G. Walter Meade letter : Placerville, Calif., 1907 Mar. 15.

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G. Walter Meade letter : Placerville, Calif., 1907 Mar. 15.

Letter written to family and friends describing family history, working as a teacher, meeting President elect Abraham Lincoln, a speech by Stephen A. Douglas, the American Civil War, the petroleum and natural gas business, the Chicago Fire of 1871 and mining in Colo., Utah, and S.D.

25 p.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7676831

UC Berkeley Libraries

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Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861

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Stephen Arnold Douglas (April 23, 1813 – June 3, 1861) was an American politician and lawyer from Illinois. He was one of two Democratic Party nominees for president in the 1860 presidential election, which was won by Abraham Lincoln. Douglas had previously defeated Lincoln in the 1858 United States Senate election in Illinois, known for the Lincoln–Douglas debates. During the 1850s, Douglas was one of the foremost advocates of popular sovereignty, which held that each territory should be allowe...

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Meade, G. Walter.

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G. Walter Meade, born Apr. 14, 1838 in Penn., lived all over the United States, settling in Placerville Calif. in 1894. From the description of G. Walter Meade letter : Placerville, Calif., 1907 Mar. 15. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 54323645 ...

Mead family.

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