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John H. Stevens. Stevens during his time on the Minnesota Legislature. John Harrington Stevens (June 13, 1820 – May 28, 1900) was the first authorized colonial resident on the west bank of the Mississippi River in what would become Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was granted permission to occupy the site, then part of the Fort Snelling military ...
Citation John Austin Stevens, Jr. family papers, MS.43.2.1, Newport Historical Society. Newport, Rhode Island Inventory Series 1. Correspondence 1825-1941, undated Series is arranged by author, then chronologically with undated correspondence at the end of the folder. Box 1, Folder 1 Stevens, John Austin, Sr. correspondence 1825-1863
John Harrington Stevens, the first official resident west of the Mississippi River in what would become Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was involved in the Mexican-American War, and he served in both the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1857-1858 and the Minnesota Senate in 1859-1860. This image is by Arthur Adams, Minneapolis high school teacher, local historian, and photographer. Adams ...
Primary sources might be government documents, menus from restaurants, diaries, letters, musical instruments, photographs, portraits drawn from life, songs, and so on. If a historian is looking at Ancient Egypt, a statue of a pharaoh is a primary source for that time period, as are hieroglyphs that tell of the pharaoh’s reign.
Dec 20, 2023 · Correspondence with Richard Chute, Henry M. Rice, John H. Stevens, Henry T. Welles, and others relates to local politics in Minnesota, to financial affairs of the St. Anthony Falls Water Power Company and the Mississippi Bridge Company, to the sale of land belonging to the Fort Snelling reservation (1857-1873).
On May 8, 1866, Thaddeus Stevens delivered this speech introducing the 14th Amendment in the U.S. House of Representatives. The leader of the Radical Republicans in the House, Stevens was a lawyer, politician, and staunch abolitionist. As a politician in Pennsylvania, he supported free public education and suffrage for African Americans.
Primary Sources The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens (Volumes 1 and 2) v. 1. January 1814March 1865, Volume one covers Steven’s political career from his Vermont youth to the end of the Civil War. It includes letters and speeches from his early days as a
