Isaac I. Stevens letters, 1853-1858.

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Isaac I. Stevens letters, 1853-1858.

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Two letters written by Stevens from Washington, D.C. The first, dated Feb. 16, 1858, to Rev. A.P. Peabody of Portsmouth, N.H., concerns Charles C. Cushman, whom Stevens recommends for postmaster at New Dungeness, Washington Territory. The second letter, dated April 18, 1853, to Edmund Sylvester, Esq., of Olympia, concerns a territorial census and the building of a military road from Walla Walla to Puget Sound.

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Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, 1818-1862

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Graduate of West Point who served in Mexican War. Indian agent, Governor and delegate to Congress for Washington Territory. Chairman of the National Democratic Executive Committee in 1860. Major General in Union Army and killed at Chantilly, Va. in 1862. From the description of Letter, Aug. 9, 1860. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55662318 Born 1818 in Andover, Mass.; graduate of West Point; served in Mexican War, 1846-47; Indian agent for Washing...