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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Navy of the United States (search)
0S.6 Catskill1,875Single-turret monitorI.340S.2 Jason1,875Single-turret monitorI.340S.2 Lehigh1,875Single-turret monitorI.340S.2 Montauk1,875Single-turret monitorI.340S.2 Nahant1,875Single-turret monitorS.340S.2 Manila1,800GunboatI.750S.2 Bennington1,710GunboatI.3,436T. S.6 Concord1,710GunboatS.3,405T. S.6 Yorktown1,710GunboatS.3,392T. S.6 Ships of the Navy in 1901.—Continued. Third rate Name.Displacement (Tons).Type.Hull.Indicated Horse-Power.Propulsion.Guns (Main Battery） Topeka1,700GunboatI.2,000S.8 Dolphin1,486Despatch-boatS.2,253S.3 Wilmington1,392Light-draft gunboatS.1,894T. S.8 Helena1,392Light-draft gunboatS.1,988T. S.8 Adams1,375CruiserW.800S.6 Alliance1,375CruiserW.800S.6 Essex1,375CruiserW.800S.6 Enterprise1,375CruiserW.800S.1 Nashville1,371Light-draft gunboatS.2,536T. S.8 Monocacy1,370Light-draft gunboatI.850P.6 Castine1,177GunboatS.2,199T. S.8 Machias1,177GunboatS.2,046T. S.8 Chesapeake1,175GunboatComp.2,046Sails6 Don Juan de Austria1,159Gunb
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Thayer, Eli 1819-1899 (search)
Thayer, Eli 1819-1899 Educator; born in Mendon, Mass., June 11, 1819; graduated at Brown College in 1845; established the Oread Institute, Worcester, Mass., in 1848; member of the legislature in 1853-54, during which period he organized and founded the Emigrant Aid Company and endeavored to unite the North in favor of his scheme to send into Kansas anti-slavery settlers. His company founded Topeka, Lawrence, Manhattan, and Ossawatomie, of which places Gov. Charles Robinson said: Without these settlements Kansas would have been a slave State without a struggle; without the Aid Society these towns would never have existed; and that society was born of the brain of Eli Thayer. Mr. Thayer was a member of Congress in 1857-61. He invented an automatic boiler cleaner, an hydraulic elevator, and a sectional safety steamboiler. His publications include a history of the Emigrant Aid Company; several lectures; a volume of his speeches in Congress; and the Kansas crusade. He died in Worc
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
party for President, Fillmore and Donelson. Last appearance of the Whig party in politics.] Eighteenth Presidential election held......Nov. 4, 1856 Third session convenes......Dec. 1, 1856 Dispersion of the free-State legislature at Topeka, Kansas, by Federal troops......Jan. 6, 1857 Electoral votes counted......Feb. 11, 1857 Death of Elisha Kent Kane (arctic explorer), at Havana, Cuba, aged thirty-five......Feb. 16, 1857 Act to confirm to the several States the swamp and over Stephen Field at Lathrop, Cal., is shot dead by United States Marshal Nagle......Aug. 14, 1889 Cronin murder trial begins in Chicago......Aug. 30, 1889 Deep Harbor Convention, with delegates from fifteen States and Territories, meets at Topeka, Kan., to consider the security of a harbor on the Texas coast......Oct. 1, 1889 Pan-American congress organizes in Washington, D. C.......Oct. 2, 1889 International marine conference meets in Washington, D. C.......Oct. 16, 1889 Work forma
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
St. Louis, reaches site of Lawrence, June 12; Topeka, June 14; and thence travels northwest to the ings, and appoint delegates to a convention at Topeka, Sept. 19, to draw up a State constitution andec. 9, 1856 Free-State legislature meets at Topeka, Governor Robinson absent; Judge Cato grants aseat Whitfield......Feb. 11, 1857 Cities of Topeka, Atchison, and Manhattan incorporated......Febsand five hundred Mennonite immigrants come to Topeka in September and purchase 100,000 acres of lan1880 Greenback Labor party in convention at Topeka nominates H. B. Vrooman for governor......Julyruary, 1881 Meeting of Farmers' Alliance at Topeka......Sept. 14, 1881 George W. Glick, Democrarmers' Alliance and State Grange, convenes at Topeka and nominates John F. Willits for governor....nfantry mustered into United States service at Topeka, Frederick Funston, colonel, May 9-13, and saititutional......1900 Good roads congress at Topeka......September, 1900 Carrie Nation wrecks l[33 more...]
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Mexico, (search)
ess to close on Sunday......1876 Ute Indians removed from New Mexico to the Colorado reservation......April–July, 1878 Gen. Lew. Wallace, governor of New Mexico......Oct. 1, 1878 First railroad track laid within New Mexico, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe, crossing Raton Pass......Nov. 30, 1878 Locomotive on the new Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad reaches Las Vegas......July 4, 1879 Apache Indians under Chief Victorio kill the herds and capture the horses of Captain HooTopeka, and Santa Fe Railroad reaches Las Vegas......July 4, 1879 Apache Indians under Chief Victorio kill the herds and capture the horses of Captain Hooker's command at Ojo Calient, Socorro county, and open an Indian war which lasted several months, resulting in the death of many settlers and the destruction of much property......Sept. 3, 1879 Massacre by Apaches at McEver's ranch, rear Hillsboro, followed in a few weeks by other massacres and destruction of property at and near Mason's and Lloyd's ranches, west of Mesilla......Sept. 11, 1879 The New Mexican Christian advocate (M. E. Church), No. 1, Vol. I,, English and Spanish monthly
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Texas, (search)
b of Mexicans and Texan citizens of Mexican birth attack State troops at San Elizario and six persons are killed......Dec. 13, 1877 State capitol destroyed by fire......Nov. 9, 1881 University of Texas at Austin, chartered 1881, opened......1883 Corner-stone of new capitol laid......March 2, 1885 New State capitol dedicated......May 16, 1888 State reformatory near Gatesville opened......Jan. 1, 1889 Convention of delegates from fifteen States and Territories assembles at Topeka, Kan., to devise means for securing a deep harbor on the coast of Texas......Oct. 1, 1889 Act passed designating Feb. 22 as Arbor Day......1889 John T. Dickinson appointed secretary of the National World's Columbian commission......June 27, 1890 Congress appropriates $500,000 to improve Galveston Harbor, and authorizes the Secretary of War to contract for the completion of the work; estimated to cost $6,200,000......September, 1890 United States Senator John H. Reagan resigns, to t
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Kansas Volunteers. (search)
Quindaro, Wyandotte County, January 20, 1862; thence to Shawneetown March 12. Expedition to Little Santa Fe, Mo., against guerrillas March 22-25 (Cos. D and E ). Independence, Little Santa Fe, March 22. Moved to Lawrence, thence to Topeka, Kansas, April 20-26, and to Fort Riley May 1-4 to join New Mexico Expedition. Companies A and D detached as escort to Paymaster Fisk to Fort Lyon, Colo., and return to Fort Larned May 20-June 22. Companies B and C detached as garrison at Fort Rias City, Mo., August, and duty there till January, 1864. Skirmish with Quantrell at Paola August 21, 1863 (Detachment). Company I detached at St. Louis, Mo., as Provost Guard July and August, 1863, rejoining at Kansas City. Company K at Topeka, Kan., September to November, 1863. Regiment moved to St. Louis, Mo., January, 1864, thence to Alton, Ill., and guard Military Prison there till August, 1864. Non-Veterans moved to St. Louis, Mo., and mustered out August 19-20, 1864. Vetera
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, chapter 1.13 (search)
sing a Governor, Judges, Legislators, Executive State officers and municipal functionaries must inevitably have been included. Assuming the good faith of the framers of the Act, the Free State men proceeded to carry out their principles-first, by repudiating the code of enactments compiled by the invaders, and denying the authority of the officers they had elected and appointed to execute them; and, secondly, by calling on the pioneers to choose representatives to a Convention to be held at Topeka, for the purpose of forming a State Constitution. The squatters did so; the Topeka Constitution was adopted; and, on the 15th of January, 1856, an election under it, for State officers and legislators, was held throughout the Territory. The pro-slavery Mayor at Leavenworth forbade an election being held there. But there was one man, Captain R. P. Brown,--as brave a hero as his venerable namesake-who determined to resist this tyranny; and, on the adjournment of the polls to a neighboring
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 8: the conquest of Kansas complete. (search)
nvaders, for they, as soon as they crossed over the border, were organized into Territorial militia. The face of Freedom was gloomy; every where the South was triumphant, or had conquered; only one additional indignity remained to be inflicted. Topeka had hitherto escaped the ravages of the ruffians. There, Colonel Aaron C. Stevens, a man afterwards destined to be immortally associated in fame with John Brown, had a company of Free State boys, who were ever on the alert to defeat the designs ower of the invaders; the army, and the Government, Federal and Territorial, the Bench and the Jury box were in the hands of the oppressor; and our State Organization had been destroyed by the Dragoons; but this assemblage of eight hundred men at Topeka, on the 4th of July, inspired a feeling of unity and power never known before ; and, slowly coming to the Territory, with a little army, but a mightier influence of inspiring rude men with furious passions, was General Jim Lane; while, in the woo
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 9: battle of Ossawatomie. (search)
their inland strongholds. Let us follow John Brown during this eventful period. From the 4th of July till the 30th of August, he was neither idle nor inactive. With a wounded son-in-law, who had been shot at the battle of Black Jack, he left Topeka about the end of July; and, on the 5th of August, entered the camp of the organized Northern companies, then known as Jim Lane's army, at a place four miles from the northern boundary line, which the emigrants had named Plymouth, in honor of the n disguise. The old hero and his party then proceeded to Nebraska City, or Tabor, in Iowa, and left the wounded man and his brother there. General Lane was not with his army, but came down with a few friends,--among them Captain Brown,reached Topeka on the night of the 10th of August; and at once took command of the Free State forces. He immediately started for Lawrence, and, on arriving there, found that the Northern boys were preparing to attack the Georgians, then at Franklin. He and Ca
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