James Liberty Fisk and family papers, 1856-1968.

Dana, Charles A. (Charles Anderson), 1819-1897

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Charles Anderson Dana (August 8, 1819 – October 17, 1897) was an American journalist, author, and senior government official. He was a top aide to Horace Greeley as the managing editor of the powerful Republican newspaper New-York Tribune until 1862. During the American Civil War, he served as Assistant Secretary of War, playing especially the role of the liaison between the War Department and General Ulysses S. Grant. In 1868 he became the editor and part-owner of the New York Sun. He at first ...

Townsend, E. D. (Edward Davis), 1817-1893

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Edward Davis Townsend (August 22, 1817 – May 10, 1893) was Adjutant General of the United States Army from 1869 to 1880. The son of David S. & Eliza (Gerry) Townsend and grandson of Vice President Elbridge Gerry, Townsend was educated at Boston's Latin School before graduating from the United States Military Academy in 1837. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Second U. S. Artillery and served as that regiment's adjutant and participating in the Second Seminole War and the relocati...

Freniere, Antoine, d. 1864.

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Fisk, Lydia Ann Burson, 1835-1876.

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Fisk Expedition, 1863.

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Fountain family.

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Jansson, Agnes Train.

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Bottineau, Pierre, 1817-1895

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Burson, George W., 1835-

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Redstone, A. E.

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Fisk, James Liberty, 1835-1902

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Fisk was born in New York of Irish extraction, the eldest of six sons of John B. and Jerusha T. Fisk. He worked as a "raftsman, farmer, carriage maker, and newspaperman" for the Daily Courier of Lafayette, Indiana. Four of his five brothers also became newspapermen. Becoming engrossed with the western frontier, he moved to White Bear Lake, Minnesota, sometime in the 1850s, married Lydia Burson, and started farming. In 1857, he was in the expedition of William H. Nobles which tried unsuccessfu...

United States. Army. Minnesota Infantry Regiment, 3rd (1861-1865)

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Frisby family.

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Oakland Cemetery (Saint Paul, Minn.)

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Langford, Nathaniel Pitt, 1832-1911

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Nathanial Pitt Langford was born in Westmoreland, New York, in 1832; he came to St. Paul in 1854. He was cashier in the banking house of Marshall and Company in 1855, and in 1858 he became cashier of the Bank of the State of Minnesota. On June 16, 1862, Langford left St. Paul with the Northern Overland Expedition led by Captain James L. Fisk to establish a wagon road into Montana Territory. Langford settled in Bannack, Montana Territory, where he established freightage, milling, and...

Dibb, William Denton, 1828-1871

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Physician. From the description of Journal, 1862-1864. (State Historical Society of North Dakota State Archives). WorldCat record id: 17732743 ...

Cooke, Jay, 1821-1905

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Banker, financier, and fiscal agent for the U.S. Treasury Dept. during the Civil War. From the description of Jay Cooke correspondence, 1884. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983928 During the Civil War, Jay Cooke & Co. of Philadelphia developed the idea of selling government bonds, which capitalized on feelings of patriotism at the time and which were a major source of financing the war. Jay Cooke later was heavily involved in finanacing (unsuccessfully) the Northern Pa...

Burbank, James Crawford, 1822-1876.

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Fisk, Andrew Jackson, 1849-1910

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Ritchey, Charles J.

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Donnelly, Ignatius, 1831-1901

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Farmer, editor, author, and orator. From the description of Ignatius Donnelly papers, 1887. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71009547 American politician and author. From the description of Letter, 1863, Washington, D. C. [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647812376 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to President Lincoln, 1864 May. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270531076 From the description of ...

Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881

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James Garfield, twentieth President of the United States, was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in 1831. After embarking on an academic career, he joined the Ohio volunteer infantry regiment, and in 1863 was appointed Major General in the same regiment. He served as a member of the U. S. House of Representatives from 1863 to 1880, when he was elected President. His inauguration took place on March 4, 1881, but his term of office was unfortunately brought to an abrupt end with his assassination by C...

Nobles, Wm. H. (William H.), 1816-1876

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Stanton, Edward McMasters, 1814-1869.

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Fisk, Robert Emmett, 1827-1908.

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Sibley Expedition, 1863.

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Fisk Expedition, 1864.

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Atkinson, R. J. (Robert J.), 1820-1871

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Lawyer, Ohio legislator, and Third Auditor of the U.S. Treasury. From the description of Correspondence, 1861. (Historical Society of Washington, Dc). WorldCat record id: 70953433 ...

Rice, Edmund, 1819-1889

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Galbraith, Thomas J.

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Murphy, W. J.

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National Council of Labor.

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Yellowstone Colonization, Town and Mining Enterprise.

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Sully Expeditions, 1863-1865.

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Sully, Alfred, 1821-1879

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Alfred Sully (1821-1879), army officer. From the description of Alfred Sully papers 1816-1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702127356 Alfred Sully, son of portrait artist Thomas Sully, was a United States Army officer and trained topographer residing in California from 1847 to 1853. During that time he married Manuela de la Guerra, a granddaughter of José de la Guerra. Sully left California in 1853, following the 1851 death of his young wife and child. From th...

Fisk family.

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