INDEX 



Davis, H. Winter, 99 



Davy, 131 



Debates between Lincoln and 

 Douglas, 100 



Deere, John, 49, 131 



Deering, William, 115, 116, 

 118, 121, 150 



De Lesseps, 70 



Denmark, 241 



Department store, free trial 

 given by, 80 



Des Moines, Iowa, 6, 86 



Dickerson, E. N., 91, 98 



Diet of Worms, 156 



Diseases prevalent in 1809, 7 



Divider, origin of, 32, 46 



Douglas, Stephen A., 91, 99, 

 100 



Driving-wheel of Reaper, 34 



Drunkenness in 1809, 7 



Duluth-Superior, 215 



Dunfermline, Scotland, An- 

 drew Carnegie's birthplace, 

 56 



Dunwoody, Minneapolis mil- 

 ler, 236 



Duties imposed on American 

 machines entering Europe, 

 136 



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Eager, Samuel, 58 

 Easter, J. D., 230 

 Eastern States, labor and 

 money in (about 1839), 58 

 Ebrington, Lord, 127, 128 



Edward, King, 132 

 Egypt once wheat-centre of 

 world and present pro- 

 duction in, 242 

 Egyptian tombs, wheat found 



in, 206 

 " 1800 - and - starve - to - death " 



period, 51 

 Elastic currency, demands for, 



223 



Electric engine, builder of, 95 

 Electrical experiments, 50 

 Elevators, grain, 214-217 

 Embargo (1809), 8-10 

 Emerson, Ralph, 45, 46, 98, 



103, 119 



Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 97 

 England, riots in (1809), 3, 4; 

 U. S. flag flouted by, 4; at 

 war with Scotland, 18, 19; 

 with Ireland, 19; Scotch- 

 Irish ready for war with, 

 20; conditions in (1831), 

 50; price of labor in, 123; 

 labor conditions and farm 

 machinery in, 124; Corn 

 Exchange in, 218; specula- 

 tion in, 224; consumption 

 of bread in, 239; no tariff 

 on wheat or flour in, 240; 

 has lost place as " granary 

 of the North," 240; con- 

 trasted with Germany, 241 

 Erie Canal, 210, 212 

 Ether, use of, 69 

 Euphrates, valley of, 228 



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