Records of Governor Cushman K. Davis, 1874-1882.

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Records of Governor Cushman K. Davis, 1874-1882.

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Assorted files on public policy matters, including materials relating to "frontier relief" and grasshopper relief (especially seed grain assistance), pardons, applications for and appointments to office, railroads, and public lands. The files may also includes reports of state officers and agencies. Some materials in these files date from the John S. Pillsbury administration.

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Minnesota. Governor (1874-1876 : Davis)

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Minnesota. Governor (1876-1882 : Pillsbury)

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Pillsbury, J. S. (John Sargent), 1827-1901

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John Sargent Pillsbury was born in Sutton, New Hampshire, and came to the village of St. Anthony MN in 1855 to open a hardware business. 15 years later, he began his flour milling enterprise, which became one of the largest in the world. In 1863, Pillsbury began to take an interest in the University of Minnesota, which had been closed by debt. Pillsbury accepted an appointment as a University Regent, and began the first of several successful rescues of the University. He served as a Regent until...

Davis, Cushman Kellogg, 1838-1900

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Cushman Kellogg Davis, a Senator from Minnesota, was born in Henderson, Jefferson County, N.Y., on June 16, 1838. He moved with his parents to Waukesha, Wisconsin, where he attended the public schools, Carroll College in Waukesha, and graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1857. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1859 and commenced practice in Waukesha. He moved to St. Paul, Minnesota in 1865 and became a member of the State house of representatives ine 1867, then s...