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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Texas, (search)
s criminals, Esproneda and Garza, and escape with them to Mexico......Aug. 12, 1877 Mob 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 c
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Financial and manufacturing. (search)
housand pianos, and are used by many of the leading piano manufacturers in the United States. The standard action Co. David A. Barber, George Bates, and Willis Mabry began the manufacture of pianoforte actions under the above firm name January 1, 1889. In 1890 Horace T. Skelton was admitted an equal partner; the firm has remained unchanged since that date. The product of the house is sold all over the Union where pianos are made. The volume of business has increased rapidly, and there 188235 persons. January 1, 188340 persons.17, 7 00 square feet. January 1, 188459 persons. January 1, 188565 persons. January 1, 188689 persons. January 1, 1887104 persons.58,831 square feet. January 1, 1888134 persons. January 1, 1889148 persons. January 1, 1890163 persons. January 1, 1891181 persons. January 1, 189216 persons. January 1, 1893280 persons.178, 765 square feet. January 1, 1894366 persons. January 1, 1895422 persons. January 1, 1896975 p
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XIV: return to Cambridge (search)
pretty strict party lines. . . . I don't feel that I have wasted time and strength; it has done me no apparent harm and made me feel that I am younger and stronger than I thought . . . the morning disappointment already seems a good way off. Margaret dances about and says, O papa, I'm so glad you are not elected. Restored to the quiet of his study, he edited, with his friend Mrs. Ella H. Bigelow, a volume of American Sonnets; in 1888, wrote his book Travellers and Outlaws; and on New Year's Day, 1889, the diary recorded: Looking forward also to my volume of poems, the fulfilled dream of a life; and soon adds: Translated two Camoens sonnets and revised Ruckert's Cradle Song and got them into volume. This was his first volume of verse and was called An Afternoon Landscape. A little later, he writes:— Jan. 29. At printing office—last proofs. I shall miss the fine and delicate pleasure of revising these verses—the flower of my life; a sort of witchhazel. When a summons <
History of the First Universalist Church in Somerville, Mass. Illustrated; a souvenir of the fiftieth anniversary celebrated February 15-21, 1904, The C. C. C. (search)
members, with the entire privileges of the same. On the list of members, during the club's existence, are thirty-one persons, five or six of whom never had any connection with Cross-street. It is needless to give the subjects which were debated at these meetings; they were the usual ones propounded in such gatherings. If to-day we smile at them, we must remember that they served their purpose Very well, and helped the young men to acquire ease in extemporaneous speaking. Up to January 1, 1889, eight meetings were held, with an average attendance of 9.8, with A. W. Glines, H. M. Haven, S. C. Earle present at each meeting, William Moore absent once, William T. Hayes absent twice, etc. The meeting of February 9, 1889, was a social one, that of April 4, Fast Day, was an out-of-doors affair, when the club and their friends took an outing to Blue Hills, via Readville. Each season the club made a visit on the pastor of the society, Rev. C. A. Skinner; the evening of April 18 wa
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Chapter 6: seventy years young 1889-1890; aet. 70-71 (search)
even decades of my years I figure like those Pleiad spheres Which, throa the heaven's soft impulse moved, Still seek a sister star beloved. Throa many sorrows, more delight, Throa miracles in sound and sight, Throa battles lost and battles won, These star-spaced years have led me on. Though long behind me shows the path, The future still its promise hath, For thoa the past be fair and fond, The perfect number lies beyond. J. W. H. She was dissatisfied with herself in these days. January 1, 1889. In my prayer this night I asked for weight and earnestness of purpose. I am too frivolous and frisky. On waking I said, If God does not help me this day, I shall not be able to finish my address. [for a Washington's Birthday celebration at Newport] She thinks He did help her, as she found the vein of what she wished to say, and finished it to her tolerable satisfaction. As I entered the hall in the evening, the thought of Cinderella struck me, and I used it by comparing the
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 1., William Cushing Wait. (search)
is a Trustee of the Ministerial Fund of the First Parish. He also holds memberships in the New England Free Trade League, Massachusetts Reform Club (Executive Committee), Reform Club, New York, Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Twentieth Century Club, Appalachian Mountain Club, Suffolk Bar Association, and Young Men's Democratic Club of Massachusetts. He is the author of numerous historical sketches of towns and cities in the United States census of 1880, of law articles in American and English Encyclopedia of Law, and is a frequent contributor to the local press. His interest in the formidable array of organizations enumerated is an active one, and their several demands, coupled with the extensive law business of his firm, occupy his time fully. Mr. Wait is a ready and pleasing speaker, a companionable friend, a loyal advocate of every movement bearing upon the best interests of our city. He was married Jan. 1, 1889, to Miss Edith Foote Wright, and has no other family.