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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Villard, Henry 1835- (search)
or the Cincinnati Commercial. During the Civil War he was a Washington correspondent for Western and Eastern papers. In 1873 he purchased the Oregon and California Railroad and the Oregon steamship companies for German stockholders, and two years later became receiver, with C. S. Greeley, of the Kansas Pacific Railroad. He then organized the Oregon and Transcontinental Company, which gained control of the Northern Pacific and of the Oregon Railway and Pacific companies. He was president of the Northern Pacific in 1881-84, and chairman of the board of directors of the same company in 1889-93. He bought the Edison Lamp Company, of Newark, N. J., and the Edison Machine Works, of Schenectady, N. Y., in 1890, and from these formed the Edison General Electric Company, of which he was president for two years. He was the author of The Pike's Peak gold regions, and was a liberal promoter of educational, religious, and charitable institutions. He died in Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., Nov. 11, 1900.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), War of 1812, (search)
ry on Lake Erie......Sept. 10, 1813 Detroit, Mich., reoccupied by the United States forces......Sept. 28, 1813 Battle of the Thames, Upper Canada; Harrison defeats Proctor; death of Tecumseh......Oct. 5, 1813 Action at Chrysler's Field, on the northern shore of the St. Lawrence, about 90 miles above Montreal......Nov. 11, 1813 Jackson's campaign against the Creek Indians......November, 1813 Gen. George McClure, commanding a Brigade on the Niagara frontier, burns the village of Newark, Canada, and evacuates Fort George, opposite Fort Niagara (he is severely censured)......Dec. 10, 1813 Fort Niagara captured by the British......Dec. 19, 1813 Buffalo and Black Rock burned by the British and Indians......Dec. 30, 1813 General Jackson defeats and crushes the Creek Indians at Great Horse Shoe Bend, on the Tallapoosa......March 27, 1814 Frigate Essex, Capt. David Porter, surrenders to the British ships Phoebe and Cherub in the harbor of Valparaiso, Chile......March
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ward, Marcus Laurence -1884 (search)
Ward, Marcus Laurence -1884 Born in Newark, N. J., Nov. 9, 1812; was a delegate to the National Republican conventions in Chicago in 1860 and in Baltimore in 1864; governor of New Jersey in 1865-68; chairman of the national Republican committee in 1866; member of Congress in 1873-75. He was a member of the New Jersey Historical Society, improved the condition of the State-prison, and was an active philanthropist. He died in Newark, N. J., April 25, 1884. Ward, Marcus Laurence -1884 Born in Newark, N. J., Nov. 9, 1812; was a delegate to the National Republican conventions in Chicago in 1860 and in Baltimore in 1864; governor of New Jersey in 1865-68; chairman of the national Republican committee in 1866; member of Congress in 1873-75. He was a member of the New Jersey Historical Society, improved the condition of the State-prison, and was an active philanthropist. He died in Newark, N. J., April 25, 1884.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washington, D. C. (search)
the governor averred that forty-one volunteer regiments had already been accepted, and that a part of these were already in the national capital. New York was equally prompt and patriotic, and its troops soon pressed forward to Washington. New Jersey was equally aroused. Governor Olden, inspired by the enthusiastic loyalty of his people, issued a call for his State's quota two days after the President's proclamation. The Trenton banks tendered a loan to the State, and the authorities of Newark appropriated $100,000 for the maintenance of families of volunteers, and $15,000 for the equipment of the soldiers. On the 30th the legislature met and appointed Theodore Runyon commander of the New Jersey forces; and then the movement towards Washington began. Pennsylvania, under the guidance of her energetic governor (Curtin), had appropriated (April 12) $500,000 for arming and equipping the militia of the State; and when news of the attack on Fort Sumter reached Philadelphia the excitem
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Weston, Edward 1850- (search)
Weston, Edward 1850- Electrician; born in England, May 9, 1850; came to the United States in 1870, and became chemist in the American Nickel-plating Company; studied dynamo-electric machinery in 1872; and invented the first copper-coated carbons in 1873. Two years later he settled in Newark, N. J., where he established the Weston Dynamo-Electric Machine Company in 1877, and four years later merged it with the United States Electric Lighting Company, of which he was electrician until 1888. He has made many improvements in electric lighting and other electrical devices. In 1888 he was made president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Whitehead, William Adee 1810-1884 (search)
Whitehead, William Adee 1810-1884 Historian; born in Newark, N. J., Feb. 19, 1810; became a surveyor and made a survey of Key West, Fla., in 1828; was United States customs collector there in 1830-38; then removed to New York and became a stock-broker. He was one of the founders of the Newark Library Association and was corresponding secretary of the New Jersey Historical Society from its establishment in 1845 till his death. He was the author of East Jersey under the proprietary governments; Papers of Lewis Morris, Governor of New Jersey; Analytical index to the colonial documents of New Jersey, in the State paper office in England; Biographical sketch of William Franklin; Contributions to the early history of Perth Amboy, etc. He died in Perth Amboy, N. J., Aug. 8, 1884.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wigger, Winand Michael 1841- (search)
ier College in 1860; studied theology at Seton Hall Seminary, South Orange, N. J., in 1860-62; and Brignoli Sali Seminary, Geneva, 1862-65; ordained in the Roman Catholic Church in 1865; and was assistant president of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Newark, N. J., in 1865-69; rector of St. Vincent's Roman Catholic Church, in Madison, N. J., in 1869-73; of St. John's, in Orange, N. J., in 1874-76; and again at St. Vincent's till 1881, when he was consecrated bishop of Newark. He died in South Orange, ; studied theology at Seton Hall Seminary, South Orange, N. J., in 1860-62; and Brignoli Sali Seminary, Geneva, 1862-65; ordained in the Roman Catholic Church in 1865; and was assistant president of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Newark, N. J., in 1865-69; rector of St. Vincent's Roman Catholic Church, in Madison, N. J., in 1869-73; of St. John's, in Orange, N. J., in 1874-76; and again at St. Vincent's till 1881, when he was consecrated bishop of Newark. He died in South Orange, N. J., Jan. 5, 1901.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Williamson, Hugh 1735-1819 (search)
lliamson, Hugh 1735-1819 Statesman; born in West Nottingham, Pa., Dec. 5, 1735; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1757; studied divinity; preached a while; and was Professor of Mathematics in his alma mater (1760-63). He was one of the committee of the American Philosophical Society appointed to observe the transit of Venus in 1769, of which he published an account; also an account of the transit of Mercury the same year. Being in England to solicit aid for an academy at Newark, N. J., he was examined (1774) before the privy council concerning the destruction of the tea at Boston. He returned home in 1776, and engaged, with his brother, in mercantile pursuits in Charleston, S. C. Afterwards he practised medicine at Edenton, N. C.; served in the North Carolina House of Commons; also as a surgeon in the North Carolina militia (1781-82). He was a delegate in Congress (1782-85 and 1787-88), and in the convention that framed the national Constitution. He was again in Con
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