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Feb 14, 2023 · Most of the following titles link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog.Although the Library of Congress holds many of the earliest editions of these works and makes them available to researchers in its Rare Book & Special Collections Reading Room, this selected list is generally limited to electronic versions of the originals and/or modern editions that ...
John Harrington Stevens (1820–1900) was the first non-Native resident on the west side of the Mississippi River in present-day Minneapolis. He operated a ferry across the river before the construction of the first Hennepin Avenue Bridge and subsequently became a colonel in the U.S. Army.
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).
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 reservation, in exchange for providing ferry service to St. Anthony ...
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 ...
Box 30: Stevens Family & Hoboken. Folder 1, Copies of newspaper clippings: “Mrs. Wittpenn Dies in Sleep.”. Jersey Observer, December 5, 1932. “Mrs. Wittpenn’s Death Had Its Historical Importance” Hudson Dispatch, December 8, 1932. “Mrs. Wittpenn Death Deplored at White House” Hudson Dispatch, December 6, 1932.
Apr 2, 2024 · Provides over 14,000 primary source titles based on Joseph Sabin's bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana. Materials describe every aspect of life in the Western Hemisphere from 1500 to the 1890s.
