Autobiographical answers to a Minnesota Historical Society pioneer questionnaire, [1872].

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Autobiographical answers to a Minnesota Historical Society pioneer questionnaire, [1872].

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Handwritten autobiographical information supplied by Edmund F. Ely, an American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions missionary to the Ojibwe Indians in several locations in Minnesota, including Pokegama Lake (1833-1849) and Oneota (1855-1862). Ely served as the Oneota postmaster (1856-1862) and as a St. Louis County commissioner (1861-1862).

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Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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