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William Marshall Anderson
William Marshall Anderson (1807–1881) was an American scholar, explorer and politician, noted for his detailed travel journals in the Rocky Mountains and Second Mexican Empire, Imperial Mexico. Background Anderson was born into a large and prominent family, originally from Virginia, that had settled in Kentucky and Ohio after the American Revolutionary War. His father, Richard Clough Anderson Sr., had been aide-de-camp to Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, Lafayette at the Siege of Yorktown, Battle of Yorktown. His mother was cousin both to Chief Justice John Marshall and to William Clark (explorer), William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. His elder brother Robert Anderson (Union officer), Robert Anderson was the Major Anderson forced to surrender Fort Sumter at the start of the American Civil War. His younger brother Charles Anderson (governor), Charles Anderson was Governor of Ohio. In 1834, Marshall, as he was known, took a trip west with a fur-trading pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Marshall Anderson House
The William Marshall Anderson House is a historic house in Circleville, Ohio, Circleville, Ohio, United States. Built in 1865 as the home of William Marshall Anderson, the house has been ranked as a leading example of Gothic Revival architecture.Owen, Lorrie K., ed. ''Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places''. Vol. 2. St. Clair Shores, Michigan, St. Clair Shores: Somerset, 1999, 1140. Walls of brick and wood, covered with an asphalt roof,, Ohio Historical Society, 2007. Accessed 2010-05-07. are decorated with many features of this style, including ornate wooden Molding (decorative), trim and ogive windows. The house's well-preserved nineteenth-century architecture led to its placement on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It may have been designed by William Doane (architect), William Doane,This may be William Howard Doane, a manufacturer of wood-working machinery who is more widely known as a hymn-writer and church leader, and whose home in Cincinnati also feat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kit Carson
Christopher Houston Carson (December 24, 1809 – May 23, 1868) was an American frontiersman, fur trapper, wilderness guide, Indian agent and United States Army, U.S. Army officer. He became an American frontier legend in his own lifetime through biographies and news articles; exaggerated versions of his exploits were the subject of dime novels. His understated nature belied confirmed reports of his fearlessness, combat skills, tenacity, as well as profound effect on the Territorial evolution of the United States, westward expansion of the United States. Although he was famous for much of his life, historians in later years have written that Kit Carson did not like, want, or even fully understand the fame that he experienced during his life. Carson left home in rural Missouri at 16 to become a mountain man and trapper in the West. In the 1830s, he accompanied Ewing Young on an expedition to Alta California, Mexican California and joined fur-trapping expeditions into the Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1881 Deaths
Events January * January 1– 24 – Siege of Geok Tepe: Russian troops under General Mikhail Skobelev defeat the Turkomans. * January 13 – War of the Pacific – Battle of San Juan and Chorrillos: The Chilean army defeats Peruvian forces. * January 15 – War of the Pacific – Battle of Miraflores: The Chileans take Lima, capital of Peru, after defeating its second line of defense in Miraflores. * January 24 – William Edward Forster, chief secretary for Ireland, introduces his Coercion Bill, which temporarily suspends habeas corpus so that those people suspected of committing an offence can be detained without trial; it goes through a long debate before it is accepted February 2. Note that Coercion bills had been passed almost annually in the 19th century, with a total of 105 such bills passed from 1801 to 1921. * January 25 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company. February * Febru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1807 Births
Events January–March *January 7 – The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland issues an Order in Council prohibiting British ships from trading with France or its allies. *January 20 – The Sierra Leone Company, faced with bankruptcy because of the imminent abolition of the slave trade in British colonies, petitions the British government for purchase and transfer of its property to the Crown; Parliament approves the transfer on July 29, and it takes effect on January 1, 1808. *February 3 – Napoleonic Wars and Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Montevideo – The British Army captures Montevideo from the Spanish Empire, as part of the British invasions of the Río de la Plata. *February 7 – Napoleon leads the forces of the French Empire in an invasion of the Russian Empire, and begins fighting at the Battle of Eylau against Russian and Prussian forces. *February 8 – Battle of Eylau: Napoleon fights a hard but inconclusive battle against the Russians un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramón Eduardo Ruiz
Ramón Eduardo Ruiz (September 9, 1921 – July 6, 2010) was an American historian of Mexico and Latin America. He was the author of fifteen books on Mexican and Latin American history and in 1998 he was awarded the US National Humanities Medal. Ruiz was born in San Diego, California as the son of a former member of the Mexican Navy who left that country during the Mexican Revolution. He served as a Pacific B-29 pilot in the Army Air Forces during World War II. He earned his bachelor's degree from San Diego State University in 1947, his master's from Claremont Graduate University in 1948, and his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley in 1954. Ruiz taught at the University of Oregon, Smith College, and the University of California, San Diego. Born a US citizen, to a Mexican family living and working in the United States. He was very proud of his religion which made him take more interest in wanting to know about the Mexican border. He is the author of 15 books gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas McArthur Anderson
Thomas McArthur Anderson (January 21, 1836 – May 8, 1917) was a career officer in the United States Army who served as a general in the Spanish–American War and the Philippine–American War. Biography Early life and Civil War Anderson was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, January 22, 1836. He graduated at Mount St. Mary's College in 1855, and then attended the Cincinnati Law School, earning an LL.B. degree in 1858. He was admitted to the bar in Cincinnati in 1858 and Kentucky in 1859.Marquis Who's Who, Inc. ''Who Was Who in American History, the Military''. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1975. P. 12 Anderson practiced law at Newport, Kentucky from 1858 to 1861. When the Civil War broke out, Anderson enlisted in the volunteer army as a private in the 6th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Under the influences of his uncle, Robert Anderson of Fort Sumter fame, he received a commission in the Regular Army as second lieutenant in the 2nd U.S. Cavalry on May 15, 1861. On Oct. 8, 1861, he was p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Register Of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Historic districts in the United States, districts, and objects deemed worthy of Historic preservation, preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value". The enactment of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) in 1966 established the National Register and the process for adding properties to it. Of the more than one and a half million properties on the National Register, 95,000 are listed individually. The remainder are contributing property, contributing resources within historic district (United States), historic districts. For the most of its history, the National Register has been administered by the National Park Service (NPS), an agency within the United States Department of the Interior. Its goals are to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Circleville, Ohio
Circleville is a city in Pickaway County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. The city is situated along the Scioto River 25 miles (40 km) south of Columbus, Ohio, Columbus. The population was 13,927 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Circleville is named after its original layout created in 1810, which was based upon the circular Hopewell tradition Earthworks (engineering), earthwork within which the city was built. This earthwork measured in diameter, and was constructed in the early centuries of the Common Era. The county courthouse was built in the center of the innermost circle. In the late 1830s, for various reasons, residents requested authorisation from the state legislature to change Circleville's layout to a standard grid format. This was accomplished by the mid-1850s. All traces of the Hopewell earthwork were destroyed, although hundreds of other monuments of its kind still remain in the Ohio Valley. History Early history By the mid-18th centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maximilian I Of Mexico
Maximilian I (; ; 6 July 1832 – 19 June 1867) was an Austrian Empire, Austrian archduke who became Emperor of Mexico, emperor of the Second Mexican Empire from 10 April 1864 until his execution by the Restored Republic (Mexico), Mexican Republic on 19 June 1867. A member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, Maximilian was the younger brother of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. Before becoming Emperor of Mexico, he was commander-in-chief of the small Imperial Austrian Navy and briefly the Austrian viceroy of Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia, Lombardy–Venetia, but was removed by the emperor. Two years before his dismissal, he briefly met with French emperor Napoleon III in Paris, where he was approached by Conservative Party (Mexico), conservative Monarchism in Mexico, Mexican monarchists seeking a European royal to rule Mexico. Initially Maximilian was not interested, but following his dismissal as viceroy, the Mexican monarchists' plan was far more appealing to him. Since Maxim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Fontaine Maury
Matthew Fontaine Maury (January 14, 1806February 1, 1873) was an American oceanographer and naval officer, serving the United States and then joining the Confederacy during the American Civil War. He was nicknamed "Pathfinder of the Seas" and is considered a founder of modern oceanography. He wrote extensively on the subject, and his book, ''The Physical Geography of the Sea'' (1855), was the first comprehensive work on oceanography to be published. In 1825, at 19, Maury obtained, through U.S. Representative Sam Houston, a midshipman's warrant in the United States Navy. As a midshipman on board the frigate , he almost immediately began to study the seas and record methods of navigation. When a leg injury left him unfit for sea duty, Maury devoted his time to studying navigation, meteorology, winds, and currents. He became Superintendent of the Depot of Charts and Instruments, later renamed the United States Naval Observatory, in 1844. There, Maury studied thousands of ships' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Virginia Colony
The New Virginia Colony () was a colonization plan to resettle ex- Confederates in central Mexico after the American Civil War. The largest settlement was Carlota, named for Emperor Maximilian's wife Charlotte of Belgium and located near Córdoba, Veracruz; by early 1866, it was described as "thriving" and had a population of almost 500. Other settlements were planned near Tampico, Monterrey, Cuernavaca, and Chihuahua. The venture was conceived by Commodore Matthew Fontaine Maury. Because of his work for the Confederate Secret Service, Maury was unable to return home to Virginia. Maury, as an internationally famous oceanographer and navy man, was a long-time friend of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico and had been awarded a medal by Maximilian before the Civil War. Maximilian had been a commander of the Austrian Navy and awarded Maury the medal for his work in oceanography. Maximilian liked Maury and encouraged his idea of inviting Confederates to resettle in Mexico. The Emperor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archdiocese Of Cincinnati
The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Cincinnati () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction, or archdiocese, of the Catholic Church that covers all of the dioceses in the State of Ohio. As of 2025, the archbishop of Cincinnati is Robert Casey. The mother church is the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Peter in Chains (Cincinnati), Cathedral Basilica of St. Peter in Chains in Cincinnati. Geography The Archdiocese of Cincinnati encompasses 230 parishes in 19 counties. Cincinnati is the ''metropolis'' of the Ecclesiastical province, Ecclesiastical Province of Cincinnati, which contains all of Ohio. The province contains the archdiocese and its five suffragan dioceses: * Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, Cleveland * Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus, Columbus * Roman Catholic Diocese of Steubenville, Steubenville * Roman Catholic Diocese of Toledo, Toledo * Roman Catholic Diocese of Youngstown, Youngstown The archdiocese is bordered by: * the Diocese of Toledo to the north * the Dio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
