Henry A. Swift papers, 1855-1868.

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Henry A. Swift papers, 1855-1868.

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Correspondence of this state senator and governor of Minnesota, including letters from Willis A. Gorman regarding the removal of the capital to St. Peter, from Arthur G. Chatfield on court procedure in Minnesota, from Elias F. Drake and others on Minnesota railroads, from Benjamin F. Ward on Senator Henry M. Rice's attitude toward the Civil War, and from John G. Riheldaffer on University of Minnesota affairs; a discussion of General William T. Sherman's plan for frontier defense in Minnesota in the middle 1860s; applications for positions in the Second Minnesota Cavalry; petitions for and against the incorporation of the town of St. Peter; and a letter by Swift on the establishment of a land office at St. Peter.

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Rice, Henry M. (Henry Mower), 1816-1894

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Wade, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1800-1878

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