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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 4 4 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 3 3 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 2 2 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4 1 1 Browse Search
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 1 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli 1 1 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 1 1 Browse Search
The picturesque pocket companion, and visitor's guide, through Mount Auburn 1 1 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pennsylvania, (search)
edger of Philadelphia founded, price one cent......March 25, 1837 Charter of Second United States Bank expires (see United States record, 1832-34)......1837 United States Bank of Pennsylvania and all other banks of the State suspend specie payment during the commercial panic of......1837 State constitution amended......Feb. 20, 1838 Pennsylvania Hall in Philadelphia, dedicated as an abolition hall on the 14th, is burned by a mob......May 17, 1838 Buckshot war......November-December, 1838 [In a close election between Whigs and Democrats for control of the legislature, which was to choose a United States Senator, both parties charged fraud. The Whigs ultimately receded from their position, leaving the Democrats in power. A remark made that the mob would feel the effect of ball and buckshot before night gave this episode the name of buckshot war. ] Iron successfully made with anthracite coal at Mauch Chunk......Jan. 12, 1839 United States Bank of Pennsylvania aga
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vermont, (search)
a Senate and General Assembly......1836 Vermont asylum for the insane at Brattleboro, incorporated November, 1834, is opened......December, 1836 Legislature adopts anti-slavery resolutions......1837 State capitol at Montpelier completed......1837 Small band of Vermont patriots, organized on the Canada side of the Vermont line to invade the province, threatened by 1,600 or 1,700 Canadian troops,. decide to return to Vermont, but are compelled to surrender by General Wool......December, 1838 Marble first quarried at Rutland......1844 License law passed......1844 School fund abolished to pay the State debt......1845 First slate quarry in the State opened at Fairhaven......1845 Act providing State superintendent of common schools, with town superintendents and district committees......Nov. 5, 1845 Local option law passed......1846 Two brass field-pieces, captured at Bennington, given to Vermont by Congress......July 10, 1848 Jacob Collamer appointed P