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Jacob Miller Campbell
Jacob Miller Campbell (November 20, 1821 – September 27, 1888) was a Republican Party (United States), Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He also served as an officer and, later on, served more roles in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Early life Jacob M. Campbell was born at "White Horse," near Somerset, Pennsylvania. He moved with his parents to Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, in 1826. He attended the public schools and learned the art of printing in the office of the ''Somerset Whig''. He was later connected with a magazine publishing company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh and with leading newspapers in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was engaged in steamboating on the lower Mississippi River from 1841 to 1847 and in gold mining in California in 1851. He aided in the building of the Cambria Iron Company, Cambria Iron Works in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in 1853, and was employed by that company until 1861, when he r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somerset, Pennsylvania
Somerset ( ) is a borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. The population was 6,046 at the 2020 census. The borough is surrounded by Somerset Township and is located off the Pennsylvania Turnpike (I-70 and I-76). Somerset is the principal city of the Somerset micropolitan statistical area, which consists of Somerset County, and is also a principal city of the larger Johnstown-Somerset combined statistical area. History Somerset was a central stage for the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794. Several rebellion leaders, including Harmon Husband, lived in Somerset. The federal militia sent to put down the rebellion worked from its headquarters in the nearby town of Berlin. A major fire on the afternoon of May 9, 1872, destroyed a significant portion of the town within just a few hours. In July 2002, nine miners were trapped for 77 hours, underground, by flooding in the Quecreek coal mine, just outside Somerset. All nine miners were rescued. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia
Philadelphia ( ), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania, most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the List of United States cities by population, sixth-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The city is the urban core of the Philadelphia metropolitan area (sometimes called the Delaware Valley), the nation's Metropolitan statistical area, seventh-largest metropolitan area and ninth-largest combined statistical area with 6.245 million residents and 7.379 million residents, respectively. Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Americans, English Quakers, Quaker and advocate of Freedom of religion, religious freedom, and served as the capital of the Colonial history of the United States, colonial era Province of Pennsylvania. It then played a historic and vital role during the American Revolution and American Revolutionary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of American Civil War Brevet Generals (Union)
__NOTOC__ This is a list of American Civil brevet generals that served the Union Army. This list of brevet major generals or brevet brigadier generals currently contains a section which gives the names of officers who held lower actual or substantive grades (often referred to as ranks) in the Union Army, were not promoted to full actual or substantive grade generals during or immediately after the war, but were awarded the grade of brevet major general or brevet brigadier general, almost always in recognition of service, not as any form of promotion. The first section shows these officers' actual grades and regiments or assignments. Dates in the list are explained below. The lists of general officers who were in active service as or were promoted to the grade of brigadier general or major general, or in the case of Ulysses S. Grant, lieutenant general, in the Regular Army of the United States at the start of or during the Civil War and of officers who were appointed as brigadi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown
Grandview Cemetery is an American cemetery that is located at 801 Millcreek Road in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1885, the cemetery is one of Pennsylvania's largest, with more than 70,000 burials, including those of many victims of the 1889 Johnstown Flood. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025. History and notable features The cemetery association that operates Grandview was founded in 1885 to accommodate Johnstown's rapidly growing population. The first interment was that of Lucretia Hammond of Kernville (now a part of Johnstown), who was buried on April 30, 1887. Grandview Cemetery on Johnstown, Pennsylvania website accessed September 7, 2009 The land for the cemetery, west of the city on Yoder Hill, was purchased from the |
United States House Committee On Manufactures
United States House Committee on Manufactures was a standing committee of the U.S. House from 1819 to 1911. On December 8, 1819, an amendment was accepted in the House to separate the Committee on Commerce and Manufactures into the Committee on Commerce and Committee on Manufacturers. This followed a request from Philadelphia manufacturers for a separate committee, stating in a presentation to the House in 1815 that the Committee on Commerce and Manufactures was inadequate to represent manufacturing interests. An argument for the separate committees was that commerce and manufactures often had conflicting interests. The Committee on Manufactures was assigned jurisdiction over matters relating "to the manufacturing industries." The Committee on Manufactures became inactive during the later years of its existence and was eliminated in 1911, at the beginning of the 62nd Congress. First father-son pair to chair the same House Committee: Former President and Massachusetts Represent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
49th United States Congress
The 49th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C., from March 4, 1885, to March 4, 1887, during the first two years of Grover Cleveland's First presidency of Grover Cleveland, first presidency. The apportionment of seats in the United States House of Representatives, House of Representatives was based on the 1880 United States census. The Senate had a Republican Party (United States), Republican majority, and the House had a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic majority. Major events * March 4, 1885: Grover Cleveland became President of the United States * November 25, 1885: Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks died Major legislation * January 19, 1886: Presidential Succession Act of 1886, ch. 4, * February 3, 1887: Electoral Count Act, ch. 90, * February 4, 1887: Interstate Commerce Act, ch. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
48th United States Congress
The 48th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C., from March 4, 1883, to March 4, 1885, during the last two years of Chester A. Arthur's Presidency of Chester A. Arthur, presidency. The apportionment of seats in the United States House of Representatives, House of Representatives was based on the 1880 United States census. The Senate had a Republican Party (United States), Republican majority, and the House had a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic majority. Major events * September 5, 1883: Mary F. Hoyt became the first woman appointed to the United States federal civil service, U.S. federal civil service (and the second person appointed by examination (in which she came top) instituted under the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act) when she became a clerk in the Bank Redemption Agency of the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
47th United States Congress
The 47th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1881, to March 4, 1883, during the six months of Presidency of James A. Garfield, James Garfield's presidency, and the first year and a half of Presidency of Chester A. Arthur, Chester Arthur's presidency. The apportionment of seats in this United States House of Representatives, House of Representatives was based on the 1870 United States census. The House had a Republican Party (United States), Republican majority; the Senate was evenly divided for the first time ever, with no vice president to break ties for most of this term. Party summary The count below identifies party affiliations at the beginning of the first session of this Congress, and includes members from vacancies and newly admitted states, when they were first seated. Changes re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
45th United States Congress
The 45th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1877, to March 4, 1879, during the first two years of Rutherford Hayes's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1870 United States census. The Senate had a Republican majority, and the House had a Democratic majority. The 45th Congress remained politically divided between a Democratic House and Republican Senate. President Hayes vetoed an Army appropriations bill from the House which would have ended Reconstruction and prohibited the use of federal troops to protect polling stations in the former Confederacy. Striking back, Congress overrode another of Hayes's vetoes and enacted the Bland-Allison Act that required the purchase and coining of silver. Congress also approved a generous increase ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brigadier General (United States)
In the United States Armed Forces, a brigadier general is a one-star general officer in the United States Army, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Space Force. A brigadier general ranks above a colonel and below a Major general (United States), major general. The U.S. uniformed services pay grades, pay grade of brigadier general is O-7. It is equivalent to the rank of Rear admiral (United States)#Rear admiral (lower half), rear admiral (lower half) in the other United States Uniformed services of the United States, uniformed services which use Naval officer ranks, naval ranks. It is abbreviated as BG in the Army, BGen in the Marine Corps, and Brig Gen in the Air Force and Space Force. The Civil Air Patrol also uses this grade for its National Vice Commander and some past National commanders. History The rank of brigadier general has existed in the U.S. military since the inception of the Continental Army in June 1775. To prevent mistakes in recognizing officers, a general ord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brevet (military)
In military terminology, a brevet ( or ) is a warrant which gives commissioned officers a higher military rank as a reward without necessarily conferring the authority and privileges granted by that rank. The promotion would be noted in the officer's title (for example, "Bvt. Maj. Gen. Joshua L. Chamberlain" or "Bvt. Col. Arthur MacArthur"). It is not to be confused with a '' Brevet d'état-major'' in Francophone European military circles, where it is an award, nor should it be confused with temporary commissions. France In France, ''brevet'' is a word with a very broad meaning, which includes every document giving a capacity to a person. For instance, the various military speciality courses, such as military parachutism, are ended by the award of a brevet. The more important brevet in the French military is that of the École de guerre (''lit''. "school of war"), the French Staff College. Between 1870 and 1940, an ''officier breveté'' was a graduate of the ''École ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colonel (United States)
A colonel () in the United States Army, United States Marine Corps, Marine Corps, United States Air Force, Air Force and United States Space Force, Space Force, is the most senior field officer, field-grade United States Military, military Officer (armed forces), officer military rank, rank, immediately above the rank of Lieutenant colonel (United States), lieutenant colonel and just below the rank of Brigadier general (United States), brigadier general. Colonel is equivalent to the naval rank of Captain (United States O-6), captain in the other Uniformed services of the United States, uniformed services. By law, an officer previously required at least 22 years of cumulative service and a minimum of three years as a lieutenant colonel before being promoted to colonel. With the signing of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2019 (NDAA 2019), military services now have the authorization to directly commission new officers up to the rank of colonel. The U.S. uniformed service ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
