Joseph Montfort Street papers, 1806-1898.

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Joseph Montfort Street papers, 1806-1898.

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Transcripts and original papers of Joseph Montfort Street, a United States Indian agent at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, Rock Island, Illinois, and on the Des Moines River, 1827-1840. Letters received and drafts of letters sent deal with controversies with traders and the Indian Office; with establishment of the Winnebago school at MacGregor, Iowa, by the Reverend David Lowry; with claims presented at the Treaty of Rock Island in 1832 for expenses of the Black Hawk War; and with family affairs. Included are letters from missionary Cutting Marsh and Judge Charles Dunn. The processed portion of the collection is summarized above and is described in the register. Additional accessions date 1828-1839 and are described below.

0.2 c.f. (1 archives box); plusadditions of 0.1 c.f.

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Dunn, Charles A. R., 1895-

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Virginia musician and composer. From the description of Drawings [manuscript], 1937. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647847844 ...

Street, Joseph Montfort, 1782-1840

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General Joseph Montfort Street was a lawyer, merchant, U.S. Army officer, and U.S. Indian agent born in 1782 in Lunenburg County, Virginia. He studied law in Henry Clay's office in Kentucky, and subsequently practiced in that state and Tennessee. In 1806 he became editor of the "The Western World" in Frankfort, Kentucky, a newspaper that helped expose Aaron Burr's conspiracy to sieze and detach U.S. lands from the Union. From 1827-1835 Street served as U.S. Indian agent to the Winnebago at Prair...

Lowry, David.

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Marsh, Cutting, 1800-1873.

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Missionary to Native Americans in Ohio and Wisconsin. From the description of Cutting Marsh correspondence, 1830 February 25 (Detroit Public Library). WorldCat record id: 436774665 ...