LIST OF PLATES HARPERS' ENCYCLOPÆDIA OF UNITED STATES HISTORY Iberville, PIERRE LE MOYNE, SIEUR D', founder of Louisiana; born in Montreal, Canada, July 16, 1661; was one of eleven brothers who figure in some degree in French colonial history. Entering the French navy at fourteen, he became distinguished in the annals of Canada for his operations against the English in the north and east of that province. In 1698 he was sent from France to the Gulf of Mexico with two frigates (Oct. 22), to occupy the mouth of the Mississippi and the region neglected after the death of La Salle. On finding that stream, he received from the Indians a letter left by De Tonty, in 1686, for La Salle. There he built Fort Biloxi, garrisoned it, and made his brother Bienville the King's lieutenant. In May, 1699, he returned to France, but reappeared at Fort Biloxi in January, 1700. On visiting France and returning in 1701, he found the colony reduced by disease, and transferred the settlement to Mobile, and began the colonization of Alabama. Disease had impaired his health, and the government called him away from his work as the founder of Louisiana. He was engaged in the naval service in the West Indies, where he was fatally stricken by yellow fever, dying in Havana, Cuba, July 9, 1706. I. Montana and nearly all of that of Wyoming. In 1864 the Territory lost a part of its area to form the Territory of Montana, and in 1868 another large portion was cut from it to form the Territory of WyoIdaho, the thirtieth State admitted to ming. On July 3, 1890, the Territory was the American Union, was first explored by admitted into the Union as a State, hav. the whites of the Lewis and Clark ex- ing then a gross area of 84,800 square pedition. Within its present limit the miles. Between the dates of its creation Coeur d'Alène mission was established in as a Territory and a State it became wide1842. The region was visited almost ex- ly noted as a most promising field for gold UNITED STATES SENATORS. Name. No. of Congress. Date. 51st to George L. Shoup.. Fred. T. Dubo s.... and silver mining, and for several years later, Idaho was classed politically as a silver State. Prospecting, however, developed a large number of rich paying gold properties, and during the copper excitement of 1898-1901 many veins of that mineral were found. During the Ide, GEORGE BARTON, clergyman; born calendar year 1899 the gold mines of Idaho in Coventry, Vt., in 1804; graduated at yielded a combined product valued at Middlebury College in 1830; ordained in $1,889,000; and the silver mines a pro- the Baptist Church; pastor of the First duct having a commercial value of $2,311,- Baptist Church of Philadelphia, Pa., in 080. The development of the various min 1838-52, and afterwards had a charge in ing interests was seriously retarded for Springfield, Mass., for twenty years. He many years by the lack of transporta- published Green Hollow; Battle Echoes, tion facilities, but by 1900 railroads or Lessons from the War (a series of had been extended to a number of im- sermons delivered during the Civil War), portant centres, and wagon-roads had been etc. He died in Springfield, Mass., April constructed connecting direct with the 16, 1872. chief mining properties. The State also had a natural resource of inestimable value in its forests, a considerable variety of timber in commercial demand flourishing well up to the snow-line of its mountains. The chief agricultural productions are wheat, oats, barley, potatoes, and hay, and the combined values of these crops in the calendar year 1900 was $6,773,261, the hay crop alone exceeding in value $4,280,000. For 1900 the equalized valuation of all taxable property was $47,- land, Germany, and the United States. 545,905, and the total bonded debt was $425,500, largely incurred for the construction of wagon-roads. The population in 1890 was 84,385; in 1900, 161,772. See UNITED STATES, IDAHO, vol. ix. Date. 1863 to 1864 1864 1866 1866 1867 1870 1870 to 1871 1871 1871 1871 to 1876 1876" 1880 1883 Ide, HENRY CLAY, jurist; born in Barnet, Vt., Sept. 18, 1844; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1866. He was a member of the Vermont State Senate in 1882-85; president of the Republican State Convention in 1884; and a delegate to the National Republican Convention in 1888. In 1891 he was appointed United States commissioner to Samoa; and in 1893-97 was chief-justice of the islands under the joint apportionment of Eng On returning to the United States he engaged in banking and manufacturing. See SAMOA. Ik Marvel. See MITCHELL, DONALD GRANT. Illiers, COUNT HENRY LOUIs, military officer; born in Luxembourg in 1750; was one of the French officers who served in the Revolutionary War; took part in the battle of Brandywine, where he saved Pulaski. He is the author of De la guerre d'Amerique, etc. He died in Paris in 1794. Illinaia, the proposed name of a State. See UNITED STATES, CEDED LANDS. Illinois. The site of the present State 1880 1883 was first explored by Marquette and 1884 to 1885 Joliet, French missionaries from Canada, 1885 1889 in 1763, who were followed by La Salle and Hennepin. Twenty years later mission stations were established at Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and Peoria; and early in the eighteenth century a French monas1890 to 1893 tery was established at Kaskaskia. By 1893 1897 the treaty of 1763, the "Illinois country," as it was called, passed under the jurisdiction of the English. By the treaty of Date. 1890 1897 1901 1901 |