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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Depew , Chauncey Mitchell ,1834 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dickerson , Mahlon ,1770 -1853 (search)
Dickerson, Mahlon, 1770-1853
Statesman; born in Hanover, N. J., April 17, 1770; graduated at Princeton in 1789; practised law in Philadelphia, where he became recorder of the city court.
He returned to New Jersey, was elected a member of the legislature in 1814, governor of the Statein 1815, and United States Senator in 1816.
He was Secretary of the Navy under Presidents Jackson and Van Buren.
He died in Succasunna, N. J., Oct. 5, 1853.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Duane , William John ,1780 -1865 (search)
Duane, William John, 1780-1865
Lawyer; born in Ireland in 1780; was Secretary of the United States Treasury in 1833, but was opposed to General Jackson's action in the matter of the United States Bank, and was therefore removed from office.
He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 27, 1865.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Eaton , John Henry ,1787 -1856 (search)
Eaton, John Henry, 1787-1856
Statesman; born in Tennessee in 1787; was United States Senator from Tennessee in 1818-29; resigned to become Secretary of War under President Jackson; appointed governor of Florida Territory in 1834; resigned to become United States minister to Spain in 1836.
He published a Life of Andrew Jackson, who was his colleague in the Senate for two years. He died in Washington, D. C., Nov. 17, 1856.
See Eaton, Margaret L. O'Neill.
Eaton, John Henry, 1787-1856
Statesman; born in Tennessee in 1787; was United States Senator from Tennessee in 1818-29; resigned to become Secretary of War under President Jackson; appointed governor of Florida Territory in 1834; resigned to become United States minister to Spain in 1836.
He published a Life of Andrew Jackson, who was his colleague in the Senate for two years. He died in Washington, D. C., Nov. 17, 1856.
See Eaton, Margaret L. O'Neill.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Eaton , Margaret L. O'Neill ,1796 -1879 (search)
Eaton, Margaret L. O'Neill, 1796-1879
Daughter of William O'Neill, an Irish hotel-keeper in Washington; born in 1796, and after the death of her first husband, John B. Timberlake, she married John Henry Eaton, United States Senator from Tennessee.
Upon the appointment of her husband to the office of Secretary of War, Mrs. Eaton was not recognized socially by the wives of the other members of the cabinet.
President Jackson interfered, and demanded that Mrs. Eaton should receive the usual social courtesies.
In consequence of these social quarrels, a disruption of the cabinet took place in 1831.
After Mr. Eaton's death his widow married an Italian.
She died in Washington, Nov. 8, 1879.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Emucfau, battle of. (search)
Emucfau, battle of.
On a bend in the Tallapoosa River, in Alabama, was a Creek village named Emucfau.
Jackson, with a considerable force, approaching the place (Jan. 21, 1814), saw a wellbeaten trail and some prowling Indians, and prepared hit artillery.
When Coffee fell back to guard approaching cannon, the Indians, thinking it was a retreat, again fell upon Jackson, but, after a severe struggle, were repulsed.
Jackson made no further attempt to destroy the encampment at Emucfau.
HeJackson made no further attempt to destroy the encampment at Emucfau.
He was astonished at the prowess of the Creek warriors.
In their retrograde movement (Jan. 24), the Tennesseeans, were again threatened by the Indians, near Enotochopco Creek.
A severe engagement soon ensued; but the Tennesseeans, having planted awhich sent them yelling in all directions.
The slaughter among the Indians was heavy, while that among the white troops was comparatively light.
In the two engagements (Emucfau and Enotochopco), Jackson lost twenty killed and seventy-five wounded.
Falkland Islands, the
In 1831 the policy of President Jackson towards foreign nations was intimated in his instructions to Louis McLane, his first minister to England, in which he said, Ask nothing but what is right; submit to nothing that is wrong.
In this spirit he dealt with the lessee of the Falkland Islands, lying east of Patagonia, South America.
These islands were under the protection of Buenos Ayres, and had been leased to Don Louis Vernet, who undertook to compel sailing vessels to take out license to catch seals under his authority.
He captured three American vessels, and when the news of this and other outrages reached the United States, the President, always prompt in the vindication of the rights of his countrymen against foreign aggressors, sent Captain Duncan, in the ship-of-war Lexington, to protect American sealers in that region.
In December, 1831, he broke up Vernet's establishment, restored the captured prop-
Fair Oaks. erty to the owners, and sent sev
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Falling waters, skirmish near. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fowltown, battle of (search)
Fowltown, battle of
An engagement in 1817 fought by National troops under Gen. E. P. Gaines and hostile Creek Indians during the Seminole War in Florida.
The Indians had committed depredations on the frontier settlements of Georgia and Alabama. General Gaines followed them up, and on the refusal of the inhabitants of Fowltown to surrender the ringleaders he took and destroyed the Indian village, for which the Indians soon afterwards retaliated by capturing a boat conveying supplies for Fort Scott up the Apalachicola River, and killing thirty-four men and a number of women.
This event led General Jackson to take the field in person against the Indians early in January, 1818.