Willis A. Gorman and family papers. 1847-1899.

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Willis A. Gorman and family papers. 1847-1899.

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Correspondence (1852-1857, 1861-1899), business and legal papers, a volume (1847-1848) relating to the 4th Regiment of the Indiana Infantry, and miscellaneous papers relating to the family of Willis A. Gorman, a Minnesota territorial governor (1853-1857) and a colonel (1861-1863) in the First Minnesota Volunteer Regiment.

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United States. Army. Minnesota Infantry Regiment, 1st (1861-1865)

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Red Wing (Hazen Wakute).

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Stees, Cytheria Jones.

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Minnesota. Governor (1853-1857 : Gorman)

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Willis Arnold Gorman was born in Kentucky on January 12, 1816. His early career was as a lawyer and state legislator (Democrat) in Indiana. During the Mexican War he raised and commanded an Indiana rifle battalion and an infantry regiment, and subsequently was elected to two terms in the U.S. Congress. President Franklin Pierce appointed him Governor of Minnesota in May 13, 1853, and he served in that office until 1857. He was subsequently a delegate to the state constitutional conv...

Gorman, Richard L., 1838-1912.

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Jones, DeWitt, C.

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Stees, Charles J.

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Gorman, Willis Arnold, 1816-1876

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Willis A. Gorman was born January 12, 1816 in Fleming County, Kentucky, the son of David and Elizabeth Gorman. The family moved to Bloomington, Indiana in 1836 where Willis studied law at Indiana University. He was elected to the Indiana legislature when he was 23 and served five terms. He enlisted as a private in the Third Indiana Volunteers when the war with Mexico broke out and was elected a major in June 1846. After the regiment returned home he organized the Fourth Indiana Regi...