Henry Cordes Brown : [collection] : 1858-1948.

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Henry Cordes Brown : [collection] : 1858-1948.

Contains a letter from Brown to General William T. Sherman, dated July 12, 1875, as well as an obituary and marriage certificate. Brown donated the tract of land on which the Colorado State Capital stands today.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7754123

History Colorado

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Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

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Sherman was born in 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio, near the banks of the Hocking River. His father, Charles Robert Sherman, a successful lawyer who sat on the Ohio Supreme Court, died unexpectedly in 1829. He left his widow, Mary Hoyt Sherman, with eleven children and no inheritance. After his father's death, the nine-year-old Sherman was raised by a Lancaster neighbor and family friend, attorney Thomas Ewing, Sr., a prominent member of the Whig Party who served as senator from Ohio and as the first S...

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Brown, Henry Cordes, 1821-1906

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