Grand Army of the Republic : group portrait. [1880-1889]

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Grand Army of the Republic : group portrait. [1880-1889]

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2 photographs.

Boulder Public Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7471358

Boulder Public Library

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Grand Army of the Republic

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Founded in 1866, in Decatur, Ill. From the description of Grand Army of the Republic scrapbooks, 1913. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 276172404 The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was a fraternal organization composed of Civil War Union military veterans, formed in Decatur, Illinois in 1866. The GAR became one of the first advocacy groups in American politics, lobbying for black veterans, pensions, and supporting Republican candidates. The GAR waned during the 1870s as the ...

Dickson, Lewis H., 1834-1911.

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Pennock, Andrew Jackson, 1828-

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Nichols, David H., 1828-1908.

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Coffin, Morse H., 1836-1913

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Morse H. Coffin was born in Roxbury, N.Y., September 20, 1836. At the age of 21 he was began managing his father's farm in Illinois, but in 1859 he crossed the plains with two friends and arrived in Boulder on July 18th. He first whip-sawed lumber for Low, Goss & Pell, providing the lumber for the first frame house built in Boulder County (built by H.C. Norton). In the spring of 1860 he began farming 160 acres on the St. Vrain, three miles east of Longmont and ultimately owned 360 acres. Mor...