William R. Brown and family papers. 1840-1972 (bulk 1855-1900).

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William R. Brown and family papers. 1840-1972 (bulk 1855-1900).

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Diaries and notebooks, ledgers and account books, genealogical papers, correspondence, photographs, and other papers of Brown, a farmer near Newport (Washington County, Minn.), and relatives from the McDonald, Hoyt, Johnson, and Scofield families. The diaries discuss pioneer farm activities, social life, and legal affairs in the St. Croix Valley and Brown's Civil War service with the Sixth Minnesota Infantry.

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United States. Army. Minnesota Infantry Regiment, 6th (1862-1865). Company H

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Sawyer, Sylvester J.

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Sibley, Henry Hastings, 1811-1891

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American pioneer; first Governor of Minnesota. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to William L. Marcy, 1853 Mar. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270664016 Fur trader; soldier; politician; Governor of Minnesota, 1850-1860. From the description of Papers, 1815-1830. (State Historical Society of North Dakota State Archives). WorldCat record id: 17998041 Henry Sibley was a general in the Confederate Army. From the de...

Sawyer, Helen Hastings Sibley, 1839-1860.

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Falstrom, Jacob, 1793-1859.

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Cathcart, Alexander Henry, 1820-1899.

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United States. Army. Minnesota Infantry Regiment, 6th (1862-1865). Company G.

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McDonald family.

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Brown, E. H.

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Johnson family.

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Brown family.

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Robert, Louis, 1811-1874.

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Brown, William R. (William Reynolds), 1816-1874

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William Reynolds Brown was born in March 8, 1816, in Virginia. In 1833 he was apprenticed to a carpenter in Mount Carmel, Illinois, where he remained until April 1841. He and Charles T. Cavileer then traveled to St. Louis, where they joined Benjamin T. Kavanaugh, superintendent of Methodist missions to the Dakota and Ojibwe in Minnesota, on a trip to that state. Kavanaugh had promised Brown a year's carpentry work at the mission. On May 18, 1841, they arrived at Red Rock, located on...

Scofield family.

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Jackson, Henry, 1811-1857.

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Hoyt family.

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