Miscellaneous records. 1851, 1857.

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Miscellaneous records. 1851, 1857.

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Autographs of the territorial officers, congressional delegate, and members of the second legislative assembly (February 26, 1851) and the signers of the Democratic and Republican versions of the state constitution (1857). Also five 1857 statehood documents that were exhibited at the 1957 Minnesota State Fair: the enabling act passed by Congress authorizing formation of a state constitution (February 26), territorial act providing for election of delegates to a constitutional convention (May 23), Joseph R. Brown's certificate of election as a convention delegate (June 20), Congressional act admitting Minnesota into the Union (December 7), and Territorial Governor Samuel Medary's proclamation of adoption of the state constitution (December 22).

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Brown, Joseph Renshaw, 1805-1870

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Joseph Renshaw Brown (1805-1870) was a Minnesota pioneer, fur trader, soldier, townsite and real estate developer, inventor, newspaper editor and publisher, politician and legislator. From the description of Joseph R. Brown collection, 1729-1992. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 42288192 In 1859 Joseph R. Brown of Henderson, Minnesota, designed a "steam wagon", which was manufactured in New York and shipped to Henderson, where he operated it for a time in 1860, before it becam...