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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Art, Metropolitan Museum of, (search)
Art, Metropolitan Museum of, New York City, founded by the action of a public meeting held at the Academy of Music in November, 1869. In April, 1870, a charter was obtained from the legislature for the purpose of establishing a museum and library of art; of encouraging and developing the study of the fine arts; of the application of art to manufacture and to practical life; of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects; and to that end of furnishing popular instruction and recreation. Later the legislature authorized the Park Department to erect a two-story fire-proof building for its use in Central Park, the cost not to exceed $500,000, and also to set apart a tract of eighteen and a half acres in the eastern part of the Park between Eightieth and Eighty-fifth streets. The Museum was formally opened by the President of the United States, March 30, 1880. An addition on the south side and one on the north were made in 1894, increasing the total ground area from 233 by
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Minnesota, (search)
inued impositions by the whites; but it was quickly suppressed by a detachment of the regular army. See United States, Minnesota, in vol. IX. Territorial governors. Alex. Ramsey, of Pennsylvaniaappointed April 2, 1849 Willis A. Gorman, of IndianaappointedMarch 4, 1853 Samuel Medaryappointed1857 State governors. Henry H. Sibley elected 1857 Alexander RamseyelectedOct. 1858 Stephen Miller elected Oct. 1863 William R. Marshall, RepelectedNov. 7, 1865 Horace Austin, Rep elected Nov. 1869 Cushman K. Davis, Rep elected Nov. 1873 John S. Pillsbury, RepelectedNov. 2, 1875 Lucius F. Hubbard, RepelectedNov. 1881 Andrew R. McGill, RepelectedNov. 2, 1886 William R. Merriam, Repelected Nov. 1888 William R. Merriam, Repterm beginsJan. 1891 Knute Nelson, Repterm begins Jan. 1893 Knute Nelson, Repterm begins Jan. 1, 1895 David M. Clough term begins Jan. 24, 1895 John Lindterm begins Jan. 1, 1899 Samuel R. Van Sant.term beginsJan. 1, 1901 United States Senators Name. N
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Delaware, (search)
ion in public meeting at New Castle decide not to vote, as a protest against the interference......Nov. 17, 1863 Delaware creates her first State debt by issuing bonds for the sum of $1,000,000 for obtaining substitutes for the draft......1864 Equal rights convention held at Wilmington......Sept. 4, 1864 General tax act passed, including corporation tax on railroad capital stock, net earnings, and rolling stock......April, 1869 Woman's suffrage convention at Wilmington......November, 1869 Ratification of Fifteenth Amendment celebrated by colored people......April 14, 1870 New Castle, with a population of 2,300, incorporated as a city......1875 School bill passed; board of education to consist of the president of Delaware College, secretary of State, and State editor......1875 Act passed imposing a fine on any person taking part in any political torchlight parade......1881 High license bill passed by legislature......1889 Pillory and whipping for female c
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maryland, (search)
ct. 24, 1866 Legislature passes a very stringent Sunday law......1866 Johns Hopkins University incorporated......Aug. 24, 1867 New constitution, framed by a convention which met at Annapolis May 8, 1867, which abolishes office of lieutenant-governor, ratified by the people......Sept. 18, 1867 [Vote for, 27,152; against, 23,036.] New school law passed giving control of educational matters in each county to a board of county commissioners......April 1, 1868 State election in November, 1869, the whole Democratic ticket elected, and a legislature unanimously Democratic meets......Jan. 5, 1870 Legislature unanimously rejects the Fifteenth Amendment, and passes a school law vesting the supervision of schools in a State board, county boards, and school district boards......1870 State convention of those favoring the extension of the right of suffrage to women held at Baltimore......Feb. 29, 1872 Democratic National Convention at Baltimore nominates Horace Greeley, by
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), South Carolina, (search)
eston, Jan. 14, and completes its labors, March 17, ratified by the people, 70,558 to 27,288......April 14-16, 1868 South Carolina readmitted into the Union......June 25, 1868 State penitentiary at Columbia opened......1868 J. K. Jillson elected the first State superintendent of public instruction in South Carolina......1868 Legislature ratifies the Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States......March 16, 1869 State labor convention held at Columbia......November, 1869 Union Reform party organized and holds its first State convention at Charleston......June 16, 1870 Free common-school system established......1870 Tax-payers' convention held at the State capitol in Columbia to devise means for the redemption of the State from her financial embarrassments ......May, 1871 Owing to murder and outrage in the upper country, by the Ku-klux, President Grant, by proclamation, Oct. 12, suspends the hebeas corpus in the counties of Spartansburg, York,
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 29 (search)
1886, in refutation of the statements made on the battle-field by General Daniel E. Sickles, on the occasion of the Reunion, July 2, 1886, of the remnant of the Third Corps of the army of the Potomac, on the twenty-Third an-Niversary of the battle To the editor of the Weekly Press, of Philadelphia. Sir: A word of explanation of the circumstances which drew forth the following letter seems to be necessary. In an oration delivered before the Reunion Society of Vermont Officers in November, 1869, the orator, Colonel W. W. Grout, of that State, who had made the acquaintance of General D. E. Sickles, and had adopted the latter's views upon certain points relating to the battle of Gettysburg, advanced the theory—more familiar now than it was then —that General Sickles's famous movement on the second day of the battle was a fortunate step; that it kept General Meade from retreating to Pipe Creek, and that but for Sickles's movements the battle of Gettysburg might never have been fo
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 1: the Boston mob (second stage).—1835. (search)
6, 1835. See his Autobiography. and Lib. 5.182. defended by Samuel E. Sewall (An Abolitionist) and Lib. 5.186. Another Abolitionist. It was reconsidered at great Lib. 5.190. length, and again condemned, by Mr. Garrison, who Lib. 5.191, 197. reluctantly entered into the discussion—lest the charge should be made that my ignominious treatment disqualified me from being an impartial reviewer. A generation later it was reviewed in a lecture delivered by Wendell Phillips in Boston, in November, 1869, out of which grew a newspaper controversy, and was thereupon summed up in a brochure (freely cited above) by the son Papers relating to the Garrison Mob, Boston, 1870. and namesake of Mayor Lyman, with the result, so far as Mr. Garrison was concerned, of finding him guilty of ingratitude and of a dishonorable change of feeling towards a benefactor. Mr. Garrison's allowances for Mayor Lyman, in the narrative just given, show that he did not impute to him motives inconsistent with a des
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 9: Journalist at large.—1868-1876. (search)
trade finance, and other topics. His offer was eagerly accepted, and in the series of meetings which they held in the principal cities on their return journey from Kansas to New York, the ladies named shared the speaking with him, and listened without protest to his constant ridicule and vulgar abuse of the negro. The annoyance and mortification felt by many suffragists at this entangling alliance and its consequent degradation of the movement, led to the formation at Cleveland, in November, 1869, of the American Woman Suffrage Association, of which Henry Ward Beecher was made President, and to the subsequent establishment at Boston Jan., 1870. of the Woman's Journal. To both of these movements Mr. Garrison gave his active cooperation, and was especially helpful in launching the Journal, of which, for a time, he was an associate editor with Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Mrs. Lucy Stone, and T. W. Higginson. He was one of the Vice-Presidents also of the American
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 16: ecclesiastical History. (search)
C. 1834, D. D. 1851, was a stated supply from Jan., 1864, to May, 1864. Rev. Stephen G. Bulfinch, Columbian, Wash. 1827, D. D. 1864, was pastor from Sept., 1865, to July, 1869, and died in 1870. He was succeeded by Rev. Samuel W. McDaniel, in Nov., 1869, who resigned, July, 1874. The parish is now destitute of a pastor. Deacons. Elected.Held office until Cornelius ClarkJan. 27, 1830ResignedJan. 3, 1833 Abraham P. ShermanApril 3, 1831ResignedDec. 2, 1851 Robert VinalJan. 3, 1833Resignedational Church, 17 from the Second Congregational Church (recently disbanded), and the remaining 4 from different and distant churches. Manual and Historical Sketch of Stearns Chapel Church. Mr. Abbott was dismissed, at his own request, in November, 1869; he became assistant editor of the Congregationalist, published several books, and performed other literary work. After the change of name and removal of this church, Mr. Abbott returned to the scene of his former labors, and gathered a new
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
fter Sherman had turned that position on his march through the Carolinas, and he took part in the battles of Averasboro and Bentonville, N. C., among the fiercest of that long struggle, and in which the losses were severe for the numbers engaged. He was sick in hospital at Raleigh when the end of the war came—at that time nineteen years of age. Since the war he has pursued the vocation of a farmer in Laurens county, and is also vice-president of the bank of Laurens. He was married, in November, 1869, to Miss Mary E. Wright, daughter of James M. Wright, who was a captain in the Confederate army, and they have six children, three of whom are sons. One of the latter is James Wright Nash, lawyer, of Spartanburg, who was born in Laurens county, August 13, 1870, and graduated from Wofford college in 1890 as an A. B. During the winters of 1890, 1891 and 1892 he taught school, and in the fall of 1892 entered the law department of South Carolina college, of Columbia, from which he graduated