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Clayton, Powell, 1833-1914

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Powell Foulk Clayton was born in Bethel Township, Pennsylvania, to John and Ann (Clarke) Clayton. The Clayton family was descended from early Quaker settlers of Pennsylvania. Clayton's ancestor William Clayton emigrated from Chichester, England, was a personal friend and associate of William Penn as well as one of nine justices who sat at the Upland Court in 1681. Clayton attended the Forwood School in Wilmington, Delaware and the Pennsylvania Literary, Scientific, and Military Academy in Bri...

Pike, Albert, 1809-1891

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General Albert Pike (1809-1891), grand commander of the Supreme Grand Council, Southern Jurisdiction, of the Scottish Rite, 1859-1891. From the description of Letter to Bro. Hayden /by Albert Pike, 1885 Feb 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702128274 After his work as commissioner to the Indian tribes west of the Arkansas, Pike was commissioned a brigadier general in the Confederate Army in November, 1861. He recruited Native American troops on the promise that they would o...

Borland, Solon, 1808-1864

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The Borland, Green, and Godwin families are related in the following manner. George Godwin, son of Jeremiah Godwin, married Fanny Green (whose mother was Mary (Giles) Green) in 1805. Dr. Thomas Wood Borland (d. 1830 or 1831), father of Roscius Cicero Borland, married Harriott Godwin, daughter of Jeremiah Godwin and Sarah (Wilkinson) Godwin. From the guide to the Borland Family Papers, 1771-1940., (Special Collections, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary) ...

Walker, David, 1785-1830

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Watie, Stand, 1806-1871

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Stand Watie, also known as Standhope, Oowatie, Degataga, and Isaac S. Watie, was a Cherokee Nation leader and brigadier general in the Confederate Army. He was born into the Cherokee Nation in Calhoun, Georgia, on December 12, 1806, and was educated at a Moravian mission school in Spring Place, Georgia. He briefly wrote for the Cherokee Phoenix, during which time he became involved in anti-Indian laws following the discovery of gold in Georgia in the 1830s. Watie was a signer of the Treaty of Ne...

Murphy, Isaac, 1799-1882

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Churchill, T. J. (Thomas J.), 1824-1905

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Hindman, Thomas Carmichael, 1828-1868

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Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870

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Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870) served as General of the Confederate Army in the U.S. Civil War and was president of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia from 1865 to 1870. Lee spent the first twenty-three years of his military career in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. From 1837 to 1841 he was superintending engineer for the harbor of St. Louis and the upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Robert E. Lee was a United States Army officer, 1829-1861; commander of Virginia forces in the ...

Boudinot, Elias C. (Elias Cornelius), 1835-1890

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Lawyer, member of congress from New Jersey. From the description of Letter, 1789 September 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122629301 Epithet: LLD, President of Congress British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000389.0x00009c ...