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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wisconsin, (search)
lroad Company......1847 Convention assembles at Madison, Dec. 15, 1847; frames a constitution and adjourns, Feb. 1, 1848. Constitution ratified by a popular vote of 16,442 to 6,149......March 13, 1848 Wisconsin admitted into the Union by act approved......May 29, 1848 First State legislature convenes June 5, and officers take the oath......June 7, 1848 First telegram received at Milwaukee from Chicago......Jan. 17, 1849 State Historical Society organized at Madison......Jan. 30, 1849 Amendment to the constitution conferring suffrage on colored men receives a majority of votes cast, but not a majority of all who voted for State officers, and the canvassers declare it rejected......Nov. 6, 1849 Lawrence University at Appleton chartered and opened......1849 University of Wisconsin at Madison, chartered 1848, opened......1849 First railroad train between Milwaukee and Waukesha......February, 1851 Question of banks or no banks submitted to the people of Wis
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 6., chapter 2 (search)
epartment of industry was entirely ruined by the growing popularity and sale of the silk variety which, having been then a few years upon the market, obtained and held undisputed sway till a new style, with low crowns, was set by Kossuth on his visit to the United States in December, 1851. In 1837 George L. and Henry L. Stearns commenced, on Union street, the manufacture of linseed oil from seed purchased in Calcutta. In one year they made 13,500 gallons from 7,300 bushels of seed. January 30, 1849, Loss, $12,000; insurance, $8,000. Boston Post, February 1, 1849. their factory was burned and never rebuilt. Its tall chimney was afterwards moved intact across the branch canal to the shipyard of J. O. Curtis, where it now stands, minus a few of its top bricks. The tide mill on Riverside avenue, recently managed by F. E. Foster & Co., was simply a grist mill in 1847, and was run by Gershom Cutter. All the above named industries, so far as Medford is concerned, are now things
The Daily Dispatch: January 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
nection, I would be derelict to the obligations of duty, if I did not impress upon the Legislature the necessity and propriety of scrutinizing closely all old claims against the Commonwealth. The contract in this case was entered into as far back as the year 1848. There being some difference of opinion in regard to the materials used, the manner in which the work was executed and the measurement, Governor Floyd had the work examined and measured by disinterested parties, and on the 30th day of January, 1849, awarded to the contractor the sum of $3,043 39. In examining the papers on file, preparatory to making the statement required by our resolution, I ascertained that a bill had on several occasions passed one or the other House of the Legislature, allowing to this contractor upwards of $1,000, with interest thereon from the date of the contract in 1848 till paid, as a balance ascertained to be due to him. Great attention and close scrutiny is necessary to protect the treasury agai