John Benjamin and family papers, 1840-1951.

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John Benjamin and family papers, 1840-1951.

Correspondence, genealogical notes, legal and financial papers, and memorabilia concerning the career of Benjamin, a Welsh immigrant who settled at Hutchinson (McLeod County), Minnesota in 1857; other family members; and the Welsh family of his wife, Elizabeth Garner.

2.25 cu. ft. (6 boxes, including 3 v.; and 14 oversize items).

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SNAC Resource ID: 7314128

Minnesota Historical Society Library

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Cooke, H. Hamilton.

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Garner, Richard, 1839-

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Jones, Richard B.

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Benjamin, Edwin Grimshaw, 1905-

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Zeleny, John.

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Wait, Richard G., d. 1861.

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Benjamin family.

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Hutchinson, Asa B.

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Asa Burnham Hutchinson (1823-1884). From the description of Diary, 1853. (American Antiquarian Society). WorldCat record id: 191280787 ...

Benjamin, James.

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Benjamin, F. A.

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Benjamin, Edwin.

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Hutchinson Musical Union.

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Benjamin, Blanche Grimshaw, 1870-1951.

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Grimshaw family.

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Benjamin, Harold Garner, 1907-

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Wait, Mary, d. 1861.

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Jordan family.

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Benjamin, Arthur E.

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Benjamin, McDonald P.

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National Grange

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Chesley, James A.

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Lane, Robert P., 1818-1891.

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Hutchinson, J. J. (Judson Joseph), 1817-1859

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Pendergast, William Wirt, 1833-1903

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William Wirt Pendergast was born in New England in 1833. After attending Bowdoin College in Maine, he joined with the Hutchinson brothers to plat a town in Minnesota Territory by the same name. Pendergast returned to Massachusetts sometime before the end of the Civil War where he married Abigail Cogswell. The couple had a son, Edward, in 1864 and two years later returned to Hutchinson, Minnesota where William began a career in education. William eventually became the first principal of the Unive...

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Perry family.

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Titus Bros. Wholesale Groceries (Minneapolis, Minn.).

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Aldrich, Cyrus, 1808-1871

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Benjamin, Elizabeth Garner, 1830-1900.

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University of Minnesota. Medical School

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The 1851 territorial legislative act establishing the University of Minnesota provided for a Department of Medicine. This department, as originally instituted, was not an educational department but rather a credentialing board that provided examinations and conferred degrees upon physicians who had learned to practice medicine by studying with a preceptor. In April 1887, Percy Millard, Charles Hewitt, D. Hand, and President Cyrus Northrop petitioned the Board of Regents to abolish t...

Gleave, Thomas.

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Garner, Joseph, 1827-1898.

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Garner family.

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Macbeth, George W.

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Benjamin, John, 1823-1902.

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