December 14: SCV landowner Ygnacio del Valle marries Ysabel del Varela at Church of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles. 1852 Henry C. Wiley establishes Wiley's Station; partner is Ygnacio del Valle. Edward F. Beale appointed superintendent of Indian Affairs, later surveyor-general of Californi...
The first trademark statute enacted shortly after the Civil War, came as a response to the rapid growth of trade that followed the period of Reconstruction and the need of manufacturers for trade identity and better protection from infringement. The first Federal Trademark law was enacted in 1870....
In 1885, the very year the 13th Territorial Legislature approved the establishment of the University of Arizona, Arizona's Sixth Territorial Governor Frederick Augustus Tritle, in hisReport to the Secretary of the Interior, pleaded with the Secretary to remove the San Carlos Apache to Indian Country...
Frederick Law Olmsted’s Sense of Picnicking in Public Parks “Lives of women and children too poor to be sent to the country can now be saved in thousands of instances by making them go to the Park, During a hot day in July last, I counted at one in the park eighteen separate groups...
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decision was made in keeping with the tradition of “no taxation without representation”, since Josiah Taft was the town’s largest taxpayer. Lydia went on to cast several more votes, contributing to the town’s stance on important matters like financial contribution to the French and Indian ...
1877 – The British decides to settle the Indian workers permanently January 1877 1892 - Grains Tax is abolished and new taxes are introduced September 1877 Following the great media buzz it created, Grains Tax was finally abolished. 1884 – Opening of the Ceylon Law College January 1884 The ...
the “Conquerorof India.” In other words, while any casual mention of Indian affairs by a Greek writer of no great note must be accepted unchallenged, no record of the Indians, literary or monumental, is entitled to the smallest consideration. Until rubbed against the touch-stone of Hellenic...
1741 - Final Separation of New Hampshire from Massachusetts 1745 - French Fort at Louisbourg, Cape Breton, NS Captured by British 1748 - Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle returns Louisbourg to French Control 1754 - French and Indian War between France and England until 1760 ...
In the wake of battle, the land was scarred and soaked in blood. Oklahoma was not yet a state — this was still Indian Territory. Once slaves escaped into I.T., there was a slight sense of protection from law officers and bounty hunters under the wing of the Five Tribes as sovereign ...