Correspondence with Alexander Ramsey, 1834-1849.

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Correspondence with Alexander Ramsey, 1834-1849.

Typewritten copies of letters, and one original letter, that Harrisburg (Penn.) resident Kelker exchanged with his cousin Alexander Ramsey when Ramsey was a student at Lafayette College, Easton, Penn. (1834), a schoolteacher at Kutztown, Penn. (1835-1836), a law student at Carlisle, Penn. (1839), a business agent in Texas (1840), a Whig member of Congress from Pennsylvania (1843), and newly appointed governor of Minnesota Territory (1849).

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SNAC Resource ID: 6679069

Minnesota Historical Society Library

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Lafayette College (Easton, Northampton County, Pa.)

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Ramsey, Alexander, 1815-1903

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U.S. secretary of war, U.S. senator and governor of Minnesota, governor of Minnesota, U.S. representative from Pennsylvania, mayor of St. Paul, Minn., banker, and lawyer. From the description of Letter and portraits of Alexander Ramsey, 1838. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449469 ...

Kelker, Rudolph F. (Rudolph Frederick), 1820-1906

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