hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 1 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 1 1 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Your search returned 4 results in 4 document sections:

Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morgan, Edwin Dennison 1811-1883 (search)
time, and in 1849 was elected to a seat in the New York Senate, which he occupied until 1853. The Republican party had no more efficient and wise adviser and worker than Mr. Morgan, and he was made chairman of its New York State Committee. In 1859 he was elected governor of New York, and in 1861 was reelected. Governor Morgan was one of the most energetic of the war governors. During the Civil War, his brain, his hand, and his fortune were at the service of his country. His administration was marked by a great decrease in the public debt of the State and an Edwin Dennison Morgan. increase in the revenue from the canals. Such impetus did his zeal, patriotism, and energy give to the business of raising troops for the war that the State sent about 220,000 men to the field. From 1863 to 1869 Mr. Morgan was United States Senator, and then retired from public life. In 1867 Williams College conferred upon him the honorary degree of Ll.D. Ile died in New York City, Feb. 14, 1883.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
at Heliopolis; removed to Alexandria 22 B. C.] Alfred B. Street, poet, born at Poughkeepsie, 1811, dies at Albany......1881 United States Senators Conkling and Platt resign......May 16, 1881 Warner Miller and Elbridge G. Lapham elected......July 17, 1881 Thurlow Weed, politician and journalist, dies at New York City, aged eighty-five......Nov. 22, 1882 Grover Cleveland, Democrat, elected governor......November, 1882 Edwin D. Morgan, born 1811; dies at New York City......Feb. 14, 1883 Commission of statistics of labor established by law......May 4, 1883 East River suspension bridge, connecting New York and Brooklyn, opened......May 24, 1883 Civil service commission created by law......May 29, 1883 Centennial of the disbanding of the army of the Revolution celebrated at Newburg......Oct. 18, 1883 New railroad (cantilever) bridge across the Niagara below the falls opened......Dec. 20, 1883 New York State dairy commission established by law......April 2
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 18 (search)
er. Miss Seward might well omit this sentence, as it spoils entirely her theory. The omission of Mr. Seward's name from the speech is significant. He had led the Danish negotiator into a pitfall, and his name therefore received no grateful mention. Raasloff's career as a public man ended with his diplomatic failure, and with the fall of his ministry as the consequence; and leaving his country he passed the rest of his life abroad, chiefly in Paris, and died in the suburb of Passy, Feb. 14, 1883, at the age of sixty-seven. He was in New York in May, 1872, but he had become soured by disappointment, and kept aloof from Washington. Within a month before General Raasloff left Washington in 1869, there was a new President, General Grant, and a new Secretary of State, Mr. Fish, neither of whom showed favor to the treaty, the former dismissing it summarily as a scheme of Seward's, and he would have nothing to do with it; and the latter sending to Mr. Sumner notes which indicated a
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 2 (search)
eral, U. S. Army, March 2, 1867. Transferred to 5th U. S. Infantry, Mar. 15, 1869. Brig. General, Dec. 15, 1880; accepted Dec. 18, 1880. Maj. General, Apr. 5, 1890; accepted, Apr. 14, 1890. Now (1894) commanding the U. S. Army. Morgan, Edwin Dennison. Born at Washington, Berkshire County, Mass., Feb. 8, 1811. Maj. General, U. S. Volunteers, Sept. 28, 1861, the state of New York being created a military department under his command. Resigned, Jan. 1, 1863. Died at New York City, Feb. 14, 1883. Noyes, Edward Follansbee. Born at Haverhill, Mass., Oct. 3, 1832. Major, 39th Ohio Infantry, July 24, 1861. Served under General Pope at the capture of New Madrid and Island No.10. Lieut. Colonel, July 8, 1862. Colonel, Nov. 1, 1862. Present at all the important engagements of the Atlanta campaign till after the battle of Ruff Mills where he was severely wounded; assigned to the command of Camp Dennison. Brevet Brig. General, U. S. Volunteers, Mar. 13, 1865. Resigned, Apr. 22