colonel of the 6th Cavalry in May, 1861; and commanded the main column of the Union troops, as brigadiergeneral, in the battle of Bull Run, where he was severely wounded.
In August he was made major-general of volunteers; served under Fremont in Missouri; and superseded him in November.
In the spring of 1862 he was in command of the Department of the South.
He commanded the Department of West Virginia in the summer of 1864, where he was active for a while.
For his various services he was brevetted major-general in 1865.
He was retired in 1866, and died in Washington, D. C., Feb. 2, 1886.
In the spring of 1862 General Hunter was in command of the Department of the South.
He declared martial law in his department.
Giving a free interpretation to his instructions from the War Department, he took measures for organizing regiments of negro troops;
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), International order of the King 's daughters and Sons, (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Inundations. (search)
Iron, Martin 1832-
Labor leader; born in Scotland, Oct. 7, 1832; emigrated to the United States in 1846; and later settled in Lexington, Mo.; joined the Knights of Labor and organized and led the famous Missouri Pacific Railroad strike of 1886.
He died in Bunceville, Tex., Nov. 17, 1900.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jackson , Howell Edmunds 1832 -1895 (search)
Jackson, Howell Edmunds 1832-1895
Jurist; born in Paris, Tenn., April 8, 1832; graduated at the West Tennessee College in 1848; admitted to the bar in 1856; elected United States Senator from Tennessee in 1881, but resigned in 1886, when he was appointed United States district judge by President Cleveland; appointed justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1893. He died in West Meade, Tenn., Aug. 8, 1895.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), James , Edmund Janes 1855 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jenks , Jeremiah Whipple 1856 - (search)
Jenks, Jeremiah Whipple 1856-
Educator; born in St. Clair, Mich., Sept. 2, 1856; graduated at the University of Michigan in 1878; and was admitted to the bar of that State.
Later he taught German, Latin, and Greek at Mount Morris (Ill.) College.
In 1886-89 he was Professor of Political Science and English Literature at Knox College, Galesburg, Ill.; in 1889-91 was Professor of Political Economy and Social Science in the Indiana University; and in 1891 became Professor of Political Science in Cornell University.
He is the author of Henry C. Carey als Nationalokonom; Road legislation for the American State, and contributions on monopolies, political methods, etc., to reviews, magazines, and encyclopedias in the United States, Germany, and England.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jouett , James Edward 1828 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Keane , John Joseph 1839 - (search)
Keane, John Joseph 1839-
Clergyman; born in Ballyshannon, Ireland, Sept. 12, 1839; came to the United States in 1846; was educated in St. Charles's College and St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore; ordained a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in 1866, and assigned to St. Patrick's Church, Washington.
He remained there till Aug. 25, 1878, when he was consecrated Bishop of Richmond, Va. He became rector of the Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C., in 1886, and held that post till 1897, when he resigned at the Pope's request and went to Rome.
He was an associate editor of the revised edition of Johnson's universal Cyclopaedia in 1892-95.
In 1897, having received from Rome a leave of absence for two years, he returned to the United States, and in September, 1900, was appointed Archbishop of Dubuque, to succeed the late Archbishop John Hennessy.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Keeler , James Edward 1857 - (search)
Keeler, James Edward 1857-
Astronomer; born in La Salle, Ill., Sept. 10, 1857; graduated at Johns Hopkins University in 1881; and in the same year accompanied Professor Langley on the Mount Whitney expedition for the study of solar physics.
He then went abroad and studied for two years with Quincke, in Heidelberg, and with Von Helmholz, in Berlin.
He was appointed assistant astronomer of the Lick Observatory in 1886, and when the observatory was transferred to the State (June, 1888), he was made full astronomer.
He was director of the Allegheny Observatory in 1889-98, and on June 1, 1898, was made director of the Lick Observatory.
Professor Keeler was a member of many American and foreign scientific societies, among them the Royal Astronomical Society of Great Britain, and in 1898 was awarded the Rumford medal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He wrote extensively for The Astrophysical journal and other technical periodicals.
He died on Mount Hamilton, Cal., Aug.