Henry Gates Weeden letters, 1866.

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Henry Gates Weeden letters, 1866.

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Henry Weeden was a government surgeon with James L. Fisk's 1866 expedition from Minnesota to Montana Territory. Papers consist of letters (May-August 1866) describing the expedition, wagon travel, and encounters with Indians.(SC 970)

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Weeden, Henry Gates, 1821-1872.

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Henry G. Weeden was born in Washington, Vermont, October 29, 1821. He was trained as a physician. In 1852 he married Jane Smith. They and his two brothers moved to Viroqua, Wisconsin, in the mid 1850s. Their daughter Ethel was born in Wisconsin in 1858. In 1866 Dr. Weeden joined the James L. Fisk Expedition as a government physician. The family settled in the Bitter Root Valley, where Dr. Weeden died on August 26, 1872. His daughter Ethel married John Chapman about 1876. From the des...