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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stewart, Alvan 1790-1849 (search)
Stewart, Alvan 1790-1849 Reformer; born in South Granville, N. Y., Sept. 1, 1790; educated in Burlington College, Vermont. In 1811 he became professor in the Royal School in the seigniory of St. Armand in Canada, where he was held a prisoner during a part of the War of 1812. He settled in Utica, N. Y., in 1832, and gave his time chiefly to the advocacy of slave freedom and temperance. He was the first to urge the organization of a political party having for its distinct object the abolition of slavery. His published speeches include Right of petition; Great issues between right and wrong, etc. He died in New York City, May 1, 1849.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stuart, Charles 1783- (search)
Stuart, Charles 1783- Author; born in Jamaica, W. I., about 1783; entered the British army as lieutenant in 1801; served in Madras in 1801-14; was promoted captain. He came to the United States about 1822, and spent several years in Utica, N. Y., where he became a strong abolitionist. He was the author of Immediate emancipation would be safe and profitable; Memoirs of Granville sharp; Oneida and Oberlin; The extirpation of slavery in the United States, etc. He died near Lake Simcoe, Canada, in 1865.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Trials. (search)
ix months, but acquitted by the general assembly......1836 Case of slave schooner Amistad......1839-40 Alexander McLeod, a Canadian, charged as an accomplice in burning the steamer Caroline in the Niagara River, and in the murder of Amos Durfee, is taken from Lockport to New York on habeas corpus, May, 1841. Great Britain asks his release in extra session of Congress; Mr. Webster advocates his discharge. A special session of the circuit court, ordered by the legislature of New York at Utica, tries and acquits him......Oct. 4-12, 1841 A. W. Holmes, of the crew of the William Brown for murder on the high seas (forty-four of the passengers and crew escaping in the long-boat, the sailors threw some passengers overboard to lighten the boat, April 19, 1841), convicted, but recommended to mercy......May, 1842 Thomas W. Dorr, Rhode Island; treason......1842 Alexander S. Mackenzie (Somers's mutiny)......1842 Bishop Benjamin T. Onderdonk, of New York, for immoral conduct; by
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
Proclamation of President orders unlawful assemblages in Washington Territory to disperse......Feb. 9, 1886 Major-Gen. W. S. Hancock, born 1824, dies at Governor's Island, N. Y.,......Feb. 9, 1886 Horatio Seymour, born 1810, dies at Utica, N. Y.......Feb. 12, 1886 Mr. Morrison introduces his tariff bill in the House......Feb. 15, 1886 John B. Gough, temperance lecturer, born 1817, dies at Frankford, Pa.......Feb. 18, 1886 House of Representatives appoints a committee to invesed ports......Sept. 1, 1892 President Harrison's letter of acceptance published......Sept. 5, 1892 John Greenleaf Whittier, poet, born 1807, dies at Hampton Falls, N. H.......Sept. 7, 1892 Ex-Senator Francis Kernan, born 1816, dies at Utica, N. Y.......Sept. 7, 1892 Lieutenant Peary and party arrive at St. John's, Newfoundland, on the steamer Kite, sent to the Arctic regions in search of them......Sept. 11, 1892 Cabin passengers of the Normannia prevented from landing at Fire Is
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Idaho (search)
aking their way to Lake Michigan via the Desplaines and Chicago rivers......1673 Marquette, purposing to establish a mission among the Illinois Indians, makes a portage from the Chicago to the Desplaines, descends the Illinois River nearly to Utica, where he meets a large concourse of chiefs and warriors......April 8, 1675 Father Claude Allouez, successor to Marquette, who died May 18, 1675, enters the Chicago River on his way to the Indian mission......April, 1676 Robert Cavalier Sietroyed, and the garrison dispersed......1680 La Salle and Tonti, seeking the mouth of the Mississippi, descend the Illinois, arriving at its mouth......Feb. 6, 1682 They build Fort St. Louis on Starved Rock on the Illinois, near the site of Utica......November, 1682 La Salle returns to France, 1683; sails for the mouth of the Mississippi in August, 1684. Tonti, with twenty-five Frenchmen and five Indians, intending to meet him at the mouth of the Mississippi, leaves Fort St. Louis....
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
ined by Samuel Guthrie, of Sackett's Harbor......1831 Imprisonment for contract debt, except for fraud, abolished......1831 Whig party formed......1832 Cholera in New York City, June 27 until Oct. 19; 4,000 die......1832 Buffalo and Utica incorporated as cities......1832 First horse street-railroad in the world opened in Fourth Avenue, New York City......1832 Red Jacket, the Indian chief, dies near Buffalo, aged seventy-eight......Jan. 20, 1832 Anti-slavery society of Newitchmen's strike at Buffalo declared off by Grand-master Sweeney......Aug. 24, 1892 George William Curtis, born 1824, dies at West Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y.......Aug. 31, 1892 Ex-United States Senator Francis Kernan, born 1816, dies at Utica......Sept. 7, 1892 Opening in New York City of the continental congress of the Salvation Army of the United States......Nov. 21, 1892 Edward Murphy, Jr., of Troy, elected United States Senator......January, 1893 Act authorizing the purch
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Utica, (search)
Utica, A city and county seat of Oneida county, N. Y.; on the Mohawk River. The city is in the centre of a dairying region and is the chief cheese market of central New York. During the colonial period the site of the city was called Old Fort Schuyler, from the fort which stood there. It was a part of 22,000 acres given to William Cosby, the colonial governor, in 1734, after which date the tract was known as Cosby's manor. Population in 1900, 56,383.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Van Buren, Martin 1782-1862 (search)
tration, and his political opponents, unfairly holding him responsible for the grievance, accomplished his defeat at the next Presidential election. When his name was proposed at the Democratic nominating convention at Baltimore in 1844 as a candidate for the Presidency, it was rejected, because Mr. Van Buren was opposed to the annexation of Texas to the Union. In 1848, when the Democrats had nominated General Cass to please the slave-holders, the friends of Mr. Van Buren, in convention at Utica, adopting as their political creed a phase of anti-slavery, nominated him as a Freesoil candidate for the Presidency, with Charles Francis Adams, of Massachusetts, for Vice-President. In accepting the nomination, Mr. Van Buren declared his full assent to the anti-slavery principles of the platform. The convention declared that Congress had no more power to make a slave than to make a king, and that it was the duty of the national government to relieve itself of all responsibility for the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Walker, Benjamin 1753- (search)
Walker, Benjamin 1753- Military officer; born in England in 1753; was a captain in the 2d New York Regiment at the beginning of the Revolutionary War; became aide to Baron Steuben, and then to Washington (1781-82); and after the war was secretary to Governor Clinton. He became a broker in New York City, and naval officer there during Washington's administration. From 1801 to 1803 he was a member of Congress. In 1797 he became agent for estates in western New York, and was long identified with the growth of Utica, where he died, Jan. 13, 1818.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Woolsey, Melancthon Taylor 1782-1838 (search)
Woolsey, Melancthon Taylor 1782-1838 Naval officer; born in New York, in 1782; studied law for a while, but entered the navy as a midshipman, April 9, 1800. He served with credit in the West Indies and the Mediterranean. In 1807 he was commissioned a lieutenant, and in 1808 was sent to Sackett's Harbor to superintend the construction of the Oneida. He served with credit under Commodore Chauncey on Lake Ontario during the War of 1812-15. Woolsey was made master-commandant in July, 1813, and captain in April, 1816. He commanded the Constellation in the West Indies in 1825-26; had charge of the Pensacola navy-yard in 1827, and performed his last duty afloat on the coast of Brazil. He died in Utica, N. Y., May 18, 1838.
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