Ratification. Mending the Family Kettle. The U.S. Senate passed the proposed amendment by the required two-thirds majority on June 8, 1866, and the House of Representatives passed it on June 13, 1866, which sent it to the states for ratification. No Virginians served in Congress when it submitted the amendment to the states.
The Father of American Railroads. John Stevens (1749-1838) was the scion of a prominent family in colonial New Jersey. During the Revolutionary War he served as state treasurer. In the postwar period he became intrigued by experiments in steam navigation by men such as John Fitch.
The first Rand McNally map appeared in the December 1872 Railway Guide. After the death of McNally in 1905, ownership of the company (Rand having sold his interest in 1899) passed to his son, Frederick. It was his son, Andrew McNally II, that saw the future for Rand McNallyâs mapsÃ¢â¬âthe motorist.