The 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that saw extensive service in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The unit was the second African-American regiment,following the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry Regiment,organized in the northern states during the Civil War.Authorized by the Emancipation Proclamation,the regiment consisted of African-American enlisted men commanded by white officers.
Dankmar Adler was a German-born American architect and civil engineer. He is best known for his fifteen-year partnership with Louis Sullivan,during which they designed influential skyscrapers that boldly addressed their steel skeleton through their exterior design:the Wainwright Building in St. Louis,Missouri (1891),the Chicago Stock Exchange Building (1894),and the Guaranty Building in Buffalo,New York (1896).
Stephen Watts Kearny was one of the foremost antebellum frontier officers of the United States Army. He is remembered for his significant contributions in the Mexican–American War,especially the conquest of California. The Kearny code,proclaimed on September 22,1846,in Santa Fe,established the law and government of the newly acquired territory of New Mexico and was named after him. His nephew was Major General Philip Kearny of American Civil War fame.
Josiah Gardner Abbott was an American politician who served in the Massachusetts General Court and as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.
Bellefontaine Cemetery is a nonprofit,non-denominational cemetery and arboretum in St. Louis,Missouri. Founded in 1849 as a rural cemetery,Bellefontaine is home to a number of architecturally significant monuments and mausoleums such as the Louis Sullivan-designed Wainwright Tomb,which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Henry Harrison Markham was an American lawyer and Republican politician. He was the 18th governor of California (1891–1895),and represented California's 6th congressional district during the 49th United States Congress (1885–1887). Earlier in life,he served as a Union Army officer in the American Civil War.
George Sykes was a career United States Army officer and a Union general during the American Civil War.
Lizette Woodworth Reese was an American poet and teacher. Born in Maryland,she taught English for almost five decades in the schools of Baltimore. Though Reese was successful in prose as well as in poetry,the latter was her forte;she was named Poet Laureate of Maryland in 1931.
Hans Heinrich Reese was a German amateur footballer,physician,and neurologist who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was also on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine.
John Reese Kenly was an American lawyer,and a Union Army general in the American Civil War.
Sidney Burbank served as an officer in the regular army before and during the American Civil War. For a time he led a brigade in the Army of the Potomac.
Rancho San Francisquito was a 1,471-acre (5.95 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day Santa Clara County,California given in 1839 by Governor Juan Alvarado to Antonio Buelna. The grant was located on the southwest side of San Francisquito Creek and encompasses present-day western Menlo Park and the northern part of the Stanford University campus.
Events from the year 1891 in the United States.
District of Arizona was a subordinate district of the Department of New Mexico territory created on August 30,1862 and transferred to the Department of the Pacific in March 1865.
Alexander G. Clark was an African-American businessman and activist who served as United States Ambassador to Liberia in 1890-1891,where he died in office. Clark is notable for suing in 1867 to gain admission for his daughter to attend a local public school in Muscatine,Iowa. The case of Clark v. Board of School Directors achieved a constitutional ruling for integration from the Iowa state supreme court in 1868,86 years before the United States Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education (1954). He was a prominent leader in winning a state constitutional amendment that gained the right for African Americans in Iowa to vote (1868). Active in church,freemasonry,and the Republican Party,he became known for his speaking skills and was nicknamed "the Colored Orator of the West." He earned a law degree and became co-owner and editor of The Conservator in Chicago. His body was returned from Liberia in 1892 and buried in Muscatine,where his house has been preserved.
Frederick Douglas Reese was an American civil rights activist,educator and minister from Selma,Alabama. Known as a member of Selma's "Courageous Eight",Reese was the president of the Dallas County Voters League (DCVL) when it invited the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King Jr. to Selma to amplify the city's local voting rights campaign. This campaign eventually gave birth to the Selma to Montgomery marches,which later led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act.
The Dallas County Voters League (DCVL) was a local organization in Dallas County,Alabama,which contains the city of Selma,that sought to register black voters during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Mill Creek Valley was a historic neighborhood located in the central corridor between 20th Street and Saint Louis University in St. Louis,Missouri. European settlement began in the 18th century with mills established along La Petite Rivière,now known as Mill Creek. It became an industrial and railroad center in the 19th century. Union Station was opened in 1894. The building was closed in 1978 and renovated for commercial use. Also a residential and commercial center,Mill Creek Valley was populated by German immigrants and African Americans,before and after the Civil War. More people moved into the area during World War II to support the war effort.
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