The Minnesota Historical Society

Date:
1935
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/79
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Minnesota Historical Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and reminiscences treat more or less fully Stevens’ earlier residence in the missions at Mackinac and Green Bay and other periods of his life. Minnesota History, 9: 175. 242. STEVENS (JoHN H.) Papers, 1839-89. 2 boxes. Chiefly letters received by Stevens as a clerk in the quartermaster’s department during the Mexican War and as a member of the Minne- sota legislature from McLeod and Hennepin counties. His corre- spondents included Alfred E. Ames, Joseph R. Brown, Ignatius Donnelly, Martin McLeod, Henry M. Rice, Henry H. Sibley, Frank- lin Steele, and others, whose letters deal with such topics as Minne- sota politics; mail routes, post offices, roads, and railroads in Min- nesota; the development of Glencoe and the location of an agricul- tural college there; the land-claim association at Rollingstone, 1852-54; the Hutchinson Townsite Company; and the attack on Hutchinson during the Sioux Outbreak of 1862 and the subsequent defense of the frontier. Included also is a circular announcing a temperance meeting at Shakopee, August 5, 1853. 243. STEwART (T. H.) Memoirs, 1905. 1 half-size box. A photostatic copy of volume 1 and a typewritten copy of volume 2 of Stewart’s memoirs, describing pioneer life at Caledonia and guard duty in Minnesota and the South during the Civil and Indian wars. The originals are in the possession of Mrs. Edith Stewart Hall of Pengilly. Volume 1 is printed in the Caledonia Journal, May 1- October 2, 1929. Minnesota History, 14: 331. 244. Stone (Cyrus R.) Papers, 1861-1918. 1 box, including 1 volume. Mainly letters written to Stone’s parents during his service with the Sixteenth New York Volunteer Infantry, 1861-63; a diary for 1863; two narratives of engagements; and a brief genealogy of the Stone family. Minnesota History Bulletin, 1: 328. 245. STRATTON (Levi W.) Papers, 1838-71. 19 items. Letters and accounts by Stratton of a trip up the Mississippi River to St. Croix Falls in 1838 and of a journey from Illinois to Buffalo,
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