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Letter from Elias Higbee, 22 February 1840
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Washington Feb 22d. 1840
Created as district for seat of U.S. federal government by act of Congress, 1790, and named Washington DC, 1791. Named in honor of George Washington. Headquarters of executive, legislative, and judicial branches of U.S. government relocated to Washington ...
More InfoDear Brother
I have just returned from the committee room; the committee being present to
day, a Mr. Corwin of St. Louis, formerly a democratick editor, emtied his bud get: which
was as great a bundle of nonsense and stuff, as could be thought of; I suppose not what he
knew but what gentlemen had told him, for— instance the religious Genl. [John B.] Clark & others. I
confess I had hard work to restrain my feelings some of the time; but I did succeed in keeping
silence— tolerably well. Himself Mr. Jamison & [Lewis] Linn sum moned all the energies of their mind
to impress upon the assembly, that Jo. Smith as he called him, led the people altogether by
revelation, in their [p. 111]
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View Full BioElias Higbee, letter, Washington DC, to JS, en route to Nauvoo, IL, 22 Feb. 1840; handwriting of Howard Coray; in JS Letterbook 2, pp. 111–115; JS Collection, CHL.
23 Oct. 1795–8 June 1843. Clerk, judge, surveyor. Born at Galloway, Gloucester Co., New Jersey. Son of Isaac Higbee and Sophia Somers. Moved to Clermont Co., Ohio, 1803. Married Sarah Elizabeth Ward, 10 Sept. 1818, in Tate Township, Clermont Co. Lived at ...
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