General Joseph M. Street, 1895.
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Street, William B.
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This collection concerns the career of General Joseph M. Street, a native of Lunenburg County, Virginia. The item is a biographical article published in Annals of Iowa, volume 2, July-October, 1895. At an early age, Street moved to Kentucky and became a teenage deputy sheriff, newspaperman, and Indian agent for the Winnebago tribe. Mentioned are Henry Clay, Jefferson Davis, Winfield Scott, Zachary Taylor, as well as Black Hawk, and the Prophet. From the description of General Joseph ...
Street, Joseph Montfort, 1782-1840
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General Joseph Montfort Street was a lawyer, merchant, U.S. Army officer, and U.S. Indian agent born in 1782 in Lunenburg County, Virginia. He studied law in Henry Clay's office in Kentucky, and subsequently practiced in that state and Tennessee. In 1806 he became editor of the "The Western World" in Frankfort, Kentucky, a newspaper that helped expose Aaron Burr's conspiracy to sieze and detach U.S. lands from the Union. From 1827-1835 Street served as U.S. Indian agent to the Winnebago at Prair...
