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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
Washington, aged seventy-six......April 10, 1858 An act to admit Kansas under the Lecompton constitution......May 4, 1858 Minnesota admitted as the thirty-second State......May 11, 1858 Congress authorizes a loan of $20,000,000......June 14, 1858 First session adjourns......June 14, 1858 Second treaty with China of peace, amity, and commerce......June 18, 1858 Debates in the senatorial contest in Illinois between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas during......June and July, 1858 Remains of James Monroe, fifth President of the United States, buried at New York, 1831, taken up and conveyed to Virginia......July 2, 1858 Lecompton constitution for Kansas rejected by the people of Kansas, 11,088 to 1,788......Aug. 2, 1858 Atlantic submarine telegraph completed......Aug. 5, 1858 First message from Queen Victoria to President Buchanan......Aug. 16, 1858 [After twenty-three days, 400 messages having been transmitted, the cable lost its conducting power.]
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Washington, (search)
Juan Islands, formerly claimed by Great Britain, were decided, in 1872, by the arbitration of the Emperor of Germany, State seal of Washington. to belong to the United States. Washington was admitted as a State in 1889. Olympia is the capital. The population in 1890 was 349,390; in 1900, 518,103. See United States, Washington, vol. IX. Territorial governors. I. I. Stevensassumes officeNov. 28, 1853 Fayette McMullenassumes officeSeptember, 1857 C. H. Mason, actingassumes officeJuly, 1858 Richard D. Gholsonassumes office1859 Henry M. McGill, actingassumes officeMay, 1860 W. H. Wallaceassumes office1861 L. J. S. Turney, actingassumes office1861 William Pickeringassumes officeJune, 1862 Marshall F. Mooreassumes office1867 Alvan Flandersassumes office1869 Edward S. Salomonassumes office1870 Elisha Pyre Ferryassumes office1872 William A. Newellassumes office1880 Watson C. Squireassumes office1884 Eugene Sempleassumes office1887 Miles C. Mooreassumes office1888 S
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 14 (search)
visits to the National Library, where he turned over the engravings. Mr. Bemis, who met Sumner in Paris later in his sojourn, was astonished at his efforts in studying engravings,—helped, as he was, in and out of a cab, getting in and out almost on fours, and all the time struggling and hoping for health with heroic resolution. Sumner enjoyed very much at this time Fergusson's History of Architecture, which he had bought just before sailing. Mrs. Grote wrote to Madame du Quaire in July, 1858:— I was glad of an opportunity of informing myself respecting the sanitary condition and prospects of that illustrious martyr. The imposing dignity of his stature, his fine classic head, his resignation under agonizing experiments, and heroic acquiescence in his stricken destiny, form an ensemble which, if I were not now cured of making enthusiastic sacrifices to sentiment, would move me to put myself forward as ministering consolatrice to this most interesting of sufferers. The wo
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1861. (search)
to come to Harvard; and, after a little brushing up in my studies, came on. I reached Cambridge in August, was examined in September, and admitted as an undergraduate. Owing to my poor fit in the classics, and especially in the Greek, I was conditioned in Greek Grammar and prose reading, but soon rubbed the conditions off. The first vacation I spent with my relatives in Wyoming County. The next term I trained with other members of my Class for the race to come off at Springfield in July, 1858. Owing to the death of one of the Yale crew by drowning, the race was given up. I trained the next term for rowing. We pulled in the Juniata at the celebration of the anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill, our boat taking the second prize. In July following I pulled at Worcester in the College Regatta. Our boat (the Avon) was beaten by the shell boats (being a lap-streak), but beat the others of the same class. If any member of the Class of 1861 had been asked, at the time of g
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1862. (search)
the summer of 1853, Henry was placed under the care of the late George D. Porter, and afterwards of Sidney Willard, who fell at Fredericksburg as Major of the Thirty-fifth Massachusetts Volunteers. Mr. Willard was of the greatest service to Henry in developing his physical powers by gymnastic exercises, —boxing, rowing, walking, and fencing. Under his tuition he passed four happy years, during the last of which his eyes became sensibly better. Having completed his preparatory studies in July, 1858, he obtained admission to the Freshman Class of Harvard College, passing a satisfactory examination and entering without conditions. He was at once recognized as a leader by his classmates, and took an active and prominent position among them. Hardly had he begun, however, the duties of his first term in College, before the old weakness of the eyes returned, and increased to such an extent that, at last, much against his will, he was compelled to yield to the command of his medical ad
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 2 (search)
Born at Waltham, Mass., Apr. 9, 1821. Second Lieutenant, 4th U. S. Artillery, June 18, 1855; accepted, June 27, 1855. At Fort Independence, Boston, Mass., to Oct., 1856. In Florida, to Sept., 1857. First Lieutenant, Jan. 10, 1857. Acting Assistant Quartermaster and Assistant Commissary of Subsistence of an artillery battalion, en route from Tampa, Fla., to Fort Leavenworth, Kan. With company at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., to Apr., 1858. Establishing Quartermaster's depot at Nebraska City to July, 1858. Joined company at Fort Kearney, Neb., and Acting Assistant Quartermaster and Commissary of post. At Fort Ridgley, Minn. Joined light battery of regiment at Camp Floyd, Utah, to May, 1861. Regimental Quartermaster, Feb. 20, 1861, to Aug. 24, 1861. Joined regiment at Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Md., July, 1861. Captain and Assistant Quartermaster, U. S. Army, Aug. 3, 1861; accepted, Aug. 26, 1861. In charge of transportation, Washington, D. C., to Feb., 1863. Lieut. Colonel, U. S. Volunt
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), The civil history of the Confederate States (search)
Brown having fled from Kansas, conceived a plan which he secretly but not fully divulged in a meeting of a few fanatics like himself. (American Conflict, 287.) In pursuance of his scheme to excite an insurrection of slaves in one State of the South, and to place himself at the head to organize a general uprising, he chose Virginia as the ___location of his first blow. He conceived the bold plan of attacking Harper's Ferry, and to prepare for the surprise, he rented a small farm in Maryland, July, 1858, under an assumed name, and collected a small amount of fire arms and ammunition, besides 1,000 pikes. A few followers, part of them his sons, gathered at his residence and were secreted until the hour came to strike his blow which captured Harper's Ferry, October, 1859. Brown held his captured garrison for a day and night, put out pickets, distributed arms for the use of negroes and for the short while terrified the citizens. He was, however, soon attacked and driven into an engine hou
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Mrs. Jefferson Davis. (search)
relating to our own and foreign countries, and she takes the liveliest interest in stirring events of the present as well as those of the past. It was the first time I had had the pleasure of meeting Mrs. Davis, although I had for many years known some of her intimate friends. I have been interested in Mississippi since 1850, when my brother, Andrew Jackson Curtis, settled in Vicksburg, where he lived until failing health compelled him to return to St. Lawrence county, where he died in July, 1858. He was a personal friend of Mrs. Davis, and among my brother's papers were several letters from him relating to political affairs in Mississippi. On my entering Richmond, April 12, 1865, I became a guest of James H. Grant, whose house adjoined the Davis mansion, and Mrs. Grant was one of Mrs. Davis' intimate friends. At that time Mrs. Grant related to Mrs. Curtis and myself many incidents of Mrs. Davis' kindness to the soldiers and afflicted people of Richmond. I came to know at
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., Why Medford? (search)
the origin of the name of the town of Medford, tracing it through the Cradock family— the original owners of the plantation on the Mystic river—to the manor of Metford in Staffordshire in England, also owned by the same family. The change from Metford to Medford, Mr. Brooks said, could not be explained. The name was written in different ways in the town records, but, since 1715, was invariably spelt as at present time. [From proceedings of >Massachusetts Historical Society, Meeting of July, 1858.] Extract from diary of Rev. Charles Brooks, Medford July 15th, 1858. Today I met with the Mass. Hist. Soc'y and gave an account of the origin of the name of Medford. Perhaps it will not be misplaced, if recorded here. For substance I stated as follows:— After three years search in England I have received some facts from Mr. Somerby, which together with some in my possession, seem to settle the question. Mathew Cradock, first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay in New Engla<