Papers, 1857-1883.

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Papers, 1857-1883.

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Unbound scrapbook (24 p.) containing a memoir of Farquhar by General O.M. Poe (1883) with covering letter to Farquhar's widow, resolution of the Board of Trade of Minneapolis similarly addressed, certificate of Farquhar's appointment as a cadet (1857), General Order of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Farquhar's career and mourning his death, copies of two letters of W.T. Sherman to Farquhar's widow and the Commissioner of Pensions (1883), a letter from Farquhar (1864), and two undated poems.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

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Sherman was born in 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio, near the banks of the Hocking River. His father, Charles Robert Sherman, a successful lawyer who sat on the Ohio Supreme Court, died unexpectedly in 1829. He left his widow, Mary Hoyt Sherman, with eleven children and no inheritance. After his father's death, the nine-year-old Sherman was raised by a Lancaster neighbor and family friend, attorney Thomas Ewing, Sr., a prominent member of the Whig Party who served as senator from Ohio and as the first S...

United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

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Poe, O. M. (Orlando Metcalfe), 1832-1895

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Minneapolis Board of Trade

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Farquhar, F. U. (Francis Ulric)

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Member of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. From the description of Papers, 1857-1883. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 40761601 ...