Letter, 1880.

Wheeler, George Montague, 1842-1905

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Wheeler was born in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, the son of John Wheeler and Miriam P. Daniels. He graduated from West Point in 1866, ranked sixth in his class, and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the US Army Corps of Engineers. He first served in California from 1866 to 1871. In 1869 General Edward O. C. Ord sent him on a reconnaissance through the eastern Nevada. In 1872, the US Congress authorized an ambitious plan to map the portion of the United States west of the 100th meridian at a sc...

Blount, James H. (James Henderson), 1869-1918

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James Henderson Blount, author and lawyer, was born 3 March 1869, in Clinton, Georgia, and died 7 October 1918. He graduated from University of Georgia (1887) and the Columbia University Law School (1891); served in the Spanish-American War; was U.S. district judge in the Philippines (1901-1905); served as special representative of the U.S. State Department, Santo Domingo (1914); and was the author of a book and several articles dealing with the Philippines. From the description of J...

United States. Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian.

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