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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gray, Asa 1810-1888 (search)
Gray, Asa 1810-1888 Botanist; born in Paris, N. Y., Nov. 18, 1810; studied botany under Dr. John Torrey, Professor of Natural History at Harvard College in 1842-73; became widely known by his textbooks on botany, which are in general use throughout the United States. He was the author of Elements of Botany; Structural and systematic Botany; Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States; Gray's botanical text-book, and many others. He died in Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 30, 1888.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
87 Fiftieth Congress, first session, opens......Dec. 5, 1887 President Cleveland's third annual message......Dec. 6, 1887 Anarchist Most sentenced to one year's imprisonment......Dec. 8, 1887 Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, geologist, born 1829, dies at Philadelphia......Dec. 22, 1887 Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Manning, born 1831, dies at Albany, N. Y.......Dec. 24, 1887 Secretary Lamar resigns......Jan. 7, 1888 Asa Gray, botanist, born 1810, dies at Cambridge, Mass.......Jan. 30, 1888 David R. Locke, Petroleum V. Nasby, Confederate X Roads, born 1833, dies at Toledo, O.......Feb. 15, 1888 W. W. Corcoran, philanthropist, born 1798, dies at Washington, D. C.......Feb. 24, 1888 A. Bronson Alcott, born 1799, dies at Boston, Mass., March 4, and Louise M. Alcott, his daughter, novelist, born 1832, dies at Boston......March 6, 1888 Blizzard on the Atlantic coast; thirty lives lost; $10,000,000 worth of property destroyed; about 4 feet of snow falls in New York C
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
, dies at Medford......Nov. 22, 1885 Charles Francis Adams, Sr., born 1807, dies at Boston......Nov. 21, 1886 State property in the Hoosac tunnel and Troy and Greenfield Railroad sold to Fitchburg Railroad Company......1887 First Monday in September (Labor Day) made a legal holiday at session of legislature, which adjourns......June 16, 1887 Spencer F. Baird, naturalist, born 1823; dies at Wood's Holl......Aug. 19, 1887 Asa Gray, botanist, born 1810, dies at Cambridge......Jan. 30, 1888 Ballot law modelled on the Australian system adopted by legislature at session ending......May 29, 1888 Gen. P. H. Sheridan, born 1831, dies at Nonquit......Aug. 5, 1888 Maria Mitchell, astronomer, born 1818, dies at Lynn......June 28, 1889 Maritime exhibition opens at Boston......Nov. 4, 1889 Great fire at Lynn; 296 buildings destroyed; 80 acres burned over; loss, $5,000,000......Nov. 26, 1889 Haverhill celebrates its 250th anniversary......July 2, 1890 Cyclone visi
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wrecks. (search)
ovember, 1886 American schooner Harvey Mills founders, 60 miles southwest of Cape Flattery, Wash.; twenty-three lives lost......Dec. 14, 1886 American bark Atlantic stranded at entrance to Golden Gate, Cal.; twenty-seven lives lost......Dec. 17, 1886 American ship St. Stephen, from Port Townsend to San Francisco, founders at sea; twenty-seven lives lost......April, 1887 British bark Abercorn stranded on Damon's Point, north of Gray's Harbor, Wash.; twenty-two lives lost......Jan. 30, 1888 American ferry-boat Julia explodes her boiler at South Vallejo, Cal.; thirty lives lost......Feb. 27, 1888 American bark Ohio stranded near Point Hope, Alaska; twenty-five lives lost......Oct. 3, 1888 United States steamers Trenton and Vandalia wrecked, and the Nipsic stranded, in a storm at Apia, Samoan Islands; fifty-one lives lost. In the same storm the German steamers Adler and Eber are wrecked, with a loss of ninety-six lives......March 16, 1889 American steamer Alaskan