Letter, 1891 October 20 : Montasano [sic], Wash., to E.P. Ferry, Governor, State of Washington, Olympia, Wash.

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Letter, 1891 October 20 : Montasano [sic], Wash., to E.P. Ferry, Governor, State of Washington, Olympia, Wash.

Signed printed form letter concerning the separation of church and state in announcing Thanksgiving as a public holiday.

1 leaf.

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Washington (State). Governor (1889-1893 : Ferry)

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Elisha Peyre Ferry was born in Monroe, Mich. in 1825, the son of Pierre Peyre Ferry, one of Napoleon's colonels of cavalry who emigrated from France in 1814. Elisha studied law and was admitted to the bar at the age of twenty. In 1848 he moved to Waukegan, Illinois, where he practiced law and was elected the first mayor of Waukegan. He was a member of the constitutional convention for Illinois in 1861, and from 1861 to 1863 he was bank commissioner for that state. During the Civil W...

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

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Genzel, Fritz

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