Samuel Forster Tappan : [collection] : 1861-1875 ;.

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

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Sherman was born in 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio, near the banks of the Hocking River. His father, Charles Robert Sherman, a successful lawyer who sat on the Ohio Supreme Court, died unexpectedly in 1829. He left his widow, Mary Hoyt Sherman, with eleven children and no inheritance. After his father's death, the nine-year-old Sherman was raised by a Lancaster neighbor and family friend, attorney Thomas Ewing, Sr., a prominent member of the Whig Party who served as senator from Ohio and as the first S...

Bent, George, 1843-1918

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George Bent (1843-1918), son of Colonel William Bent, fur trader and founder of Bent's Fort, and Owl Woman, a Cheyenne, daughter of White Thunder, went to school in St. Louis. By 1904 he was living in Colony, Oklahoma. From the description of George Bent papers, 1904-1926. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702127533 George Bent, born in Bent's Fort in 1843, the son of William Bent and his Cheyenne wife. As a witness of the Indian wars and conflicts in Colorado during the late 1...

Slough, John Potts, -1867

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John Potts Slough (1829-1867), judge and U.S. Civil War general. From the description of Slough, John Potts, 1829-1867 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10571780 ...

Tappan, S. F. (Samuel Forster), -1913

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Chivington, John Milton, 1821-1894

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Chivington was born in Lebanon, Ohio on January 27, 1821, the son of Isaac and Jane Chivington, who had fought under General William Henry Harrison against members of Tecumseh's Confederacy at the Battle of the Thames. Drawn to Methodism, Chivington became a minister. Following ordination in 1844, his first appointment was to Payson Circuit in the Illinois Conference. On the journey from Ohio to Illinois, Chivington contracted smallpox. He served the Illinois conference for ten years. In 1853...

Wynkoop, Edward Wanshear, 1836-1891

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Major, 1st Cavalry, Colorado Volunteers. From the description of Letter, 1863. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122462065 From the guide to the Edward W. Wynkoop letter, 1863, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) E.W. Wynkoop was an easterner who came West to make his mark on history and succeeded. He held a series of offices in the West for the Federal Government and the territorial governments of Colorado and New Mexico. During the course of his life in the West, Wynk...