Records, 1877-1899.

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Records, 1877-1899.

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Correspondence concerning Indian affairs, artesian wells, livestock, elective franchise, railroad rates, military affairs and woman suffrage by Elisha P. Ferry, 1877-1891; Charles E. Laughton, 1890-1891; Miles C. Moore, 1899; W.A. Newell, 1888; Eugene Semple, 1888-1889; Watson C. Squire, 1884. Also, reports to the Secretary of the Interior, 1886-1888.

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Watson C. Squire was born in 1838 in New York and graduated from Wesleyan University in 1859. He was principal of the Moravia Institute in New York when the Civil War began. Over the next two years he fought as a Union soldier in the New York Volunteers 19th Infantry Regiment and served at Harper's Ferry under Gen. Nathaniel Banks. Following his graduation from Cleveland Law School in 1862, he answered the call for more men, raised the 7th Independent Company of Ohio Sharpshooters, and was commi...

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Semple, Eugene, 1840-1908

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Moore, Miles C. (Miles Conway), 1845-1919

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Miles C. Moore was born April 17, 1845, in Rix Mills, Ohio. He emigrated to Walla Walla, Washington in 1863. In March, 1873 he married Mary E. Baker, daughter of Dorsey S. Baker, a prominent Walla Walla resident and co-founder of Baker-Boyer Bank. In 1884 he was chairman of the republican territorial convention, and in March 1889 he was named territorial governor of Washington, a position he held until Washington was admitted to statehood on November 13, 1889. In 1903 he was elected president of...

Ferry, Elisha P. (Elisha Peyre), 1825-1895

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