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Randall, B. H. (Benjamin Hoyt), 1823-1913. Biographical data on B. H. Randall and the Randall family, 1854-1902.

Title: Biographical data on B. H. Randall and the Randall family, 1854-1902.

The materials include a marriage announcement, Randall to Wilhelmina H. Lange (1854) and four letters: Wilhelmina to Randall (1863), C. R. Davis to Randall (1899), concerning land in St. Peter, and Randall to the Minnesota Historical Society (1894, 1902). The latter detail his experiences at Fort Snelling and Fort Ridgely, as St. Peter mayor and territorial and state legislator, and during the Dakota Conflict. He also describes visiting Washington, D.C. immediately following President Lincoln's assassination and accompanying Robert T. Lincoln while on his way to Springfield for the funeral. There is also an 1874 notation cut from a diagram of government buildings at Fort Ridgely and a typescript of Randall's "Fort Ridgely and Its Defense," a description of events during 1862 (ca. 1892).

ArchivalResource: 7 items in 1 folder.

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Sheehy, William J. William J. Sheehy and family papers, 1900-1914.

Title: William J. Sheehy and family papers, 1900-1914.

Correspondence relating to Sheehy's interest in land in Washington, Oregon, and the Dakotas, to bowling tournaments in Spokane and Los Angeles, and to his membership in the St. Paul Camp of the Army of the Philippines; data on the estate of his father, Thomas W. Sheehy; and a letter from Charles R. Davis, congressman from Minnesota, regarding the postmastership at New Prague.

ArchivalResource: 48 items.

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