Letters of Isaac S. Metcalf, 1855.

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Letters of Isaac S. Metcalf, 1855.

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Two letters, July 7 and 12, 1855, written by Metcalf from Winslow House, St. Paul, to his wife in Milo, Maine, describing his trip up the Mississippi River and a visit to the Twin Cities. Includes comments on Minneapolis, Lake Minnetonka, Excelsior, the lumber industry, Ft. Snelling, St. Anthony, Minnehaha Falls, Territorial Governor Willis A. Gorman, and a church service led by Reverend E. D. Neill.

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Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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Gorman, Willis Arnold, 1816-1876

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Willis A. Gorman was born January 12, 1816 in Fleming County, Kentucky, the son of David and Elizabeth Gorman. The family moved to Bloomington, Indiana in 1836 where Willis studied law at Indiana University. He was elected to the Indiana legislature when he was 23 and served five terms. He enlisted as a private in the Third Indiana Volunteers when the war with Mexico broke out and was elected a major in June 1846. After the regiment returned home he organized the Fourth Indiana Regi...

Winslow House (Saint Paul, Minn.).

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Neill, Edward D. (Edward Duffield), 1823-1893

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Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

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Railroad engineer, farmer, and businessman of Maine, Ohio, and Illinois during the second half of the 19th century. Isaac Stevens Metcalf was born in Royalston, Massachusetts, on Jan. 29, 1822. His father, Isaac Metcalf, had married Lucy Heywood in 1810; she died childless in 1820. In March 1821 he married Anna Mayo Stevens Rich, the widow of Charles Rich, by whom she had had three children (named Charles, Elizabeth Anna, and Almeida). Isaac was born to Metcalf and Rich,...