[Autograph letter signed, Burlington, Iowa, December 6, 1900, addressed to Frank E. Stevens and pertaining to the purchase of a book entitled The semi-centennial commemoration of the first settlement of Iowa ...] [1900?]

Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana

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Salter, William, 1821-1910

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Pioneer Congregational minister, abolitionist, author. William Salter, one of the Iowa Band members from the Andover Theological Seminary in Massachusetts, was ordained in Denmark, Iowa in 1843. After spending two years as a circuit rider he became the pastor at the First Congregational Church in Burlington where he remained for over sixty years. Salter publicly opposed slavery, participating in Iowa's underground railroad network and helping to organize support for the free-staters in the Bleed...