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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bank of the United States . (search)
Bank of the United States.
Alexander Hamilton, observing the prosperity and usefulness to the commercial community and the financial operations of the government, of the Bank of North America, Bank of New York, and Bank of Massachusetts, which held the entire banking capital of the country before 1791, recommended the establishment of a government bank in his famous report on the finances (1790), as Secretary of the Treasury.
His suggestion was speedily acted upon, and an act for the purpose was adopted Feb. 8, 1791. President Washington asked the written opinion of his cabinet concerning its constitutionality.
They were equally divided.
The President, believing it to be legal, signed the bill, and so made it a law. The bank received a charter, the existence of which was limited to twenty years. It soon went into operation, with a capital of $10,000,000, of which amount the government subscribed $2,000,000 in specie and $6,000,000 in stocks of the United States.
The measure w
Bible.
The first Bible printed in America was Eliot's Indian translation, issued at Cambridge.
Mass, in 1663.
A German edition of the Bible, in quarto, was printed at Germantown, near Philadelphia, in 1743, by Christopher Saner.
In 1782 Robert Aitkin, printer and bookseller in Philadelphia, published the first American edition of the Bible in English, also in quarto form; and in 1791 Isaiah Thomas printed the Bible in English, in folio form, at Woreester.
Mass. This was the first in that form issued from the press in the United States.
The same year Isaac Collins printed the English version, in quarto form, at Trenton, N. J.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Blair , Francis Preston 1791 -1876 (search)
Blair, Francis Preston, 1791-1876
Statesman: born in Abingdon, Va., April 12, 1791 was originally a supporter of Henry Clay, but became an ardent Jackson man in consequence of the agitation over the Bank of the United States (q. c.), and at the suggestion of the President established The globe in Washington, D. C., which was the recognized organ of the Democratic party until 1845, when President Polk displaced him. The Spanish mission was offered to Mr. Blair by the President, but refused.
In 1864 his efforts led to the unsatisfactory peace conference of Feb. 3, 1865.
He died in Silver Spring, Md., Oct. 18., 1876.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Brown , Nicholas 1769 -1841 (search)
Brown, Nicholas, 1769-1841
Philanthropist; born in Providence, R. I.. April 4, 1769: son of Nicholas Brown, 1st; was graduated at Rhode Island College (afterwards Brown University in 1786; became a very successful merchant in 1791; was a member of the Rhode Island legislature, and giving money liberally to his alma mater, the name of Brown University was given to it. He gave in all about $100,000 to that college, and liberally patronized other institutions of learning.
He gave nearly $10,000 to the Providence Athenaeum, and bequeathed $30,000 for an insane asylum in Providence.
He died in Providence, Sept. 27, 1841.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Burden , Henry 1791 -1871 (search)
Burden, Henry, 1791-1871
Inventor; born in Dumblane, Scotland, April 20, 1791; lived on a farm, and early in life evinced his inventive taste by designing a variety of labor-saving machinery.
In 1819 he came to the United States, and first engaged in the manufacture of farming implements.
Afterwards he designed machines for making horse-shoes and the hook-headed spikes used on railroads; an improved plough; an automatic machine for rolling iron into bars; the first cultivator made in the United States; and a machine which received a rod of iron and turned out horse-shoes at the rate of sixty a minute.
He died in Troy, N. Y., Jan. 19, 1871.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Burke , Aedanus 1743 -1802 (search)
Burke, Aedanus, 1743-1802
Jurist; born in Galway, Ireland, June 16, 1743; was educated at St. Omers for a priest; emigrated to
View of the place where the British laid down their arms. South Carolina, and there engaged with the patriots in their conflict with Great Britain.
He was a lawyer, and in 1778 was made a judge of the Supreme Court of South Carolina.
He served two years in the army; was in Congress (1789-91); and after serving in the State legislature, he became chancellor of the common-wealth.
He died in Charleston, S. C., March 3, 1802. Judge Burke was a thorough republican, and wrote a famous pamphlet against the Cincinnati Society (q. v.) that was translated into French by Mirabeau, and used by him with much effect during the French Revolution.
Burke opposed its aristocratic features.
He also opposed the national Constitution, fearing consolidated power.
Burke, Edmund
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Butler , Richard 1760 - (search)
Butler, Richard, 1760-
Military officer; born in Ireland; came to America before 1760; was a lieutenant-colonel in the Pennsylvania line in the Continental army, and also of Morgan's rifle corps in 1777.
Butler served throughout the war; was agent for Indian affairs in Ohio in 1787; and was with St. (lair in his expedition against the Indians, late in 1791, commanding the right wing of his army, with the rank of major-general.
In that expedition he was killed by Indians in a battle in Ohio, Nov. 4, 1791.