Autograph letter signed : Lawrence, Kansas, to the Reverend John Pierpont, 1857 Feb. 16.

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Autograph letter signed : Lawrence, Kansas, to the Reverend John Pierpont, 1857 Feb. 16.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270522963

Thanking him for pamphlets and a poem and telling him of reported attempt on the life of Governor Geary.

1 item (3 p.) ; (8vo)

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7183179

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Fitch, Edward P., fl. 1857.

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American clergyman. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Lawrence, Kansas, to the Reverend John Pierpont, 1857 Feb. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270522963 ...

Pierpont, John, 1785-1866,

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Unitarian clergyman, poet, and reformer. From the description of Papers of John Pierpont [manuscript], 1825-1885. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647953935 American poet. From the description of Passing away -- a dream : autograph manuscript copy of the poem signed, [1837 or later]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 560671584 John Pierpont was born in Connecticut in 1785; he graduated from Yale in 1804 and tried several professions before beco...

Geary, John White, 1819-1873

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John W. Geary was a lawyer, politician and Union general in the Civil War (1861-1865). He was born in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania on 30 December 1819. After serving as a colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War (1846-1848), Geary went to California for the 1849 gold rush. While in California, Geary became the first governor of San Francisco from 1850 to 1851 and was later governor of the Kansas Territory from 1856-1857. Following his term as governor, Geary returned to Pennsylvania and w...