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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ripley, Eleazar Wheelock 1782- (search)
Ripley, Eleazar Wheelock 1782- Military officer; born in Hanover, N. H., April 15, 1782; was a nephew of President Wheelock, of Dartmouth College; studied and practised law in Portland; was in the legislature of Massachusetts, and was chosen speaker of the Assembly in 1812. He was also State Senator. In March, 1813, he was appointed colonel of the 21st Infantry. He was active on the Northern frontier until appointed brigadier-general in the spring of 1814, when he took part in the events on the Niagara frontier. For his services during that campaign he received from Congress the brevet of major-general and a gold medal. General Ripley left the army in 1820; practised law in Louisiana; was a member of the State Senate; and was a member of Congress from 1834 till his death in West Feliciana, La., March 2, 1839. He was wounded in the battle at York, and in the sortie at Fort Erie he was shot through the neck. These wounds caused his death.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Shays, Daniel 1747-1825 (search)
Shays, Daniel 1747-1825 Insurgent; born in Hopkinton, Mass., in 1747; was an ensign in Woodbridge's regiment at the battle of Bunker Hill, and became a captain in the Continental army. His place in history was obtained by his leadership of an insurrection in Massachusetts in 1786-87. In other portions of the Union, discontents like those which produced the State of Frankland (q. v. ) caused revolutionary movements. A convention of the people of Maine, sitting in Portland (September, 1786), considered the expediency of erecting themselves into an independent State, but nothing came of it. In Massachusetts a more formidable movement took place. The General Court had voted customs and excise duties to produce a revenue sufficient to meet the interest on the State. debt. Besides this burden laid upon them, the people were suffering from private indebtedness. There were taxes to meet the instalments to be paid on the principal of the State debt, and, also, responses had to be
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Shepley, ether 1789- (search)
Shepley, ether 1789- Jurist; born in Groton, Mass., Nov. 2, 1789; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1811; practised law in Saco and Portland; was in the Massachusetts legislature in 1819; in the Maine constitutional convention in 1820; United States district attorney for Maine in 1821-23; United States Senator in 1833-36; became a justice of the Supreme Court of Maine in 1836; was chief-justice in 1848-55; and sole commissioner to prepare the Revised statutes of Maine. He died Jan. 15, 1877.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Shepley, George Foster 1819- (search)
ry officer; born in Saco, Me., Jan. 1, 1819; son of Chief-Justice Ether Shepley; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1837; studied at the Harvard Law School and at Portland; and began the practice of law at Bangor. President Polk appointed him United States district attorney, which post he held until 1861, when he became colonel o from July 2, 1862, until 1864. On the surrender of Richmond (April, 1865), he was made military governor of that city. He resigned in July, and resumed the practice of law in Portland. In 1869 he was appointed United States circuit judge for the first circuit, and held the office till his death in Portland, Me., July 20, 1878.a from July 2, 1862, until 1864. On the surrender of Richmond (April, 1865), he was made military governor of that city. He resigned in July, and resumed the practice of law in Portland. In 1869 he was appointed United States circuit judge for the first circuit, and held the office till his death in Portland, Me., July 20, 1878.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Tappan, Arthur 1786-1865 (search)
Tappan, Arthur 1786-1865 Philanthropist; born in Northampton, Mass., May 22, 1786; received a common school education; established himself in business in Portland, Me, and subsequently in Montreal, Canada, where he remained until the beginning of the War of 1812. He was the founder of Oberlin College, and erected Tappan Hall there; endowed Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati; established a professorship at Auburn Theological Seminary; was one of the founders of the American Tract Society; and with his brother established the New York Journal of commerce in 1828 and The Emancipator in 1833. He was the first president of the American Anti-slavery Society, to which he contributed $1,000 a month for several years, but withdrew in 1840 on account of the aggressive spirit manifested by many members towards the churches and the Union; and during his later years was connected with a mercantile agency which his brother Lewis established. He died in New Haven, Conn., July 23, 1865.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Torpedoes. (search)
oon. A column of water 25 feet in diameter, half-luminous with lurid light, was thrown up at least 40 feet high, with an explosion as terrific as thunder, producing a concussion like the shock of an earthquake. It burst at the crown, and water fell in profusion on the deck of the Plantagenet. At the some moment she rolled into the chasm made by the explosion, and nearly upset. Torpedoes were also placed at intervals across the Narrows, at New York, and at the entrance to the harbor of Portland. The impression prevailed in the British navy that the United States government had adopted Fulton's torpedoes, and this made the British commanders on our coast very circumspect. No doubt the fear of torpedoes saved the American coast-towns from plunder and the torch. Torpedo war- Torpedoes. A, platform; B, torpedo; C, water-tight pine-box; D, pin to be drawn. Lower cut: a, vessel at anchor; B, her cable; E, F, two torpedoes; C, D, the coupling lines. fare was much practised in the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
Scott is ordered to the Pacific coast in view of the British claims to San Juan; he arrives at Portland, Or.......Oct. 29, 1859 Washington Irving dies at Tarrytown, N. Y., aged seventy-six......Nonati, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, he embarks for England from Portland, Me.......Oct. 20, 1860 Nineteenth Presidential election held......Nov. 6, 1860 Second sessrse to presenting the Fourteenth Amendment to the States......June 22, 1866 Great fire in Portland, Me.......July 4, 1866 James H. Lane, Senator from Kansas, commits suicide......July 11, 1866 coal-mine at Avondale, Pa.......Sept. 6, 1869 William Pitt Fessenden, born 1806, dies at Portland, Me.......Sept. 8, 1869 Financial panic in New York City culminates in Black Friday ; gold quo in Des Moines, Ia.......Sept. 29, 1875 Steamship Pacific founders between San Francisco and Portland; 200 lives lost......Nov. 4, 1875 Henry Wilson, Vice-President, born 1812, dies at Washingto
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maine. (search)
Lygonia, which extended from Cape Porpoise to Casco......April, 1643 Richard Vines elected depuIndians upon the Androscoggin and Kennebec, at Casco, by a commission from the government of Massac75 Captain Mowatt arrives in Falmouth (now Portland) with four armed vessels, Oct. 17, with orderveral opposite islands incorporated and named Portland......July 4, 1786 Convention of thirty-one4, 1805 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow born in Portland......Feb. 27, 1807 County of Somerset estaongress admits Maine into the Union; capital, Portland......March 3, 1820 Within seventeen monthser......Jan. 10, 1831 Capital removed from Portland to Augusta; legislature meets......Jan. 4, 18ssage of British troops across the State from Portland to Canada......1862 Officers and crew of tfederate privateer Archer enter the harbor of Portland, capture the revenue cutter Caleb Cushing, anmpt fails......July 18, 1864 Great fire in Portland, burning over an area 1 1/2 miles long by 1/4[11 more...]
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
one year......September, 1749 Spencer Phipps acting governor in absence of Shirley......1749 Massachusetts extricates herself from the insolvency of more than fifty years by appropriating to her debt £ 183,650, received from England for her outlay in the expedition against Louisburg; this came over in solid coin......September, 1749 Sir William Pepperell, Thomas Hutchinson, James Otis, and two others, as commissioners, meet delegates from the Eastern Indian tribes at Falmouth (now Portland. Me.), and renew the treaty made a quarter of a century before......Oct. 16, 1749 Small-pox again visits Boston......1752 [Of 2,100 persons inoculated with it, only thirty-one died: of the 5,550 taken without inoculation, 514 died.] Governor Shirley, now past the age of sixty, returns to Massachusetts, bringing with him a young French Catholic girl as his wife......1753 Expedition against the French in Nova Scotia sails from Boston under command of Gen. John Winslow......May 20
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Oregon, (search)
rnment and organic laws for Oregon are adopted by the people met at Champoeg, and Oregon City fixed as the seat of government......July 5, 1843 First house in Portland erected by A L. Lovejoy and F. W. Pettygrove......1845 Publication of the Oregon Spectator begun at Oregon City......1846 Resolutions pass the House of Rephe rights of the company under its charter and the treaty with Great Britain......1849 Seat of government located at Salem by legislature, the penitentiary at Portland, and the university at Corvallis......1850 Five of the Cayuse Indians, principals in the massacre of Dr. M. Whitman and other missionaries at Waulatpu, Nov. 2odocs to a reservation, fights them on Lost River, near Tule Lake......Nov. 29, 1872 First convention of the Oregon State Woman's Suffrage Association held at Portland......February, 1873 Congress grants public lands in Oregon to construct a military road across the State, July 2, 1864; the legislature grants 1,920 acres of
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