Elijah H. Swan correspondence, 1824-1903.

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Elijah H. Swan correspondence, 1824-1903.

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Correspondence between Elijah H. Swan family members who emigrated from Connecticut and New York to Saline, Michigan, and to Cottage Grove, Wisconsin, in the 1840s. A small series of letters, 1901-1903, written by Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota to Mrs. Sarah Swan contains reminiscences of their Wisconsin school days at Albion Academy.

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Swan, Sarah.

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Albion Academy (Wis.)

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Nelson, Knute, 1843-1923

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Knute Nelson was born in Vosse Elven, Norway, on February 2, 1843. In 1849 he and his widowed mother emigrated to the United States, settling first in Chicago (1849-1850), then in Dane County, Wisconsin, where he enlisted in the Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry Regiment (1861-1864) during the Civil War. Following the war he was graduated from the Albion Academy and studied law in a Madison, Wisconsin, law office, being admitted to the bar in 1867 and then serving as a representative in the ...

Swan, Elijah H., 1811-1853.

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