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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State laws, uniform (search)
their energies. And what is more, the statutes on all these subjects have generally been moulded upon a very few patterns, either a British act of Parliament or an act first passed by the legislature of New York, of Virginia, of Massachusetts, or of Connecticut. Thus the chapter of the Revised statutes of New York which deals with Testamentary powers, and the chapter on Uses and trusts, have been copied almost literally into the codes of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota; the law marching westward in pretty close touch with the parallel of latitude. Thus the task of those aiming at uniformity is somewhat simplified; they have in many fields of legislation to deal only with four or five groups of States, not with forty-five separate units. The Civil War did much to strengthen the national pan-American feeling of our citizens, North and South, East and West; and thus to lessen the stubbornness with which heretofore the men of one or the other State woul
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State regulation of railways. (search)
lk of imposing new burdens. In almost all—so far as is known, in all— other countries this is done. The States in which, as we see from the above list, there is not business enough to produce a profit on railway operation are the following: North Carolina,Alabama, South Carolina,Michigan, North Dakota,Kansas, Georgia,Missouri, Nebraska,Iowa. Texas, Other States there are for which the figures are not available, but which undoubtedly fall in the same category. These are: South Dakota,Utah, Montana,Wyoming, Washington,Florida, Oregon,Mississippi, Arizona,Indian Territory, Oklahoma,Colorado, New Mexico,and probably Nevada,Louisiana. In all of these States it would be an incomparably wiser policy to lighten the burdens of the railways as much as possible, and to encourage them to keep their properties in fitting condition to give adequate public service, rather than to attempt to further curtail revenues which are already inadequate. But it is not necessary
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Suffrage, woman. (search)
egislatures of Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, Vermont, Illinois, Oklahoma, Arizona, Indiana, Missouri, Michigan, and California. Woman suffrage amendments to the constitution were defeated by the people in the State elections of 1898 in South Dakota and Washington, and in Oregon in June, 1900. In Colorado, Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming, women have full suffrage and vote for all officers, including Presidential electors. The woman suffrage law was adopted in Wyoming in 1870, and in Coloradool officers, woman suffrage exists in a limited way in Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin. In Great Britain women vote for some local officers, but not for members of Parliament. In many European countries, in Australia and New Zealand, in Cape Colony, in Canada, and in parts of Indi
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sully, Alfred 1821- (search)
Sully, Alfred 1821- Military officer; born in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1821; son of Thomas Sully, the emigrant painter; graduated at West Point in 1841; served in the Seminole War, and in the war against Mexico. He was colonel of the 3d Minnesota Regiment early in 1862, and in the Peninsular campaign commanded a brigade. He was also in the principal battles of the Army of the Potomac in Maryland and Virginia until the close of that year, and in the battle of Chancellorsville. He was sent to Dakota Territory in 1863 to keep the Indians in subjection, where he was successful, and served in the Northeast until his death in Fort Vancouver, Washington Territory, April 17, 1879.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sun-worshippers. (search)
Nebraska2,52221,854148,355170,209 Nevada598683,3424,210 New Hampshire6106,20057,60063,800 New Jersey2,32940,552516,650357,202 New Mexico905924,9005,492 New York8,696125,7251,238,7231,364,448 North Carolina5,90546,897392,706439,603 North Dakota6945,37642,71948,095 Ohio7,66497,042679,788776,830 Oklahoma Territory8936,64434,32240,966 Oregon1,22311,86380,01791,880 Pennsylvania9,209140,5581,224,5711,365,129 Rhode Island3616,3274,93255,859 South Carolina4,70342,080340,303382,383 South Dakota8006,00048,37854,378 Tennessee4,47535,919239,416275,325 Texas3,85229,796240,993270,789 Utah1358008,5009,300 Vermont7787,90054,75562,655 Virginia4,20148,531293,336341,867 Washington8827,00053,00060,000 West Virginia2,02420,545152,945173,490 Wisconsin6,76822,880447,617470,497 Wyoming954558,4808,935 Total137,2931,399,71111,327,85812,727, 5696 Superior, Lake, discovery of. See Joliet, Louis; Marquette, Jacques; Allouez, Claude Jean; Dablon, Claude; Nicolet, Jean. Supreme Court
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Supreme Court, United States (search)
onsists of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island. Second—Connecticut, New York, Vermont. Third— Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Fourth—Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia. Fifth—Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas. Sixth—Kentucky. Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee. Seventh—Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin. Eighth—Arkansas, Colorado, Indian and Oklahoma Territories, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming. Ninth—Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington. On the following page is given a complete list of the justices of the United States Supreme Court, the names of the chief-justices being in italics. While United States minister to England, the Hon. E. J. Phelps wrote an essay on the Constitution of the United States, in which the Supreme Court of the United States is described as follows: The judicial power of the United Sta
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
9North Dakota1780PembinaFrench188970,795 40South Dakota1857Sioux FallsAmericans188977,650 41Montan 1861 Territorial government established in Dakota and Nevada......March 2, 1861 [No restric, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the Territories of Dakota and Nebraska; General Pope commanding......Sep68 Territory of Wyoming created of parts of Dakota, Utah, and Idaho......July 25, 1868 Freedmaf Nicaragua......Feb. 20, 1889 Act dividing Dakota into two States, and enabling the people of North and South Dakota, Montana, and Washington to form constitutions and state governments......Feb. onn.......July 1, 1889 Sioux reservation in Dakota (11,000,000 acres) ceded to the United States. 1890 Tatonka Otanka, Sitting Bull, born in Dakota, 1837, who posed as leading apostle in the ghoes of the Fort Berthold Indian reservation, South Dakota......May 20, 1891 Charleston reaches Calioux Congress opens at the Cheyenne agency, South Dakota; 6,000 Sioux Indians present......July 3, 1[2 more...]
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Iowa, (search)
Iowa, A State of the north-central United States, separated on the east by the Mississippi River from Wisconsin and Illinois. Minnesota bounds it on the north, South Dakota and Nebraska on the west —the Missouri River forming the boundary-line of the latter State—and Missouri on the south. It is limited in lat. by 40° 36′ to 43° 30′ N., and in long. by 89° 5′ to 96° 31′ W. Area, 56,025 square miles in ninety-nine counties. Population, 1890, 1,911,896; 1900, 2,231,853. Capital, Des Moines. Father Marquette and Louis Joliet descend the Wisconsin River, reaching its mouth June 17, 1673; 100 miles below, on the western shore of the Mississippi, they discover an Indian trail, which they follow to an Indian village, where Marquette publishes to them the one true God ......June, 1673 Father Louis Hennepin, M. Dugay, and six other Frenchmen ascend the Mississippi from the mouth of the Illinois to the falls of St. Anthony, leaving Fort Crevecoeur, Ill......Feb. 28, 16
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Michigan, (search)
d chartered......July 31, 1830 Governor Cass resigns; appointed United States Secretary of War......Aug. 1, 1831 George B. Porter appointed governor......Sept. 17, 1831 Troops raised in Michigan at the call of the United States government to engage in the Black Hawk War......May 22, 1832 Congress adds to Michigan the territory between the Mississippi River and the Missouri and White Earth rivers, thus including the whole of the present Minnesota, Iowa, and parts of North and South Dakota......June 28, 1834 Governor Porter dies; Stevens T. Mason acting governor......July 6, 1834 Question of southern boundary being agitated, Ohio commissioners, running a line about 12 miles southwest of Adrian, are captured by Michigan troops after several shots......April 26, 1835 Michigan having attained a population of over 60,000, a constitutional convention convenes at Detroit....... May 11, 1835 New constitution ratified by the people......Nov. 2, 1835 Enabling act for
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Minnesota, (search)
Minnesota, One of the northern frontier States of the Union, containing Lake Itasca, the source of the Mississippi River, is bounded north by Manitoba and Ontario, of the Dominion of Canada; east by Lake Superior and Wisconsin, south by Iowa, and west by North Dakota and South Dakota. It is limited in latitude from 43° 30′ to 49° N., and in longitude from 89° 29′ to 97° 15′ W. Area, 84,287 square miles, in eighty counties. Population, 1890, 1,301,826; 1900, 1,751,394. Capital, St. Paul. Daniel Greysolon du Luth, a native of Lyons, builds a trading-post at the entrance of Pigeon River, on north shore of Lake Superior (whence the name Duluth)......1678 Father Louis Hennepin ascends the Mississippi from the mouth of the Illinois, passes through Lake Pepin, and reaches the falls, which he names St. Anthony......October, 1680 Sieur du Luth, with four Frenchmen and an Indian, in two canoes, from his trading-post reaches a lake whose outlet enters the Mississippi, and on the
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