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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Colorado, (search)
reede......January, 1892 Forest preserve, Pike's Peak, set apart by proclamations of President Harrison, Feb. 11, and supplementary......March 18, 1892 Conclave of the grand encampment of the Knights Templar of the United States formally opens at Denver......Aug. 9, 1892 Death, at Wilmington, O., of Gen. James W. Denver, in whose honor Denver was named......Aug. 9, 1892 Panic of ‘93 and closing of silver-mines......June, 1893 Bull Hill war inaugurated at Cripple Creek......March, 1894 Militia ordered out and United States government called to assist in settling city hall troubles......June, 1894 Adjutant-General Tarsney assaulted and maltreated at Colorado Springs......June 23, 1894 Great fire destroying Cripple Creek......April, 1896 Strike of Leadville miners inaugurated......June 19, 1896 Strike of coal-miners at Walsenburg, resulting in international complications......December, 1896 Leadville strike settled and militia returned......Feb. 22, 1897
. The religious side was not neglected, however, as on Easter Sunday, 1893, twenty-nine individuals joined the church, and every Easter thereafter saw many more new recruits added. Lecture courses were conspicuous during these years, as Mr. Powers believed in that form of entertainment, and had faith in their money-raising qualities. Illustrated lectures of travel, lectures on the Bible, lectures by city officials, etc., were all more or less successful. At the annual meeting in March, 1894, the parish, on Mr. Powers' initiative, appointed a committee to investigate the advisability, cost, etc., of building a hall on the lot in the rear of the church for the social purposes of the society and its auxiliaries. On May 14 this committee reported, and the parish voted to build. The hall was completed and opened November 23, 1894, and in less than two years it was paid for. But what a strenuous time! In the spring of 1895, and again in the fall of the same year, we held fiv
1. Resigned, June 16, 1862. Van Loan, Lyman W. First Lieutenant, 34th Mass. Infantry, Aug. 6, 1862. Captain, Sept. 24, 1864. Mustered out, June 16, 1865. Van Moll, George E. Second Lieutenant, 1st Battalion Frontier Cavalry, Mass. Volunteers, or 26th N. Y. Cavalry, Apr. 15, 1865. Mustered out, June 30, 1865. Vassell, Barnard B. Second Lieutenant, 15th Mass. Infantry, Aug. 1, 1861. First Lieutenant, Aug. 11, 1862. Mustered out, Nov. 6, 1862. Died at Worcester, Mass., Mar., 1894. Vaughan, Benjamin. First Lieutenant, 61st Mass. Infantry, Feb. 1, 1865. Brevet Captain, U. S. Volunteers, Apr. 9, 1865. Mustered out, May 15, 1865. Vaughan, Jere C. Second Lieutenant, 58th Mass. Infantry, Mar. 25, 1864. First Lieutenant, Aug. 8, 1864; not mustered. Mustered out, July 26, 1865, as Second Lieutenant. Vaughan, Varnum V. Second Lieutenant, 53d Infantry, M. V. M., in service of the U. S., Oct. 17, 1862. Mustered out, Sept. 2, 1863. Vincent, Albert H.