W. P. Keady letter to the Oregonian [manuscript], 1916 August 4.

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W. P. Keady letter to the Oregonian [manuscript], 1916 August 4.

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Letter from W. P. Keady to the Editor of the Oregonian, 3 pp, 4 August 1916, giving credit for the congressional appropriation of the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections of each township for educational purposes to Nathan Dane and J. Q. Thornton.

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Dane, Nathan, 1752-1835

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Nathan Dane (December 29, 1752 – February 15, 1835) was an American lawyer and statesman who represented Massachusetts in the Continental Congress from 1785 through 1788. Dane helped formulate the Northwest Ordinance while in Congress, and introduced an amendment to the ordinance prohibiting slavery in the Northwest Territory. During his career, he served in both the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the Massachusetts Senate. He also wrote a multi-volume treatise that covered the entire...

Keady, William P., b. 1850.

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Thornton, J. Quinn (Jessy Quinn), 1810-1888

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Born in Mason County, Virginia in 1810, Jessy Quinn Thornton was educated at the University of Virginia where he studied law. He later practiced law in Palmyra and Hannibal Missouri, and in Quincy, Illinois. In 1838 he married Nancy M. Logue at Hannibal. In 1846 he traveled overland to Oregon with his family. He became a judge of the Oregon Provisional Government's Supreme Court and was sent to Washington to lobby for the establishment of a territorial government. His works include Oregon and Ca...