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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Peet , Stephen Denison 1830 - (search)
Peet, Stephen Denison 1830-
Clergyman; born in Euclid, O., Dec. 2, 1830; graduated at Beloit College in 1851 and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1854; was active in the ministry of the Congregational Church in 1855-66; later became known as an archaeologist.
In 1878 he founded and became editor of The American Antiquarian, the first journal in the United States devoted entirely to archaeology.
His publications include History of Ashtabula county, Ohio; Ancient architecture in America; History of early missions in Wisconsin; Primitive symbolism; Mound builders; Animal effigies; Cliff dwellers; The effigy mounds of Wisconsin, etc.
St. Louis,
Known as the Mound City, on the west bank of the Mississippi River, about 15 miles below the mouth of the Missouri.
When St. Louis came into the,
A bit of old St. Louis. possession of the United States, March 10, 1804, there were only two American families in the place, and 925 inhabitants in all. There were about 150 houses and three streets: La Rue Principale (Main Street), La Rue de LaEglise (Second Street); and La Rue des Granges (Third
The Mississippi at St. Louis. Street); the whole encircled by fortifications.
The population by the United States census shows as follows: 1810, 1,400; 1820, 4,598; 1830, 6,694; 1840, 16,469; 1850, 77,860; 1860, 160,773; 1870, 310,864; 1880, 350,518; 1890, 451,770; and in 1900, 575,238.
St. Louis received its name from Pierre Ligueste Laclede in 1764, when he established it as a post of the Louisiana Fur Company. Five years later Spanish troops, under Captain Rios, took possession (Aug. 11, 1768), but exercised no civil fu
Thomas, Cyrus 1825-
Ethnologist; born in Kingsport, Tenn., July 27, 1825; was admitted to the bar and practised till 1865; became assistant on the United States geological and geographical surveys of Territories in 1869; accepted the chair of Natural Sciences at the Southern Illinois Normal University in 1873; appointed archaeologist to the United States Bureau of Ethnology in 1882.
He is the author of The Cherokees and Shawnees in pre-columbian times; Mound explorations of the Bureau of Ethnology; Prehistoric works East of the Rocky Mountains; Introduction to American Archceology, etc.